tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32887929471777879982024-03-19T06:09:05.027-07:00Site Qrepository for fragments, detritus, phrases, bits of ephemera, addendum, indexical referents, the haphazard and intuitive, the ridiculous and unnameable, that which unfolds, part by part by partBarbara Campbell Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00718532124070926246noreply@blogger.comBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3288792947177787998.post-325769829778281902009-09-17T20:48:00.000-07:002009-09-17T20:55:12.402-07:00obilque strategy<a href="http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/oblique/oblique.html">Balance the consistency principle with the inconsistency principle</a>elisabeth workmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16623611324116897322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3288792947177787998.post-81081837908599854132009-09-09T06:31:00.000-07:002009-09-09T06:33:36.309-07:00Flannery O'Connor once said:<span style="font-style:italic;">It was suggested to me that I would want to preface this reading tonight with a short statement about my philosophy of writing. Of course I don't want to do anything of the kind. My approach to literary problems is very much like the one Dr. Johnson's blind housekeeper used when she poured tea for him. She put her finger inside the cup.</span>Barbara Campbell Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00718532124070926246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3288792947177787998.post-68544657544540481082009-09-09T06:23:00.000-07:002009-09-09T06:26:24.862-07:00Inside<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmozII8_9tkzo-qhlUH6NbP4oE28mUU0bpqjPreHGzttEH_xNj77fYDYW7gejHbxV5KQaTy3cKM0S8oiMRnHR0Frpje3ZU9c_OfuUCohZsZUIpp8UfiR4Yu44Yq6dTcT1pVLiUYqfYHXw/s1600-h/Microwave.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmozII8_9tkzo-qhlUH6NbP4oE28mUU0bpqjPreHGzttEH_xNj77fYDYW7gejHbxV5KQaTy3cKM0S8oiMRnHR0Frpje3ZU9c_OfuUCohZsZUIpp8UfiR4Yu44Yq6dTcT1pVLiUYqfYHXw/s400/Microwave.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379457933063167538" /></a>Barbara Campbell Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00718532124070926246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3288792947177787998.post-3505919666337182102009-09-09T06:20:00.000-07:002009-09-09T06:26:12.465-07:00Notable Methods of Order (and ordering, upon conclusion of our meeting)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGTEwqWaxtiZeHa0TEa64vKR7pZgcGfRQDVMGjSIETBa4SY_SCj2MBrhTC04XuS5B5O1rcfMYXp13ukmfYDs3xxjBSH418ugLWPLT5C3kRYRP3puwyJctCBNJ1CvDbFn8VfVO5AAMCqgE/s1600-h/Order+1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGTEwqWaxtiZeHa0TEa64vKR7pZgcGfRQDVMGjSIETBa4SY_SCj2MBrhTC04XuS5B5O1rcfMYXp13ukmfYDs3xxjBSH418ugLWPLT5C3kRYRP3puwyJctCBNJ1CvDbFn8VfVO5AAMCqgE/s400/Order+1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379457111449628498" /></a>Barbara Campbell Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00718532124070926246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3288792947177787998.post-54030930787266190272009-09-09T06:17:00.000-07:002009-09-09T06:20:13.223-07:00Michael Silverblatt said to Rae ArmantroutAnd that this is the subject <br />of many of the poems--<br />the growing invisibility <br />of what needs to be said<br /><br /><a href="http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bw/bw090226rae_armantrout">(__________________________)</a>Barbara Campbell Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00718532124070926246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3288792947177787998.post-85852948300304083032009-09-09T06:14:00.000-07:002009-09-09T06:17:02.483-07:00Notable Methods of Order (prefacing domestic