Category Archives: Poetry

this & that.

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a collection of things that make me happy. 

The Scream in Angry Birds. source.

Lizzy Stewart Print. (more here)

obligatory cat photo. 

Pam et Jenny, Untitled from Scam visit website. 

art history leggings. find here.

my kind of bookcase (view more imagined celebrity bookcases here. )

robot art

John Stanley, Untitled (After Richard Prince)  Learn.

organization.

Michelle Obama during the ribbon cutting ceremony of the New American Wing at the Met in 2009. source.

New York City.

a baby chipmunk riding a dinosaur. just because.. 

Glenn LIgon, Untitled (only poetry), 2011 (more images)

awesome. 

& the most beautiful performance I recorded of a new song by Jaymay

spectators shuffled.

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I saw New York based artist Erica Baum at the Biennial and enjoy the way she creates concrete poems out of found literary objects. 

Erica Baum, Figure Head 2009

Erica Baum, House (Naked Eye Volume Two) 2012

Erica Baum, Untitled (Woman) (Naked Eye) 2010

Erica Baum, Debts from Dog Ear Series 2009

Erica Baum, Spectators from Dog Ear Series 2009

Erica Baum, Untitled (Suburban Homes) (Card Catalogue) 1997

Erica Baum, Awful Silence 1999

Artist Website. 

Bringing my (home)work home

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I am currently working on a presentation of Scottish artist, poet, sculptor and gardener Ian Hamilton Finlay. Although I am focusing primarily on his sculpture works, I had to share a few of his concrete poems. I will definitely be purchasing one of his poetry books soon. Also check out his beautiful  garden located outside Edinburgh that has just been named one of Scotland’s most important art works  here. Ian Hamilton Finlay, broken/ heartbroken from Blue and Brown Poems, 1968

Ian Hamilton Finlay, Wave Rock 1966

Ian Hamilton Finlay, ho/ horizon/on, from Blue and Brown Poems, 1968

don’t quit your day job.

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Just a little of this & a little of that. 

image of The Dainty Squid.Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged bookmania quotes.

Barbara Kruger Los Angeles Public Buses. Read more.

Designer Artist Halloween Costumes by  The Rodnik Band

GIF from Joseph Gordan Levitt’s HITrecord film, Strawberry Bootlaces. Watch HERE. (it’s delightful)

Glass Library in the Netherlands. Read more. 

Aperture tattoo

How I feel daily.

Mucho Mucho Bueno camping out at Marfa, TX

I wish I had made something like this, instead of a novel length email to my brother explaining these basics.

Water Fall Swing (2011) by Dash7Design. 

Marc Johns Print. William Powhida’s Cynical Advice 2012 moreinfo.  & website.

 

save just what you need.

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I am constantly collecting images and quotes found on the internet that spark something in me. Often they get lost in a folder, never finding a place on this blog..but today I thought I’d share some of those quick inspirations.

this quote

this corner.

this poem from hitRECORD

this moment captured by The Sartorialist

this re-imaged book cover.

Closing paragraph from On the Road.

 print by Marc Johns.

wall piece by Kiasma

I wish I knew who took this photograph. found here. 

tiny story by hitRECORD.

tricycle in front of LACMA (william eggleston reference possibly?)


& this quote.

music that saves you, when you’re not so sure you’ll survive

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For those of you that have been around here since the beginning.. you know this blog used to be named JAQsmannequin after my muse and all-time favorite singer, Andrew McMahon from the band Jack’s Mannequin. I have a tattoo of the bands logo behind my right ear, a bright blue asterisk that represents everyone traveling on separate paths but all being connected by love. I have been to exactly 20 Jack’s Mannequin concerts. I belted the lyrics to “Everything In Transit”, swayed with the crowd and felt just as invincible being 24 as I did when I was 17.  When Andrew McMahon got cancer, I wore his orange “11:11 AM” cancer bracelet every single day for two years until it was so thin and faded it ripped in half. Jack’s Mannequin was as much apart of my awkward adolescence angst as the camera around my neck. Probably even more. So I guess that’s why I take their break-up announcement so personally.  Jack’s Mannequin gave me more than a lullaby to handle the confusion, they gave me something to believe in. 

