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That's Not Funny, That's C.K.
If you believe more or less every other working comedian, Louis C.K. is the funniest comic alive. If you pay close attention to sitcoms, his show is unlike anything you've ever seen. And if you're divorced, or middle-aged, or afraid to talk to women, or overwhelmed by parenthood, or otherwise quietly desperate...he is laughing with you and at you
In the will-call line at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston, I got into a conversation with two guys who were nearly indistinguishable from each other, both very pale and sober-looking beneath their baseball caps and giant black-framed glasses. They told me they see every comic who comes through town. The marquee announced that Gallagher would be performing the following month, so I asked, "Even Gallagher?" and made a not-so-funny remark about the unimaginable number of watermelons that guy must have smashed in the past thirty-plus years. Yes, they said, they would be seeing Gallagher, and then they set me straight on how hard it is to get up and do an hour of comedy and how Gallagher tours all the time and still makes crowds laugh, "and not just with the gigantic mallet." They'd both grown up in Boston and had been going to clubs their entire adult lives. There were so many comics they saw before anybody else knew their names, Denis Leary and Sam Kinison and Steven Wright and Bobcat Goldthwait...
I told them I was writing a story about Louis C.K., and they described the first time they saw him, when he was "still a teenager doing a bunch of weird experimental stuff." "He's better now," the slightly less morose of the two said, and this then led to a ritual listing, delivered in the flattest affect imaginable, of the various bits they admired most. If you've paid any attention to Louis C.K. in the past several years you can probably re-create that list with 100 percent accuracy: "Everything's Amazing and Nobody's Happy," "Suck a Bag of Dicks," "The Saddest Hand Job in America." If, on the other hand, these don't mean anything to you, it's worth taking a quick YouTube tour of his greatest hits. (Probably NSFW, unless you work in some sort of clinic devoted to the intensive study of masturbation.) The next thing they told me I already knew, because I'd been reading a lot about C.K. recently and had spent some time talking with him, but these guys spoke with such gravity that it's only right to quote them: "He's not going to do any of those jokes tonight," the more morose guy said. "Won't ever do them again."
"Never repeats material," the other one added. He very much wanted me to understand that there are guys out there struggling week after week, month after month, to get ten or fifteen good minutes, whereas Louis C.K. is taking stuff that other comics only dream of and throwing it away. Every year, a whole new act. Ninety minutes. "Think about that."
I promised them I would, and we parted ways. Inside the theater, the audience was very pumped to see C.K. He grew up in Newton, a suburb of Boston, so there was a strong homecoming vibe in the air. People were shouting and chanting, and the place erupted when he came out and took the mike. He doesn't really do any of the typical chummy comic patter; as Marc Maron, who came up with C.K. in the '80s, told me, "This is a guy who, when we were younger, refused to talk to the audience. He was very much about just doing his jokes." C.K. (it's a homonym of Szekely, the surname of his Mexican-Hungarian father, who moved out when Louis was 10) is a big guy, six one or two, and barrel-chested, and he carries himself even bigger, with his shoulders back and chin up, all of which, along with the sharp nose and rust-colored goatee, gives him the look of a berserker when he stalks onstage. This is worth noting only because a decent amount of his material seems to emerge from a place of anger—or maybe more accurately, anger's parent streams, fear and shame—and when he's standing there in his black T-shirt and jeans, sweating and red-faced, you get the sense that however much that joke has been honed for comic effect, it also isn't totally an act. The signal seems to be beaming from someplace real and not completely peaceful inside him.
C.K. took the stage in Boston and looked out over the audience, "So you're all from Brookline and Braintree and shit?" and when some guy down in front shouted, "Quincy!" he turned on him instantly. "I don't give a shit where you're from," he said, and then proceeded to explain that he was here to do this act that people have paid money to see, and he doesn't understand why anyone would yell during it and interrupt him. "Why wouldn't you want it to go well?" he asked. "Because you're 20, that's why. You're fucking 20 and you don't know anything, you piece of shit."
However premeditated that moment might have been to establish a sense of control in the room and a useful, funny antipathy with the crowd, it was also a function of the real dynamics of his life. At breakfast the previous morning, I'd said something about the things that happen to you once you have kids—that not only do you lose your ability to relate to people without children, but now you walk around all the time with the disconcerting and irreconcilable feeling that your own kids have simultaneously saved and destroyed your life—and how his comedy explores that confusion in a way I found comforting and even sort of therapeutic.
"For me, it's more of an age thing than it is about having kids," he said. "I don't have a lot to say to people who are younger." He's 43 years old and got divorced a couple of years ago from the painter Alix Bailey, with whom he now shares custody of their two girls. "When I was first divorced, I started dating younger women, and it was really exciting. But after a while I was like, This is just dumb. You date someone younger and it's...limited. There's no future in it. And as far as just going out and getting laid, that kinda got tired for me very quickly. It's just—it's very intimate. You're letting her right into the middle of your life. You see someone and you're like, She's really hot, I want to be naked with her. And then you're naked with her and you're like, Jesus, she's in my fucking room and we're naked. The idea of that—of just fucking somebody—became silly to me."
He talked for a while about how diffcult the first year after his divorce was and how it affected his work. "For one, I couldn't really talk about my wife anymore. Not that I was ever really talking about her, exactly, but now I couldn't do that at all; I couldn't talk about the woman I was divorced from. She deserves her privacy. But that meant I had no idea where I was going to get material. It was like, 'Oh, shit, there goes my act.' " He didn't really go into why his marriage ended, except to say that they hadn't been making each other happy for a while and finally had to admit it was done. "I just sat in my pajamas for like two years," he said. "And I was nothing for my kids. And then eventually I climbed out of it and was just like, 'I can't do this. I can't fuck around like this.' I focused on the kids, and they saved my life. I thought, 'Everything's based on them now.' "
It's dumb to speculate on why anyone's relationship falls apart—what seem like the obvious factors aren't always the truest ones—but you wonder what it must have been like to be married to a guy who makes his living doing jokes about his wife's disdain at giving him a hand job or his daughter's vaginal rashes or, more broadly, to someone who's just so compulsively driven to talk about our darkest impulses. "It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them," he said during one of our conversations. "The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to. And that's when you start pissing people off." This led to a discussion about the one joke that he worried was too much—a bit about how, if we were all "somehow okay with kid-fucking," pedophiles wouldn't kill kids after they raped them. "It's a hard thing to hear," he said. "But it's true. If we were less hating of kid-fucking, less kids would die. That's true. I don't know what to do with that information. But it's true."