tranquility)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcc5ByiujCMS8_KLZHjTfl-hs3E0m9p9soRcEpeKe04e0hJxdb7go03MdIyL4mqXaQzDAqAztKL6muPYYYTJk3KjHu3uLgp8yBlm0mRazP-m2UqJE6PPQbBkM7xLO1Z_TvsoJVC3D_dWU/s1600-h/Order+2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcc5ByiujCMS8_KLZHjTfl-hs3E0m9p9soRcEpeKe04e0hJxdb7go03MdIyL4mqXaQzDAqAztKL6muPYYYTJk3KjHu3uLgp8yBlm0mRazP-m2UqJE6PPQbBkM7xLO1Z_TvsoJVC3D_dWU/s400/Order+2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379455676767215250" /></a>Barbara Campbell Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00718532124070926246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3288792947177787998.post-1880238697649452982009-08-31T05:12:00.000-07:002009-09-09T06:25:00.528-07:00Moving Dog<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgirjXI6a_QjDgKyR5yu5-dGoyCWb4xgRz7hm_Tig8PBC58IVpZbdBQN_HVB-Vy4p0VRVM16klmk9WQ4SqWIhz6qFvCFSxm6yV-pU4ySmKnpXmpWsPHDQIGjQddBg0csQI_pAcTX3_4rag/s1600-h/Alex+pic+9.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgirjXI6a_QjDgKyR5yu5-dGoyCWb4xgRz7hm_Tig8PBC58IVpZbdBQN_HVB-Vy4p0VRVM16klmk9WQ4SqWIhz6qFvCFSxm6yV-pU4ySmKnpXmpWsPHDQIGjQddBg0csQI_pAcTX3_4rag/s400/Alex+pic+9.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376099820735606258" /></a>Barbara Campbell Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00718532124070926246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3288792947177787998.post-87922320254828342872009-08-31T05:11:00.001-07:002009-09-09T06:25:18.476-07:00Spinning 4 year old<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf0r19hWmsZrWNS65RqqqrvZRXgtNtsnussFe2RxTuimh4bNt-b0qDq4PJ7_zIqamnEbZ9IvpY5SB6mKjH9K7ajWM3jy1zuE2ZGfkL-1sZsEOqg6WNYcXCRPZO0QoC-t7nRaE48_gdfT0/s1600-h/Alex+pic+8.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf0r19hWmsZrWNS65RqqqrvZRXgtNtsnussFe2RxTuimh4bNt-b0qDq4PJ7_zIqamnEbZ9IvpY5SB6mKjH9K7ajWM3jy1zuE2ZGfkL-1sZsEOqg6WNYcXCRPZO0QoC-t7nRaE48_gdfT0/s400/Alex+pic+8.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376099384699234850" /></a>Barbara Campbell Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00718532124070926246noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3288792947177787998.post-3074416976644252032009-03-23T20:07:00.000-07:002009-03-23T20:10:47.313-07:00Number Filter2499 [Homo sapiens] Class: Origin Validation Error.<br /><br />10,998 what are the people doing ? Class: Design Error<br /><br />14,995 Ignore:. Blank lines. Case changes. White space changes ...<br /><br />18,129 Show lines around each change.<br /><br />4999 Decisions on Admissibility and on the Merits.<br /><br />11,998 View differences. inline, side by side.<br /><br />14,995 Lawn Tractors<br /><br />18,999 Ethereal is vulnerable<br /><br />9988 Language: English. Usage: all species used<br /><br />11,998 where visitors come from, who owns the site<br /><br />15,488 Sunday, Monday. Overcast. 56° F | 49° F. Rain.<br /><br />19,988 Show dependency tree<br /><br />1. Style: 9988 2. Color: white, ivory, champagne 3. Size: 2# -24# 4. Fabric: taffata,satin, chiffon, ...<br /><br />13,998 Granted, people need to know about things that endanger them, but aside from the absurdity of some of the questions, isn't that the whole point? ...<br /><br />NEW DELHI: During the first two days of a special drive launched on February 1, the Delhi Traffic Police prosecuted about 15,500 motorists. ..<br /><br />21,999 Midget Submarines and Foreign Midget Submarines in World War II.<br /><br />10,998 Moths of Oklahoma<br /><br />14,998 deviants said No, I do not have a cell phone.<br /><br />15,995 N;ï\Pœ ([â_Ωu5O· ) ∑ ï\PœN (S eπu5O· ) ∑ ï\PœNå (S eπQê )<br /><br />28,988 Women kissing each other on cheekelisabeth workmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16623611324116897322noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3288792947177787998.post-24979348488021658092009-03-21T10:54:00.000-07:002009-03-21T14:08:21.294-07:00containing voids<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZDQYtviLDKRUaT9oB29l9RLblGNQR8GZ7K6xSIzRnnP9W0k-15OvTXjmAZa1gv2cHnIxprbcnhHqMtUh6B7GrRdbahC8Jg9NbFj4sofqmlsDr_2fEBP5qk1QHtIFFmzTG-aMAtURIa0ei/s1600-h/alphabet5.