created 2024-15-07, & modified, =this.modified
tags:y2024
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Detailing a Datasets - Shoes through the years I would enjoy.
This isn’t a distraction from reality. A chair can be replaced with many things.
Hold my hand, let’s go On a wild goose chase, where the bliss remains -oklou, fall
This weekend I was out on day trips and I noted how many odd chairs I encountered. A chair looked like a silver red blood cell. There was a group of chairs that rotated back to face the other chairs in assembly when you pivoted. There was an ornate artists chair that was forbidden to sit on, but alien and tempting.
As a point of reference about me, I dislike sitting. I’ll gladly give up my seat if asked, and will often just stand even when seats are open.
What if I started to document every single chair that I sat in? I’d now encounter a chair, take a photo of it, sit in it and write down a sentence of two note about the experience, possibly using Rating System Philosophy
I should do this.
I’d need special language to describe the chairs, and understand how they work. The Ear, the Apron, the Cross rail, the splat. I would understand these features and all their variants.
Isn’t this a change a change of seeing things where they didn’t exist before? This has been my life so far - somewhat mindless selection of a seat, because it exists. I’d now be pursuing chairs not necessarily out of a need (such as the need to sit and rest that motivates 90% of sitting.)
What I would do now, is find a chair in a distance and mentally note it as unique. I’d feel joy at this. A rare find. I’d make a move toward it, and settle in. I’d take a moment to understand how it supports my body. I’d be fully conscious of that human sitting experience.
I’ve lived my life up to now, unaware of this joy of finding a rare chair to sit in. Also think of all the chairs I’ve been offered, or sat in. All of this data that has been possible to be collected, that I have not.
There are so many avenues for this. A chair can be anything else that I want to think about. You can share this simple joy with someone. They message you, that the nearby library just has installed a new chair fleet for their computer room. Thank you for thinking of me.
I recall going through cemeteries where people would make their gravestones a type of chair adjacent and made of stone to sit with. I always thought that was nice, like a way to care for someone even after you’ve gone.
Pointless Task
The surrealists were aware of this with their games. I feel a pointless, wandering quest can be important. You can say to yourself, at 9PM despite not wanting to at all, I will go to three supermarket, and say something to the person who is closest to the milk.
This is a completely arbitrary quest that can be replaced with anything. What it does give you, if you have the time for it and nonsense, is open up a chain of happenings (good and bad) that wouldn’t happen otherwise if you had remained inside and watched another film.
There’s also an almost zero chance that the person in the store is doing just the same as you. That almost is immensely powerful. Pointlessness might not exist in this case.
Photograph versus the act of Photography
Maybe there is too much focus on the apparatus of the chair here. Over time you begin to see objects in the environment as untapped sitting zones.
What if the challenge became instead rating sitting broadly. Any surface became a possible “sat” zone, such as sitting on the top of a moving vehicle, or infinite configurations of snow objects.
This might be an avenue to explore after every chair is sat on. The future state of this is everything becomes an object of sitting on, maximized. You sit on things, perhaps even never get up.