Art/Skill/Techne
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DFW and YOU: Paradise
A project from my friend Natalie S. and her colleagues in the RTVF program at UNT. DFW and YOU: Paradise from DFWandYOU on Vimeo. Continue reading
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Hustling Nostalgia
Ghosthustler, a Denton, TX, band from about five years ago, came up in a discussion with my buddy-friend-guy today. Which brought us to listen to some of the old tunes. After we listened to all the stuff on Youtube, I… Continue reading
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Art Everywhere US
Choose your favorite pieces of art to be displayed in the largest outdoor art event to take place in the US. Your votes will inform the final selection of 50 works of art that will appear on public displays such as billboards,… Continue reading
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is that so
Cold walk in the morning Bracing winds–why did I wear shorts? Bright sun does not find My heart, darkened by yesterday’s storm. Narratives of vicious injustice… “Is that so?” Feeling again self-righteous “Is that so?” Imagined confrontations– Short cruel enjoyment… Continue reading
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True Path
1. The true path is along a rope, not a rope suspended way up in the air, but rather only just over the ground. It seems more like a tripwire than a tightrope. Franz Kafka, Zurau Aphorisms “Tightrope Walkers” by Remedios… Continue reading
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Reference
Once I happened to visit a museum with a friend more versed in painting than I. His remarks, his very presence, keyed the sensibilities with which I was able to see. I saw more, and I saw in a different… Continue reading
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Always this Struggle
always this struggle backward and down forward and up yesterday I went down to Piraeus with Socrates and Glaucon today I am grappling uphill with Anaximander and Heraclitus the way down is the way up down and down and down… Continue reading
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Textimony 20140306
Free to doubt this human frailty –a gasp, a tear, a touch, a laugh– forsaken of any certainty: at play in wonder. Let-go. Love. Live. Continue reading
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Darling visions
…this is just a beginning your fault lines on the wall waiting to break a part of the night first thinking best thinking purity of complettion suddenly lost and found among the allied forces who invited days’ dark depressions– meaningless… Continue reading
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Dawning Jedi
This semester, I find myself contributing to a number of university courses. One is Metaphysics. As designed by my colleague, the class moves between classical metaphysics (what we have thought about Being in the past) and transhumanist metaphysics (what human… Continue reading
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Bastille // No Scrubs (live at RTL2) – YouTube
Bastille playing No Scrubs live at RTL2 Continue reading
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Santa Maria dei Miracoli
[Santa Maria dei Miracoli] …known as the “marble church”… is one of the best examples of the early Venetian Renaissance including colored marble, a false colonnade on the exterior walls (pilasters), and a semicircular pediment… Built between 1481 and 1489 by… Continue reading
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My Man Godfrey
An awesome little film with one of my favorite actors of the 1930’s, William Powell, and the beautiful Carole Lombard. Directed by Gregory LaCava. This is definitely a great way to spend part of your Sunday after you get back… Continue reading
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It’s a hard world for little things
Robert Mitchum terrorizes an orphanage defended by the faith and the gun of Ms. Lillian Gish in Charles Laughton’s brilliant, if often misunderstood, film Night of the Hunter. Continue reading
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Ecstasy
“Blessed and holy, I would say, is he to whom it has been given to experience such a thing in this mortal life at rare intervals or even once; and this suddenly and scarcely for the space of a single… Continue reading
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Han Shan 36
Lust, or love; some grasp at it for happiness, but only calamity dwells within the mortal shell, and thus they march through fire toward a bright mirage, to find all love inconstant; the dying body . . . A real… Continue reading
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