There's not even a joke there, I don't think. And yet I found myself laughing—not so much at the shock of it as the way he was taking the "Aren't humans dopes?" aspect of so many comic bits and applying it to the grimmest act imaginable. There's a deep anti–moral-hypocrisy vein running through C.K.'s work, which is organized as much as anything around the idea that to not speak openly about our capacity for ugliness is to further enable it. This, I think, is part of what other comics are talking about when they describe him as being "brave" and "fearless" onstage. Or it's this combined with what we know about his life, that he has two young daughters, and—when he's not traveling for a gig or shooting his show or going on the radio, as he did a few months back, to ask Donald Rumsfeld over the phone if he was a lizard who eats Mexican babies—he's making the girls breakfast and taking them to school and otherwise operating in full domestic-dad mode. It's something about the completely permeable membrane between those two versions of himself, the loving dad and the guy whose life appears to be an ongoing piece of performance art devoted to expressing every twisted thought that surfaces in his brain, that makes him either the most honest comedian in the world or kind of a disturbing freak. (As one comic who's worked with C.K. said to me, "I like Louis. And I appreciate his brilliance. But the idea that he's expressing thoughts that we all think doesn't seem totally right to me. I don't actually think those things.")
A lot of C.K.'s struggle around his divorce went into the first season of his television show, "Louie," which started its second season on FX in late June. C.K. writes, directs, edits, ecutive-produces, and stars in the show, which is about a recently divorced stand-up comedian who shares custody of his two girls with his ex-wife. Much has been made about the deal that C.K. got from FX, which is basically that he gets a shoestring budget (though enough to do what he wants to do) in exchange for total creative control. There's a standards woman he'll occasionally bounce stuff off, but for the most part, what appears on television is as pure a distillation of his vision as it can possibly be. The show's appeared on all sorts of best lists, so I won't waste space here seconding those opinions, except to say that it really is unlike anything that's ever been on television, far deeper and darker and much more complex—a whole different entity, really—than shows like "Seinfeld" or "Curb Your Enthusiasm" or "Roseanne."
The final episode of the first season ends with these great, poignant couple of scenes that were a TV version of the real, pivotal moment in C.K.'s life. He goes out to meet someone but instead ends up at the EastVille Comedy Club, where they let him squeeze in a set. He bombs, and then he goes back to his apartment and sends his babysitter home, and his girls wake up in the middle of the night asking for breakfast. Rather than sending them back to bed, he takes them out to the local diner, and the final shot, from outside the diner, is of him and his girls inside eating pancakes. It's a moment that could have been handled so badly, been either too comically arch or too sentimental, but instead what you feel, watching it, is that it's created by a guy with a much deeper and subtler artistic vision than he has received credit for, despite all the praise that's been heaped on the show.
When I contacted Patton Oswalt's publicist to ask if he might have a few minutes to talk to me, she said that Patton was getting on a plane at that very moment, but yes, he would of course talk about Louis. Moments later he was on the phone, as a flight attendant in the background urged passengers to take their seats and turn off their electronic devices. "There are a lot of comedians who have the same potential, talentwise, that Louis has," Oswalt said. "But very few have the level of commitment he does." He elaborated that even though C.K. is now genuinely famous and people are constantly asking him to write for and/or act in their movies, he has never abandoned stand-up; he's always working on his act, and this ruthless approach to his work is what's separated him from other comedians. "Louis's effect on stand-up reminds me of what happened when Jimi Hendrix went over to London," Oswalt said. "Everybody used to fight about who was the best guitarist, who was number one. Then Hendrix came along, and everyone was like, Okay, we can all relax and talk about who's number two now."
I said it was a little surprising to me, given that the world of comedy isn't known for its modest egos, how many comedians talk about C.K. in these terms. "Look, I have a massive ego," Oswalt said, "but at the same time, I'm a fan of comedy. It must be what it felt like to be around in the late '70s watching Richard Pryor. You want to be a great comedian, but you also feel lucky to witness this kind of transcendence."
According to Marc Maron, that moment of transcendence was forged first when C.K. had kids and then evolved and deepened when his marriage started to fall apart. "You're looking at a guy who was fundamentally an absurdist for the first half of his career," Maron told me, "but then the pressures of his life demanded that he talk about them, and it's that integration that created a truly unique voice that can't be duplicated." It wasn't that C.K. was suddenly talking about stuff that was thematically radical, Maron said; it was the mixture of subject matter and sensibility that was new. "This is an established comedic archetype—the angry husband or the father that doesn't have time for himself anymore," he said. "But Louis is a poet, and he was applying his incredible imagination to something that was very relatable to people."
Maron hosts a podcast called "WTF," on which C.K. appeared last October to talk about comedy and his TV show but also, amazingly, to hash out why their friendship came to an end and to try to locate the source of their mutual resentment. It's a remarkable couple of hours. At one point, C.K. tells a story about being broke and going into a music store and, for reasons that he doesn't understand, purchasing a $1,400 trumpet that he doesn't know how to play and can't afford. He leaves the store, and he's carrying around this beautiful trumpet, and he's feeling terrible about himself and his career, and eventually he goes into a peep show in Times Square. "It's pathetic," he said, "but I watched this Latvian girl, and I jerked off and came on the trumpet case. And then I realized that if I'd just gone there first, I'd still have fourteen hundred bucks."
Back in September, he referred to Sarah Palin as a cunt-face jazzy wondergirl. Or more accurately, he sent the following message to her via Twitter: "@SarahPalinUSA kudos to your dirty hole, you fucking jackoff cunt-face jazzy wondergirl." This was the seventh in a string of tweets that he'd kicked off about an hour earlier with this: "I'm on a plane to LA where I'm doing the tonight show friday. I'm kindof hammered on rum n cokes. bad idea." There were some other Palin-centric tweets, arguably more offensive even than the above, and some nonsense about the Beatles and Jews, and then things eventually wound down with: "my head hurts. The turbulence on this flight is nasty. uuuuuugh. I hate the letter H. I ate it. I'm very tired. Verrry."
A couple of nights later, when he appeared on "The Tonight Show," C.K. was seated next to Bristol Palin, and near the end of the show she invited him to dance with her and her then partner from "Dancing with the Stars." "I had no idea until I arrived that her fucking daughter was on the show," he told me over breakfast. "She seemed so nervous to me, and after her segment I told her, 'You did a good job. That's not easy.' And she said, 'Thank you.' And then she invited me to dance. And I knew I was paying some kind of penance for what I'd done. I'm standing there—me, Bristol Palin, Jay Leno, and the 'Dancing with the Stars' dude"—his face took on the Platonic expression of unhappiness—"and I'm like, This is totally karma. Pretty direct karma."
I asked if he regretted saying that stuff about a woman, even if it was Sarah Palin. "God, what a mess. I really shouldn't have done that. I regret it a lot. I wish I hadn't done that."
