YouTube Video of the Day: On the Road with Neal Cassady November 30, 2006
Posted by ~V~ in : Video, Philosophy, YouTube Video of the Day , add a commentUPDATE: This video was a (roughly) twenty-second clip of Neal Cassady telling a rambling story while driving a bus. It has been removed from YouTube and replaced with the following message:
“This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Key-Z Productions and the Ken Kesey estate LLC”
Who’s losing money from a twenty-second clip??? Someone’s greed is worth more to them than sharing the spirit of the Beat Generation with a new generation.
As soon as Neal and Ken turned their backs, somebody took off with the bus…
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You’re either on the bus, or off the bus.
Neal Cassady (1926-1968)
I shambled after as I’ve been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
~ from On the Road by Jack Kerouac
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Song of the Day: Linda Strawberry - Orchid November 28, 2006
Posted by ~V~ in : Images, Sounds, Song of the Day , 5commentsbecause if silence is golden,
then music must be made of diamonds.
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There’s a girl so lonely in the water, longing for the shore.
There’s a fear that’s screaming out inside her
that makes her really pure…
Such a delicate orchid - too beautiful to abandon.
photo art by Kristin Burns & Linda Strawberry ~ click to see a larger image.
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So misunderstood,
she’s not difficult -
she’s just different from the rest of us.
Linda Strawberry - Orchid (demo) (3.1MB mp3)
Muchas gracias to the lovely ladyalison for the introduction…
What does this song mean to you? Leave a comment.
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Picture of the Day: from Chromakode November 26, 2006
Posted by ~V~ in : Images, Portland, Picture of the Day , add a commentbecause an image speaks volumes in an instant.
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kodamatic by Chromakode
Mmmm, kodamatic…
Taken at an arts and acting camp where I work in the summer. They have a “photography tent,” where children young and old can borrow cameras and do a lot of cool photography-related activites.
The place is also literally covered in gorgeous old cameras, apparently donated by some photography enthusiasts a while back.
It’s wonderful… there’s old Kodaks like this, some even older-looking single-frame ones with small lenses and fabric covers, and all manner of gadgets and components hanging around.
Every now and then, a child will discover a working flash module and use it on people for the rest of the day!
Chromakode is a Portland artist, blogger, musician, and force of nature.
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Shape: an Internet sketchbook, in black and white. Updated daily.
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Quote of the Day: from Timothy Leary November 24, 2006
Posted by ~V~ in : Images, Philosophy, Sounds, Quote of the Day , add a commentbecause i couldn’t have said it better myself…
Any reality is an opinion.
You make up your own reality.
Dr. Timothy Leary (1920-1996)
listen:
download:
reality (5.4MB mp3)
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YouTube Video of the Day: Chet Baker - Let’s Get Lost November 22, 2006
Posted by ~V~ in : Video, Sounds, YouTube Video of the Day , add a comment…let’s get lost,
let them send out alarms…
…and though they’ll think us rather rude,
let’s tell the world we’re in that crazy mood…
Chet Baker (1929-1988)
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Song of the Day: Teenage Fanclub - Escher November 16, 2006
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then music must be made of diamonds.
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Tell your sins to me
and i’ll do them all over with you…
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Drawing Hands by M. C. Escher
Change my thoughts of you
when nothing to zero comes true.
Red turns to blue when my thoughts are all over.
And i don’t know if i’m going up or down with you.
i don’t know if i’m coming going up or down with you -
but i don’t mind…
Teenage Fanclub - Escher (3MB mp3)
from the album Thirteen
Teenage Fanclub links: Wikipedia | official site | unofficial fansite
M. C. Escher links: Wikipedia | official site | Escher.info
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Picture of the Day: from Noel Barnett November 14, 2006
Posted by ~V~ in : Images, Portland, Picture of the Day , 2commentsbecause an image speaks volumes in an instant.
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Untitled by Noel Barnett | 48″ x 60″ | Tempera on Canvas
You were asking what the title of the piece is. But there is no title. In fact, I don’t put titles on a lot of the work I do.
Why? Because when it comes to abstract art, the work can speak to many different people in many different ways.
You can have a hundred people look at a specific piece and you could conceivably have a hundred different reactions to it. The meaning, feeling, and emotion that’s generated can be strikingly different from one person to the next.
So for me, by titling or “labeling” a piece you end up “putting it in a box”, so to speak. Then that piece becomes something specific. Which limits your imagination and the possibilities of what the piece could be or mean.
I like to leave it open to each individual looking at the piece to determine what it means to them without any outside influence telling them what it’s supposed to mean. That make sense?
Noel Barnett is a member of the Talisman Gallery at 1476 NE Alberta Street
in sunny Portland, Oregon.
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YouTube Video of the Day: from Sesame Street - The Number Six November 6, 2006
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six seven eight nine ten
eleven twelve…
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Picture(s) of the Day: Pinball P.O.V. from Kevin Tiell November 5, 2006
Posted by ~V~ in : Images, Picture of the Day , add a commentbecause one picture is worth at least a thousand words.
because an image speaks volumes in an instant.
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Luminescentaura
Aces
Fireball
Hoping to showcase the beauty and design of pinball games, these images attempt to reveal the environment that has captivated players for decades.
Color and composition were my initial motivations for the series, while capturing the reflections of a metal sphere posed an interesting technical challenge.
The photographs in this collection are not as much a reflection of my efforts as they are of the people who influence and motivate me.
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YouTube Video of the Day: Blind Melon - Three is a Magic Number November 3, 2006
Posted by ~V~ in : Video, Sounds, YouTube Video of the Day , 2commentsSomewhere in that ancient mystic trinity
you’ll get three -
it’s the magic number…
Every triangle has three corners.
Every triangle has three sides.
No more, no less - you won’t have to guess…
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Wikipedia: 3 | Blind Melon | Schoolhouse Rock!
podcast: Schoolhouse Rock: behind the music
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Song of the Day: Smashing Pumpkins - Rhinoceros November 1, 2006
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then music must be made of diamonds.
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Smashing Pumpkins - Rhinoceros (6MB mp3)
from their magnificent first album, Gish
