whipped cream

Even better than yesterday's entry on the sublime: Whipped Cream Structure with diagrams & microscopic images & everythang! Do you think that whipped cream is its own little sublime universe? Seems very possible.... Abominations such as Mock Whipped Cream are in an entirely different universe, of course.

Then there's the infamous Cool Whip which is also its whole own universe. Not a sublime one though.

& just in case you wanted to know, here are some things you should never substitute for whipped cream. (They say for food sex, I say never for any reason.)

Wes Mills

I've been paging slowly through the hot-off-the-press Wes Mills book (from Printed Matter) & pondering the concept of the sublime. Donna asked me what I meant by sublime. In my first feeble attempt to answer this question, I caught myself sounding like those tired old discussions of what defines erotica vs. porn: "I can't explain it, but I know it when I see it!" Fortunately, this explanation is a lot more articulate. A lot.

perfection

Alison Bechdel is a genius. Always has been, as far as I remember. There is a perfection in her work, kind of like that Room Service short film I was raving about recently. I've been thinking a lot about perfection lately. Agnes Martin speaks of the "awareness of perfection" that we have in our minds. Not perfection as an external thing but the sense of perfection that we all know internally. Good stuff to ponder.

expanding

Oh, man... my little geek world keeps expanding. I don't even know where to begin. I'm overwhelmed by possibility!

At the same time, I've been looking a lot at the sublime work of Agnes Martin, who can safely be categorized as not just low-tech but no-tech.

A bit o' yin & yang for ya there.