3.12.07
29.11.07
Blasphemers, using, in both instances, bears:
Wong/Crackedoriginating path link McLemee/CT
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Batting/GuardianUK
25.11.07
Tread-softly (Cnidoscolus stimulosus)
...I can't swim,Sarah Hannah
So I'll just walk: bramble, spike,
And blame, without a single quenching
Drop of dew. Not a field — a ravine —
I mean a raving: You.
Verse Daily
24.11.07
22.11.07
"All of the believers are shown to be cruel, horrible men who do things such as kidnap children and murder people," McCaffrey said. "They perform torture on a mass scale - all to keep everybody oppressed and under this fake God."CNSNews article on Catholic boycott of Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass, in which Pullman's quoted out of context in order to make him appear basically Satanic, basically.
Philip Pullman's website:
His Dark Materials seems to be against organised religion. Do you believe in God?
I don't know whether there's a God or not. Nobody does, no matter what they say. I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don't know everything, and there may well be a God somewhere, hiding away.
Actually, if he is keeping out of sight, it's because he's ashamed of his followers and all the cruelty and ignorance they're responsible for promoting in his name. If I were him, I'd want nothing to do with them.
16.11.07
13.11.07
The whole realm of staged (to whatever extent), yet true photography, which commonly is perceived as "pictures from the real", is manipulated to some extent even without the extensive use of Photoshop: think of Justine Kurland, Taryn Simon, Jeff Wall, Gregory Crewdson, most of all view camera portraiture and so on. Even composing an image from various photographs taken in different locations is not really new – although it has become easier with digital tools. Coming back to US orthodoxy, maybe, for example, Robert Frank and Garry Winogrand were perceived as being not so manipulative. But how does that orthodoxy work with, say, Richard Avedon, or Duane Michals?A Conversation with Kai-Olaf Hesse
Having said this, I think this is a hollow debate. Whereas I myself prefer to work in the realm of "straight" photography – meaning not to photograph or manipulate digitally – I think it doesn't really matter if you do it or not. As long as the final image is good and not self-indulging the technical process ("how the hell is it done?"), I think the new tools just add to the possibilities of photography as a medium.
Jörg Colberg/Conscientious
12.11.07
Chipmunk Squirrel Costume Party
Jason Bredle
Verse Daily
Because ultra high energy cosmic rays are so rare and because their extrapolated directions are so imprecise, no progenitor objects have ever been unambiguously implied. New results from Auger, however, indicate
11.11.07
10.11.07
The Nomoi
...I came to my own door. I found my wayD. Nurkse
from room to room in darkness,
drawing the bolts as they existed
in my mind, triangulating the threshold
from the distance between my hands.
I found my love asleep
and now I lie beside her, touching her hair
cautiously, explaining...
Poetry Daily
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"through the roots of the great chords"
A thrilling poem, astonishing.
8.11.07
If You Should Care For Me
mmmmmmmmmm...mix a brew of horseLacy Schutz
manure, of menstrual blood and soil dug from
a dead love's grave.
mmmmmmmmm The moths flew from their mouths.
We heard them say you too shall one day be
like us.
Verse Daily
Update!
Mr. E.H. Maxwell, inventor, displaying his lynx-eyed fire ferret, a fire extinguisher, at the National Safety Congress, in the Stevens Hotel, Chicago, IllinoisThe Library of Congress Digital Catalog search engine is down, or missing, or broken or something, so I have no idea what, or when, this is.
4.11.07
He wasn't Egypt's most powerful or important king, but his staggering treasures, rumors of a mysterious curse that plagued Carter and his team — debunked by experts long ago...
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Those would be "experts" in mysterious curses. Busy guys these days.
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