monday

Dear Diary,

Today was my first day at my new school.

Last week us new enrolments were welcomed onto the marae.

I learned Karanga Hape is the call of Hape a noble chief who managed to get his name on the main road of dork-land in what I imagine as a very sunny pre-Pakeha day.

I also learned that if you sat at the back with the girls some fulla would let loose full roasting in Te Reo from which much laughter would be harvest. The expense I am yet to ascertain.

Apparently you need at least 15 minutes of laughter a day to be healthy and balanced.

good - positive vibrations
bad - cynical mock stars


On Friday I got taught nothing. Nada. Squat. If I find my notes I will return.


Today I put my initial on the attendance record.

It was in red.

And learned of normative white 60`s culture adopting capitalist notion that the process or means of production is all that is important. Artists wanting to be rockstars took to performance and improvisation to woo their crowd.

bad - pretentious cocks
good - anti-illusionism

Jackson Pollock was an example today. He called his process Drip Art, the academics termed it Action Art * and the Process Art movement apparently owned it.

Once Jackson Pollock owned the process of dropping ink with velocity at  canvas on the ground plane it's his.

* The public typically refer to it as Kindergarten Art.

This is how today made me feel.