Of all the ways of forgetting not turning the pilot on is not the worst The house is intact you are floating in time buckets of it streaming through the windows youth turned it up I think or on & fell asleep Remembering to do. You are too intact the dappled sunlight on the lawn or pots of darkness like salt instead of depths Still once I turned it up the popping commenced like applause for the present tense the site of my sway Larry's new car is wide & safe a woman's voice conducts us left & right she's crazy he laughs again & again my shrink said buy it now about the car I told him about my phenomenal streak of winning & when the stakes rose I began to bid low & not at all I could have won; you choked he said. Woof. To not choke is I suppose to experience to hold it in & go forth though you need the heat The sun had not done more suddenly for a while it's like we took off our skin and said it is hot. It's like we sold our skin & said where did everyone go? when the weather's too hot for comfort
& we can't have ice-cream cones
it ain't no sin to take off your skin
& dance around in your bones—Eileen Myles. (Interviewed here.)
(via nikaknight)
Really, really good. Definitely worth reading.
Amen! I’m totally disgusted by all Navajo, tribal, exotic, safari, etc. branded items, and I refuse to buy them. I really need to write letters or something to let the companies know I’m boycotting their items, since as it stands currently I’m just doing it so I can feel better about my purchases.
(via Native Appropriations: Tracing the Urban Outfitters case and the role of Native social media)
Creativity and Curation: A Conversation About Finding and Sharing Inspiration Online
New York City! Come see me and my friends at McNally Jackson on Wednesday, May 30th at 7PM:
Join Austin Kleon (author of Steal Like an Artist) as he interviews three of his favorite NYC ladies around the topic of collecting and sharing inspiration online. The panel will feature Maud Newton, legendary litblogger; Maria Popova, creator of the stupendously popular blog Brain Pickings; and Maris Kreizman, creator of the hilarious Tumblr blog Slaughterhouse 90210.
I will, of course, be signing copies of Steal Like An Artist. Tell yer friends! Printable poster (PDF) here.
New York friends: this is going to be AMAZING. I wish I could go! If you like the internet you will not be disappointed.
(via Toothpaste For Dinner)
As the popular girl walks among us with the microphone,
most of our stories are about loss,
or include exquisitely precise
medical and pharmaceutical details,
as if the words could suture the wounds, or save us even one last breath.
I came to dance with the Puerto Rican women
of my class of 1967, and to remember a few pals lost in the war,
who had been so beautiful, you were happy just to look upon them,
and one more boy
lost to his own drunken wildness
under a moon who doesn’t remember us.
It’s not a going back we long for, but a staying still
for one incomparable moment, all the lost loves’ faces
spinning in the mirrored ball.
This is the most amazing project: consume only media made by women. I love this so much. I might copy her and do it this summer.
So, I wanted to try out the Picle app (takes a still photo + a few seconds of sound), and it’s pretty neat. Being a one-man team trying to use it while cooking dinner, however, took ages. But, still, it’s pretty neat. I like that it requires a bit of imagination on the part of the viewer. It would be killer on trips when you want to catch the sound of wind, birds, crashing waves, “silence,” etc.
even neater!
A video* from my five days in San Francisco. You won’t know what’s going on half the time. You’ll just have to trust me that in one part, we are dancing in a room filled floor to ceiling with balloons. Also, this is missing about 95% of the happenings, including having my coffee stolen by a woman in a yak-inspired sweater. I’m not the one crying at the end; I’d already done that in the SFO restroom (not really).
*It’s a Picle video, so still shots + 2 seconds of audio (except for where it hiccups in the midst of our discussion of potentially petrified bobcat scat).
I found this via justin wolfe’s super-cool email subscription project, and it’s really neat!
“This is clearly ridiculous me, and not regular me, and the fact that you can’t tell really upsets me”
BARF FOREVER
Does Celestino Piatti draw the best animals? We’re on the same page here, no?
(Source: snarfsnarfsnarf, via jolevy)
