November 20ths (Blizzard in Buffalo)

11/20/1903 (Paris)

Harry Kessler Diary: Kessler doesn't think Germans believe in art, even if they are artists themselves or are art historians.

[11/20/2024: What art was he referring to? Perhaps this was a sea change happening in the older generations born in the 1850s reacting to the change in painting, Cezanne, etc. “Belief in art” means having a tolerance for The New, whatever it may be. Those tolerances are different for everyone].

11/20/1947

Jack Kerouac: There's too much of the "pale criminal" with us, and not enough simple beauty", in reverence of the wedding of [Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten]. "A wedding, a young bride, those things are the center of existence..."

11/20/1997

Everything is going through a deconstruction—now it's journalism's turn. Internet reporting is taking away the credibility of journalism where anyone can leak a story. This is similar to what's happened in music—anyone can do it.

[11/20/2024: Now the deconstruction is in politics and government. With AI Music everyone is a songwriter, like everyone became a photographer once they got a smartphone. Anyone can be a president, or an expert in something without knowing anything about it. Perhaps we prefer living in the illusions of possibility. You won’t know what the real possibilities are without investigation into the deeper aspects of something. That is a possible takeaway from watching Burns’ Leonardo documentary.]

11/20/1999

Lament: In twenty years, the art of the late-20th century will be described as follows: "Brash, suffused with ego, and completely irreverent of anything that came before it. It was a heady time, and everyone was calling themselves an artist. Sadly though, they failed to realize that the new digital age would produce little or no lasting evidence of their culture.

[11/20/2024: In 25 years not much has changed. Back in 1999 with Y2K looming we began thinking about the impermanence of the internet. Everyone is still calling themselves an artist, now with AI-generated art and music].

11/20/2022 

Blizzard in Buffalo. Almost 80 inches in some areas.

 

 

 

11/20/2023

Idea for book: Photos Taken On A Weekend, a photo book of photographs taken on Saturdays and Sundays.

[11/20/2024: Book in progress]