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Some architecture of connections defines this video celebrating the launch of limited fork theory as a tool to shape and reshape thinking, In memory of John Chervinsky whose photos from the basis of this video poam a tool that when used results in products of acts of making (poams) that are outcomes of perceptual and imagined investigations of interactions (on some scale[s] in some location[s] for some duration[s] of time). The frame of this 2006 video investigation, related to the publication of Tokyo Butter by Thylias Moss, is lattice systems, grids, power systems, kaleidoscopic mapping, latitude, longitude, the view from a burqa (the video contains an image of Afghani women wearing burqas); coordinates of space and time, a magnified grid system of funnel cake (in response to a poem in Tokyo Butter), a system of tethers, of ladders, of ways to access, of bridges, nets, veils, mesh systems, woven systems in which gaps are essential and, at least, perceptually variable --a larger system in which geometries of nets overlap, crisscross, entangle, move through themselves (twisting to do so) and each other (membranes), at times seeming a single solid structure, but still a system of many nets (apparently) cooperating to form a (temporary) merger (or layering) of realities, of frames --Celebrated here is (also) a possibility that connections made can be shaped and configured in any structures and forms that have been, are, become possible (including print objects in Tokyo Butter, where word patterns are also nets, meaning clings and falls through them into and out of other nets in minds that encounter Tokyo Butter's print poams and ideas). Contains still images, used by permission, by John Chervinsky, whose photographs were part of an exhibition that also featured limited fork poetry from Tokyo Butter. Also contains music by Strexx Audio Lab (http://www.strexxaudiolab.com) (http://www.youtube.com/Strexxaudiolab) This is a system of complexity meant to confound, but one that would like to emphasize a possibility of locating pleasure anywhere among the details of experience and existence, details whose forms (as configured by the framing system[s] of investigation[s] —as the framing system of persistence of existence within systems of loss and demise examined in Tokyo Butter— ) tend to repeat so that there are apparently unlimited variations of basic forms —generations of related stuff (the Tokyo Butter indicative of a connective substance that can hold, that can be molded or shaped, that has both flexibility and stability). Note how all of the text in this video is not necessarily meant to be read in a single manner of reading or experiencing —size, length of time that the text is displayed without pausing the text or enlarging text; not all of what exists may be accessed completely or assessed thoroughly from every scale or from every possible angle of every possible frame; lack of English language literacy or misreadings (including possible misreading and mis-making by the maker) does not prohibit experiencing of the video and does not prohibit response. There are not sufficient limiting factors in the video to cause those impossibilities. Even when text in this video is read, only partialities will be accessed, processed, assessed, variable partialities as functions of circumstances of encounter —and this is only, for all that's been written, a partial description. Pleasurable Complexity encourages the placement of value on these possible variations, some of which may be framed in some system of consideration as unpleasant or even harmful, though not likely in all possible systems of framing, inviting further consideration of how to determine and manage ethical and responsible decisions and behaviors toward the construction of "better" frames. Contains footage from Toronto and from a rural region of Ontario. Thank you for watching/reading/experiencing this work, for being willing to subject yourself to a possibility of a remixing of thinking. Soundtrack available for free download from the Limited Fork Music podcast at iTunes.