I agreed that those were some dark things to say, and he was like, No, no, no, no, you don't understand. It wasn't the nature of the tweets that he regretted. "I'm not a political comedian," he said. "That's just not what I do." It was a point of pride for him that he had credibility with the right wing, that Andrew Breitbart, for instance, has complimented C.K. on his website. "But then after I did this, someone wrote this real angry thing on his site about how I'm just another gatekeeper of Obama. And the thing that really hurt was that they paired the tweets with this thing they dug up that I'd said on "The Opie & Anthony Show." And that show, the stuff you say—it's just straight from the most bottom part of your mind."
I hadn't heard the stuff he'd said on the radio show about Palin, and when I asked him about it, he waved his hand in front of his face like it was probably best just to let it lie. But then the strength of her awfulness proved too powerful for him. "You know what it is? Honestly, I think she's a shit mother, I really do. I'm saying that as a parent. I think she's a horrible parent. To parade around with that Down-syndrome baby, to hold him up in front of the fucking Republican National Convention, it's just gross. I don't mean the kid's gross, it's just a gross thing to do. It's exploitative."
The thing he'd said on the radio was that if the baby was less than a year old, it wasn't a challenge yet, even if he had Down syndrome. Not long after that, C.K. got an e-mail from a listener who was the father of a Down's child. "The guy told me I was full of shit," he said, "because having Down's comes with all this medical baggage, and it ruined his and his wife's entire life, and he said, basically, If you don't think it's a challenge, you're a fucking liar. That broke my heart. It was very respectful. He never insulted me; he just said how wrong I was."
He gets a lot of angry e-mail, he said, and he never replies. But this guy had sent pictures of his kid, and he felt terrible that he'd put him through any more strife than he'd already been subjected to. "So I wrote him back and just said, 'What you wrote, it's part of me now. And your kid's very lucky to have you as a dad.' "
We sat there suspended for a moment in earnestness, looking at each other over the table like, Life, huh? It's just a bunch of relentless punches to the junk. And then he added: "All that other shit, though, saying Palin had a Chinese family in her vagina and whatever, I don't regret that. It's comedy. I have said many indefensible things onstage. It's fucking comedy. Plus, I do believe if she got elected, she'd really Hitler up the place."
I walked over to the corner of 39th Street and Tenth Avenue in Manhattan one day this spring to watch him shooting a scene for the new season. It's a truly terrible spot, right near the mouth of the Lincoln Tunnel, with truck after giant diesel-spewing truck shrieking by. Plus, there was construction going on across the street, and the jackhammering wouldn't let up. It was also the first real hot day of spring, but the scene was supposed to take place in winter, so C.K. was wearing this heavy coat and his head looked like it was being melted by a ray gun.
They have a fairly skeleton crew (an assistant occasionally mopped C.K.'s head and rubbed sunblock on it), and everyone seemed in pretty excellent humor even though the clock was ticking now on getting episodes in the can. C.K. rolled his eyes in the manner of deadline-haunted writers everywhere and said, "I still have a few episodes to write. Definitely very stressful." Beyond that, though, he showed no stress at all, which a couple guys on the set confirmed is how things are with him, that he's a perfectionist but never loses it or acts like a jerk to the people working for him.
The scene they were shooting involved C.K. walking up to a street corner, getting ready to cross at the light, then hearing someone yelling behind him and turning around just as a homeless guy runs out into traffc and gets leveled by a truck. They had cones set up in the left lane, and a nervous cop was there, trying to keep them from edging too far out into the street. They shot the setup of C.K. arriving at the corner and the guy running past him, and then he spent a while posing a dummy dressed like a homeless man in the middle of the left lane. Then he geeked out with the cinematographer for a while—"Whaddya got there, a 32?"—and got behind the camera himself. Every once in a while someone would recognize him and call out from their car, and he'd have a conversation while they waited for the light to change. One guy in a tow truck hollered out, "You are absolutely the funniest guy on TV!" and then circled the block a couple of times, craning his neck out of the window over and over.
The shot of the truck running over the guy was fantastic. They stopped traffc for a minute as the stunt driver, starting from a block away, picked up speed, crushing the dummy and then coming to a stop about six feet in front of where C.K. and the camera crew were set up. The cop looked like he was going to crap himself, but C.K. never flinched from behind the camera, lifting his head only when the shot was done to yell, "Boom! Mother_fucker_. That is nasty!" They'd be breaking early because it was a Wednesday, the day that his time with the kids started, and he's always there to pick them up at school. Presumably he'd be writing and editing at night after he got them to bed, then once the show was wrapped he'd start up at the clubs again a few nights a week, then back on the road come fall.
The path generally works like this: Stand-up comic gets big break, and his sitcom is picked up; then, if he's lucky, he becomes rich on residuals and buys seventeen cars and never has to sit in the dingy back room of Dick's Beantown Comedy Vault or wherever again. That won't be the trajectory for C.K., for whom stand-up is not just the way he generates material for his show but is also the stabilizing force in his life. "Every time I've needed it, stand-up has saved me," he said. "When I needed money, or when I felt like shit about myself—stand-up has always saved me. I'll never stop doing it."
Back at the Wilbur Theatre, there was an older couple sitting next to me up in the mezzanine who looked like they'd stepped straight out of a Yankee Candle store. They were silent through every bit, and it was a little uncomfortable sitting next to them, like watching porn with my Aunt Jean. Late in the show, C.K. did this incredibly filthy joke about getting blown by an angel, which ended with him bent over, trying to maneuver the wings in such a way that he could complete the act. It went on for a while, and at one point, in the middle of C.K.'s simulation—dealing with the sweaty balls and the cumbersome wings and the commitment to just making this imaginary guy come, so that the angel could get back to dealing with all the other shit she has to deal with—the couple just exploded in uncontrollable laughter.
After the show, I went backstage. He had another show to do in half an hour, and he looked totally spent, slouching into this ratty sofa, his shirt soaked through. I mentioned the couple and their stiffness and then how they lost it with that joke. "That's good," he said. "That's good to know." He analyzed it for a minute in that way comics do, talking about how cheap the joke is and that he didn't even want to use it but that the challenge was to "try to get there in an interesting way."
"You never know how you're going to reach someone," he said, "what's going on inside of them, you know? I'm glad that joke connected."
Months later, talking to Marc Maron about C.K., I was reminded of that image of the couple and the way they spontaneously erupted together. "We all have this festering id full of devils and weirdness," Maron said, "and when we access it, voluntarily or involuntarily, it can be a frightening place, and it might make us feel ashamed of ourselves." Or it can be something else, a kind of liberation. That's the role that C.K. plays, Maron said. The service he provides is that he knows how to guide us into and then back out of darkness. "Louis just goes right in there and says, 'Don't worry, I got this. I got a flashlight. I know these people.' "


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AUSTIN, Texas — The song from Neko Case's new album that most people can't seem to shake happens to be the most bare-bones one. Sung mostly a cappella, it's based on an experience we've all had, which doesn't make it any less jarring.
