A Purpose in Your Life

Don't call on me again.
In the morning,
I will put on my paper pants
Fold my oriental wings
And fly out of the oil spill
That is the world.
No one grants wishes.
Not your father
Or the man you've thought
You've known to be.
Where am I...
I am still flying
On the incandescent clouds
Of fortitude and wandering
Perhaps for forever
Or until, at last,
All the loneliness and CFCs
Of the world
Strangles me back down
To reality.
There is no more room left in me
For the pedantic-isms of humanity's worries.
I can not tell you
I love you
When that is all you want.

Bob Dylan . Girl from the North Country . live

all there is

	Bob Dylan - Boots Of Spanish Leather .mp3
	Found at bee mp3 search engine

tomorrow
when you walk
through the mirrors of age
with your memory collapsed

do not let go of
the wrinkles
of my face
or that distant sound
"i love you"

what else is there?
though it may not be enough
"i love you"
still it is more
than the world.

the universe
so isolated
is nothing
but a speck of dust
that shimmers

you may not always remember
what is real
or rather why
"i love you"
i will call your name
and kiss you
on your cheek
in the paleness
of october
and cry
the maternal tears
of a thousand wars

the rivers
may not always flow
the country sun
may not always
give you just enough
the sons of the world
may never come home
your gods will die
but
i will always
be here

The Haiti Poster Project

-design to the rescue.
"The Haiti Poster Project is a collaboration of artists and designers from around the world. Benefiting victims of the earthquake in Haiti."
Here are my selection of some brilliantly designed posters. Go check out the rest:
thehaitiposterproject

Aid Haiti . David Daniele

Untitled . Harry Pearce (Pentagram)

Hope . Christina Piluso (Wieden + Kennedy)

Help.Rebuild.Restore.Haiti . Cindy H. Chan

HELP REBUILD HAITI! . Justus Oehler (Pentagram)

Video | Whitney Biennial: Robert Grosvenor

A Love Letter For You . Megawords Magazine

This American Life: Horses in North Philly

Life With Gorky . Tate TV

the good red road

"He said,

I love you. there’s an art

to everything. What I’ve

done with this life,

what I’d meant not to do,

or would have meant, maybe, had I

understood, though I have

no regrets."

-carl phillips (the new yorker)

The train is coming

I am late

I do not care

I will walk the tracks

And tomorrow,

I will sleep

In the bushes

Among the wolves.

The winters

Are harsh...

These people are boring.

I drink too much..

They have laws

Against that now.

I do not care

I never will.

-jan 2010

-photos by ryan mcginley

Jim Cuno and Glenn Lowry: A Conversation on Museums of Modern Art

Tate Channel . In the Studio . Martin Parr

Malls R Us . documentary film

-America's Pastime

Konstantin Grcic: Decisive Design Exhibition

"Designer Konstantin Grcic, in conversation with curator Zoë Ryan, discusses industrial design, the creative process, and his recent Art Institute exhibition, Konstantin Grcic: Decisive Design." -ArtBabble

MOUNTAINS

It's kinda like

a subway train

at 7 in the morning

moving through its vessels

you are late

and can't distinguish

whether the merchants

are epileptic or

if its their medicine

when all of a matter of a fact

the lights go out

and all you see

is the sound of grace

dancing through the universe

Her face so familiar

you think shes your mother.

Now you can

finally let go again

of all the references

of the world

you've memorized

since you were a child

And you can finally be

once more

a trapeze artist

a dancer from the eastern shore.

You paint with words

and the rain comes down

but it is gentle

and the burden of your flight

is lightened.

You are gray

and white

and red

but never dull.

You think of days you never knew

when the country

barely contained your madness

and your eyes were red

and the women slipped on streams

who tried to talk

but you were deaf.

It goes on

but your ghost is tired

and you write in blood.

-photos by salvatore bertucci & ricardo herrera, respectively

Constantin Brancusi Documentary

"Though charming and gregarious, Brancusi was a complex and somewhat mysterious person whom few seem to have known well. His interests ranged from music to science and philosophy. A talented violinist and singer, he had an eclectic taste in music. He was also a famous cook of traditional Romanian dishes and an extraordinary handyman, building his own phonograph and fashioning most of the furniture, utensils, and even doorways in his home. His worldview, which above all valued "differentiating the essential from the ephemeral," was shaped not only by Plato but also by the ancient Chinese philosopher Lao-Tzu and the 11th-century Tibetan monk Milarepa. On the one hand, he was a "saint-like" idealist, almost an ascetic. He had turned his studio into a kind of temple, and all who visited it remarked on the deeply spiritual atmosphere that the artworks lent to the space. Yet, in the teens and twenties, he was known in his bohemian circle as a pleasure-seeker and merrymaker, throwing lively parties at which he served as host, cook, and entertainer. He appreciated cigarettes, good wine, and the company of women, and he overindulged in all three. As Brancusi gained wealth, he began to drink to excess and once had to be treated for nicotine poisoning. Though he never married, he carried on a number of affairs and had at least one child, whom, in a gesture uncharacteristic of a "saint," he never acknowledged.
While his fame grew, the once gregarious socialite became almost a hermit. Because Brancusi seldom confided in others, the reason for this change remains largely a mystery... He must have realized that most of his relationships were merely professional or superficial ones. Yet, unable to forge new, deeper relationships so late in life, he had no choice but to turn inward. And, wizened by age and the continual acquisition of knowledge, it's likely that he finally decided to trade the ephemeral for the essential in life as well as in art. "

-brainjuice

The Third & The Seventh . Alex Roman

"A FULL-CG animated piece that tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view where main subjects
are already-built spaces. Sometimes in an abstract way. Sometimes surreal." - A. Roman
-please full screen it!

Wallpaper . Design Awards 2010: The Judges Awards

Wallpaper . Life-enhancer of the year: The High Line

17 January 2010

THE JAPANESE COUNTRYSIDE

IS DESOLATE AND LONELY

JUST LIKE BACK HOME

I AM

SICK AND STARVING

WHICH MAKES ME REAL

I CAN NOT SPEAK

THE LANGUAGE

THOUGH IVE

KNOWN

LONG AGO

ITS IRRELEVANT

LAST NIGHT

A GIRL FROM CATALONIA

UNDRESSED HERSELF

IN FRONT OF ME

THIS MORNING

I AM PUKING OUT

MY DINNER

OF NERVES AND WHISKEY

THIS IS NOT A POEM

THIS IS NOT POETRY

--A LETTER TO MAMA

Wallpaper City Shorts

-Here are Wallpaper's videos for the design awards 2010: best city

Rotterdam

Berlin

Seoul

Istanbul