160 - The Thin Wire

A sequence of photographs suggests all the photographs missing from the sequence.

What does it mean when one person in a relationship takes all the photos?

When is a key not a key?

 

On this episode, we talk:

Surviving the heat, big horn sheep, snake invasion, roadrunners, Tim Powers novels, the Tarantella, the Theatre Royale of Castlemaine, the Radical Nudist Psychedelic Jug Band Band, public nudity, nude Starbucks, codpieces, Eldridge Cleaver, cognitive dissonance, the autonomous instinctive animal network within humans, mowing the lawn late at night, documenting subjectivity objectively, phantom forms, reverse pareidolia, Tom Waits, garage bands, believing in characters, the most photographed person of all time, sticking to an image, late-night TV show hosts, “real comes before important,” compulsively photographing things, the need to document, beck and call, trunks full of old photographs, intent, pictures of the moon, the end of photography as a fine art, just seeing the image, the musicality of language vs. the concrete rules of plot, holograms, simple principles, skirting around elitism, Round Table imaginative challenge, The Last Room, creating riddles, DIY instruments, translating the avant garde into pop culture, and cold tundra.