tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28154988.post2022313660398111154..comments2024-03-26T01:59:52.206-04:00Comments on Just outside: Brian Olewnickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08567239067604835372noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28154988.post-32972994545484121222007-11-01T14:45:00.000-04:002007-11-01T14:45:00.000-04:00The renegade Flemish branch of the Olewnicks...Act...The renegade Flemish branch of the Olewnicks...Actually, mom's German--close enough for the likelihood of rape and pillage in times past.Brian Olewnickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08567239067604835372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28154988.post-63322470748317854622007-11-01T14:26:00.000-04:002007-11-01T14:26:00.000-04:00Hang on a minute... Brian do you have a distant an...Hang on a minute... Brian do you have a distant ancestor that posed for Van Eyck paintings? One of those monks looks decidely familiar....Richard Pinnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00168522717135806763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28154988.post-23965754615675104142007-11-01T09:44:00.000-04:002007-11-01T09:44:00.000-04:00hey Mwanji,I have less of a problem in music festi...hey Mwanji,<BR/><BR/>I have less of a problem in music festival situations given that, (necessarily, unless there are overlapping events) you're concentrating on one thing at a time, over the course of an hour or so. Though granted there's still an overload and some performances require a certain amount of digestion. Also there's the day after when you vainly try to remember everything you've just heard...<BR/><BR/>But you're definitely correct re: the amount of time available to really get to know a given piece of new music. It's the rare item these days that sits around unfiled, urging me to relisten numerous times.Brian Olewnickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08567239067604835372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28154988.post-77920627290314852412007-11-01T09:32:00.000-04:002007-11-01T09:32:00.000-04:00I feel the same way about jazz festivals,which is ...I feel the same way about jazz festivals,which is why I don't go to very many.<BR/><BR/>Just recently I was talking to Ethan Iverson about how it is impossible, today, to recreate the kind of attention people might have lavished on a single song back in the era of 78-rpm singles.Moandji Ezanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01507510837237294496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28154988.post-23854736879635241782007-10-31T12:40:00.000-04:002007-10-31T12:40:00.000-04:00Thats weird, I started by reading the same copy as...Thats weird, I started by reading the same copy as you then!<BR/><BR/>I quite liked the fact he went way out there with his own guesses that seemed based on other guesses he'd already made. In part he built a fantasy around the paintings and then lived in that fantasy for a while, an attachment to art that I kind of like. It reminded me of the Jeph Jerman thing I did a couple of years back, spend time every day with one topic and you start inventing all kinds of things...!Richard Pinnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00168522717135806763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28154988.post-86519612732031923692007-10-31T12:28:00.000-04:002007-10-31T12:28:00.000-04:00Yep, I read it this summer after leafing through K...Yep, I read it this summer after leafing through Keith's copy when he was here in the spring. I'm sure, actually, it was one impetus behind the above post. <BR/><BR/>Even if I thought he stretched things a bit far here and there, the basic idea of not only revisiting the two paintings on an almost daily basis, but re-examining his own thoughts about them in such an open form, was extremely refreshing and impressive.Brian Olewnickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08567239067604835372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28154988.post-26347343690523255562007-10-31T12:00:00.000-04:002007-10-31T12:00:00.000-04:00Brian have you read TJ Clark's The Sight of Death?...Brian have you read TJ Clark's <I>The Sight of Death?</I> I read it this summer (following a Rowe recommendation as it happens) and found it enthralling, but it also caused me to have similar thoughts to yours here.<BR/><BR/>If you've not read it, Clark visits two Poussin paintings in a gallery every day for several weeks and writes about them daily, noticing new things each day. Really great stuff, but it makes you want to do the same yourself, and it just isn't possible...Richard Pinnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00168522717135806763noreply@blogger.com