un regard oblique

6.3.06

Wikipedia has a 440 A you can hear online

5.3.06

Beijing in Images
215 photographs from pre-revolutionary China

In Hannover: Clairvoyance

will favor you? We strive for abundance, for perception.

You have a soul, an entelechy, you must do
as you are called to do. Where will you turn?

Sally Ball
drunken boat 7
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Sally Ball at Poetry Daily
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in synchronium congruum agnitium

Fraudster of Light pees on Pooh

The main reason Thomas Kinkade's successful is the people who buy his stuff have never been exposed to the artists he's ripping off - so they have that hit of opening discovery that's unique to the virginal art encounter.
Ahh, beauty.
Compared to the flash and tease of commercial imagery, and the little bit of "modern" art the average folk encounter, Kinkade seems gentle and sweet.
But he's a thief and an aesthetic charlatan.
The American Impressionists alone, not to mention their French predecessors, left us a body of work that's parallel in every regard and superior to anything of Kinkade's, as well as diverse enough to provide for everyone who turns to his dreck for something of beauty to keep at home.

2.3.06

Le Jeu du Billeboquet (detail)
François de Poilly, the younger
(page confuses de Poilly the younger with Jean Baptiste de Poilly)
Royal Academy of Arts, London

Lyskamm ridge
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Volcán Osorno and Lago Llanquihue after sunset
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Rough weather is waiting link fixed

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Cézanne and Pissarro 1865-1885
Musée d'Orsay

Edvard Munch Summer Night in Aasgarstrand
Musée d'Orsay

Google links for Munch Summer night
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Artcyclopedia Summer Night
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Winslow Homer A Summer Night
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Wolf Kahn My Barn on a Summer Night

"No painting has ever touched me in the way this one has"

Alma Mahler's lifelong sorrow at the loss of "Sommernacht am Strand" by Edvard Munch

story Guardian UK
image and link chmkoome's Blog
via artbbq

ARTBBQ is another reason I'm more than happy to have some immediate Dutch ancestry

Someone Reading a Book Is a Sign of Order in the World

Reading is hazardous. Here is a true story that proves it: a Chinese student, having read The Scarlett Letter, saw an American in China wearing a high school letter jacket with the letter A on the front...

Mary Ruefle at The Academy of American Poets
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Speak, Zero
Mary Ruefle at Verse Daily

'The Sound,' the harmony of the spheres.
Phil Lesh and Friends

Six at the Beginning

...in her hand as he
comes downstairs. The curls fall
like ribbons, filling the hollow
at her neck. And though...

Deborah Bogen
Poetry Daily

Hartford Newsgirls

Lewis Hine
LoC

28.2.06

Abject apologetic update

The Library of Congress ~~has put~~ seemed to have put their parent directories behind whatever it is that returns the phrase:

You don't have permission to access /pnp/fsa/8b30000/8b30100/ on this server.

Browsing those directories ~~was~~ remains the single most consistent wonder of all the Internet for me. Because you never ~~knew~~ know exactly what ~~would~~ will come up next.
I ~~found~~ expect to continue to unexpectedly come across some great images there.
~~But I guess the idea is we'll all be safer now, with those pictures firmly under the guiding hands of authority.~~ And ~~that's~~ not jumping to erroneous conclusions based on scant evidence and a paranoid disposition is what matters most.