At a bus stop, Case witnessed a mother so agitated with her child, who was probably around 5 or 6 years old, that she exploded in public: "Get the [expletive] away from me!/ Why don't you ever shut up?"
Case sings those words in a full, fervent chorus of voices, before turning the song into a motherly hymn to the young girl who was so brutally scolded.
"Nearly Midnight, Honolulu" comes from Case's acclaimed new album, "The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You." Untamed and majestic, it is the most singular achievement in Case's career.
"It's a little on the weird side, but I went with it," she says of the new album. "I was like, what have I got to lose? You've got to trust your audience with what you do and give them the benefit of the doubt."
Case says this a few weeks ago on the patio connected to her room at the Hotel San Jose in this Texas town. She's here for the Austin City Limits Music Festival, but today's performances have been canceled because of rain.
Case headlines the Orpheum Theatre on Friday, marking a return to the region she calls home. She lives full-time on a farm in northern Vermont with four dogs, two cats, and a horse named Norman. She's hesitant to mention the exact location, but it's been previously reported that she's near St. Johnsbury.
Back at her hotel, she swats at swarming mosquitoes, hellbent on killing them with her hands. She looks the way she appears in concert, which is to say like she doesn't give a [expletive]: not a stitch of makeup, sweatpants, flip-flops. Her nest of hair is graying and piled high, more the color of embers than the fiery flames she sports in her publicity photos.
This is how Case presents not only herself, but also her music: warts and all. At 43, Case has assumed her own mantle in American music, not exactly country and folk and not quite a straight-ahead rocker, either. She's rooted in Greil Marcus's idea of the old weird America, where songs can be beautiful and savage, serene and unsettling.
"The Worse Things Get. . ." is a powerful indication of the kind of artist Case has become. Since debuting in the mid-1990s as an alt-country siren with a voice as vast as the prairies, she has moved into more slippery territory over the past decade. Alt-country no longer encapsulates the scope of her music; it's a mash of brawny indie-rock and tender torch and twang. She's also become more known to rock audiences as a member of the band the New Pornographers.
She admits the new album, her sixth studio recording as a solo artist, is her most personal to date. She didn't necessarily want to write songs explicitly about herself, but they just happened.
"I was going through a crappy time. My parents died, my grandma died, and I was just mourning the dead. Everybody goes through it," she says. "That kind of depression is super mundane, and it's the longevity of it that really gets you. When is this going to be over?"
The album marked the first time Case has worked with Tucker Martine, the noted producer whose credits include the Decemberists and My Morning Jacket. Martine, too, considers Case to be in a league of her own.
"I really do see her as one of the great musical voices of my generation. I think she has transformed herself into an artist that can't be pinned down simply with a word like Americana," Martine writes in an e-mail. "Like all great artists, she seeks to find territory that feels new to her each time out. Sometimes that can be disorienting to fans that are hoping for somebody to make the [same] record again, but in the long run, I think it makes for longer lasting, more interesting work."
Alt-country no longer encapsulates the scope of her music; it's a mash of brawny indie-rock and tender torch and twang.
Kelly Hogan, who has been performing with Case since 1999 and is a longtime member of her band as a backup singer, remains awestruck by Case's talent. Their relationship, as detailed in their amusing exchanges over Twitter, is one of sisterly compassion and mutual respect.
"They're their own entity," Hogan says of Case's quixotic tales. "With every record, she hews more toward her inner voice. She always has. Sometimes I [understand the words], like, 'Oh, that guy.' I like her whole thing where her songs can mean anything: I've done my part, and now you take it the rest of the way."
"People will ask me, 'Who do you play with?' Sometimes they'll know who [Neko] is, but usually they don't," Hogan adds. 'Well, what does she sound like?' "
Good question.
"Our sound man, Phil, is like, 'I always say, imagine Roy Orbison as a hot, redheaded chick without glasses.' It is kind of like that, but she's a masterclass on her own," Hogan says. "I'm sure agents or marketing people will say that has been to her detriment, but she just is, and I think that's to her credit."
Case concedes it has been a blessing and a burden not to take the most direct path. Her eye has been fixed more on the journey than the destination.
"The most important thing I learned in school was, when you get an idea, it's not going to be a great idea until you push it," she says. "You've got to push it until it's uncomfortable. And then you've got to ask yourself, 'Does my project say to my audience what I want it to say?' "James Reed can be reached at email@example.com.

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The RAV4 is a keystone in Toyota's lineup. Through three generations, it has been the entry level crossover vehicle for over one million families. In the last 10 years the small crossover segment has grown from virtually nothing to almost 20% of the new car market. Because it is a segment filled with many first time car owners, or the first new car people have purchased, it's also a critical segment for building long term customer loyalty.
The acceleration in development in this segment has been very brisk and what looked new and fresh just two or three years ago, looks cheep and outdated today. In to this Toyota brings its fourth generation RAV4, looking to cement its place among the volume sales leaders in the segment.
Toyota says that they have sold 1.7 million RAV4's since the model came to market in 1994 and that 80% of them are still on the road today. The compact SUV market has gone from just a few models in the early 90's to now 45 different models today.
In many ways what Toyota is doing with the trim levels of the new RAV4, harkens back to the days of the mid 80's when, there would be two or three trim levels and few options to choose from. The fourth generation RAV4 comes in three trim levels, LE, XLE and Limited.. Toyota's philosophy was to bring trim levels to a spec where each model offers 90-95% of the options that customers tend to order. This philosophy gives RAV4 customers more bang for their buck when they go to purchase. For 2014, all RAV4 models will come with a 6.1" touch display as well as a backup camera, Bluetooth connectivity and projector beam headlights with auto off.
As you move up trim specs you will get ENTUNE with Navigation, 17" alloy wheels, (18" alloys are exclusive to the Limited model), power moon roof and dual zone climate control. Cloth is the material of choice for LE and XLE, with Soft-Tex being offered on the Limited models. Toyota describe Soft-Tex as, "leather, without the cost". There are soft touch materials through the cabin in all trim levels, and some hard plastic materials in high touch point areas for controls like the window switches, and the gear shift.
The RAV4 comes standard as front wheel drive, with All Wheel Drive being an option. Toyota also note that 65% of RAV4 purchasers will choose the AWD option. New in the AWD models is active torque control, which works to put the power where it's most needed, and aids in sharpening handling on dry pavement. Sensors in the system will direct power to the wheels to aid in turn-in for corners giving the RAV4 a sporty feeling when driven on twisty roads. It is still possible to lock the differentials in AWD mode for off road driving, or in snow or muddy terrains, and Toyota has now made this a maintenance-free system as well.
