Art/Skill/Techne

  • Apostle & Epistle

    The term apostle derives from L.L. apostolus, from Gk. apostolos “person sent forth,” from apostellein “to send away, to send forth,” from apo– “from” + stellein “to send.” One sent-forth is a messenger. To have a message is to be an apostle. Who sends forth the… Continue reading

  • Tabernacle inertia

    I would drift out sightless upon the water of the endless abyss obliviated of every memory and forgetting expectations.  I would glide zigzagging the trade winds of exchange becoming a whisper of what was yet never could be.   I… Continue reading

  • Tell all the truth but tell it slant

    Tell all the truth but tell it slant — Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth’s superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man… Continue reading

    Tell all the truth but tell it slant
  • maintaining submission

    Writing poetry rather than writing an exam. Continue reading

    maintaining submission
  • irascible

    anger has a way of tacking onto you sticking itself into the skin twisting around down until it’s enfleshed another person’s self-righteous behavior enflames the slow itching reaction scratching at open anger sores how very strange the degree to which self-deception and spite can… Continue reading

    irascible
  • I-Thou Encompassing

    O, Thou; O, Thou… I alone falters embracing uncommon – uncanny entwining – exclusive encompassing I risks everything for no-thing for Thou this encounter nothing else how can “you” capture this? you… you… you… you… you… you… stuttering stabbing particle instants… Continue reading

    I-Thou Encompassing
  • General Kafka

    “The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.” ― Franz Kafka, The Trial something happened we cannot know details rest assured… it happened not a good thing a hushed thing sitting… Continue reading

    General Kafka
  • self conspiracy

    “i” as useful designation like a storm front like a bright day changing temperaments one and then another always another forecaste now is here and then is there here is now and there is then no-thing stable enough to be… Continue reading

    self conspiracy
  • Bhakti

    Beginning to gather up different pictures of the god Hanuman for my research. Hanuman, a key figure in the Ramayana and totally dedicated follower of Sri Rama, represents the deep devotion (bhakti) of life to the Divine. Continue reading

    Bhakti
  • Surrealism: I am all yours

    A new video from a local Denton talent, Julian Patrick Quinn. Continue reading

    Surrealism: I am all yours
  • eating oats

    Well… I need to write something. Odd that I do not care to write but can be spurred by watching the beginning of a film—Mr. Holmes—after eating a bowl of steel cut Irish oats… suddenly this desire to “record something.”… Continue reading

    eating oats
  • #UnderSiege #MahmoudDarwish

    Here on the slopes of hills, facing the dusk and the cannon of time Close to the gardens of broken shadows, We do what prisoners do, And what the jobless do: We cultivate hope. *** A country preparing for dawn.… Continue reading

    #UnderSiege #MahmoudDarwish
  • Bitter Lake – Adam Curtis 

    Politicians used to have the confidence to tell us stories that made sense of the chaos of world events. But now there are no big stories and politicians react randomly to every new crisis – leaving us bewildered and disorientated.… Continue reading

  • Rosa Luxemburg Explains Capitalism Using Spoons

    In this excerpt, the teenage Rosa Luxemburg teaches her family about Marx’s Das Kapital, explaining material and social relations and the problem of money. Source: Rosa Luxemburg Explains Capitalism Using Spoons   Continue reading

  • Mystery and Benevolence

    Masonic and Odd Fellows folks art about to go on display at the American Folk Art Museum. Enigmatic, evocative, and often simply strange, fraternal references are a rich part of contemporary American popular culture. But the seductive mystique of secret… Continue reading

  • Slowing Down the Perception of Time

    Wherein our intrepid Camera Master, Randall Collis, converses with a theoretical physicist. Talk about mindwalking! “It is sad, we get older and our brain becomes efficient because we are boring!” she laughs. “Without adventure, life will fly right on by.”Her eyes… Continue reading