un regard oblique

30.8.04

Schützenfest, Glückstadt, vor 1940todetail
Hildegard Heise
Bildarchiv der Kunst und Architektur
(Schnellsuche: "Heise +Hildegard")

The Artist's Familytodetail
Wilhelm Herbig, 1824
Bildarchiv der Kunst und Architektur
(Schnellsuche: "Herbig")

...VEB Industriedruck, Freude bereiten, heißt gut einkaufen Ihre Wünsche Erfüllen Die Vielen Spezialverkaufsstellen Der Stalinallee...

The caption for this image, translated at 8 of the online translation applications recommended by Artcyclopedia. (IBM wouldn't load)

FreeTranslation.com - "...Prepare VEB industry pressure, joy, is named shop well your wishes fulfilling the many special outlets of the Stalinallee......"

InterTran -"...VEB Industriedruck , joy prepare , hoist possession shopping her wishes fill the many Spezialverkaufsstellen the Stalinallee...."

Google (whole page trans.) - "...VEB industrial pressure, joy well buy its desires fulfilling the many special sales offices of the Stalinallee prepare, are called..."

AltaVista Babel Fish - "...Well buy its desires fulfilling the many special sales offices of the Stalinallee prepare, are called VEB industrial pressure, joy..."

Systran (which is what's under Viola.fr) - "...Well buy its desires fulfilling the many special sales offices of the Stalinallee prepare, are called joy..."

Worldlingo - "...VEB industrial pressure, Joy prepare, well buys your desires fulfilling is called the many special salesoffices of the Stalinallee..."

Promt - "...Industrial pressure VEB, joy prepare, is called well your wishes buy fulfilling many special sales places of the Stalin's avenue..."

Reverso - "...Industrial pressure VEB, joy prepare, is called well your wishes fulfilling buy a lot of special sales offices of Stalinallee..."

The purpose here not to amuse but compare. It's not a good sample to use, just the one I had to hand; and in this instance it seems the first one, from FreeTranslation.com, fits the sense best.

An Assignment for Student Playwrights

...here and now, like whether to go on
With this, this whatever-it-was they couldn't
Think of a name for. They kept looking
This way and that way...

David Wagoner
Poetry Daily
Jul.02.04

29.8.04

METHODS
Ray Caesar
-
link The Cartoonist
via Carolina Vigna-Marú

tophoto AFP

Alina Kabaeva, Athens

28.8.04

Obsolescence

...In the archdiocese of spoons
there are no sinners. Saints are a quaint but outdated technology.
The wireless kingdom has come to install the earthly throne
of God; morning birdsong, the serpent’s sigh, are hereby
preempted by the militant hmmm and murrr of herds
of zip drives and other everlasting denizens of the new
paradise. Onward current flowing...

Leigh Anne Couch
Verse Daily
28.Aug.04

New Year's Day
Baron Hendrik Leys
Bildarchiv der Kunst und Architektur
(Schnellsuche: "Neujahrstag")

Schuttersfeest & Schützenfesttodetail

Meister von Frankfurt
Bildarchiv der Kunst und Architektur
(enter: Künstler: "M";
Schnellsuche: "Schuttersfeest")

Tragedy at The Circus Royale
Anton Ziegler
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur des Bildarchivs Foto Marburg
(Schnellsuche: "Zirkus +Anton +Ziegler")

27.8.04

April Flowers, Mostly Daffodils
Ivon Hitchens
GAC UK

Getting Ready For The Dancetodetail
Antoine Lenain, 1643
Bildarchiv der Kunst und Architektur

'Treasure basket' with lid
Chumash, acquired around 1830
Deppe Collection
California
Northamerican Indians
Museum of Ethnology
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

26.8.04

THE NGURUNDERI DREAMING
(Dreaming story of the Ngarrindjeri People)

Berri Bridge Mural
Garry Duncan
-
link Junk for Code
via boynton

"Spiteful bacteria. Two words you probably haven't heard together. Then again, you probably haven't heard of altruistic bacteria either, but both sorts of microbes are out there--and in many cases in you."

Carl Zimmer's The Loom 25.Aug.04