Also aiding in handling, the RAV4 is 1.2 inches lower than the out going model, though it still maintains a healthy 6.3 inches of ground clearance.
A big change for the new RAV4 is the elimination of the V6 as an option. Across the range there will be one engine choice, a 2.5 -iter four-cylinder producing 176 horsepower at 6,000 RPM and 172 ft/lb of torque at 4,100 RPM. While the peak power is higher in the engine range, Toyota is bringing the RAV4 into the modern age by dropping the previous models four-speed automatic gearbox for a standard for the class six-speed unit. With more gears spaced closer together, the RAV4 looses little in acceleration to the previous V6, yet sees considerably gains in fuel economy.
The 0-60 sprint takes 8.9 seconds and the EPA rating for the RAV4 is 24 city, 31 highway and 26 combined for front drive models, and 22/29/25 for AWD models.
Pricing for the 2013 RAV4 starts at $23,300 for the front-drive LE model, $24,290 for the XLE and $27,010 for the Limited, the AWD option adds a $1,400 premium. Toyota estimates that 45-50% of buyers will choose the XLE model, which will come with a moon roof, dual zone climate control and sports seats. There will be the option of Navigation with Entune for $1.030.
One of the trademarks of the RAV4 has been the spare tire carrier out back, and the swing open door to the rear cargo area. With the 2013 model, both of those are now gone. The spare tire is housed below the cargo floor and the rear hatch opens traditionally, and now with power assist and the ability to set an opening height for those that are short of stature or in areas with low overhead ceiling height. Not only does this aid in functionality, it also in rearward visibility.
Special attention was focused on making the cabin of the 2013 RAV4 much quieter. Acoustical glass was used for the windshield, and extra sound deadening materials were placed throughout the cabin. Driven back to back with the outgoing model there is a noticeable difference in wind and road noise that protrudes into the cabins of the two RAV4 generations.
While the new RAV4 lacks the fore and aft adjustments for the rear seats that the outgoing model had, the rear seat of the 2013 RAV4 has more leg room over the outgoing model, and the rear seats do recline for added passenger comfort. With the rear seats up, the cargo area has 38.4 square feet of cargo room and with the seats folded down it increases to 73.4.
The dashboard and the driver's cockpit now look modern in the new RAV4. The use of soft touch materials and French stitching bring a new level of refinement. Going back and forth between the old and new RAV4's lets you see just how much of a leap forward the new car is. Toyota is using what they call a "color block concept" in the interior, and it gives a strong bold look to the interior that refrains from being over the top.
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2013-05-06 • DNA mysteries
Start: 12:09:28
yatah: hi
Seventies: hi yatah
yatah: how are y
Seventies: doing well... waiting for summer... :}
yatah: cool still figure how i can track on slave ower in south carolina not easy
Seventies: nope slave era research is not easy. takes quite a bit of legwork to figure it out.
yatah: yeah i know one of my great aunt told my sis about who name white i keep record but i put box somewhere ahh
Seventies: ok
yatah: i have find that information
Seventies: hi alt hi daviss welcome back
alt: hello ladies, hope your week is starting well.
daviss: hi there Seventies! thanks much
Seventies: nope. lol
daviss: hello alt and yatah
Seventies: you're welcome daviss
yatah: hello
alt: Hi daviss
Seventies: I'm going to need to go into deep prayer and meditation. I swear everyone is working my nerves today. aside from that. all is ok... lol Hi Selma
daviss: Awwwww Seventies, it will get better
Selma: Afternoon everyone..
daviss: Hi Selma
Seventies: I hope so.
daviss: Lets just hope you have one nerve left lol
Seventies: I guess we can start by talking about our arch nemesis, DNA. :}
alt: hello Selma
Seventies: lol daviss
daviss: that will be fine with me :?
Seventies: Ok daviss recall that you sent me that wonderful chart with genealogical and genetic relationships?? could you shoot that to me again please? thank you. I got to talking last night about the up and down genetic relationships.
daviss: Speaking of DNA, any new loads for anyone
Seventies: how a kinship may be at different places on the tree. no necessarily from you up, but rather from you down, multiple family connections ore limited family connections genetically. So do you see why I used the term arch nemesis..?? lol
daviss: yes I will get it off to you soon well that was not how I took it lol lol
Seventies: Yes some new ones, but not focused on the lower numbers of connection unless they contact me directly as a few have done.
alt: yep Seventies, I understand ... very well LOL
Seventies: lol daviss... I know you do alt.. I had to rethink this 'family connection' thing. the people I want to contact me have not done so yet... I know that they share a close connection. 4 segments greater than .50% is quite a bit
daviss: I have yet to see someone with the same last night as many folks look for night = name
Seventies: when doing dna, does surname matter? Especially considering how far down the line these people may be.
alt: It's a completely different picture when I look at just my ancestors and possible connections to people today & then look at my descendants and their possible connections to living DNA connections.
daviss: not that I can tell especially all the directions we were sent
Seventies: exactly alt. Ok I know this is probably HS stuff, but the 22 pairs of chromosomes, I'm working on trying to figure out what these shared chromosomes exactly mean.
daviss: yatah did you get your percentages yet?
Seventies: For example if I match daviss on chromosome 6, what does that mean?
alt: surnames.... that's a mixed bag, depends on whether you're speaking of paternal lines vs maternal lines (maiden names). chromosmal matches don't mean that much Seventies
Seventies: thanks alt. I do know that daviss and I share a common male ancestor.
alt: depends on what "genes" are located at the various segments... we match on "Genes", not chromosomes.
daviss: I really don't know that answer exactly but I have read others who match people up on a chromosome and figure they all come from the same place especially if they dont overlap
Seventies: well my granddad. so maybe daviss is some kin to the Thompsons what an honor for you daviss.... LOL
alt: I would like to know how they do tose matches daviss
daviss: Now Missy if you 23&me yourself it would be an honor if we match
alt: tose=those
Seventies: you know we aren't going to match because we're females.. lol
daviss: I think alt they look at the chromes one by one and everyone they match with will show up and also the place where the segs are
Seventies: but alt just said that chromosomes don't matter.
daviss: you never know scarycat
Seventies: and I never will lol
yatah: hi
daviss: I also said that I read that some people do that, not that I do lol
alt: well Seventies, they matter, but I don't belive to the extent that some of the folks are stating.
Seventies: ok... hhmmm
daviss: hi yatah
Seventies: Oh I see African Ancestry brought MyDNAMix back... I would test with them if they did what 23andme did MINUS the medical stuff.
daviss: yatah what percentages did you get
yatah: which one ?
