on Walks...
the idea has been gnawing at me for a few weeks now in regard to the Walk project. i feel slightly uncomfortable w/the tourist overtones in it--that in order to "get to know our community" we must get in a bus, have experts lead us around, pay admission, look at our home with a distancing eye.. the phenomenon that suddenly a sewage treatment plant is interesting because we decide to rename it as a tour.. reminds me of driving across America this summer and all the crazy tourist billboards (most heavily located in South Dakota). the spectacle of the spectacle! put up a billboard and you have an attraction, it becomes more interesting because there is an informational placard, or a tour guide..
Anyway, Romney, there seems to be a lack of interest in the project. The project started because we thought we had all this graduate money & wanted to figure out a way to use it..then David Buuck's activities seemed to be along the lines of what we wanted to do.. But we don't have to do that idea, if people aren't that excited about it.
One thing I believe is that whatever we do, we WILL need a person to manage things, organize, rally troops. I don't know if any of us wants to be that person, or has time to be that person, but we will need one. It might be better to agree on that before we get going so no hard feelings later.
Should we regroup on this?
On the project I mentioned (response poems), I guess the attraction is that we can all interact w/each other's work but it would be much easier to organize. Also if it's not interesting in the end we don't have to do anything with it. No risk guarantee! Maybe only fun for ourselves, but who cares if no one else likes it? We can just stuff it in closet or hard drive.
We could do both projects. We could do another one no one has thought of yet!
Printing chapbook will be huge time commitment. If we're going to try to do that, we need to first make sure we have the money. Someone will have to step up and take that on. If no one steps up, I don't think it will happen.
Maybe we should have another chat to reassess availability & how much people want to put in to project & if original Walk idea is still tantalizing.
the idea has been gnawing at me for a few weeks now in regard to the Walk project. i feel slightly uncomfortable w/the tourist overtones in it--that in order to "get to know our community" we must get in a bus, have experts lead us around, pay admission, look at our home with a distancing eye.. the phenomenon that suddenly a sewage treatment plant is interesting because we decide to rename it as a tour.. reminds me of driving across America this summer and all the crazy tourist billboards (most heavily located in South Dakota). the spectacle of the spectacle! put up a billboard and you have an attraction, it becomes more interesting because there is an informational placard, or a tour guide..
Anyway, Romney, there seems to be a lack of interest in the project. The project started because we thought we had all this graduate money & wanted to figure out a way to use it..then David Buuck's activities seemed to be along the lines of what we wanted to do.. But we don't have to do that idea, if people aren't that excited about it.
One thing I believe is that whatever we do, we WILL need a person to manage things, organize, rally troops. I don't know if any of us wants to be that person, or has time to be that person, but we will need one. It might be better to agree on that before we get going so no hard feelings later.
Should we regroup on this?
On the project I mentioned (response poems), I guess the attraction is that we can all interact w/each other's work but it would be much easier to organize. Also if it's not interesting in the end we don't have to do anything with it. No risk guarantee! Maybe only fun for ourselves, but who cares if no one else likes it? We can just stuff it in closet or hard drive.
We could do both projects. We could do another one no one has thought of yet!
Printing chapbook will be huge time commitment. If we're going to try to do that, we need to first make sure we have the money. Someone will have to step up and take that on. If no one steps up, I don't think it will happen.
Maybe we should have another chat to reassess availability & how much people want to put in to project & if original Walk idea is still tantalizing.
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