{"id":3054,"date":"2016-07-08T13:55:30","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T17:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3054"},"modified":"2016-07-08T13:55:30","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T17:55:30","slug":"collecting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3054","title":{"rendered":"collecting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An early morning walk in Menlo Park CA, where we&#8217;re visiting for a couple of days, produced two apparently unrelated images that provoke a single meditation on collections and patterns:<center><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/28141343336\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"Menlo Park power pole\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/8\/7456\/28141343336_6443f505bd_z.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Menlo Park power pole\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/28141348856\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"Atherton police blotter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/8\/7554\/28141348856_d8fa65c40e_z.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Atherton police blotter\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><br \/>\nIf you collect a lot of anything [pictures of electrical supply, snippets from newspapers, gravestones, whatever] and then work with the collections in an analytical sort of way, seeking the patterns within the collections, eventually stories\/narratives begin to emerge. That seems blindingly obvious, and I&#8217;ve been through  the procedure many many times, but I realize I haven&#8217;t always known the formula\/method. So I&#8217;m trying to reconstruct when I began to employ it\u2014when I began to be a collector, a pattern-finder, an analyst. I can&#8217;t recall that anybody ever suggested the procedure to me, though it <i>should<\/i> have been an element of my education. I don&#8217;t know when I first formalized the collect-analyze-narrate process for myself. Surely my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/albums\">Flickr albums<\/a> are just this sort of gatheration, and I ought to do more along those lines.<\/p>\n<p>\nAs for today&#8217;s examples: the power pole belongs in the collection that includes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/albums\/72157633216298332\">Electricity in Ajijic<\/a> and <center><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/17432737961\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"trolley wires\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/8\/7744\/17432737961_de72c54d2f.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"305\" alt=\"trolley wires\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center> and <center><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/16927039592\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"electrical3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/9\/8739\/16927039592_b845e12f21.jpg\" width=\"357\" height=\"500\" alt=\"electrical3\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><br \/>\n&#8230;and as for the Atherton police blotter, it reflects the irreality of life on the edges of Silicon Valley, where &#8220;service persons&#8221; are essential elements of domestic life, and the outside world is full of &#8220;suspicious people.&#8221; Such things are everywhere one looks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An early morning walk in Menlo Park CA, where we&#8217;re visiting for a couple of days, produced two apparently unrelated images that provoke a single meditation on collections and patterns: If you collect a lot of anything [pictures of electrical supply, snippets from newspapers, gravestones, whatever] and then work with the collections in an analytical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3054"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3056,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054\/revisions\/3056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}