Seventies: I may just do that...
daviss: seventies you dont have to do the medical what were all your percentages yatah
Seventies: daviss, they take your DNA just for that.. I read all of the 'stuff' I had to sign off on.. etc. What do I have to tell you about those folks. I TRUST African Ancestry. I'll leave it at that.
yatah: 85.0 sub- saharan african and 12.5 european and 1.2 east asian and native american
daviss: well that was the purpose of the free one Seventies..The autosomal part was what most of us wanted
Seventies: yep... which is why I didn't do one myself.
yatah: 85.0 sub- saharan african and 12.5 european and 1.2 east asian and native american , daviss
alt: Seventies, my closest 23+me match 2.36 %, 177 cM on 9 segmenst... I have his maternal genealogy going back 175 years and we DO NOT have a common ancestor, or can't find one.....
Seventies: on paper anyway
yatah: 1.3 un-assingned
daviss: sooooo if you do the paid one of 99 dollars you are not tied to the medical
Seventies: my dear daviss... lol
yatah: got it daviss?
Seventies: that is unique alt... you have to have something somewhere.
daviss: that kind of sounds like mine yatah lol let me check real quick
yatah: ok
alt: yes, and I believe we connect on his paternal lines, which he knows nothing about, except we have a common location... Edgecombe Co., NC for his paternal lines.
Seventies: ok cuttin' daviss... are you just going to ignore me? lol Anyone hear from sadonya lately?
alt: so, I guess one could assume our 9 segment matches are on his/our paternal lines.
daviss: not me seventies lol
yatah: let me know what you have daviss
Seventies: that's very close though, alt. That's 1st- 2nd cousin range.
alt: yes 23+me estimates us at the 2-3 cousin range
Seventies: let me go back and check your range... 2.36% over 9 segments is a lot! My highest match is only .66% over 4 segements and .58% over 4 segements. But haven't gone back that far... I do suspect that these are on my Galmore lines. I haven't yet traced this family into Northern MS and TN which I think may have been their 'origins' And possibly VA
daviss: 68.9 Sub saharan, 27.5 euro and 0.9 East and Native 0.asian 0.1 south Asian and 2.5 unassigned (standard view) Yatah
Seventies: I need to get my behind on the road... lol
yatah: it close lol
alt: Selma, you are just too quiet!!! LOL
Seventies: really... lol
Selma: Just reading your DNA posts..
Seventies: Do you see the confusion going on here? lol at least on my part! lol
Selma: LOL
daviss: DNA wasn't meant to be easy lol
Seventies: I need to line up some interviews. Set up some repository visits. got get on my primary job... lol
alt: some of these DNA folks will tell you "for sure" they are from Camaroon, but can't tell you "for sure" whether their family is from VA/MD/GA/MS/OH or ........ that's one of my problems with hos the results are interpreted.
Seventies: I have big plans, big plans!!! LOL
daviss: oh Seventies I picked up a DVD from my brothers collection of African Music
Seventies: Um interesting. P.O. Box... lol
yatah: daviss, you knew it you have some family history from european ?
Seventies: See I would've loved Theo!
daviss: yes yatah I did especially as I looked in the mirror at myself lol lol
yatah: i knew it i have some white in me , daviss
Seventies: lol
yatah: lol
daviss: hahahahahah thats why I want to 23 and me you
Seventies: daviss, we'll touch bases so we can discuss that later.
daviss: want you to test 23 and me
Selma: Don't think that it is a shock for us..but is a shock to some the other way around
Seventies: Yeah... *sarcasm*
daviss: thats for sure Selma
alt: daviss, that's my arguement from yesterday... Ancestry/Heritage/Culture and when you mix in DNA I think they get all jumbled up.
yatah: i ask you daviss, how eupropean look alike i just wonder lol i want know about
Seventies: Excuse me, but unless they are doing something for ME as family, I don't give **** about no European ancestry or ancestor.
daviss: thats the key yatah its research, research and more research
Seventies: We gotta break that doggone chain.
daviss: It is what it is... its like a relationship accept me as I am
alt: wec come out of diefferent "admixed" experiences Seventies, one size doesn't fit all.
yatah: yea it important happy who are y lol
Seventies: I'm not making that point, but I understand what you are saying.
daviss: I understood what you are saying Seventies re point
alt: Seventies, I think I understand your position and I do respect your thoughts.
yatah: neanderthal i want your opt about neanderthal come from adam and eve ?
Seventies: thanks alt.
yatah: i am open mind
Seventies: NO adn did I say NO...
daviss: that I can't help with
alt: me neither daviss
yatah: that allrite
Seventies: ok this is getting a bit out of my comfort zone now... so I'm going to stop while I'm ahead.... Y'all... I gotta go get a drink or something. Be good!
alt: I'm into genealogy and can only get back 2-3 hundred years at best, so I'm not gonna worry about thousands of years ago.
yatah: ok
daviss: I picked up a new name looking through some of my brothers items but there was nothing on Ancestry Last name Mercy
alt: really daviss, unusal surname
Selma: I think so too alt
daviss: It looks like one of my Daviss great aunts married someone by that lat name
yatah: you heard name last name chirstmas ?
daviss: lat = last
alt: yep, sure have yatah
Selma: Yes..yatah..hasn't someone posted on the Forum about the surname
daviss: Yes yatah there is a few Christmas that I have heard of
yatah: oh i see i learn something new smile
daviss: http://www.afrigeneas.com/forum-reunion/index.cgi/md/read/id/4985/sbj/2013-christmas-family-reunion/ Shannon Christmas
yatah: yeah i see that
daviss: Is that one of your matches yatah
yatah: i not sure
daviss: oh
alt: gotta run y'all take care
yatah: invite me view thier
Selma: Time for me to run too folks..have a nice day
daviss: ok I guess I better run also bye
yatah: take care


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I saw these meatloaf 'cupcakes' with potato 'frosting', which sounds all sorts of wrong, but with two little girls at home I knew I wanted to make them. They were delicious! The meatloaf was super moist and flavorful and the potato topping was creamy and seasoned perfectly. You can dress these up with a sprinkle of chives and crumbled bacon too. Yum!
I've seen these meatloaf cupcakes with the potato frosting piped on top, but I prefer a rustic dollop of mashed potatoes instead. Plus, it saved me a piping bag and extra clean up. These would be fun to make in mini sizes or even regular-sized ones for a party or bbq.
These turned out cute and tasty and my kids and husband loved them, so I'll be adding this recipe to my 'keeps' files.
Meatloaf Cupcakes
1 teaspoon olive oil
1 cup finely chopped onion
1/2 cup finely chopped carrot
1 teaspoon dried oregano
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 cup ketchup, divided
1 1/2 pounds ground beef, extra lean (raw)*
1 cup bread crumbs
2 tablespoons prepared mustard
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
2 large eggs
Cooking spray
Mashed Potatoes
4 cups cubed peeled Yukon gold potato (about 2 pounds)
1/4 cup 2% reduced-fat milk
1/4 cup low-fat sour cream
3 tablespoons butter
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
3 tablespoons chopped chives
4 pieces of bacon cooked and them chopped
Preheat oven to 350°.
