Posterous theme by Cory Watilo

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You're a genius all the time. ~Jack Kerouac

After Dickinson

Rebuffed the big wind
each time he looked my way.
Oh and the aching later!
The copious rain and thunder!

Something when nature misplaces
her diadem, and dances through postures
in the early morning hours.
Not only him, but his mates,

I will remember them all
mostly their faces, small
flowers yearning toward the sun
seeking what is good for them.

Dream Visions 101

Racing the clock to floating village where K or C
and chocolate is wine from Napa Valley--
time ended--before it was edible--

There I was speeding--a floating village in my car--
and sticks like the house was
Ewoks--

Germany--oooh
coconut too, coc--

Dreaming about a dream--In my dream I was 77% cocoa
--save somebody like hot commodity--ended up
saving myself--

Something to his house--before it was a festival
--held up with rope--over hills and mound--
the village at the end of time.

A Student Favorite: Let the Arts Roam

Buddha

 

Wherever they go, they try to make something that makes sense for the neighborhood, and the community. And they always make something positive, something the artists hope people can enjoy -- regardless of whether life has greeted them with great fortune. Armed with a vision and their cans of spray paint, El Mac and Retna will transform a forgotten wall into a piece of art.

El Mac and Retna are street artists, born in LA. They use building walls as blank canvases for their imagery, and the duo has collaborated to create murals all over the world. El Mac and Renta have very different styles, and have been collaborating the last few years. They combine their artistic forces in a specific way: El Mac creates huge lifelike portraits and Retna, calligraphic brushwork and decoration. The result is striking imagery that is unique and recognizable as theirs. It's not uncommon for street art fans and documentarians to gather to watch the progression of an El Mac and Retna work in progress.

El Mac and Retna art feels appropriate for the street because the artists themselves embrace the city streets, the different neighborhoods, and the blend of cultures and backgrounds of the people that fill them. Street art, including the work of El Mac and Retna, also reflects a new attitude about accessibility to art in our environments. "Why not see all the walls painted," says Retna. "Let the Arts Roam!"

Created by Joris Debeij & Terence Loos. Music by The Pilots
jorisdebeij.com - terenceloos.com - thepilots.nl

more portraits @ iamlosangeles.com

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TEA TIME

                                                           a cup sits on the table
                                                           nearby is a tea pot
                                                           from it a tiny submarine emerges

                                                                


 

 

 

 

 

 

          "Tea Time" by Ken Mikolowski first appeared as a Billboard Poem co-sponsored by The Poetry Resource Center of Michigan and the Michigan Council for the Arts.  It appears in the book Big Enigmas (Past Tents Press, 1991).

Buddha on the Bounty

Ted_berrigan

Buddha on the Bounty

                                        for Merrill Gilfillan

"A little loving can solve a lot of things"
She locates two spatial equivalents in
The same time continuum. "You are lovely. I
am lame." "Now it's me." "If a man is in
Solitude, the world is translated, my world
& wings sprout from the shoulders of 'The Slave' "
Yeah. I like the fiery butterfly puzzles
Of this pilgrimage toward clarities
Of great mud intelligence & feeling.
"The Elephant is the wisest of all animals
The only one who remembers his former lives
& he remains motionless for long periods of time
Meditating thereon." I'm not here, now,
            & it is good, absence.

Ted Berrigan


Ted Berrigan, 1967 by Alex Katz

 

 

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