Archive for Art, Music & Poetry

Portraits of Stillness

// December 1st, 2008 // No Comments » // Art, Music & Poetry

Turkish photographer, Nilgun Kara, captures simple portraits of stillness in this elegant selection.

Pathétique and Peanuts

// November 27th, 2008 // No Comments » // Art, Music & Poetry

Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor- “Pathétique”
- animated in the film “Snoopy, Come Home”.

Barack seeks the Stillness

// October 13th, 2008 // No Comments » // Art, Music & Poetry, World Issues

(Obama minutes before the first Presidential debate)
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith
but the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought:
So the darkness shall be the light and the stillness, the dancing.

T.S. Eliot, East Coker, No.2 of ‘Four Quartets

It is as was Prophesied

// October 12th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Art, Music & Poetry


In the post-apocalyptic underwater society, young maidens will dance suggestively with our tiger overlords. telegraph.co.uk

Sufjan Stevens

// September 24th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Art, Music & Poetry

I just discovered Sufjan Stevens- an American folk artist whose deeply enchanting voice tempts the ear, but whose work cuts deeply through the empty gloss of the balladic singer-songwriter. He sings folk about Jesus, about serial killers, about UFOs and cancer and Chicago, about US representatives to the United Nations and allusions of some Rock River Valley. I think I’m about three years behind the indie kids on this one, but it’s way too beautiful to be too cool. Below are a couple of tracks that are at once gorgeously light and seriously heavy.

The Wolf

// August 27th, 2008 // No Comments » // Art, Music & Poetry

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Skate Beauty at 120 FPS

// August 20th, 2008 // No Comments » // Art, Music & Poetry

A~$20K RED camera captures the pretty.
Features “It’s Alright” by Barði Jóhannsson, an Icelander known as “Bang Gang”.

Get Your War On: The Watch List

// August 1st, 2008 // No Comments » // Art, Music & Poetry, World Issues

“This is it. The highly anticipated premiere of Get Your War On, the new animated series from 23/6, based on the popular comic by David Rees.”

Man, I thought this emo shit was for people who didn’t have hats

// July 16th, 2008 // No Comments » // Art, Music & Poetry

Man, I thought this emo shit was for people who didn't have hats

XKCD understands. Blogging to return when things get way more/ way less normal, as they must. Until then, there is only this glimpse of a softer world