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 303px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZDQYtviLDKRUaT9oB29l9RLblGNQR8GZ7K6xSIzRnnP9W0k-15OvTXjmAZa1gv2cHnIxprbcnhHqMtUh6B7GrRdbahC8Jg9NbFj4sofqmlsDr_2fEBP5qk1QHtIFFmzTG-aMAtURIa0ei/s400/alphabet5.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315729262659326274" /></a><br /><br />here are some shapes i drew this morning (instead of writing a statement of purpose). usually my doodles take on a chaos-wielding, map like quality. but here i felt a small breakthrough in containing shapes.<br /><br />doodles, i realize, have their own history. these are some images from a collaborative project i had my intro to digital art students work on.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjBxI8tqthPi_bxnb4Xg2g-rL6mJrJcaOnW7oz-6UPmPqbrf5x6lA8JruUC27nhlp-6VkJLUi_thwhWaT8HFfz3MDtTwS-Jcxc0KQBO7JYusfH3HHrqy9dJM0672-H8E4m-_0VRkzvYnnz/s1600-h/remixing+life2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:left;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjBxI8tqthPi_bxnb4Xg2g-rL6mJrJcaOnW7oz-6UPmPqbrf5x6lA8JruUC27nhlp-6VkJLUi_thwhWaT8HFfz3MDtTwS-Jcxc0KQBO7JYusfH3HHrqy9dJM0672-H8E4m-_0VRkzvYnnz/s400/remixing+life2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315702565882524194" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyZhURp_GEFXrEnsk4avwQBWeNt4snZW2z1CMVUUOMSNZrBRqwIiB_D4Wvn_q2AR-7KL-zGQikxeaGh7SWBGWseusiIwKxCD9NxvnNh8As54edpLuZJvwGw9QOoyOVPfmKLT-gdB_X245r/s1600-h/remixing+life3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyZhURp_GEFXrEnsk4avwQBWeNt4snZW2z1CMVUUOMSNZrBRqwIiB_D4Wvn_q2AR-7KL-zGQikxeaGh7SWBGWseusiIwKxCD9NxvnNh8As54edpLuZJvwGw9QOoyOVPfmKLT-gdB_X245r/s400/remixing+life3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315702923527412146" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEietod8cQw5cf3LssL0bdC3GV0WE4VgPkNhbWf9axWdGwsEYJ_vugW26epq1v5CKo-vejYmPWNhOdOP6-o8crkIePXf8l7cyrlqGN-ArYfKkwCjDLb2f-ZRZgEkSg1GBOJZbykiTTNMKLAC/s1600-h/remixing+life.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEietod8cQw5cf3LssL0bdC3GV0WE4VgPkNhbWf9axWdGwsEYJ_vugW26epq1v5CKo-vejYmPWNhOdOP6-o8crkIePXf8l7cyrlqGN-ArYfKkwCjDLb2f-ZRZgEkSg1GBOJZbykiTTNMKLAC/s400/remixing+life.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315702726855237106" /></a><br /><br />my shapes next to a student work.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAfAXLCG_idM9keQOyTbURJdJ9WoIPyDhntuQkCr14sCqY8yKVRw1Sit4OiUL7LRZWyM5WQ7OvFRZ1roXGd8ABtJNLjzBWTF73_9NThd4rccjVMwgLXFW7pq3PdD01-38ow8ixubUi9BBo/s1600-h/alphabet2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 254px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAfAXLCG_idM9keQOyTbURJdJ9WoIPyDhntuQkCr14sCqY8yKVRw1Sit4OiUL7LRZWyM5WQ7OvFRZ1roXGd8ABtJNLjzBWTF73_9NThd4rccjVMwgLXFW7pq3PdD01-38ow8ixubUi9BBo/s400/alphabet2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315705049267653874" /></a>Garimahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12254572111463135439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3288792947177787998.post-13379635155664359652009-03-17T20:59:00.001-07:002009-03-17T21:06:30.532-07:00knotting<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3cVuYlL_1J4bhvKFb93G6ow2eOyPwHpqQLPKrkmOmX2A7uyxOr18n8AxVM0ifoNkZ1KCE0r1whcsMea-_nReTeNmHdyMshsImFp33gV8NU68frmDP4NQuk2xK9u9oWDNp7iW68XdE9mOa/s1600-h/knotting01_03.jpg"><img style="float:center; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3cVuYlL_1J4bhvKFb93G6ow2eOyPwHpqQLPKrkmOmX2A7uyxOr18n8AxVM0ifoNkZ1KCE0r1whcsMea-_nReTeNmHdyMshsImFp33gV8NU68frmDP4NQuk2xK9u9oWDNp7iW68XdE9mOa/s320/knotting01_03.