Square Dancing with Giants

Swings with @evelouise.

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:10:48 -0400

Swings with @evelouise.

@evelouise holding a copy of today’s Boston Globe, which...

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:10:34 -0400

@evelouise holding a copy of today’s Boston Globe, which has a special feature on LTAB Massachusetts! #ltabmass

"Black optimism persists in thinking that we have what we need, that we can get there from here, that..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:04:53 -0400

“Black optimism persists in thinking that we have what we need, that we can get there from here, that there’s nothing wrong with us or even, in this regard, with here, even as it also bears an obsession with why it is that difference calls the same, that resistance calls regulative power, into existence, thereby securing the simultaneously vicious and vacant enmity that characterizes here and now, forming and deforming us.”

- “Black Op” by Fred Moten (via whatijustread)

rembertbrowne: GOOD BYE

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:41:32 -0400

rembertbrowne:

GOOD BYE

princerogersnelsons: Prince on The Today Show ‘96 my favorite...

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:40:17 -0400

princerogersnelsons:

Prince on The Today Show ‘96

my favorite Prince moment in Prince interview history. just flawless.

Simon Alexandre-Clément Denis, Study of Clouds with a Sunset...

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:38:49 -0400

Simon Alexandre-Clément Denis, Study of Clouds with a Sunset near Rome (detail), ca. 1786-1801 (x)

johngotty: McFly

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:38:25 -0400

johngotty:

McFly

anythingphotography: Mind-Bending Photo-Manipulations by Erik...

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:35:25 -0400

anythingphotography:

Mind-Bending Photo-Manipulations by Erik Johansson

Erik Johansen’s pictures are worth more than a thousand words. The German born, Swedish based photographer enjoys nothing more than manipulating the mind with his tantalizing visual imagery. His vivid imagination and surreal forms create brilliant pictures of surreal moments, all with a hint of the believable. Originally a computer engineering student, Johansson currently works on personal projects as well as commissioned ones.

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avehrenband: Brendan MonroeMelting Into the FloorMay 18, 2013 -...

Wed, 15 May 2013 11:42:12 -0400

avehrenband:

Brendan Monroe
Melting Into the Floor
May 18, 2013 - June 15, 2013
Opening reception / Saturday May 18, 2013 / 5 - 7pm

RICHARD HELLER GALLERY, Santa Monica is pleased to present, Melting Into The Floor, a solo exhibition of new works by Oakland based artist, Brendan Monroe. The show will consist of a body of paintings on paper and a number of sculptures in wood.

This new body of work slips just beyond the border of reality. The figurative paintings and sculptures have fallen through the folds of reason, have been flattened out, liquified and parceled into various shapes. The title, Melting Into the Floor connotes a feeling of dissolving and morphing into an abstract state. As liquid can change into a gas or solid, the artist is interested in the crossing point at which fundamental alteration sets course. It is Brendan’s goal to somehow catch these figures shortly after the moment when they’ve burst into ribbons and blobs. Monroe imagines these images at frozen points of motion with an implied short narrative that refers to the before and after.

Monroe received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Art Center College of Design in 2004. He has had solo exhibitions with Faye Fleming and Partner in Geneva, Switzerland, Galerie L.J. in Paris, France and Cooper Cole in Toronto, Canada. His work has recently appeared in the New York Times and New Yorker magazine.

RICHARD HELLER GALLERY
2525 Michigan Avenue B-5A, Santa Monica, CA 90404 USA
hellergallery@verizon.net / 310 453 9191 /
www.richardhellergallery.com

Just found this today. It’s footage from a panel 3 years...

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:28:03 -0400

Just found this today. It’s footage from a panel 3 years ago at UC Berkeley centered around Camille Dungy’s brilliant anthology, Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry. Those of you who know me well understand why I’m jumping up and down and doing multiple 90s-era dances right now.

thestriversrow: Joshua Bennett X Rudy Francisco. One night...

