Category: Art/Skill/Techne
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LGBT Representation In Mainstream Comics: A History | The Mary Sue
Next month is June, aka LGBT Pride Month. In anticipation of this, and because it is good and necessary to discuss representation in pop culture and media, we present to you this look at how LGBT content has been portrayed in mainstream American comic books. This is by no means…
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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.
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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 figured I should share it with more folks who may…
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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, bus shelters, subway posters, and more throughout August. via Art…
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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 But long lasting frustration. Detach from the narrative; You tell…
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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 Varo (1944) Prologue: When Zarathustra arrived at the edge of the…
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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 way. My capacity to perceive was deeply enlivened in proximity…
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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 nothing up and up and up transcendence caught in suspense…
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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.
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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 return to send her into ecstasies –out of order– broken…
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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 being may become in the future). After some Plato and…
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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 Pietro Lombardo to house a miraculous icon of the Virgin…
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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 from a nice walk and brunch. A scatterbrained socialite hires…
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