I am lucky. I did not choose this life. It chose me. It’s strange like that; not picking my path, but rather easing into the water and letting it carry me where it will. Yes, there will be nights where I feel like my destiny is at my fingertips and there will be nights I wish the lights were off and I could just make these sounds in the dark. Still, I will always be there, wherever there might be, staring into blackness hoping the blackness stares back at me.- Andrew McMahon

I used to talk about Jack’s Mannequin ALOT on here.. check out some past posts if you’re curious. here & here & here

Andrew McMahons new solo website.. which has tons of beautiful prose, photographs and videos. (which it where ^ came from)

Happy Days and Nights.

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this week in….Instagram

1. I rode the subway too early for even the commuters. 2. I did some grad school reading 3. found the most peaceful spot @ Central Park 4. laughed at the impatient cabbies @ a NYC gas station 5. walked home admiring the Chrysler Building 6. Loved this digital American flag in Times Square 7. checked out the Chelsea Market 8. took a cheap bus to Philly 9. Ate an authentic Philly Cheesesteak from Geno’s and their rival across the street, Pat’s (Pat’s totally won) 10. I saw the Liberty Bell through a window. 11. Loved this interactive public art piece. (I didn’t write the cat lady line, but I fully support it.) 12.  & I fell in love with this art piece by Stefan Sagmeister

This week in… Links

I really connected with this Photography and poetry series by Ester Lee. I liked this action demo by A Beautiful Mess. I read this article on the indefinite delay of Christo’s Over the River project. I was sad to hear that Herb Vogel passed away. I looked at this photo gallery of all the Olympic Street Art.  I loved this article on one of my former photo classmates from the Phoenix New Times.  This  NYT article on the 1972 map of the NYC subway stations made me happy. & I finally saw Moonrise Kingdom and can confidently say it was the best movie I have seen all summer. Maybe even my new favorite Wes Anderson film. (It’s hard to beat the Royal Tenenbaums)

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it is this way.

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[ something a little different today.] photos & prose.

fleeting feelings.   undone and unfinished.  not wanting to tarnish.   what’s always been lost.   lose whats never been had.   changing comes in patterns.   nothing lasts strong enough to grasp.   again, all unhad.   but it goes on.   cycles of circumstance.   tumble and dance.       to the fall of it.

what makes you come alive

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Clarissa Bonet, Untitled from City Space artistwebsite.

Wesley Ham, Untitled from South of Here artistwebsite.

Clarissa Bonet, Untitled from City Space artistwebsite.

Brenden Fitzpatrick, Untitled from New York by Subway 2011 artistwebsite.

Scott Schuman, Grand St., New York 2012 TheSartorialist

John Goldsmith, Untitled from On the Street artistwebsite.

It’s as true today as it ever was. He who seeks beauty will find it. -Bill Cunningham

painting the town new

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Hey folks! I am live from New York City here! Man, has it been a busy week but I think I am finally ready to get back into a routine. I am [mostly] moved into my apartment, have the internet up and running, and  even had a little time to go out and explore this beautiful city I now will call home. I took my mom to see a couple hours of Christian Marclay’s The Clock at the Lincoln Center, checked out the Highline for the first time, and can seriously get used to all the amazing street art that paints the city. Can’t wait to start this adventure and share all the glories of this city with you! outside Christian Marclay’s The Clock

Eduardo Kobra, V-J Mural, 2012 @ 25th and 10th ave

Spencer Finch, The River that Flows Both Ways, 2009

JR, part of his Inside Out project @ 29th st. learnaboutproject

Jordan Betten and others, High Line Zoo, 27th and 28th st. (it glows at night!!) visitsite. 

on the streets.

the New York City Highline

On the streets

this city needs..

Out on the town with my new roommate, we found a fake Banksy!

keep up with my daily adventures via Instagram- username thedreambeing

{ …that I was going to live in New York eventually and that everything in between was just a horrible intermission. I’d spent those sixteen years imagining what New York was going to be like. I thought it was going to be the most exciting, magical, fraught-with-possibility place that you could ever live in; a place where if you really wanted something, you might be able to get it; a place where I’d be surrounded by people I was dying to be with. And I turned out to be right.} - Nora  Ephron from My First New York

{New York is a fiction of sorts, a construct, a story, into which you can walk at any moment and at any angle and end up blindsided, turned upside down, changed.} – Colum Mccann, from My First New York