Mon, 13 May 2013 17:10:21 -0400

thestriversrow:

Joshua Bennett X Rudy Francisco. One night only. #gents #scholars Click the flyer for tickets!

kimberly-samantha: bridmpreg: alyssaties: AAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA...

Sun, 12 May 2013 19:05:49 -0400

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alyssaties:

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ferrarisheppard: Tupac talking about the Christmas in this...

Sun, 12 May 2013 19:04:36 -0400

ferrarisheppard:

Tupac talking about the Christmas in this photo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAmK_xbLHe4

edwardspoonhands: Google Earth Engine is a joint project...

Fri, 10 May 2013 13:36:15 -0400

edwardspoonhands:

Google Earth Engine is a joint project between Google and NASA that allows anyone access to a 30 year time-lapse of the surface of the earth. I made a video about how amazing, terrifying, and important it is.

Hi :) Do you have a faviourite Toni Morrison book? I've just finished Sula and Beloved and was wondering what to read next.

Fri, 10 May 2013 02:08:00 -0400

Without a doubt, you’ve got to read Song of Solomon next. Milkman Dead, more than perhaps any other Toni Morrison character I’ve encountered to date, resonated with me in a major way.

"did our mothers invent loneliness or did it make them our mothers? were we fathered by silence or..."

Fri, 10 May 2013 02:02:30 -0400

“did our mothers invent loneliness or did it make them our mothers? were we fathered by silence or just looking to explain away this gaping quiet? is it wasteful or wistful to pray for our brothers in a language they never learned? whose daughters are we if we grow old before our mothers, or for their sake? they called our grandfathers the january children, lined up by the colonizer and assigned birth years by height. there is no answer because we come from men who do not know when they were born, because they married women shown to them in photographs, because their children left the country and tried for romance and had daughters full of all the wrong language.”

- Safia Elhillo, poet (via llapen)

:)

flora-file: Desert Two Headed Monster 2: Crested Saguaro Cactus...

Fri, 03 May 2013 09:00:40 -0400

flora-file:

Desert Two Headed Monster 2: Crested Saguaro Cactus (by ellene000)

Notes from Jonah’s Lecture Series by Tanya Olson

Fri, 03 May 2013 09:00:09 -0400

Inside the whale, it is as if
you have always been inside a whale,
as if there is only inside the whale.
It is as if there was before the whale
and now. And in now,
you will always be inside a whale… .

Inside the whale, you do not understand
why you are inside a whale. It is even difficult
to determine it is a whale. You may recall
the sea, and the ship, and going over the side,
but the whale you never saw. (Q: What is
the hardest angle for identifying whales?
A: From inside the whale.)

From inside the whale, you cannot guide
the whale. A whale will do as a whale will do.
You may throw your body to one side
or another to try to steer the whale;
you may attempt to use the power
of your mind to influence the whale.
Your mind is of a greater capacity
than the whale’s mind, but again,
a whale will do what a whale will do… .

When inside the whale, it is best to be
inside the whale. Do what you are inside
the whale to do. Of course, you may use
only what was with you when thrown overboard.
No one packs to go inside the whale.
However, you should not try
to agitate the whale. It doesn’t help
if the whale ejects you too far from shore.
Unfortunately, you have forgotten about shore
and think there is only inside the whale.

When you find yourself inside a whale,
meditate and rehearse journeys to
outside the whale. Know these
are skills that must be rehearsed
before needed. Practice the pitch
in his tenuous rumble, taste the acid
of his gentle lurp. Consider the feel
of baleen brushing against skin,
and the way his rough tongue reopens
your atrophied, unremembered eyes.

won't you celebrate with me by Lucille Clifton

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:15:28 -0400


won't you celebrate with me
what i have shaped into
a kind of life? i had no model.
born in babylon
both nonwhite and woman
what did i see to be except myself?
i made it up
here on this bridge between
starshine and clay,
my one hand holding tight
my other hand; come celebrate
with me that everyday
something has tried to kill me
and has failed.

Photo

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:59:32 -0400