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notes by Jackson Hill
"Sees the world in book form.
Ken Botnick
Em-dash / Limited Editions
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Ken Botnick
Trained as a landscape
architecture
Seamlessness, lack of division
between discipline, spreads as
fertile soil
Process
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Hard to control pictures from the
car, interesting, collab of
slow driver and randomness from
camera
The less he tried to control
the process, the morerepresentative
the work would be of his feelings
of his India trip
Diversity of tools, thinking of the
maker
Easy to get hooked on devices
Dont resist infatuationthings
that deserve love will earn it
but everything deserves a chance
Sees the world in book form
Nature of his trip never made
sense until it was in book page
Creates a beautiful separation of
reality
Note after- women wear bright
colors, men wear white.
Landing in America, jeans, khakis,
feels like the life was sucked from
the world
The Camera
India, hard to capture in pictures,
sensory experience
How to use camera to see
Crazy Indian drivers, if Botnick
took pictures the driver would slow
down.
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Diderot Encycl.
Google University of Michigan,
Artful, MI is better lol, cool plates
(anatomical)
Change of lens to macro, asking
himself what he was looking at
Diderot spreadMap of the sys-
tem of human knowledge
Sensory perception negates
religion
Spurred Botnicks research into
John Bender, goes into great detail
on plates w/ modern
Not much in the way of captions/
placards
Were so driven by being told
what something is
Actually have to read the plates
o ;
?
Is this due to the specics of the
India trip, or is a more organic
process a more powerful one?
Credits India for loosening him
up, has to enjoy the world, not
control it
Favorite word
Sedulouslook cool, sounds cool,
slow, pain-staking
Death of printed word? Ebooks?
The world needs them
Reading books, rst is great, feels
like youre reading the same book
Sherry Turkle
Evocative Objects
Were gonna be reading every-
thing on screens, by necessity
You have a printer aesthetic, what
about us?
Youre not divorced from prod.
Man with a hammer thinks every-
thing is a nail
Have to engage on every level
Inks an amazingly expressive thing
Favorite work of design
Dieter Roth
Lots of 50s, 60s, 70s books
Weird, troubling objects
Book called Snow
Cool MOMA catalouge, Wait,
later this will be nothing.
Hate?
Wal-Mart
Lot of reasons to hate it.
Cognitive psych symbol, supposed
to see the latent circular image,
Wal-Mart rounded inside
Gutless Bastard
Hates BP too
Asked, what do you think of BP?
Scam, liars

Delight in
Efciency
Work well
?
Responsibility