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Art of the Day: ‘untitled (Prime Ordeal)’, Roberto Matta, 1946, and ‘Three Studies for a Crucifixion’, Bacon, 1962
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Art of the Day: ‘untitled (Prime Ordeal)’, Roberto Matta, 1946, and ‘Three Studies for a Crucifixion’, Bacon, 1962. November 22nd, 2014. Revisiting him now — especially his post-war works, which can be found here. Three Studies for a Crucifixion. Oil with sand on canvas, three panels. The title (people never pay enough attention to the power of the title in visual arts! Now back to Matta. Here’s an example of one of his pieces that gets it right (click to zoom):. Untitled (Prime Ordeal),. Notify me of fo...
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Comedic Arts
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Help Adam Carolla & Podcasters Defend Against Patent Trolls. May 4th, 2014. Do you know what a patent troll is? Here’s the crux: podcasts are in trouble because of these shit-hearted crooks. Adam Carolla, comedian & creator of one of the most popular podcasts on the net, is being sued for millions by patent trolls. Why? Thanks for tuning in — Adios! Posted by: C Way at 9:40 AM. File under: Comedic Arts. April 28th, 2014. RECAP OF THE PROBLEM. And the 2013 Heidecker & Wood album “Starting From ...Both inv...
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Literary Arts
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Abandoned Storage Unit: Whirling Around. April 9th, 2017. Some serving plate I found online on Polish shopping site). Hello snailers & crowers. Time for another whirled-up blend of crap, such is thee fun of the Abandoned Storage Unit. The Fat Old Couple Whirling Around. Here is something my daughter made to celebrate Spring. I love how she draws faces. Our red front door is festooned with her bright flowery paintings and drawings and it makes me happy whenever I see it. It makes us feel we’re in co...
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WHAT IS THIS ABOUT?
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WHAT IS THIS ABOUT? January 20th, 2011. I’m a New York based musician, writer, artist & father, & this is my sporadically-updated spiel-space for everything from arts & culture to meditation on technology, existence, God and the universe. Project; the writing usually takes the form of impromptu poems or poem-prose. In response to the art object at hand. This process of responding to art with. Art is known as ekphrasis. I also use this site to share my own art. To “WHAT IS THIS ABOUT? I much enjoyed writi...
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Ekphrasis
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Abandoned Storage Unit No. 4: Coal Bin, Bou Saada, Charles Bradley, Mollusco-baby. June 23rd, 2014. Hello readers. As usual with the Abandoned Storage Unit format, I present to you a fat clutch of subject matter most of it arts-related, as usual. Don’t know what I’m talking about? For prior examples of this kind of post, see here. So, lots on the docket today. Let’s start with this friend from Etsy vendor BeatUpCreations. B1905 in NYC, d. 1985). 1862 – 1932). Les Petites Filles de Bou Saada. June 12, 2014.
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Art of the Day: Poem – Wallace Stevens’ “Fabliau Of Florida”
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Art of the Day: Poem – Wallace Stevens’ “Fabliau Of Florida”. January 19th, 2015. On the palmy beach,. Move outward into heaven,. Foam and cloud are one. Fill your black hull. There will never be an end. To this droning of the surf. Or just a sexualization of outjutting land meeting sea meeting foam meeting moonlight meeting night? What’s bawdy, what’s aether? Everything, everything, everything. Listen to the ocean’s roar, close your eyes, mix everything together and sing. Posted by C Way at 11:03 PM.
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Non-fiction & Essays
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Category: Non-fiction and Essays. On J Krishnamurti’s Brockwood Park Seminars, 1979 (Part 1 of 2). November 8th, 2015. I stumbled across Krishnamurti’s teachings in the last few months, and have been working through audio transcriptions of the “Brockwood Park Seminars”, a series of six seminars given in 1979 and which attempted to systematically wrestle with the question: “What is one to do with the increasing violence in the world? Each seminar’s about an hour and twenty minutes. October 3rd, 2015.
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Video Games
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Art of the Day: Mark Moore, Richard Moore, “Purple Turtles”, Commodore 64 video game (1983). May 8th, 2011. Mark Moore, Richard Moore. 1983, Commodore 64 video game, Quicksilva software. More about Purple Turtles here. Posted by: C Way at 8:43 PM. File under: ART OF THE DAY. Writing about the arts, culture and spirituality since 2006. And/or get added to my mailing list: just ask. ART OF THE DAY. Music – mp3s. Song: C. Way – “Lagrimas Negras” (Trio Matamoros Cover, 1929). The Peeper Bee (by C. Way).
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Misc
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October 3rd, 2015. What if everyone lived as if they had some deeply-lodged bodily defect just as likely to be harmless over the course of a life as it was to be instantaneously deadly? Some aneurysm (think of the character Nathan in TV’s “Six Feet Under”), some blood clot, some little knot of physiological catastrophe waiting to unravel (or not) on its own schedule, heedless of whatever our daily efforts to count calories, reduce stress, eat organic, exercise daily? And some of us might change much more...