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Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:01:00 -0500

I love trains. And people. On my way back from visiting the...

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 01:40:00 -0500

I love trains. And people. On my way back from visiting the illustrious Jamila Keba in Vancouver, I met many beautiful people. I met a professional flamenco dancer and a man who had just finished walking across the country. I met workers, vacationers, survivors, mothers, daughters. I shot some video and recorded some audio to make this little collage.

Special thanks to Keith, Glen and Kathleen.

Music: Laura Gibson’s “Sweet Deception” from her album Beast of Seasons.

ars poetica

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 21:37:40 -0400

anneboyer:

the NYT said “the poet’s work is to make a private vision public”
but fuck the NYT

I’m the public vision
made private

Jasper Johns said
a fork makes a better painting
than a painting makes a fork

but fuck Jasper Johns
from now on I’m eating with Guernica

twenty first century girl

I was shooting a video of the Bucktown neighborhood for my job...

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 13:07:00 -0400

I was shooting a video of the Bucktown neighborhood for my job this weekend, a little real estate montage about how harmonious and lovely the neighborhood is. Here are a few things that won’t make it into the video.

1) Seen below a basement level window. Fly well, sweet winged friend, to the land where there are no hard pieces of sky.

2) He saw me admiring his cool bike contraption (which he designed and built himself) and asked if I wanted a picture of it. I said yes, and then he got very mock stern and threatened to sue me for my “beautiful, dangerous smile.”

3) View of the city from the bridge near the dump.

4) Evening sun on the dump.

5) This man saw me all set up with my tripod from the other side of the intersection. When the crosswalk signal turned on, he walked into the middle of the street and did variations of this face for about a full minute.

6) Only three reasons?!

Sharing Poetry: Jeanann Verlee, "Exit Wound"

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 23:18:59 -0400

Sharing Poetry: Jeanann Verlee, "Exit Wound":

sharingpoetry:

you are an exit wound

the extra shot of tequila

the tangled knot of hair that has to be cut out

you are the cell phone ringing in a hushed theatre

pebble wedged in the sole of a boot

the bloody hangnail

you are, just this once

you are flip flops in a thunderstorm

the boy’s lost erection

a pen gone dry

hartsell: A Chinese couple on a bicycle take cover beneath an...

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 18:03:35 -0400

hartsell:

A Chinese couple on a bicycle take cover beneath an underpass as tanks deploy overhead in eastern Beijing, on June 5, 1989. (AP Photo/Liu Heung Shing)

IF HE COULD BE KING I COULD BE KING: Adam and Eve

Mon, 28 May 2012 22:18:28 -0400

IF HE COULD BE KING I COULD BE KING: Adam and Eve:

katiusrex:

by Tony Hoagland

I wanted to punch her right in the mouth and that’s the truth.

After all, we had gotten from the station of the flickering glances
to the station of the hungry mouths,
from the shoreline of skirts and faded jeans
to the ocean of unencumbered skin,
from the perilous…

questionableadvice: ~ Hints on Etiquette, by Charles Wm. Day,...

Thu, 10 May 2012 08:12:20 -0400

questionableadvice:

~ Hints on Etiquette, by Charles Wm. Day, 1843

This Day in Out-Of-The-Way Hats.

thewidowflannigan: …. hm. This Day in Holding One Another in...

Sun, 06 May 2012 11:16:56 -0400

thewidowflannigan:

…. hm.

This Day in Holding One Another in Front of Houses.

smithsonianmag: Never-Before-Seen Photos From the Early Days...

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:13:12 -0400

Astronaut White floats in zero gravity.

From Gemini IV.

Inside Gemini IX, Lt. Col. T.P. Stafford

Lt. Cdr. Gordon prepares for hatch open.

Major Aldrin's helmet, open hatch.

From Gemini IV.

From Gemini IV.

smithsonianmag:

Never-Before-Seen Photos From the Early Days of Space Exploration

The Gemini astronauts also took some of the most memorable photos in NASA history. You’d think we would have seen them all by now. But with Nasa’s help and funding, a team of researchers at Arizona State University led by lunar scientist Mark Robinson has retrieved from the archives dozens of outtakes that never made it into wide circulation.

