{ Friday, April 18, 2003 }
Through Ed Vielmetti's site I found this link to the work of Mark Lombardi, who does lovely hand-drawn diagrams of the nodes of power in the United States and beyond. The one pictured there is a chronicle of the Bush administrations involvement in Oil Industry affairs -- of extreme interest are the ties with the Middle East.
Unfortunately, Lombardi committed suicide.
LINK | 6:54 PM | TB
Ooooo, nothing mere about paper and ink, Anil.
:)
But I am confused. How does one copy & paste from mere paper and ink? I'm pretty sure I can't even bookmark it.
Anil | April 19, 2003 4:24 AMThose are paper's -- and drawings' -- virtues: its tactility, its uniqueness, its unmediated nature, the evidence of the human hand... Silly Anil! I recognize that you are mostly joking of course.
My mother asked me why I don't have a fax machine, and I explained to her that as a medium for text and data, the fax is the worst possible method of delivery, as it petrifies it on the page, leaving it uncopyable, unmanipulable by others. It's also a lossy format; with each refaxing it becomes increasingly illegible.
If I'd hired Mark Lombardi to do the interaction design for my web site, of course I'd rather he do it in Visio than with a Ticonderoga #2, but since he was making art not business he picked the appropriate medium.
Which of course is a dodgy statement since it leads us to the inevitable questions of uniqueness and reproducibility in art and we could drag Walter Benjamin into this discussion if we wanted to, and reflog the well flogged What is art? question but it is a boring question and we are sleepy from having eaten too many bagels at brunch, with not enough caffeine to offset the onset of carbohydrate coma.
Caterina | April 19, 2003 4:31 PMMark Lombardi's work is beautiful, thanks for sharing it. But the end of his story is detestable and sad. Why do so many sensitive people end up so insensitive to themselves and their loved ones?
tim | April 20, 2003 2:53 AMI don't agree with you that it is always detestable to commit suicide (if that's what you're saying) -- you can never know how the world is for another person, really, and I can see circumstances under which it would be unbearable to continue living.
You wouldn't begrudge a Jew his cyanide if he heard the boots of the SS marching towards his door, and while many suicides may not have such clearcut reasons or identifiable foes, they should still be permitted that last act of free will.
Which doesn't make it any less of a tragedy for the survivors, of course.
Caterina | April 21, 2003 11:26 PMMark Lombardi's work [and how he did it] will soon be released in a book...
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0916365670/qid%3D1061391376
A similar network, of the 9/11 hijackers, can be seen at:
http://www.orgnet.com/hijackers.html
But, I was lazy -- I used a computer to draw the net! ;-)
Valdis | August 20, 2003 7:59 AMMark was my cousin and the fact remains that NO ONE in the family believes that he committed suicide. He obviously made alot of people "uncomfortable" with his work and it was just getting going.
It's understanding no one wants to be seen as a conspiracy theorist, but it is amazing to note that everyone just accepts the blatant lie that he committed suicide (although the "wouldn't suicide be a perfect way to fuel the conspiracy found in his art " argument is an awful contorttion of the truth)
I just want eveyone to see that Mark's family does not accept what you have put on this page as his cause of death and to please be aware of this.
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Seems like a precursor to They Rule, except that Josh's work is flashy goodness instead of mere paper and ink.
Anil | April 18, 2003 9:03 PM