3aug24

Pictured: today’s garden work.

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• Gene-editing drugs are moving from lab to clinic at lightning speed
• Mystery surrounds US woman found starving and chained to tree in India

OPERATIONS: there is NO SIGNAL in the garden. It’s basically the 1970s out there, currently – continuing local network issues. Briefly organising delivery schedules for artists, publishers and myself and adding pending production deals to the boards
STATUS: Inbox 99, 7hrs 46mins sleep, sleeping heart rate of 64 (this is a note to self), readiness score of 86 which means I should be able to dig up some trees as well as cutting and lopping some back, and I will likely deprecate these details from STATUS next week

READING: EVERYTHING IS CINEMA: THE WORKING LIFE OF JEAN-LUC GODARD, Richard Brody.
THINKING ABOUT: from the Godard book:

I remember Godard asking me, for a scene of a car arriving at a railway crossing: “I only want the sound of the match.” Ordinarily, one would have put the sound of the car in motion and then braking, the character reaching for his cigarette then lighting it. This practice lent the voices and the discrete sound effects a peculiar intimacy, as if, like Bruno, the viewer were experiencing not a moment in full but a particular, keen, and pointed detail as Bruno remembers it.

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