Patti Smith | On Writing Memoirs
Interview and reading in Louisiana. She discusses writing memoirs and being an artist. She reads from her work. Lenny accompanies her on guitar at one point.
Interview and reading in Louisiana. She discusses writing memoirs and being an artist. She reads from her work. Lenny accompanies her on guitar at one point.
Excerpts from a panel with musician Patti Smith and theater director/artist Christoph Schlingensief who met under strange circumstances and became close friends, embarking on an adventure in Africa to create a project.
Inspired by Dean Potter. Part 1 of his documentary, (it is a playlist so other parts should autoplay). Amazing slackliner. Also does BASE jumps with his heeler pup. Former partner Steph Davis is also amazing.
Recorded in a van as it moved down the road.
The rains have begun. The apples have fallen off the tree, now in a circular path, arranged as if some protective ring of abundance and color against the harsh concrete. She sits in the chair, under the failing roof designed as a pergola, designed as a shelter. The grass is returning to the color of… Continue Reading
Image that appears as delicate tracing of sound.
Divine impulse, divine harvest, there is no need for any of these objects, placemarkers for the theodolite memory, sitting stationary and waiting for the winking of light in blackness. Let me tell you that the brief sonata that recurs, seems to disintegrate with time, has immediately resurfaced a memory, a little segment of clear texture,… Continue Reading
The clip above is from the Mongolian film, Khadak. A portrait of the overlay of a numeric grid (economy) onto a nomadic people. But in Khadak, the grid is broken. The protagonist and the woman above, lead the shift, undermining the coal industry and all it has taken. Returning them to what was familiar and… Continue Reading
Periodically I think about Emily Bronte and stories about her I have read. She is my reminder of the importance of the integration of rhythm and nature, when I am working on something that is difficult. So I wrote a few paragraphs about her and uploaded 2 versions of a 17th century Irish poem presented… Continue Reading
An artist’s group in Paris, UX, was only interested in nurturing and preserving things abandoned or lost which were in the possession of officials. There was a clock that no longer worked. They repaired it thinking they had created a gift for the people of Paris and for the government officials. When they first looked… Continue Reading
A summer evening. An old house—forlorn and would-be abandoned—except for the handful of those without who would inhabit such a place. An old pool, filled with cedar from trees planted through seeds carried in the wind, now shading and adding voice. A girl dives into the water—the unpristine water with its cool clear passages—and emerges… Continue Reading
Street Art posted on Twitter without caption/text. No idea where it came from.
I went to Goodwill (a thrift store), the other day, as I do when I want to pick-up something needed for the house, or just to do a little historical reflection on what has been valued and devalued over the years. As I entered the electronics section, I passed 7 or 8 old televisions, turned… Continue Reading
Interview with Daniel Ellsberg and Jake Appelbaum on regarding the NDAA lawsuit. Two part video interview. http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2013/2/6/part_2_daniel_ellsberg_and_jacob_appelbaum_on_the_ndaa_wikileaks_and_unconstitutional_surveillance
Michael Ratner, the President of the Center for Constitutional Rights, and one of the lawyers for Julian Assange believes Manning is being mistreated in prison, and that his case is being stalled, intentionally, in hopes that Manning will turn against Julian Assange, and in a sense, deliver him to the US Authorities.