Photographs taken by Walter Schels and Beate Lakotta of individuals shortly before and just after death. I have no words. Absolutely astounding work. Lines from Seamus Heaney’s poem Clearances VII come to mind: Then she was dead, The searching for a pulsebeat was abandoned And we knew one thing by being there. The space we [...]
Today’s Writer’s Almanac features the beat poet Gary Snyder and some of his wonderful words: He said, “As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth. They go back to the Neolithic: the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying initiation and rebirth, the love and [...]
Ok, this is amazing. David Horvitz is amazing. I’m not sure if he’s just cheeky or totally rocks my world. I think mostly amazing, totally, freakin’ amazing. But what absolutely and completely rocks my world is the existence of star sand. One more reason to go to Japan. Here are my current favourite items: If [...]
So Nokia has done an awesome thing. They have gone into a variety of countries, mostly third world, and asked inhabitants to design their ideal mobile phone. Very few of the designs are really practical. Most of them go way beyond the uses any mobile phone could ever fulfill. However, as art they are really [...]
