poetics

Ukulele Poetics
Invitational Poetics
Pajama Poetics
Pansy Poetics
Companion Species Poetics
Grandma Poetics
Trauma Poetics
Hyperlocal Poetics
Hyper-competitive Poetics
Tree-ring Poetics
Cough Syrup Poetics
Viral Poetics
Immune-deficiency Poetics
Extreme Poetics
Subversive Realpolitik of Linguistic Slippage Poetics
Truly Wicked Poetics
Highly Influential Poetics
Critical Social Spatiality Poetics
Zen Melancholy Poetics
Propellant Praxis Poetics
Slavoj Zizek Tulip Poetics
Vaudeville Poetics
Team Player Poetics
A Very Very Personal Poetics
Ice Cream Poetics
Self-Flagellation Poetics
“Lost-look” Poetics
Hooker Poetics
Inuendo Poetics
Covert Poetics
Huge event Poetics
Penal Poetics
Aroma Therapy Poetics
Highlighted Specialized Works of Invention Poetics

nellie mckay

9th annual

Meritage Press 9th Annual Fun Holiday Poetry Contest!

interview

Tom Beckett interviews William Allegrezza in Otoliths.

moss landing beach

Two views of Moss Landing Beach, which I filmed when I want for a walk today…

Mt. Mayon

Oh crap. Mt. Mayon is erupting. As if the Philippines hasn’t had enough natural disasters, lately.

Cadence reading postponed

For those of you planning to attend tonight’s reading at Cadence in Santa Cruz – it has been postponed due to flu.

invisibility etc.

what good is obscurity;

slipping out from under

the nail? abstracted or

not. out of sight out

of mind? or changing mind

midstream to notice how

dark th dark is. or not fini-

shing a word because that

s how you say it. don’t give

me that shit. Invisibility is

a comfort. As is being

known. One day light,

then, next day — out. Just

like that. Once I nearly

drowned. But didn’t.

Like that.

(—written in Okir, Dec., 2006)

invisible man

Art Installation by Liu Bolin

From the flickr collection of 56minus1.

A lot of blogs are commenting on the “amusing” optical illusions and “exploration of human nature” in Bolin’s art installations, created and photographed in China. But if you look at all of the pieces in the camouflage exhibit, surely there is a more serious and political undertone, which not many websites (including gallery sites where Bolin is exhibiting) are mentioning–perhaps for good reason. The Chinese government has shut down his studio.

In The WebUrbanist (“Urban Camouflage,” by Steph) Bolin states, “I am expressing the desire to break through these structures. I portray subjects that seem to disappear into these structures and become transparent. The subject is released from social constructs and he is free.”

Kirkus Reviews Closes

Twittersphere Ponders Future of Book Reviews.
And Edward Champion on what this means for the publishing industry.

animate

Seems that you can now animate your own films via xtranormal.com

Example: Martin Amis on violence in film.

dull design era

I realize that the economy has had an effect on design lately, and that younger folks are adapting a lot of vintage 70s–80s stuff because they see it with new eyes, and well, it’s affordable. But, ya know…it just reminds me of all that I couldn’t stand about design during that period (especially the 1970s) — dull, leftover modernism, indifferent mixing of styles, the frequent use of the colors avocado and orange disguising a certain coldness…