{"id":2803,"date":"2010-12-11T11:24:59","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T19:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=2803"},"modified":"2010-12-11T11:44:57","modified_gmt":"2010-12-11T19:44:57","slug":"photostream-john-mclaughlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/11\/photostream-john-mclaughlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos. John McLaughlin. Distraction."},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day, I posted a lot of photos on my Flickr, I put the best shots of the last ten months or so into a collection, \u201c2010 March-Nov\u201d\u009d. <\/a> In a sharing or deluded mood, I uploaded most of them at rather high resolutions\u2014and I don\u2019t feel like going back and changing this, so feel free to sample and print from there for private use, although I am still maintaining copyright over the pictures. If you want to buy <\/em>a ready-made print, I have a lot of my photos on Imagekind <\/a>as well.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m going to try and keep my Flickr photostream and my Imagekind gallery a little more closely in synch with the photos I put on the blog, so in general, you might find larger forms of the images there. Adobe Lightroom is making my photo-juggling a lot easier—with the downside that I’m spending more and more time doing it, even running outside and takiing more photos just so I have more raw material to work with. \u201cLike a picture of a water fountain<\/em>? You kidding me?\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve been frittering away increasing amounts of time on delusional web activities like Twitter, Flickr, Imagekind, my blog, my email, Wikipedia research, my paintings website, free ebook releases, my book websites\u2014it\u2019s a little alarming, really. At some point I\u2019ll cut back. \u201cOnly not today.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n

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Really, I get much more pleasure out of actually writing, but by now there are so many ways <\/em>to avoid writing when I have my computer on.<\/p>\n

When I remember to be an author, these days, I\u2019m into writing my second chapter of fake William Burroughs letters. It\u2019s an odd mind-set, to be using such a particular and quirky format to create text that advances the plot of a science-fiction novel. Like making a portrait out of collage snippets.<\/p>\n

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But certainly Burroughs himself did often think in terms of having his novel Naked Lunch or Interzone (as he called it) be SF. The juxtaposition seems odd in 2010, because, over the years, SF has ossified into a somewhat rigid genre, and the more literary or experimental kinds of work get classified as something else. Speculative fiction. But I generally still see publishing my novels as SF in a positive light. It gives access to a certain level of distribution and readership.<\/p>\n


\n[Some cellular automata \u201cNested Scrolls\u201d\u009d made my Capow <\/a>software.]<\/p>\n

We went and saw John McLaughlin <\/a>and his group The Fourth Dimension at the Rio Theater is Santa Cruz last night. It was lovely music, sweet, rocking, and somehow spiritual. Sylvia noted a large number of men with gray ponytails in the audience. We first saw McLaughlin with a double-neck guitar and the Mahavishnu Orchestra about 40 years ago, in Princeton, here\u2019s a video <\/a>from that time.<\/p>\n

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Speaking of earlier times, here\u2019s a photo from 1992, right before the appearance of The Mondo User\u2019s Guide <\/em>edited by me, R. U. Sirius, and Queen Mu, and designed by Bart Nagel, who\u2019s wearing the flashy \u201csperm jacket\u201d\u009d. The photo was taken either by Bart using a timer or, I think more likely, by Mondo staffer Heidi Foley during a photo shoot by Time <\/em>magazine. Thanks to Bart for sending me this photo.<\/p>\n

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Coming back to my concerns about wasting time on the web, a good benchmark of where I\u2019m at is the kinds of things that I think about while I\u2019m at a concert. It\u2019s an ideal chance to space out and the mind roam. Sometimes, more commonly with rock, I manage to get so deeply inside the music that there\u2019s nothing else. With McLaughlin, there\u2019s some chance of a meditative state\u2014for me, he often evokes the mental image of being in outer space free-falling into a giant star. But I noticed that last night, I was spending more time than I wanted in thinking about how to promote my writing and images on the web.<\/p>\n

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Once again it\u2019s time for a walk in the woods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other day, I posted a lot of photos on my Flickr, I put the best shots of the last ten months or so into a collection, \u201c2010 March-Nov\u201d\u009d. In a sharing or deluded mood, I uploaded most of them at rather high resolutions\u2014and I don\u2019t feel like going back and changing this, so feel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2803"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2805,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803\/revisions\/2805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}