Archive for May, 2017

Live now: Watch Hillary Clinton from our Code Conference – Recode

Clinton will be interviewed by Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg.

Source: Live now: Watch Hillary Clinton from our Code Conference – Recode

New species of frog from the Neotropics carries its heart on its skin | EurekAlert! Science News

IMAGE: JUVENILE OF THE NEW GLASSFROG SPECIES (HYALINOBATRACHIUM YAKU) IN LIFE. view more 

CREDIT: ROSS MAYNARD

In the Neotropics, there is a whole group of so-called glassfrogs that amaze with their transparent skin covering their bellies and showing their organs underneath. A recently discovered new species from Amazonian Ecuador, however, goes a step further to fully expose its heart thanks to the transparent skin stretching all over its chest as well as tummy. The new amphibian is described in the open-access journal ZooKeys.

Source: New species of frog from the Neotropics carries its heart on its skin | EurekAlert! Science News

As Dakota Access Pipeline Leaks, Native Artists Examine Contested Landscapes

Detail of Nicholas Galanin, “God Complex” (2016), mixed materials, dimensions vary (courtesy Radiator Arts)

In My Country Tis of Thy People, You’re Dying, artists grapple with forcible resource extraction on indigenous lands.

Source: As Dakota Access Pipeline Leaks, Native Artists Examine Contested Landscapes

Mehmari / Laginha DUO – Um Choro Feliz (Laginha) – YouTube

Drawing Day 2017 | Art Matters

 

Vija Celmins, Big Sea II, 1969

Source: Drawing Day 2017 | Art Matters

Seeing the ordinary | Art Matters

Wassily Kandinsky, Blue Segment, 1921. Collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

 

“We don’t need to see anything out of the ordinary. We already see so much.” Robert Walser, “A Little Ramble.” 1914. Translation by Tom Whalen. Included in Girlfriends…

Source: Seeing the ordinary | Art Matters

haiku no. 243 | antantantantant

haiku no. 243

April 14, 2017

 

beneath the wisteria

a ruined garage

the startled dove

 

 

– Chris Gordon

1991

Source: haiku no. 243 | antantantantant

abandonedbuildings: That Thing Out There

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A Longhouse Birdhouse: LITTLE RICHARD DYLAN ~

“Early Roman Kings”
All the early Roman kings
In their sharkskin suits
Bow ties and buttons
High top boots
Drivin’ the spikes in
Blazin’ the rails
Nailed in their coffins
In top hats and tails
Fly away, little bird
Fly away, flap your wings
Fly by night
Like the early Roman kings

All the early roman kings
In the early early morn
Coming down the mountain
Distributing the corn
Speeding through the forest
Racing down the track
You try to get away
They drag you back
Tomorrow is Friday
We’ll see what it brings
Everybody’s talking
Bout the early roman kings

They’re peddlers and they’re meddlers
They buy and they sell
They destroyed your city
They’ll destroy you as well
They’re lecherous and treacherous
Hell-bent for leather
Each of ’em bigger
Than all them put together
Sluggers and muggers
Wearing fancy gold rings
All the women goin’ crazy
For the early Roman kings

I can dress up your wounds
With a blood-clotted rag
I ain’t afraid to make love
To a bitch or a hag
If you see me comin’
And you’re standing there
Wave your handkerchief
In the air
I ain’t dead yet
Ma Bell still rings
I keep my fingers crossed
Like them early roman kings

I can strip you of life
Strip you of breath
Ship you down
To the house of death
One day
You will ask for me
There’ll be no one else
That you’ll wanna see
Bring down my fiddle
Tune up my strings
I’m gonna break it wide open
Like the early roman kings

I was up on black mountain
The day Detroit fell
They killed ’em all off
And they sent ’em to hell
Ding dong daddy
You’re coming up short
Gonna put you on trial
In a Sicilian court
I’ve had my fun
I’ve had my flings
Gonna shake em all down
Like the early roman kings

_______________________
Bob Dylan

Source: A Longhouse Birdhouse: LITTLE RICHARD DYLAN ~

A Longhouse Birdhouse: KATHY ACKER ~

“There’s going to be a world
where the imagination is created
by joy not suffering,
a man and a woman
can love each other again
they can kiss and fuck again
(a woman’s going to come along
and make this world for me
even though I’m not
alive anymore).”

Source: A Longhouse Birdhouse: KATHY ACKER ~