Monthly Archives January 2008

Link: one word. so little time.

as soon as you click ‘go’ the page will load with the cursor in place.

…Don’t click the “also see Poetc and OneCaption” links at the bottom, though.

Link: Unphotographable: a text account of pictures missed

Unphotographable: The Candidate’s Toes A neat blog with weekly(ish) posts, each describing a brief moment in time as if it had been photographed… Great to use as prompts or something for exercises, or even just to get ideas flowing.

100 Words: Lightning

My parents said we couldn’t swim on our side of the lake because a drunk guy had once fallen in and drowned. Every once and a while our swim sessions would be cut short by megaphoned monotones warning of lightning so would everyone please exit the water immediately .

Describing Metal

Metal is a vague identifier that describes a subset of this multidimensional space, the boundaries of which are far from definite, and certainly not objective…. Sub-genres are sure to extend beyond this commonly held space, and not all sub-genres will occupy its entirety, necessarily (since some begin on the fringes and then continue into the distance).

14 Pieces of Music, 14 Lines of Text

Ear to thorax, hearing the sounds from a world to which we are outside, I know the essence of life and its living…. Unabashedly, we look into the furnaces that forged this people from the ore of time in the bowels of the earth, in all our glorious good and hideous evil.

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

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.

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.

10 Sentences I Wish I’d Written

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

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.