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Waves of Guide: Addendums
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Waves of Guide by G.D. Burns. In regards to the post "2011" on Waves of Guide on the future works of James Turrell, I provide. A site at Rice University by the artist that came to fruition in 2012. He has yet opened Roden Crater as of December 2013. The retrospective. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Portland, OR, United States. For the Observatory's Grand Opening. View my complete profile. Waves of Guide Archives. Long Ago in a Place Very, Very Close By. Northwest of the Nation (Adam Zeek). Come find me in r...
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Waves of Guide: February 2014
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Waves of Guide by G.D. Burns. 07 February, 2014. Through the River of History's Reads. A number of writers and their books on the activity of reading grace a large table's worth of space in the basement of my bookstore. A few writers in particular come to mind with their titles, some of which are quite numerous and reflect on the reading/writing dichotomy. Italo Calvino's. Why Read the Classics? A History of Reading. The Naive and Sentimental Novelist. Every emergence from a subway station in the morning...
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Waves of Guide: The Folly of St. Ann's
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Waves of Guide by G.D. Burns. 21 April, 2014. The Folly of St. Ann's. Between the walk from my apartment to my workplace lies a piece of architecture in front of an NYU dormitory building that strikes my sense of perspective every. There is the bracing of brick crossing a few stained glass windows from the '20s, boarded up entryways to the inaccessible tower and the most peculiar thing of all, the backside of the front doors which cannot be approached through the black iron fence of the gateway. Behi...
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Waves of Guide: Democratic Activity of the Early 21st Century
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Waves of Guide by G.D. Burns. 30 August, 2014. Democratic Activity of the Early 21st Century. Typing text to fill the box which becomes the body of this post, I am implicit in the very topic I intend to critique. Difficulty arises on the one hand but on the other, this is the most natural and easy action. It's demanded of most of us each day - either on a full keyboard or shrunk down to our palm-sized displays we've adapted for any occasion. A mistake in our typing? Something to me, something that I coul...
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Waves of Guide: November 2014
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Waves of Guide by G.D. Burns. 08 November, 2014. The Fourth of July is ever the. A cold autumnal wind has now thoroughly ended my memories of a summer now passed in New York as to the north of us in Concord, Mass. the "shot heard 'round the world" is ringing no more in the ears of our revolutionary ancestors. And what of fall celebrations? Halloween is over, so I'm sick of sugar for a little while, and Christmas decorations are up at work, skipping over the harvest of Thanksgiving. As. Rather than having...
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Waves of Guide: Casualties of Culture
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Waves of Guide by G.D. Burns. 08 November, 2014. The Fourth of July is ever the. A cold autumnal wind has now thoroughly ended my memories of a summer now passed in New York as to the north of us in Concord, Mass. the "shot heard 'round the world" is ringing no more in the ears of our revolutionary ancestors. And what of fall celebrations? Halloween is over, so I'm sick of sugar for a little while, and Christmas decorations are up at work, skipping over the harvest of Thanksgiving. As. Rather than having...
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Waves of Guide: To Gain A Clearer Perception of Humanity, Part I
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Waves of Guide by G.D. Burns. 11 July, 2014. To Gain A Clearer Perception of Humanity, Part I. The intent here is to gain a clearer perception of humanity - where we've been, where we're going, the pitfalls and the possibilities, the perils and the promise. Perhaps even an answer to that universal question - Why? Dr Emmett Brown, played by Christopher Lloyd in the 1989 Robert Zemeckis film. Back to the Future Part II. However, after revisiting the series with a. Newly purchased Blu-ray set (courtesy of Mr.
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Waves of Guide: January 2014
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Waves of Guide by G.D. Burns. 08 January, 2014. Value as Treasure In Itself. To have judged its content by the affixed label. Tote bags and novelties are grabbed on the way to or back from the title we find, and brought to the registers. I have little doubt that sidelined merchandise sales are just at or greater than what we sell in paper. Library of America hardbacks. I would direct every customer to that "Classics Corner" if each one were so inclined to choose something overlooked in their elementary, ...
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Waves of Guide: To Gain A Clearer Perception of Humanity, Part II
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Waves of Guide by G.D. Burns. 22 August, 2014. To Gain A Clearer Perception of Humanity, Part II. In our last installment, I brought into question how one's method of study, namely the study of humanity's Being, requires an ability to gauge the attentive value paid to this subject by both the observer and the observed. I used cited examples of polarized opinions to give you a glimpse of how a materialistic ideology cannot alone provide for these immaterial components of our Nature. B. Back to the Future.
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Waves of Guide: Nostalgia and Music
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Waves of Guide by G.D. Burns. 09 April, 2014. A post dedicated to Devin G., who prompted this inquiry into nostalgia and music. Sven Birkerts, from his book The Gutenberg Elegies. Which I have not read and only opened up to a brief paragraph in a bookstore, he describes his experience hearing David Bowie's 1972 song " Starman. From Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Written by Harold Arlen with lyrics by E.Y. Harburg for Judy Garland to sing in 1939's The Wizard of Oz. The Wizard of Oz). As the te...
