these are the timesdirty beloved
-

11.8.09

so long old-timer

5.8.09


One is driven near frantic with all to do that must needs be done and then a moment's pause amidst the field of wires, yes and apple trees, fencing tool in hand and glove, resting what now seems a young man's arm upon the accomplished task. Though then the age I was seemed central and precisely there, neither young nor old.
So much was hidden still yet to be made clear, including life in other forms and beings with other names and places where dragons' heads - really - were carted in to await processing and set design, and fences built to keep Bambi away from the Ewoks.
All true, and all vanished into a quarter century of steady-as-we-go.
And here to this now I put these more or less more experienced fingers and hands onto these far more cunning wires, to say, dear Boynton, I too as well was once caught by the camera in a moment's leisure in the midst of who knows what, but there it is.
70 acres of smooth-wire trellising, down rows and rows of dwarf-apple trees, the style of wire imported from New Zealand, and very popular in Australia we were given to understand.

18.6.09

30.5.09

Bulbul Tarang

in the centre a liuto attiorbato based on instruments by Matteo Sellas (this version has engraved mammoth ivory fingerboard panels)

12.5.09

Storm Catechism

Do the gods see us?
Will the waters be rising soon?
Kim Addonizio/VerseDaily

The Road to the World's End
By Sigurd Hoel

20.4.09

In 1995, Paul Williams suffered a traumatic brain injury in a bicycle accident, leading to early onset of dementia, and a steady decline to the point where he now requires full-time care.

The burden on his immediate family has been immense.

Paul Williams was Crawdaddy! before Jann Wenner was Rolling Stone

7.4.09

Mine: story of a sacred mountain from Survival Int.
narrated by Joanna Lumley

3.4.09

A History in Six Couplets

...And all around,
a kind of tilting.

All around, chunks of concrete
like torn bread...
Idra Novey/Poetry Daily

31.3.09

Some photos. No photoshop, just focus and shoot.
Links go to very big files. Too big really, didn't take the time to resize.

Secret Sea

...& I heard, very softly, a new name.

It happens every morning. Once upon
a time I bustled for bread behind thin

glass in a fashionable section of a port
city...
Nathan Parker/Verse Daily

29.3.09

Happy birthday BK

28.3.09



Beggar Woman
Sojourn, 1917-1919: China, Hawaii, Japan, Korea, San Francisco
Sidney D. Gamble Photographs
Duke University Digital Collections
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Her feet were bound.

18.3.09

Todd Hido's site, in addition to exploding with his photographic genius, is a perfect example of how to deliver photography online.
See how fast the pictures load. Though you'll have to figure out that the headings in the lower left corner, generate the titles of individual photos, then scroll the titles and the photos appear. No ten second load times, no vanity web design, simple, subtle and effective. Minimalist efficiency in the service of whatever it is that happens there.
Such is not the case at Leslie Tonkonow Artworks+Projects, where the exploding genius of Nikki S. Lee can only be seen by those patient enough to wait around for the images to load.

How it Started

The water was cold and pushed
at the shore. At the house I kept
setting the table. Knives for the dominant
hand, his grandmother's plates...
Leslie Harrison/VerseDaily

8.3.09

Can't spell smart without art
Tom Chapin > Suzanne Vega > robotwisdom

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