Sean Dack

Beijing dust storms, long walks or drives on the weekends with a camera, artist sponsorship, ridiculous corporate hustles, the sights, sounds and smells of other cities, sounds in warehouses or cathedrals, glow in the dark love, conspiracy theories, people and their dreams (realized/unrealized), people who speak quickly, old school stereo component systems, memes, snowclones, that feeling you get on the first nice day of spring or when travelling to a different climate (preferably warm) and you walk out of the front doors of the airport, Harrowdown Hill, Internet browser as camera, WNYC, Pripyat, Ukraine: Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Barack Obama, making lists, raveist/rockist, three gorges dam, MTV's Liquid Television season 1, shanghai, Madison, WV, 24p HD video cameras, quantegy 1/4" inch reel to reel tape stock, revox A77, Brian Eno's role in Roxy Music, backmasking, four track cassette recording, morse code, intangible media/ physical media, relief efforts, amateur video, Dior Homme (2001-2007), global weather patterns, connecting dots and process, the Bill Moyer show, cspan, hubble space telescope, Harris Savides, (D.I.Y.) Dior it yourself, Lance Acord, film emulsion, underrating 1 and pushing 2, operating as a walking barometer for the economy (art market), planes and tranquilizers, captive audiences, appropriated imagery, global warming is real not a leftist conspiracy, the guardian, nick waplington, Anna Sanders Films (Paris), collaboration, the disputed province of Kashmir, Kurt Cobain, LDL, trends and phenomena aligning themselves, Technics SL 1200 vs. Technics SLDZ 1200 vs. Serato, Los Angeles and the mini apocalypse, Sony Walkman, people who don't believe their own hype, Sony Watchman, TB-303, Summicron 35 F2, the new MoMA, Chris Marker, Slavoj Zizek, Benjamin Buchloh, Towards a Minimal Future, Peace Hotel, international wire transfers, tax refunds, haute commericale, auto repeat turntables, Orson Ruaric Gillick-Morris, dub plates, vintage cowboy boots, Knoll, Los Angeles as the new Williamsburg, photo essays, this amazing woman from new jersey that changed my life, travelogues, notes and drawings, Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, Werner Herzog, sheet music, Andy Warhol and post Warholian processes, hybrid states/economies, respiratory distress, balancing acts, it's not the same it's different, new notions of the surreal, superstudio, factory records, Gimmie Shelter/ Altamont, pre-mellienial tension becoming post-millenial reality, China and the EU as the new economic force, getting paid in euros, Casio, Texas Instruments, circuit bending, the iron curtain, fog, smog and other natural light diffusion, bad lighting, ecstatic truth, boutique electronics, digisoul, Centralia, PA, cowbells and handclaps, Marfa, archival digibeta, olmifon/adrafanil, psychotonics, renting cars, exploiting lack of skill whilst obscuring real ones, airbus A380 vs. boeing 7E7, M/M paris, Thrasher and Transworld mags circa 86-88, 4-2-the-floor, leftfield disco, text drawings, schmatics, diagrams, film stock vs. memory cards, anton corbijn, google maps, watching things on ebay but not buying them, fuji GX 690 vs. Mamiya 7II vs. Canon D5, my seemingly dead (again) elektron machinedrum, the fall of the GOP in quarter 4 2006, this blog