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Same Walk, Different Music
Martyn Heyne, “The Hall.” Occasionally I revisit the Brett’s Sound Picks playlists to listen to great music that I would have forgotten had I not saved it. In this way, a playlist is a way to externalize one’s memory, a way to remember those sonic details that make a music soar. A fine track from Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: David Hockney On Layering Time
“My main argument was that a photograph could not be looked at for a long time. Have you noticed that? You can’t look at most photos for more than, say, thirty seconds. It has nothing to do with the subject matter. I first noticed this with erotic photographs, trying to find them lively: you can’t. Continue reading
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Running, Tempo, and Time
As a runner, I often think about running’s relationship to time and how we inhabit time differently while in motion. Time seems to pass more slowly—or not pass at all—when you’re running. Your mind floats: past becomes present, and future scenarios play themselves out—perhaps because you’re grounded in the tactile stepping of your stride. When Continue reading
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Working Slow
“Time passes more slowly for the one who keeps moving.” – Carlo Rovelli, The Order Of Time, p. 38 In running, there’s an approach known as low heart rate training, whereby most of your runs are done at a very relaxed pace. One measures this not by time per mile (e.g. an 8 minute per Continue reading
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On Creative Strategies And Controlling Time
“I think that controlling time is what leads you to success.” -Rafael Nadal I often think about how to work better, which means how to do more with less, and how to stretch my attentional dollar. Working better comes down to using time with more focus by having a creative objective for the moment. But Continue reading
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Taking Measure
It starts with the crosswalk sign the walking guy turns into a flashing hand and the time counting backwards numbers I trace under my breath and sync with my footsteps then I look up and around and notice other measures billboards flickering car horns beeping pedestrian counterpoint the fading light felt as clock counting subdividing Continue reading
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Second Hand Clock
The second hand of the clock at the dry cleaners is racing I notice it as she’s charging my card just over ten dollars the minimum fee most second hands go tick-tick even if the ticking is a silent measure you see its discrete steps a mechanical resistance against forward motion but this hand is liquid a Dali-esque melting Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Carlo Rovelli’s “The Order Of Time” (2018)
“What we call ‘time’ is a complex collection of structures, of layers” (4). “There is not one single time; there is a vast multitude of them” (16). “Time passes more slowly for the one who keeps moving” (38). “Time is the measurement of change” (63). “Time is nothing but the registering of movement” (64). “We Continue reading
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On Performance
When I think about the word performance I often think about musicians, actors, dancers, even teachers putting on some kind of show. There’s a spectacle aspect to most performances though: they involve some degree of put on, some level of acting, some amount of fakeness. I say this even though I myself perform as a Continue reading
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On The Tour De France And Time
“Time passed indifferently, barely leaving a trace.” – Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage “For these riders, time is running out.” – Phil Leggett Though the event ended a few days ago, the last few weeks had me watching a lot of Le Tour de France. (I also wrote about Le Continue reading
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