November 19ths (Life Goes On)

11/19/1964

(Eva Hesse Diary)

I refuse to fear any longer. . . . When there is a problem, just do it then and there, say it, write it and get rid of it. Face all that I fear, to fear it no longer. . . In my work too. If crazy forms, do them outright. Strong, clear. No more haze;...Risk nothing—nothing gained.

11/19/1998

Clinton impeachment hearings start.

[11/19/2024: How quaint]

Lots of interest now in the "Mozart Effect"—that listening to certain kinds of music helps young students excel in math and science. Detractors of this theory say it has more to do with enthusiasm, however, I can see how math and music can exist in the same brain constellation, but they have to be connected perhaps genetically—I don't think there's a way of teaching that. This is another attempt at mixing domains, but lots of times this doesn't work. Music can be like painting in some respects, for example, but not in all respects.

[11/19/2024: Daniel Levitin covered this in his latest book: “There are many cases in which learning one skill transfers to a related skill. For example, learning to play the piano and then applying that knowledge to learning to play the violin, or learning to drive a car with an automatic transmission and then learning to drive a manual transmission, are cases of near transfer. Far transfer is when there is no obvious connection between skills, such as finding that you’re better at auto repair after you’ve learned to solve a Rubik’s Cube puzzle, or that you get better at surgery after learning to juggle. Cases of far transfer are far less common than cases of near transfer, making it all the more striking when we run across them.”]

11/19/2002 

To MCA for the Gillian Wearing exhibit. I really was impressed by this. She expresses identity issues very well. I especially liked the video that superimposed the audio of a mother over the lip-sync of the sons and vice versa. Also liked the masks (sometimes the eye movements behind the masks conveyed so much emotion, pathos). The huge video of the policeman's academy was excellent. Even the tiniest activity becomes significant when you expect it. At one point I went to scratch my nose and the guy in the back row did the same thing.

11/19/2011

Students pepper-sprayed at Occupy protest at University of California, Davis. Photos of the incident become iconic, and source material for parodies.

11/19/2015

Cloud culture was seen as a security risk five years ago, but apparently has no impact on how the Internet is used socially today. Terrorism has gotten exponentially more dangerous, but cloud computing has no impact on that—or has it, with terrorists sharing spreadsheets on Google Drive for example....When attacks happen they seem like black swans, but they're all black. Even if multiple terrorist attacks started happening, people would tend to shut down. Life goes on, but in never quite the same way, as a sense of fatalism drives the day.

 

 

 

 

 

11/19/2017

Love Loves to Love Love Love, A "Joycian" 80s pop hook.

[Released on Frontiers]

11/19/2023, Sunday

Rosalynn Carter died at 96. Jimmy just turned 99. Will he make it to 100? I think he will. It will be right before the 2024 election.