Heat the olive oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add chopped onion, chopped carrot, dried oregano, and minced garlic; sauté 2 minutes. Cool.
Combine onion mixture, 1/2 cup ketchup, and the remaining ingredients except cooking spray in a large bowl.Spoon the meat mixture into 12 muffin cups coated with cooking spray. Top each with 2 teaspoons ketchup. Bake at 350° for 25 minutes or until a thermometer registers 160°. Let stand for 5 minutes.
While the meatloaf is cooking, make the mashed potatoes. Place potato in a saucepan; cover with water. Bring to a boil; cover, reduce heat, and simmer 10 minutes or until tender. Drain. Put potatoes into a ricer for best results. Return potato to pan. Add milk and remaining ingredients; stir with a spoon to desired consistency. If they are not creamy enough for you, add up to 1/4 cup more milk - although they need to be stiff enough to pipe on top.
Put the potatoes into a pastry bag with a wide star tip and pipe the mashed potatoes on top of the meatloaf. Sprinkle with bacon crumbles and chopped chives.
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Business card scanner apps for iPhone are a great way to minimize the amount of paper cards you've got to keep track of. Simply scan them into your iPhone via the camera app and they should read the information on the card and automagically fill out the fields and create an iOS Contact for you. CamCard, WorldCard, and Business Card Reader are all well known apps for this, but how accurately and speedily do they do their jobs?
Note: I've left all the information in each app the exact way it imported it so users can see how accurate each reader is performing. The only thing I've left out is personal information such as phone numbers. If any of the apps did not import phone numbers correctly, I have stated that in each respective section.
CamCard vs. WorldCard vs. Business Card Reader: Interface
CamCard's app is easy to navigate through and use. It's also the only app that offers a batch feature to easily snap multiple images and import them all at once. The Card Holder section contains all your contacts. However, the overall design feels cramped on the iPhone's screen. A better layout for groups would be a welcome addition.
There's quick access to take pictures of business cards, and to import already existing photos from your camera roll. Viewing a card gives you a quick view of the card and some commonly used options such as call, text, e-mail, map, and view on LinkedIn. The menu underneath gives you editing and export options such as trashing the card, sharing it, rotating it, and editing the information.
WorldCard's layout is more complex and may be frustrating for new users. The main menu is easy enough to navigate but once you start getting into options, like editing and sorting into groups, it becomes confusing and options aren't obvious. Outside of organizing and exporting, the layout is useable and functional.
Business Card Reader looks more like something you'd find in a built-in iOS which may be appealing to a lot of people. While CamCard and WorldCard have more complex functionality, Business Card Reader is a lot simpler which means it's easier to navigate.
Business Card Reader also ties into LinkedIn, so you can search for contact information for someone by just choosing the LinkedIn section on the main screen.
When it comes to interface, Business Card Reader is the easiest to navigate and use.
CamCard vs. WorldCard vs. Business Card Reader: Card capturing
CamCard has a convenient batch function that allows you to take multiple images at once and import them altogether. Just move the slider to batch mode and start snapping cards. When you're done, it will process all of them at once. It will also process the cards quickly and with good accuracy.
It didn't fare so well on cards with narrow fonts, however, and got confused when phone numbers had parentheses around area codes, sometimes reading them as the number 1 instead.
In addition to cards, CamCard supports QR codes. Just tick the slider all the way to the right in order to capture a QR.
WorldCard also claims to have a batch mode but it's not very convenient. The slider has a switch for it but each time you scan a card you're still returned to the main menu and you'll need to select camera mode again. That's not very convenient if you need to import a bunch of cards quickly. Maybe I was doing something wrong but I couldn't figure out any way to speed up the process.
WorldCam fared even worse than CardCam on smaller or narrow fonts. Sometimes email addresses weren't anything close to what they were on the actual card.
WorldCard will also support scanning QR codes. Just tap the QR option from the main menu.
Business Card Reader doesn't appear to have a batch mode but capturing multuple photos doesn't require too many taps. Capture seemed to take a bit longer than it did with the other two.
What really baffled me with Business Card Reader is that it seemed to get information correct for smaller, narrower fonts but read it incorrectly for regular fonts that are larger and easier to pick out. It also had a tendency to think italicized words were letters with accents, which is weird.
When it comes to capture ability and accuracy, CamCard managed to get almost all the information scanned correctly on every card I tried, with the exception of the one with narrow fonts, while the other two had multiple errors in each card that I scanned.
CamCard vs. WorldCard vs. Business Card Reader: Organization and sorting
CamCard allows you to sort your contacts into groups. Just tap the "+" button in order to add a new group from your contact list. To add contacts to that group tap Edit and select the ones you'd like to add, then drag them onto the group. It took me a few minutes to figure out that you had to hold down on them in order to drag them, so that was somewhat frustrating at first. You can also sort contacts by name, date, or company straight from the contacts page.
While it's nice to have groups that you can sort cards into, the layout of the main contacts page is cramped. A group navigation bar would have been better as a drop down. If you have a group name that is longer than 5 letters, it takes up two lines which is visually unappealing.
WorldCard also allows you to make groups and sort your contacts into them. Tapping the hammer icon along the bottom pulls up an edit menu. The second icon from the left brings you into groups. From there you can add and delete groups. Go back to contacts and tap the ones you'd want to add to a group while in edit mode, and tap the groups button again, and it'll ask you where to put them. The whole process was quite confusing, especially since the icons aren't self explanatory.
Business Card Reader has a simple interface to navigate and has search built right in at the top of the card holder. You can also sort by first name, last name, company, and date. There are no groups though. This can be frustrating if you need to find a contact and can't remember their name but remember what company they work for. You'll have to go through your whole list and find that company's employees and go from there. It'd be nice to see an update that supported custom groups.
CamCard had the best organizational and sorting tools available even though the main screen felt cramped. While they were pretty much the same as what WorldCard offered, they were easier to use and easier to navigate.
CamCard vs. WorldCard vs. Business Card Reader: Sharing and exporting
CamCard supports syncing and integration with their desktop and other platforms as well as export functionality to .csv, .xml, and vCard.
Once you're inside the main contacts screen, just select the contacts you'd like to export or share and then tap the share button. You'll be asked how you want to export them. Using the vCard feature will allow you to attach them to an email and send them to anyone you'd like. You can also import and export cards via iTunes File Sharing.
WorldCard allows you to share and export contacts in several ways as well, including email and iTunes export, Gmail, and Excel. You can choose to open the contact in support apps such as Dropbox and Evernote too.
