made it home late last night
after a stop at the all night lobster shack
for a burger and fries
I fell asleep without eating
slept under a grow light
which I kept on in the freelance days
when I worked inside at home
and felt like a plant
dreamed that matt jones
gave me an assignment
dreams of a tom hanks movie
about moving from cape cod
dreamed that sagmeister
worked in a woodshop
and dreamed kevin-o from work
left a first comment on boingboing
that was so very good
xeni video called
woke in my fall clothes
and though it was grey out
me in the daytime
under the grow light
with all of these dreams
in that dream, matt jones showed me a shape that had been cut out of plexi that was like two overlapping long triangles with some rectangular intersections and outcroppings. some degree of scratches on its surface and one circle (or maybe two) printed on or in it.
he said “develop this” — in contradistinction to “draw this” — and that the largest paper you could get was 30” x 400” which confused me and still does because I know paper comes in taller rolls than thirty, but that was the story and this was a dream. but the key was to develop this image, to make some kind of colossal photograph (rather than a tracing) that would capture the thing.
and I worked through in this dream a solution that involved a cctv and a projector — coating the fourhundred inch paper with mild photosensitive chemicals in a room or maybe a cosco container and projecting onto it—from above—a closed circuit video of the object. that was something of a bill daniel solution, but one designed to get those scratches because such a long exposure could be dim but incremental. (who made the pinhole cameras of airports out of containers?)
ignoring the ambient light of projectors. this was a dream.
