Impulse – Volume 13 Number 4, Winter 1987

Executive Editor:
Eldon Garnet.

Editors:
Brian Boigon, Judith Doyle, Andrew Payne and Carolyn White.

Contributing Editors:
Brendan Cotter, Marc Glassman, Sylvère Lotringer, Donna Lypchuk, Alberto Manguel, Andrew James Paterson, Jeanne Randolph and Kim Sawchuk.

Art Direction:
Carolyn White.

Production Assistant:
Alison Hahn.

Administration:
Gillian Leigh.

Front and Back Covers:
Orion Pictures.

Cover Design:
Carolyn White.

Typography:
Copy Network.

Film Preparation:
Cyan Graphics.

Table of Contents:
Babel’s ’88 Collection; Andrea Ward Speaks with Frederic Jameson; Judith Doyle Speaks with Brian Wright; Peter Day Speaks with bridge designer Siah Armajani; Three Guys with Nothing to Say, Shadowy Men; Rock On Bambi; Nicole Brossard, ‘Certain Words’; Claire Christie, ‘Meeting Architecture Head On’; Aidan, ‘Noah’s Ark’; Toronto’s Tom Taylor; Brendan Cotter; California’s Lisa Bloomfield; Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, ‘Panic God’; Curtis Herbert, ‘Robocop; A Scientific Report’; Jeanne Randolph, ‘Fifty Normal White Men’; Impulse speaks with costume designer Peter Minshall: King Of Carnival; Geoff Pevere, ‘Rock Video: Billion $ Baby’; Stella De Silva, ‘Spar City: Home Improvement’; Andrew James Paterson, ‘Men Who Don’t Drive’.

Editorial:

We tried, we tried to keep pace.

I can’t believe how slow some people move. Some in slow motion, some in stop action. Why aren’t they rushing between appointments? Is it because they are just too late to care? And worse, when you finally get to your appointment and you’re checking your watch not to be too late for the next and the person beside you is talking so slowly and repeating themselves and slowly repeating. Don’t you hate people who talk slowly and have to explain everything in minute detail twice?

We trained. Read. Edited. And then we installed a computerized page design system.

In traffic locked. Here are the masses mixed. Classless. Locked in primordial struggle. Get out of my way I’m in a hurry. I’m in a bigger hurry. Get out of my way. Speed. What we have to accomplish to do more, better. Isn’t this progress: speed? Doing more quicker. Isn’t this culture? What kind of civilization would we be

living in that wanted to do less, worse.

We were technology’s dog held on a short lease, lunging nervously against time.

There was a small Peruvian tribe who would purposely move in slow motion. Doing as little as possible as slowly as they could. Now extinct.

And if we are late: Just relax.

Eldon Garnet