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About markweiss86

Mark Weiss, founder of Plastic Alto blog, is a concert promoter and artist manager in Palo Alto, as Earthwise Productions, with background as journalist, advertising copywriter, book store returns desk, college radio producer, city council and commissions candidate, high school basketball player, and blogger; he also sang in local choir, fronts an Allen Ginsberg tribute Beat Hotel Rm 32 Reads 'Howl' and owns a couple musical instruments he cannot play

Viva Cepeda

Posted on April 28, 2014 by markweiss86

  b/w Tribelines by Eric Hanson (Nina Simone’s former agent), annotated by The Editor, with a little help from Who’s Who in Baseball, 2014 Tribe not swept since late last summer Happens here, would be a bummer* Hopes that we, … Continue reading →

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Herb Wong (1926-2014)

Posted on April 26, 2014 by markweiss86

(We last saw Herb Wong at Sam Smidt’s birthday party. They were neighbors. Terry knows or knew Sam well, while I have only met him a few times. I reminded Herb who I was and gave him a not too … Continue reading →

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Mandelbrot v. Cohen, Fractals v. Forcing, Morris v. Steve and Eric, ‘Errol Morris Dancing’

Posted on April 26, 2014 by markweiss86

  “Errol Morris Dancing” >> play both of these short films simultaneously, and vary the effect by muting one or the other for sound   Cohen is noted for developing a mathematical technique called forcing, which he used to prove that … Continue reading →

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Kenneth Baker on Donald Judd on perception

Posted on April 25, 2014 by markweiss86

The precision of Judd’s sculpture has led people to see an idealizing impulse behind it. But Judd saw himself as empiricist and his work as sharpening the perceptions of a public addled by encountering falseness daily on every front, from … Continue reading →

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Reunion Hill by Shindell and Baez and Women on the Wall by Stegner

Posted on April 24, 2014 by markweiss86

This is a companion piece to below about Ehren Tool, veterans’ art, coming to Palo Alto Art Center in June. “Reunion Hill” was written by Richard Shindell, for Joan Baez. Here are comparative versions, one by each.   Meanwhile, I … Continue reading →

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Our Palo Alto discussion featuring Sid Espinosa et al at Downtown Library Wednesday April 23, 2014

Posted on April 24, 2014 by markweiss86

I am carrying the business card of David Evan Harris, one of the panelists (along with Sid Espinosa, Steven Levy and Ann Dunkin): Research Director, Institute for the Future, 124 University Avenue, Palo Alto. Harris said, and my own eyes … Continue reading →

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23 bonbons and beisboleros from Venezuela

Posted on April 24, 2014 by markweiss86

Jose Carlos Altuve Alexi Jose Amarista Elvis Augusto Andrus Oswaldo Celestino Arcia Gregor Miguel Blanco Asdrubal Jose Cabrera Jose Miguel Cabrera Alberto Jose Callaspo Ronny Cedeno Francisco Cervelli Endy De Jesus Chavez Alcides Escobar Eduardo Jose Escobar Freddy Jose Galvis … Continue reading →

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I am not working on my blog because there are this many things more interesting than my new computer, tempting though it may be

Posted on April 23, 2014 by markweiss86

I am not working on my blog because there are this many — 12 — things more interesting than my new computer, tempting though it may be. At Printer’s Inc, Cafe, Palo Alto, with about 90 minutes to be “productive”. … Continue reading →

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Does the Vivian Maier movie “dargerize” the nanny?

Posted on April 21, 2014 by markweiss86

(originally a draft of something I was to post on another wordpress site) I thought of Darger in relation to Maier, and found your blog. (Part Time Lion Timer by Gretchen Jacobsen aka Wilhemina Frame, on wordpress) A difference between Jessica … Continue reading →

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How can the life of such a man be in the palm of some fools hand? (Rubin Carter 1937-2014)

Posted on April 21, 2014 by markweiss86
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