February 2012
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Monkey and Bear
lyrics by Jonanna Newsom
Down in the green hay Where monkey and bear usually lay They woke from a stable-boy’s cry He said; someone come quick! The horses got loose, got grass-sick! They’ll founder! Fain, they’ll die What is now known by the sorrel and the roan? By the chestnut, and the bay, and the gelding grey? It is: stay by the gate you are given And remain in your place,...
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January 2012
8 posts
slow down
learning to stack in order to get somewhere
spilt coffee on a morning when you feel you desperately need the stuff - not so great. until you sleepily read through a conversational work by Lorca regarding Duende pointed out by a good friend.
sometimes days feel too full before you even begin them… remembering to slow down. stacks of strange dreams because i wiped my lips differently last...
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December 2011
10 posts
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Bruno Latour - Reassembling the Social
Notes and glances
“With some provocation, this —- school of thought could use as its
slogan what Mrs Thatcher famously exclaimed (but for very different
reasons!): ‘There is no such a thing as a society.’
——- In [this] alternative
view, ‘social’ is not some glue that could fix everything including
what the other glues cannot fix; it is what is glued together by many
other...
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November 2011
28 posts
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Call for Participation : Exploratorium
This is a project I am working on at the EXPLORATORIUM in San Francisco. I am on the hunt for participants! If you find this interesting, it would be lovely if you could re-blog this call for participation! If you do not live in the Bay Area, and want to participate, do not worry! Contact me and we will work something out.
RESTRAINT:
Do you ever feel restrained?
Restraint can come in many...
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No Rest for the Wicked: Games Occupy #1 →
bustedpuppet:
Tonight two of us from the games-for-activism think tank attempted to interview campers at Occupy Oakland to learn about issues that they are facing that game-structure activities may be able to help. We spent most of the evening at Snow Park talking with one very tired camper, “Brad.” He didn’t…
i am trying to speak on the outside of by body. I am digital. I decorate my hip and cheast with lace and then wonder where I left my typewriter, the ink under my fingernails instead of this mud, so many years ago. sometimes I do not have the most direct words. And then I glance at the clock and drop this moment. Move to the next.
Read eight pages into a new book and finally find spreadable tears...
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Corpus Callosum and Radical Craft night in the... →
corpus-callosum:
We are quite is excited to participate in this event! Moths fluttering in our stomaches. See you this Friday!
The Santa Cruz Sentinel
…The modern craft movement is much more about re-purposing used and overlooked materials and many of its practitioners work to strip crafting of its domestic…
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The Experimentalist and the rational philosopher
(I am not persuaded that these two are, in the end, different)
Diderot—— spoke on behalf of the collecting experimentalist. Unlike the proud architects of luminous systems, the patient gatherer groped in the dark. Conscious of yawning gaps, he seized everything coming his way and only met with meaning, if at all, at the end of his journey. The rational philosopher and metaphysician...
Corpus Callosum + Etsy blog
corpus-callosum:
Visit the blog: Corpus Callosum via Etsy
“Special guest band Corpus Callosum invites you to participate in a parade (5-5:30 p.m.), performances (5:30-6:15 p.m. and 8-9 p.m.), and mask, moth and music making workshops.”
Next FRIDAY the 18th, at The Museum of Art and History Santa Cruz
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Abstraction
— visualized in seamless contours, silhouettes without sutures, and intact profiles without bandages—was a totalizing system giving the illusion of homogeneity and health amid flux and change. The reality of a conspicuous and deep existential wound stood in opposition to the fable of the androgynous blend.
taken out of context from
Body Criticism, B. Stafford
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The Architect & the Urchin - TOMORROW
bustedpuppet:
The Architect & the Urchin is a citywide street game being played in San Francisco tomorrow night (Saturday) November 5th. Come to 400 Treat Ave at 8:30pm to receive supplies. The Architect & The Urchin is a treasure hunt amidst a three-way game of tag. This is citywide psychogeography as experienced through need and greed. I designed this game as part of my MFA...
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Story from SF GATE/SF Chronical
“Two protesters came up with clever costumes to get their point across Wednesday night. Thousands of OccupyOakland supporters left their downtown protest for the Port of Oakland where they met little resistance early in the evening Wednesday November 2, 2011. They essentially shut it down by blocking entrances at the port.” [SF Gate/SF Chronicle]
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Please, BROADCAST BEAUTY, not just the violence.
I want to cry just now. Why is it that when I read the news this morning about the Oakland General Strike — the common headlines brush over how positive the first 20 hours of the day went? It was only a hand-full of people who vandalized. Headlines make it seem like the entirety of the day was violent —
Port of Oakland reopens after violent OWS protests – USATODAY.com
Port of...
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a good read to understand more about the OWS...
“Don’t mistake the “Us vs Them” to be drawing lines in the sand. This protest is not against “the establishment,” even though you will see a lot of signs and slogans with that message. This movement is against the unfair influence that less than 1% of the population has on the establishment. It’s about changing the establishment, not destroying it.”
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