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314372543243815154" /></a><br /><br />i bought a dress form for myself (very exciting) a few months ago. without a sewing machine, i've been experimenting with ways of just knotting a garment onto the dress form itself. the actual thing i've worked on is rather (eek) but a close up of the knotting is tolerable and, in some way, oddly comforting to me.Garimahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12254572111463135439noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3288792947177787998.post-28513336754059025472009-03-13T20:20:00.000-07:002009-03-22T08:47:07.068-07:00<br><br />forever futured<br /><br /><font color="#000000">_______________________________________________</font><br /><br /><br /><S>separating the fruit of its yolk<br />i've seen it loose form in the rain<br />fermenting out of forgetfulness</S><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><font color="#DDDDDD">separating fruit from its yolk<br />it has broken form in the rain</font><br /><S><font color="red">fermenting</font></S><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><font color="#DDDDDD"><S>separating fruit and yolk<br />loosing form in rain<br />it ferments forgetfulness</S></font><br /><br /><br /><blockquote><font color="#000000">a </font><font color="red"><S>fullness</S></font></blockquote><br /><br>Garimahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12254572111463135439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3288792947177787998.post-23089242870691005992009-02-23T12:57:00.000-08:002009-02-23T12:58:33.955-08:00For no reason other than--<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitSnjkjvXGRd71XnFapV5YTlAQAe6DXGurvehyphqhky8dLLYgHvyz0sg6gkkMHdhquNJim2lNdccllizBSPGtzI4SRjsRpNOJ5h9_f-7Pp6VRPdwGzDT-pY3_OqgkfpzHEjQfCjcLZIE/s1600-h/snake.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitSnjkjvXGRd71XnFapV5YTlAQAe6DXGurvehyphqhky8dLLYgHvyz0sg6gkkMHdhquNJim2lNdccllizBSPGtzI4SRjsRpNOJ5h9_f-7Pp6VRPdwGzDT-pY3_OqgkfpzHEjQfCjcLZIE/s400/snake.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306099964789540882" border="0" /></a>Barbara Campbell Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00718532124070926246noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3288792947177787998.post-25326264738037827342009-02-18T20:10:00.000-08:002009-02-18T20:14:37.063-08:00Towards a Megaprairieland TriptychTHE POSSIBILITY OF WINTER PASSAGE<br /><br />The very air of the room roamed off<br />with little floating dollar signs and fat slab<br />serif punctuation marks used to indicate<br />an interruption in a thought, a confused art<br />terrorism cell, counter claims of fakery.<br /><br />You know how much “enough” is, How<br />to Directory, to “bludgeon the mass mind,” <br />the right to do whatever it wants with Pretty<br />starry glimmers. And then, unexpectedly,<br />words begin to come and splashing hippos.<br /><br />Sound is the motion of a body or connected<br />bodies displaced and Everyone Is Invited.elisabeth workmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16623611324116897322noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3288792947177787998.post-61607230020239320152009-02-11T11:42:00.000-08:002009-02-11T11:47:56.675-08:00Some new collages<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/91207665@N00/3272751588/" title="The Monument by k-porcupine-b, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3475/3272751588_36c694fa83.jpg" alt="The Monument" height="500" width="377" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/91207665@N00/3271928507/" title="bubble face by k-porcupine-b, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3515/3271928507_f216dfdc69.jpg" alt="bubble face" height="500" width="382" /></a>Kevin Buisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02550844357707767400noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3288792947177787998.post-49306834752095234842009-02-07T18:25:00.000-08:002009-02-07T18:26:36.950-08:00yes