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Daily Archives Sunday, January 2008

10 Sentences for 10 Images I Wish I’d Taken

Walking on Clouds by Gilad Benari In Absentia by ilSilenzio Little Fish by SeaFairy Shadows of Dismember by Caroline Traitler

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William Faulkner on Art & The Impossible

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life…. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

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Digital Story Brainstorm: Mongolia, A Land of Contradictions

Yet today she must sell herself to the west, desperate for third neighbors who care more about her politics than her coal and gold. One of the original lands of Buddhism, the creators of the Dalai Llama, yet increasingly filled with sparkling Mormon churches and ecstatic evangelists.

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10 Sentences I Wish I’d Written

Sentence 1: “The sidewalks of St. Charles Place have been cracked to shards by through-growing weeds.”

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100 Words: Furniture & Maps

We know this with a high degree of certainty, since the area’s silt is quite effective at preserving ancient artifacts…. This exquisite upholstery was not surpassed for over 5000 years, when a 19th century seamstress created what her husband thought to be a fairly bland sofa slip-cover.

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