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push off what seemed safe: The fishing dock,
pitch pines, children glazed to sheen
by ruthless summers. Pastthe jetty, past the past, to open sea—
all violet and green, that choppy path between doom and luck—
Put your back into it, and row.-April Bernard, from Romanticism
Beautiful Japanese Art
Works by Ray Morimura, a Japanese painter and woodblock printmaker.
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This fits, right? Purposefully distorting an image to make it look less real/istic.
See video in previous post, and please watch till the Carnival starts.
A Tilt-Shift Video of Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival
“I wanted to look my best for Rio,” wrote the famous Italian aviator Francesco de Pinedo in his travelogues, “There she lay, fragrant and colorful, voluptuously reclining beside the sea.” Le Corbusier echoed similar gendered reflections of the city when he likened Rio de Janiero’s “dancing” landscape of lush islands and sculpted peaks to the bodies of women. What prompted these “poetic” formulations was the bird’s eye spectacle newly afforded by the airplane, which offered privileged encounters with the city inaccessible to all but the brave and daring. Even with the introduction and integration of Google Maps into contemporary culture, these same encounters remain exclusive to experience of flight, in the sense that the airplane is the only medium in which one may truly inhabit the oblique.
Read more. [Video: Jarbas Agnelli]
Mary K for Toppers
I love this idea—the way any story is an amalgam between the written version and your own experience. We could have a contest where people draw the kitchen table in my story, or in Carver’s, and everyone would depict it differently. The round table you had growing up, or plates on the wall in…
Jenny Holzer
The Tissue Series, created by Lisa Nilsson, is a collection of human anatomical illustrations using Japanese mulberry paper and the gilded edges of old books. They are constructed by a technique of rolling and shaping narrow strips of paper called quilling or paper filigree.
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“Like a lot of young writers, when I started out, I had a dim conception of my material. I wrote about people and places that were vastly separated from those I knew. Then, too, if I tried to write about my own self, the results were far from illuminating, for the simple reason that I didn’t understand myself too well. As soon as I began writing The Virgin Suicides, however, I suddenly realized that I knew a lot, not about my own psychological dimensions so much but about the town where I grew up. I knew everything about the people who lived on our old street. I remembered their oddities and family histories, the rumors and gossip, and I remembered the weather, the local legends, the racial tensions, the flora and fauna. I stopped being embarrassed about being from a suburb in the Midwest. I treated it like my own Yoknapatawpha County and, for the first time, produced something that interested adult readers.”
-Jeffrey Eugenides in The Paris Review
So, FSG is on Tumblr now. You should go say hi!
“I WANT EVERYTHING IN MY WORK TO GENERATE. I WANT EVERYTHING IN MY WORK TO BE GENERATED INSIDE THE WORK.”
Artwork by David Altmejd, who is interviewed by David McCormack in the Art Issue
“How many have seriously pondered Wonder Woman’s lineage to Diana the Huntress, for example? Or exactly how the superpowers and shortcomings of mythological heroes are conferred on their comic book cousins?”
— The Journey to Planet X: Margaret Atwood’s In Other Worlds by Vanessa Blakeslee
