Category: general

ireadintothings: You will become literature, and you’re already a poem in my head.

one of my all time favorite movies…

Smoke Signals – Thomas tells a story about Arnold Joseph and the Vietnam War.

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Floyd “Red Crow” Westerman – AIM Icon

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the temp in the recording studio is 50°F & for some reason my voice sounds really good in the audio files. anyone know why/how that happens?

We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering -these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love -these are what we stay alive for.

Dead Poets Society (via ireadintothings)

Everybody will be doing it, everybody will be living inside a TV studio. That’s what the domestic home aspires to these days; the home is going to be a TV studio. We’re all going to be starring in our own sit-coms, and they’ll be strange sit-coms, too, like the inside of our heads. That’s going to come, I’m absolutely sure of that, and it’ll really shake up everything…

J.G. Ballard, quoted in ‘Interview with JGB by Andrea Juno and Vale’, RE/Search No. 8/9, 1984

i hate it when someone produces a movie that sounds like me life…

yes, today’s podcast is behind schedule. it is experiencing a two-hour delay due to icy roads, frozen lattes & climate change in general…

one of my new year’s resolutions was use tumblr less… it’s not working…

Coffeehouse Junkie Podcast – Episode 013

This episode was recorded the week after the River Arts District studio stroll weekend (yeah, I know, it’s a bit late). It features an essay about writing titled “The Field.” Also, I read two poems, “Dead Italians” by Jennifer L. Knox and “asunder” by Craig Arnold. Listen to episode 13 here.

the only thing i miss about not owning a television is viewing nfl & nhl games. thanks nbc sports for running the sunday night game online!

pancakes & coffee for breakfast… somehow i don’t think i’ll try a 2 mile run today… 19°F & feels like 1°F with 20 mph wind…

nothing like cramming two week’s worth of work into four days (& nights) *awesome*

Full moon, Blue Moon, last eclipse of 2009, on New Year’s Eve

nontraditional print shop

the kitchen not only functions as a dinning room & laundry room… it also functions as a print shop. big thanks to my eight year old child for helping with the woodblock prints.

[see previous posts: here, here, here & here]

How to post work safe content

another reason to deep-six my tumblr account… often i unfollow new followers due to nsfw content. i’m not being prudish & i appreciate you following this tumble log, but i can’t view your content at work (due to #2 & #3 on subcreation’s list) or at home (due to #4)…

subcreation:

Ask yourself the following questions:

  1. Is it free of nudity and gore?
  2. Would I want this on my screen when my boss dropped by my office?
  3. Would I want a prospective employer or client to associate me with this?
  4. Would I show this to a 5 year old? (your site is public, so you actually might be showing it to a 5 year old)

If you can answer yes to all of these questions, go ahead and post it.

If you answer ”no” to #1 and “yes” to #4 and still intend to post it, spend a moment rethinking your life as you (please, at a minimum) go into the “Customize” page and mark your site as “Not safe for work (NSFW)” under “Advanced”.

Thanks

Speaking from personal experience, I’ve noticed something lately. The more I use technology (and I am on this damn computer a lot…too much), the more I want to read a magazine. But I want different things than I wanted five years ago. Frankly, I want a break. I want to be surprised and delighted …

The Internet is a technology that enables people to go out in SEARCH of things. I’m all for that and love it to pieces. But sometimes, I just want things to FIND me. Sometimes, I am just tired of looking and typing and seeking, and I just want to sit on my comfortable couch and be surprised when I turn the page.

That’s why I believe magazines won’t die.

Maria Rodale

“You decided to deal with the devil, as it were, and have presented your arguments for doing so. I wish I could accept them. I can’t,” Le Guin wrote. “There are principles involved, above all the whole concept of copyright; and these you have seen fit to abandon to a corporation, on their terms, without a struggle.”

(via guardian)

The year that was 2009 is drawing to a close and data from online magazine database MediaFinder.com reports that 428 titles have ceased publication in 2009, through December 14.

While any magazine going out of business isn’t good news, the silver lining is the total number of foldings this year (although anything could technically happen between now and December 31) is down significantly from 2008 (613) and 2007 (643).

(via folio)

“How to kill the e-book — let people try to use them”(via rs)

kunstwissenschaftlerin:

The Nuremberg Chronicle means many things to many people.  For me, it will always conjure up memories of my PhD exams, when I had 3 profs grill me about it.

medieval:

summoning-ifrit:

A page from the Nuremberg Chronicle depicting Constantinople in 1493.

The Nuremberg Chronicle:

…is an illustrated world history. Its structure follows the story of human history as related in the Bible; it includes the histories of a number of important Western cities. Written in Latin by Hartmann Schedel, with a version in German translation by Georg Alt, it appeared in 1493. It is one of the best-documented early printed books – an incunabulum (printed, not hand-written) – and one of the first to successfully integrate illustrations and text. – enWikipedia