Too long since there’s been any poetry around here.
Men Improve with the Years
by W. B. Yeats
I am worn out with dreams;
A weather-worn, marble triton
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Recent transplantee from St. Petersburg, Scott Bravard, has fired up a Tampa-related photography blog to “improve [his] photography skills,” and “to learn the city of Tampa and share it with others.” Check out Finding Tampa. Scott also keeps an interesting blog about urban spaces and urban places called A New Sidewalk. This work shows all 2053 known nuclear explosions around the world from 1945 to 1998 using flashes of light and tones to create an eerie nuclear melody. Man, the US has bombed the hell out of the US. Wil Wheaton and John Scalzi have joined forces to raise money for the Lupus Alliance of America. Wil Wheaton/John Scalzi Fan Fiction Contest to Benefit the Lupus Alliance of America
Image by Jeff Zugale “For the benefit of the Lupus Alliance of America, John Scalzi, Wil Wheaton and Subterranean Press are running a fan fiction contest, in [...] “Destino is a short animated cartoon released in 2003 by The Walt Disney Company. Destino is unique in that its production originally began in 1945, 58 years before its eventual completion. The project was a collaboration between American animator Walt Disney and Spanish painter Salvador Dalí, and features music written by Mexican [...] Bradley Schenck keeps a spectacularly, awesomely cool website. One part of it is a choose-your-own-adventure-type story. You can also pick up copies of his cool retro-future art on posters, prints, t-shirts, cards, etc. here. And here’s a video preview of Trapped in the Tower of the Brain Thieves: Part One of the Toaster with Two Brains. Trailer for [...] Hmmm, I may need to re-visit William Burroughs. I stumbled across the following quote while looking for something completely different, but it addresses an issue that’s been bouncing around inside my brain quite a bit lately: “Hyper-technology fuels the non-human within me.” I was actually looking for the following quote from Allen Ginsburg: “A student and I spent [...] Very cool art by Toronto-based artist Kira Shaimanova. Kira builds dolls and sets and then photographs her work. Here’s one titled “Sweet Talk.” At her blog she writes about, and posts images of, her work in progress. The work below is titled “Helping Hand.” Both of these images are part of her Chivalry is Undead series. This poem came up in conversation recently so I thought I’d post it here. From Wikipedia – “Goblin Market is about two close sisters, Laura and Lizzie, as well as the goblin men to whom the title refers, and another girl named Jeanie. Although the sisters seem to be quite young, they live by themselves in [...] What I wouldn’t give for a real Seuss army knife. You can vote for this t-shirt design at Threadless.com. (h/t Neatorama) Roger Ebert writes about the time he met Malcolm McLaren. [Russ] Meyer, dressed as frequently in military khaki slacks, an open-neck dress shirt, a blazer and sturdy penny loafers, sat next to McLaren on a black leather sofa and listened studiously to “No Future,” “God Save the Queen (She Ain’t No Human Being),” “Anarchy in [...] Blake Fall-Conroy Minimum Wage Machine (Work in Progress) 2008 Custom electronics, change sorter, wood, plexiglas, motor, misc. hardware, pennies (approx. 15 x 19 x 72 inches) The minimum wage machine allows anybody to work for minimum wage. Turning the crank will yield one penny every 5.04 seconds, for $7.15 an hour (NY state minimum wage). If [...] Unless you’re altermodern, then postmodernism is dead. I’ve bolded my favorite parts. “Theorist and curator Nicolas Bourriaud wrote the following Altermodern Manifesto as part of Altermodern, the fourth Tate Triennial, at Tate Britain. It proposes that the era of globalisation and creolisation compel us to new types of representation that can exist beyond the relativist scope [...] I came across the following while researching some stuff about urban design. These proposals were written by members of the Letterist International (which later became the Situationist International). Perhaps the most well-known letterist/situationist was Guy Debord, author of The Society of the Spectacle (which I highly recommend). The Lettrists present at the September 26 meeting jointly [...] I deeply heart the work of Eric Joyner. Here are two of my favorites. You can buy copies of his work here. Or