Photos: NASA

Ed note: Check out our friends at Air & Space for more stunning photos from the Gemini mission.

This Day in Intestinal Space Tubes.

inthebranches: The Love Cook by Ron Padgett Let me cook you some dinner. Sit down and take off...

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 12:39:57 -0400

inthebranches:

The Love Cook
by Ron Padgett

Let me cook you some dinner.
Sit down and take off your shoes
and socks and in fact the rest
of your clothes, have a daquiri,
turn on some music and dance
around the house, inside and out,
it’s night and the neighbors
are sleeping, those dolts, and
the stars are shining bright,
and I’ve got the burners lit
for you, you hungry thing.

inthebranches: A White City James Schuyler My thoughts turn south a white city we will wake in one...

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 12:38:05 -0400

inthebranches:

A White City
James Schuyler

My thoughts turn south
a white city
we will wake in one another’s arms.
I wake
and hear the steam pipe knock
like a metal heart
and find it has snowed.

dollmixture: A young girl with her doll wearing a pair of...

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 22:17:42 -0400

dollmixture:

A young girl with her doll wearing a pair of artificial legs, 1890, UK.

Denise Levertov, "Intrusion"

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:40:49 -0400

sharingpoetry:

After I had cut off my hands
and grown new ones

something my former hands had longed for
came and asked to be rocked.

After my plucked out eyes
had withered, and new ones grown

something my former eyes had wept for
came asking to be pitied.

(submitted by refinedhedonism)

c-aries: oldfilmsflicker: Happy Birthday Ella Jane...

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:47:03 -0400

c-aries:

oldfilmsflicker:

Happy Birthday Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996)

Ella.

mariposima: opera4adults: Dali on a rope This Day in Dali Jump...

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:43:49 -0400

mariposima:

opera4adults: Dali on a rope

This Day in Dali Jump Roping.

amatores: The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether...

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:51:40 -0400

amatores:

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

—Osho

For My Neighbors in Adjacent High Rises, Who Do Not Always...

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:53:00 -0400

For My Neighbors in Adjacent High Rises, Who Do Not Always Close Their Blinds

By Molly Jean Bennett (as in myself)

For I have made a habit of looking in on

the neighbors from the window of

my seventeenth floor apartment. In truth,

I would have expected a bit more

salacity. And by salacity, I mean

fucking. Or, if not fucking, at least

the occasional passion-flung flight

of a duvet or perhaps an ass cheek

pressed against the icy palm of

the sliding glass door. Or maybe, if

not an ass cheek, then the shadows

of four to six legs, toes pleasure-flexed,

scattering eruptive sighs across

the room. But my neighbors, I have

not seen them quiver, nor

seen them lying naked, sated. Rather,

their windows reflect the blue glare

of television, the president addressing

his public. A retrospective documentary

on the soul hits of the seventies. The weather,

the titans of baseball, the heroes of

comedy, and the lovers of Spanish-language

soap operas. Teeth, hair, lips, ass cheeks. And

my neighbors, slipping from the couch

to the kitchen, where the dinner dishes lie

soiled in the sink, do not speak of longing,

or the late night, or the lidless window, but

wonder aloud if the leftover chicken

from last week has gone bad and if the

good weather will hold through the weekend.

"A writer must reflect and interpret his society, his world; he must also provide inspiration and..."

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:17:42 -0400

“A writer must reflect and interpret his society, his world; he must also provide inspiration and guidance and challenge. Much writing today strikes me as deprecating, destructive, and angry. There are good reasons for anger, and I have nothing against anger. But I think some writers have lost their sense of proportion, their sense of humor, and their sense of appreciation.”

- Half a century ago, E. B. White articulated brilliantly much of today’s media folly. (via explore-blog)

maudelynn: Man on a penny-farthing bicycle being chased by his...

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:31:52 -0400

maudelynn:

Man on a penny-farthing bicycle being chased by his sister (Maggie & Bob Spiers) - West Wyalong, New South Wales, c. 1900

via brainpickings.org

This Day in Excellent Activities if You Should Be in Possession of a Bicycle and a Stick!