Jason Wilder
Infinitely Curious and Mildly Amused
Category: Thought
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2025. Final blog post of the year. I didn’t beat the bar in 2025. Maybe next year? I didn’t make many photos in 2025. I’d say it was 75% low sprain muscle type injuries to my leg and now my arm. I tried but pain in both situations wasn’t ideal. The other 25% was just…
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Collage by me. Other working titles: “raking clouds” & “sky work.” Thinking about projects I’ve started and how little energy I have to do them lately. Capitalism is tiring. Thinking a lot about chess and how it’s the one activity that maintains my attention. Thinking about the lack of any vinyl listening bars in Rochester.…
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I’m not big on vinyl “community” YouTube channels. There’s some good ones out there but most are just bragging about their collections or have uninteresting “hot takes” … much like photographer influencers, which are the worst of the art world influencers. This one came up in my feed, though. Mr. Ellis and his above thoughtful…
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Godard made this film when he was 50. I’m turning 50 this week. I love Godard’s movies from the 80s. Sure, I love Breathless, Le Mepris, Band of Outsiders, etc, his output in the 60s is legendary … but this film, is a kind of entertainment I could not get in American films of that…
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Beth wanted to see some fall foliage in the mountains so we headed to Ellicottville for a couple days recently. Our first trip was Warsaw for some coffee and we found a shop that had some records. I found some random 7 inches to play on Fantastic Voyage, a couple records to gift and a…
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I learned a new word this week while listening to the always fantastic Graphic Ear on WAYO. The guest, Chris Jones, brought up the word frisson, a psychophysiological response to rewarding stimuli. I thought that was just something everyone experienced, but studies say otherwise. I cannot imagine not having this ability (my word). Some bands give me…
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I learned at an early age there’s no justice in the world. It’s very rare that good triumphs over bad. Sometimes, if you let bad be bad long enough, another bad will out-bad the other. Or one bad will turn on another bad. Other times, bad will just adopt the goods’ policies to be worse.…
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We recently went camping at Keuka Lake State Park. Initial plans were for hikes, lots of reading, perhaps a little writing and some plein air water coloring. Instead I spent the whole weekend staring deep in and out of thoughts. It was quite nice doing nothing. We saw remnants of the a meteor shower around…
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Back in the 90s, I used to have a xerox’d print zine named Psychocandy. A bunch of labels sent me stuff, including Carbon Records. Joe from Carbon Records sent me two Muler 7 inches to review. I was under 21 at the time so I couldn’t see Muler, yet. My first Muler show was at…
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I haven’t been making many photos lately. I’ve become increasingly bored with the present. Very little is new, exciting, and intriguing. Bad news is everywhere. You cannot go anywhere without seeing or feeling anything fascist and/or AI related (AI is fascism). Anything “new” is just artistic regurgitation or social media conformity. I initially started using…
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