December 2010
25 posts
Daniel Gordon's Flying Pictures →
Daniel Gordon’s work was recommended to me by the wonderful Brita Thompson. In my newfound freedom I’m assigning this as a model for the next six months.
Plot
photo by Helen Korpak
Though I feel it slightly wrong to pull these selections of Claudia Rankine’s Plot out of context, these two excerpts are so individually simplistic and accurate I feel inclined to share them. Her poetic narrative of motherhood, “the birth of utterance”, and the disappointment of emptiness speak to that intrinsic force that both inspires us toward...
photo by Miliken Gardner
“Maybe it’s easier to see people as peripheral. Maybe that’s why we do it. It’s a weird and daunting experience to let other people in their fullness into our minds. It is so much easier to see them as serving a purpose in our own lives.” - Charlie Kaufman (via The Rumpus)
WatchAnother beautiful “poem film” by Portland’s Zachary Zchomburg (my shameless poet crush). Found at MovingPoems.com . After making a video for my Studies in Poetry course I have become increasingly interested in the interplay between poetry and landscape, much in the way that I have always found such beauty in vocal soundscapes and have strived to create a transcendent space...
musical language - radiolab →
jennilee:
what is music? why does it move us? how does the brain process sound?