yellow<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE7pr253RtAqsYU_5wPDND2yNheF0XEJfhLhvgJtQlyn4OLLdeReiwFMuDCU8NcKoy_dMjmjSin473uWZlFyNH1yyAH_Q5HZBfLaSlfwDQxaPNvC8qcMA4-qzsdVMxN2kxv32KhpGSd3I/s1600-h/Light+1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE7pr253RtAqsYU_5wPDND2yNheF0XEJfhLhvgJtQlyn4OLLdeReiwFMuDCU8NcKoy_dMjmjSin473uWZlFyNH1yyAH_Q5HZBfLaSlfwDQxaPNvC8qcMA4-qzsdVMxN2kxv32KhpGSd3I/s400/Light+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300247205231490354" border="0" /></a>Barbara Campbell Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00718532124070926246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3288792947177787998.post-65334808749039030262009-02-03T07:55:00.001-08:002009-02-03T07:55:55.327-08:00Beginning<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDEBTXrEr53LYLFaN1xGGvJ4oCRsucQglI51meWpTC7iy7w1EoZHZO0pfigDxRwTN_K6MblCkYtMvxIuMeSfLTZgD9yIPt4rgp4gjnnuOxywj_vMDP-oM5tqtGL3JCZmMQcqPqq7styxo/s1600-h/beginning.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDEBTXrEr53LYLFaN1xGGvJ4oCRsucQglI51meWpTC7iy7w1EoZHZO0pfigDxRwTN_K6MblCkYtMvxIuMeSfLTZgD9yIPt4rgp4gjnnuOxywj_vMDP-oM5tqtGL3JCZmMQcqPqq7styxo/s400/beginning.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298600376735431394" border="0" /></a>Barbara Campbell Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00718532124070926246noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3288792947177787998.post-47970084455197264092009-01-29T09:17:00.000-08:002009-01-29T09:19:39.304-08:00BoingBoing just <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2009/01/28/video-brion-gysin-at.html">posted</a> a video of Brion Gysin making some of his calligraphic and roller paintings. I haven't thought about Gysin in a long while, but this makes me think I should be thinking about him all the time.<br /><br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HRhC13wIglk&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HRhC13wIglk&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object>seth ellishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766583643284581845noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3288792947177787998.post-11743904955006621932009-01-20T05:58:00.000-08:002009-01-20T10:25:09.996-08:00What cows do when it snows in North Carolina<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwMg0VgG6RKBCcNW2V0dlfdbUV8z2_4g0NKe2pR2EsVcWn1ekXCRNzIylDOyaaDLHEEjAbP1r3ORk_QwI5tRpGYxG0JZohJaaZSl2lJXxosaIDnzhuymrpCgRur3Fnmm_QkC_QrdgriuA/s1600-h/January+snow+%28cows%29.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwMg0VgG6RKBCcNW2V0dlfdbUV8z2_4g0NKe2pR2EsVcWn1ekXCRNzIylDOyaaDLHEEjAbP1r3ORk_QwI5tRpGYxG0JZohJaaZSl2lJXxosaIDnzhuymrpCgRur3Fnmm_QkC_QrdgriuA/s400/January+snow+%28cows%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293375160686178834" border="0" /></a><br />They stand, keep eating grass and gather it on their backs...Barbara Campbell Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00718532124070926246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3288792947177787998.post-84721085474879049262009-01-19T17:59:00.000-08:002009-01-19T18:01:06.576-08:00Looking through (green)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWLrJm5BKGumbpZcWJo0wIjPbEEnhyq1mK_06L1xhq-JZK_Q2NVn4WPmyD7rTUupXGjUpY7Ml1cs33W-eE6I_F3udTDlcFWSsH87AS7kKO5FMIAoQNUTCBJcFpdeDL6VLZvvcU0fifIpA/s1600-h/looking+through+1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 260px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkf0eFCM982xe7ZON7G4kkP6KMx8aclLNucnudN9J6HPrAjVOv551cZkFVziI7iReuGszeCOfqqw-iU5Ueg8ea9tOShgeMARyvQjTvi8BLs_8aQU6h7b-OVHtKZk9cIWq1lJunD2j1TPnb/s400/whyineedanewcoat.