Dan Zimmerman, Author at Positive Feedback

Hand Book of a Hidden Man, Part 7: I Go To School

Dan Zimmerman — Sat, 28 Jan 2023 23:56:26 +0000

What Happened Before Before the emotional drama I'm about to relate took place, something happened to set the stage. It was a typical sunny day in San Luis Obispo. When he wasn't busy with church work, Dad usually had a project going around the house. He liked to worked with his hands. Mostly he preferred... Read More »

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Hand Book of a Hidden Man, Part 6: I Learn to Fight

Dan Zimmerman — Mon, 30 May 2022 19:33:22 +0000

I was on the sidewalk in front of our house in San Luis Obispo. In 1952 it must've been a very quiet place, otherwise it's hard for me now, looking back, to understand why my mother let me go out by myself. I was only four. But she was very pregnant at the time, and... Read More »

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Hand Book of a Hidden Man, Part 5: The Hideout

Dan Zimmerman — Sat, 12 Feb 2022 02:39:42 +0000

Dan Zimmerman: a portrait of an artist and musician. Happy Valley, 2019. (Photograph and image processing by David W. Robinson) Why was it so easy to stare at the tube? Maybe it's because normal life felt like it was too much, felt like it kept adding something to the mix before you could adapt to... Read More »

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Hand Book of a Hidden Man, Part 4: Ritual [updated]

Dan Zimmerman — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 00:21:42 +0000

It was Sunday afternoon and we were home after church. Dad had worked hard all week on his sermon, and now that the morning service was over, he just wanted to rest. He went into a little room next to the dining area, drew the curtains, turned on the television, and sank back onto the... Read More »

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Hand Book of a Hidden Man, Part 3: The Runner

Dan Zimmerman — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 04:04:43 +0000

Something in my father came from somewhere else. Not knowing what it was or where it came from, I just watched and marveled. I really wanted to hang out with him, but he was the minister of a large church and I always had to wait my turn. He was usually busy caring for others... Read More »

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Hand Book of a Hidden Man, Part 2: The Plasticity of Dirt

Dan Zimmerman — Sat, 10 Jul 2021 19:15:41 +0000

As I said before, besides being conscious that I was a separate entity, I learned that I was also a mobile unit. I could walk around, touching many interesting things. My fingers were amazing appendages. They were instruments of discovery. I was continually surprised by all the wonderful things I could do with my hands,... Read More »

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Hand Book of a Hidden Man, Part 1

Dan Zimmerman — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 00:25:29 +0000

Dan Zimmerman, an artist with Positive Feedback, has been developing a new book on creativity and the inner, spiritual life of the artist. The subtitle of PF, you may recall, is "A Creative Forum for the Audio Arts." Music and the audio arts are only domains within this larger world of creative work. Therefore I... Read More »

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The Inchoate Vision (Further Reflections on "Heaven with a Gun")

Dan Zimmerman — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 07:28:23 +0000

I continue to reflect on the time my father and I drove out to Old Tucson and visited the set of Heaven with a Gun, a western movie starring Glenn Ford. I'm not saying it was a great movie, but it continues to carry great import for me. The text for the film poster reads like this... Certain questions spring... Read More »

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The Ghost Town, or Corriganville, Old Tucson, and Bodie

Dan Zimmerman — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 21:45:30 +0000

The Ghost Town, or Corriganville, Old Tucson and Bodie [Once again, my longtime compadre of creativity, Dan Zimmerman combines text and his superb drawings to reflect upon life, death, memory, and art. Let those who have eyes and those who have ears, see and hear… All drawings by Dan Zimmerman. Dr. David W. Robinson, Ye... Read More »

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The Hard and Straight

Dan Zimmerman — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 09:34:25 +0000

When I first encountered the vertical walls of houses and the hard, straight lines of streets I was still suffused with a memory of something altogether different. It's no easy task to describe this memory. I guess I knew it mostly by contrast to the new world into which I was suddenly dropped. After all, how... Read More »

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Breaking Through

Dan Zimmerman — Fri, 18 Dec 2015 09:47:24 +0000

In this brief jotting, Dan Zimmerman, Contributing Artist to Positive Feedback, continues his meditations upon art, music, and creativity. Some of these will be longer…others, shorter. But all of these reflect the understanding of creativity, the arts (including the audio arts), and spirituality in our ongoing search for the transcendent in our lives. Selah. To... Read More »

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Dimensions of Sound: Ilya Itin Performs Scriabin and Rachmaninov

Dan Zimmerman — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 04:09:58 +0000

I was a bit breathless. My friend and spiritual colleague David Robinson had invited me to sketch and cover a uniquely intriguing event at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium on Sunday, July 12, 2015. To kick off the Golandsky Institute’s summer series, noted pianist Ilya Itin was slated to perform the music of Scriabin and Rachmaninov.... Read More »

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