The menus in WorldCard still throw me off -- they're awkward to use and not very friendly thanks to the confusing icons. Just like you would sort contacts, you can select contacts under edit mode and then choose the share button to choose a sharing method. It gets the job done but, again, might not be that obvious to the average user .
Business Card Reader doesn't allow you to export to anything but your iPhone address book. I do like the fact that you have to manually add cards instead of it automatically doing it. There are times when I scan a business card of someone that I already have in my Address Book just so I have their card on file. So, if you just want to use the app to store cards, Business Card Reader makes that easy but doesn't support other export or sharing functions.
CamCard provides the easiest way to export and share contacts with others but WorldCard provides more options, even if their menus aren't as user friendly. Tie.
CamCard vs. WorldCard vs. Business Card Reader: Syncing and restoring
CamCard allows you to backup and restore your cards through their PC and Mac client. You'll need to create a CamCard account with them in order to do this but after setting up an account, it's a simple process. There is no support for Dropbox or iCloud, but that would be a nice addition in an update.
WorldCard supports both Dropbox and iCloud integration so you can sync your cards with accounts you already have. I prefer methods like this since it doesn't require you to have yet another login. With as many services as we have to use today, one less login is always appreciated.
Business Card Reader doesn't appear to support any syncing methods besides the ability to sync your contacts with your iPhone Address Book. You can also choose to merge contacts which is a nice feature if you already have an existing contact for someone and just need to add additional information off their business card.
WorldCard has the most options built-in when it comes to syncing and restoring.
CamCard vs. WorldCard vs. Business Card Reader: Conclusion
CamCard, WorldCard, and Business Card Reader were the best apps I could find when it came to accurate, useful scanning accuracy. With that said, none of them were perfect by any means.
I don't think any of these three apps are practical for someone who scans cards day-in, day-out. A dedicated card scanner made specifically for that purpose would be better.
Even for occasional use, I almost feel that entering the information into my Contacts on my own wouldn't have taken that much longer.
If you really need a card scanner on your iPhone, however, CamCard is the best option currently available. It provides the most features and fared the best when it came to reading business cards accurately. If you just need an app to store business card images, Business Card Reader is probably a better choice since it won't input the information into your contacts automatically by default and is the most visually appealing app of the three.
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David Hockney interview from Royal Academy of Arts on Vimeo.
David Hockney's major new exibition opens at the Royal Academy on January 21st. He is an artist who works within the Renaissance tradition of depiction, with those central concerns of nature, space and time, and, as in this forthcoming show, the tradition of the landscape. But he is also an artist who has embraced new technology; photography, fax, and now the iPad. I have always admired him - his draftsmanship, his thoughtfulness, and even his humour.
Last week (26 Dec 2011) BBC Radio 4 devoted a Start the Week programme to Hockney, discussing his latest work. The in-depth interview by Andrew Marr was both revealing and fascinating. He spoke about drawing, about observation of nature, the benefit and the excitement of seeing consecutive springtimes at the same place over a number of years. It showed the depth of his engagement with his subject.
He had a lot to say about technology, and it is apparent that the use of computer technology has become integrated into his process of picture making, even when the result is painting. David Hockney has always been interested in technology, not for its own sake, but in furthering his picture making.
The camera is one example of his embracing of technology and investigation of picture making. 'Photography is not a final reaching of reality. Technology is opening something up, we are able to alter pictures.' He also noted that 'Cameras give you a certain type of view, but it's not the human view.'
|David Hockney (1983). Walking In The Zen Garden, Ryoanji Temple, Kyoto
photographic collage, 40 x 62 1/2 in. http://www.hockneypictures.com/photos/photos_collages_06.php
David Hockney (2011) The arrival of spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011
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For me Hockney's approach encapsulates the paradoxical relationship with the world which we can now enjoy (and I do mean enjoy) - he embraces the latest technology whilst, at the same time, acknowledging the importance of craft and of 'the hand'. He cited a Chinese saying: 'In drawing you need the hand, the eye and the heart. Two won't do!'. And he spoke about the importance of craft in the work of the artist. 'I would say the hand counts, there's a whole group of other people who say it doesn't, it's a little bit insulting to craftsmen isn't it?' And this aspect of craft has an importance for pedagogy, he maintained:
Food for thought... perhaps, to some extent, one can teach, or at least encourage and facilitate, the poetry (not forgetting of course that there is also a 'craft' to poetry). But Hockney poses here the interesting question of just where that balance lies between the poetry and the craft in the teaching of art.'I used to point out, in an art school, you can teach the craft. It's the poetry you can't teach, but now they try and teach the poetry and forget the craft. It's craft that can be taught.'
He related a story about his Mother coming to his exhibition at which there was a sculptural piece by Barry Flannagan whichcontained a large rope. 'Did he make the rope?' his Mother asked...
Start the week: David Hockney Special (2011). BBC Radio 4. Monday 26 December. 45 minutes. Available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018g2yz (Accessed 4 Jan 2012)
Royal Academy of Arts (2011). David Hockney RA: a bigger picture. Interview. Royal Academy of Arts Video online. http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/hockney/ (Accessed 4 Jan 2012)
Links & information
- You can listen to the BBC interview with David Hockney at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018g2yz
- David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture can be seen at the Royal Academy from 21 January to 9 April 2012. Advance booking is recommended. http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/hockney/
- http://www.hockneypictures.com/home.php
- See also Peter Nencini's reflections on the handmade and the digital in this earlier post on Camberwell Illustration
Wroe, N (2012) David Hockney: a life in art. The Guardian (Review), Jan 14, <Available online at> http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/jan/13/david-hockney-life-in-art (Accessed 14 Jan 2012)
'The iPad is like an endless piece of paper that perfectly fitted the feeling I had that painting should be big'says Hockney in this Guardian interview.
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Writing poetry is a much more powerful and destabilizing experience for me than is writing prose. The former plays hell and havoc with my life and mind. The latter is an exercise in sanity. That said, there are certainly areas of experience to which prose gives me access that poetry does not. I can plan on what I'm going to write about in prose. Poems aren't real poems unless they shatter — there's that word again! — all of your intentions.
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The statue of Christ the Redeemer, also known as Christ of the Andes, towers over the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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As many of you have already guessed, the Silver Fox and I are on the road again. It had been my intention to make no comments about the trip until we returned home. Brand new posts, recipes and photos are set for automatic release during the month of October, and I had hoped to sneak away at night and respond to your comments, so my absence would go unnoticed. It is, however, getting more difficult to get computer time and despite my good intentions, I'm falling behind in my response to your comments. Please know my heart is with you all and I appreciate the loyalty you have shown to my blog. I will respond when I can and catch up with you when we return. The trip is so much more than I had anticipated. We are having a wonderful time and have seen some truly breathtaking sights. It's hard to believe that there is still much more to come. How lucky can one gal get?