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290945651617961570" /></a>Garimahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12254572111463135439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3288792947177787998.post-89718433937726564182009-01-12T18:30:00.000-08:002009-01-12T18:33:42.815-08:00Breaking down the grid by blurring<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTGdGnw4j9bB9e1ODsCIp5QB2WtU17dB96xv8GKgFwl_-FtID6rIaSnZ3ZWHYNBjFdH-YVRiSYEvbXBr99-AP0ZHARRN_gGdi5MPjiAFK9JX11ChpIMaUxvbNi_cxlbszsMsGM2SLsJNE/s1600-h/Grid+2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTGdGnw4j9bB9e1ODsCIp5QB2WtU17dB96xv8GKgFwl_-FtID6rIaSnZ3ZWHYNBjFdH-YVRiSYEvbXBr99-AP0ZHARRN_gGdi5MPjiAFK9JX11ChpIMaUxvbNi_cxlbszsMsGM2SLsJNE/s400/Grid+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290600362680871442" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPBu-eKsBYuMVWGuQGPM4umiIBCyFKePhSR58odz2DWG6xPgMRMjynCQlbr5A6U0jE6sIDFuwepKW1ZXvzZb_Ftt-yob3TWrGvMKiSs-LCZd86qIy-tOsQXsp0COaR8tXaViyzLmA2HfA/s1600-h/Grid+1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPBu-eKsBYuMVWGuQGPM4umiIBCyFKePhSR58odz2DWG6xPgMRMjynCQlbr5A6U0jE6sIDFuwepKW1ZXvzZb_Ftt-yob3TWrGvMKiSs-LCZd86qIy-tOsQXsp0COaR8tXaViyzLmA2HfA/s400/Grid+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290600263010944098" border="0" /></a>Barbara Campbell Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00718532124070926246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3288792947177787998.post-34956108620308203272009-01-12T13:08:00.000-08:002009-01-12T13:10:32.116-08:00Ettore SottsassFrom Sottsass' 1973 essay "When I Was a Very Small Boy," quoted in a <a href="http://designobserver.com/archives/entry.html?id=38886#more">comment thread</a> at Design Observer:<br /><br />"I would like to break this strange mechanism I’ve been driven into. I would like to break it for myself and for others, for me and with others. I would like not to have to play the role of the artist only because this way I get paid, and I wish it wouldn’t even occur to others that there’s anyone who gets paid for being an artist. I would like all of us or none of us to be artists, as we were when we did drawings, boats, ships and windmills, cableways and telescopes. I would like to think that the old happy state that I once knew could somehow be brought back: that happy state in which “design” or art—so called art—was life, in which life was art, I mean creativity, I mean it was the awareness of belonging to the Planet and to the pulsing history of the people that are with us.<br /><br />"I’d like to find somewhere to try out things, together, things to do with our hands or machines, in any way, not like boy scouts or even like craftsmen and not even like workers and still less like artists, but like men with arms, legs, hands, feet, hairs, sex, saliva, eyes and breath, and to do them, certainly not to possess things and to keep them for ourselves and not even to give them to others, but just feel what it’s like to do things by trying to do them, trying to find out whether everyone can do things, other things, with their hands or machines—or whatever—etcetera etcetera. Can it be tried?<br /><br />"My friends say it can."seth ellishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766583643284581845noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3288792947177787998.post-10584718631499980852009-01-10T12:03:00.000-08:002009-01-10T13:07:46.412-08:005-6-7-8<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dygjb8_wfT2jo2qriii8uwOBZVd4w9VA-9FDZie-QH0z2YygKiPdmRoDc9sm3JfY6q36SspNF8ROCQTNYg5SQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><br />choreography: Rebecca Frostelisabeth workmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16623611324116897322noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3288792947177787998.post-12694732664874728102009-01-09T08:16:00.000-08:002009-01-09T08:18:43.597-08:00Steve Martin InterviewI highly recommend this <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98936589">interview</a> with Steve Martin. Has anyone read his recent book on stand up?Barbara Campbell Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00718532124070926246noreply@blogger.com2