pick up a trade paperback of his art here. Oh! And, here’s one I’ve never seen before. Kathleen Turner is starring in Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins, a biographical one-woman show about liberal political columnist Molly Ivins. Ivins was best known to politically progressive Texans. While she had moments on the national stage she was at her best blasting the absurdity of Texas politicians working in the Texas [...] Today’s poem/song is “Gondola no Uta,” (The Gondola Song) composed in 1915 by Isamu Yoshii and Shinpei Nakayama. Akira Kurosawa uses this song in his movie Ikiru. The protagonist is confronting his imminent death from lung cancer and at one point asks the piano player in a speakeasy to play this melancholy song from his youth. [...] Today’s artist that makes me delirious with joy is Franco Brambilla. Franco takes vintage postcards and improves them with his own spacecraft, robot, and alien designs. He’s posted a bunch of his work on Flickr. And, here are some great collections at the Behance Network. This cross-stitch animation by Holly Klein took two years to produce and animate. Maggie and Mildred from Holly Klein on Vimeo. Here’s an interview with the artist.
How long did the film take to produce and how did you do it? Very cool art installation. Check out the whole site. “This is a work in progress. Currently, an image of the sky is being captured every 10 seconds from a camera installed on the roof of the Exploratorium, on the edge of San Francisco Bay. The images collected over each 24-hour period are assembled into a 6 [...] Mark Menjivar traveled the US for three years taking photographs of the insides of people’s refrigerators. This refrigerator study is a fascinating glimpse into the American diet. “You Are What You Eat is a series of portraits made by examining the interiors of refrigerators in homes across the United States. For three years I traveled around the [...] Perhaps the greatest web comic ever, Brendan Jones’s 3-volume series Breakfast of the Gods is now complete. A terrific bit of surreal, hand-drawn animation, The Head by parquerama. Click through for the larger version at Vimeo. TheHead / hand-drawn animated short from parquerama on Vimeo. I found this at Neatorama (who found it at Urlesque). It’s a picture of a real person made up to look like a painting. Photo ©Copyright 2009 by Peter Kun Frary “Although carrying a heavy SLR can be a drag, it’s worth it when a great image leaps out and bites you on the arse. Recently I [...] Still working on comps, but here’s a love poem (actually, I guess it’s more of a sex poem) in honor of Valentine’s Day. Carpe amore, y’all. To his Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell Had we but world enough, and time, “Macx is a 21st century animal who eats information and excretes ideas. Ideas are nothing more than the connective spark between the charmed synchronicities of items of data. This is why restrictive societies like to control the flow of information: very few political soil pipes are built to take the pressure of millions of people [...] Here’s a terrific post by Kari Chapin, author of The Handmade Marketplace. It’s a post about creating a community for small-business crafts people. “I really believe that building community around yourself and your business can be a big part of whether or not you are successful. Connecting with other like-minded artistic people, joining a local craft [...] Jon-Kyle at Repository asks: “Why is it that with the ease of publishing available today people so often choose to re-post content as opposed to create it?” Frank Chimero offers a thoughtful response. “Most people will never make anything. Because making something is work. Optional work, at that. Design, art, writing, whatever: it’s work, and work is hard. [...] Voltaire was appalled at those who blamed the citizens of Lisbon for the earthquake that destroyed their city, just as many today are appalled at Pat Buchanan for claiming that the Haitians are somehow responsible for their own tragic natural disaster. UNHAPPY mortals! Dark and mourning earth! Don’t forget, 21st century troubadour Jonathan Coulton will be playing at Nova 535 in St. Pete on Friday, January 15. It’s an all ages show and Paul & Storm kick it off at 8pm. I hope I see you there! For those of you unfamiliar with JoCo’s work, here are a few samplings to whet your [...] |
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