Go Get Warped

Meet Warp, an example of cool art animation by Florent di Bartolo. I discovered this at Rhizome.

Filed under: Art, Design, Video, Web, animation, Florent di Bartolo

Balkan Beat Box

These guys are fun!

Filed under: Music, Web, balkan beat box

Letter to the Stranger by Conchitina Cruz

Flies by Bryan Christie

1.

What I am about to tell you may or may not matter in the long run.
2.

I have taken to alphabetizing the things in my kitchen. Thus colander next to coriander, dairy next to dishwashing liquid, ice next to insecticide. Anything can be held together by a web of associations: armoire to banister, by virtue of setting. Clavicle to daffodil, by family of sounds. Elephants to falafel because of that day in December, gash to harbor because of that summer with nothing better to do. Illicit to jeopardy, jeopardy to karma, karma to long life or lip service or manual labor, manual labor to never again, never again to on one condition to private practice to questionnaire. And so on. Anything is the truest beginning of what I am about to say.
3.

Words most probably included in what I am about to tell you: accept, again, alcohol, apparently, bakery, be, because, blue, bordering, come, company, continuous, crap, dashboard, definitely, don’t, drawer, end, enough, exactly, fantasy, forget, haha, how, hydrangeas, ink, insult, maybe, modern, more, must, nerve, never, no, of, period, phone, please, psycho, ridiculous, ring, slab, sleeping, sorry, splat, stash, teeth, television, tender, then, there, this, though, thus, very, wtf, yes.
4.

What I am about to say may be said in other words, and these words may be divided into several categories resembling a system of looking at flies: a) detached, with a hint of disdain, b) obligatory, c) doubt replaced by candor, d) having slipped from one room to another, e) borrowed from the library, f) a subcategory of c), g) that which replays itself, h) without resignation.

by Conchitina Cruz

published in DIAGRAM 10.4

Filed under: Poetry, Web, Conchitina Cruz

LARKS by Anne Boyer

Fourteen stanzas through the brush please mention

I dig this slumping anti-sentence: punctuation

a meter: yards up. Tight and unapologetic promoters

of the agenda — my ratty down people —tell me

again how you grooved across my brother’s face.

My concern is that you may flee the city rumbling en masse,

burning ship songs, the landing party on fire, stumbling drunk,

tongues flapping like surrender, hair in Albion curls.

Brave little sots, dandy in your bones (they fold like architecture),

do not hope for a minute I would not turret, moat and knight for you.

I would Harvester and John Deere and Pioneer for you.

I would (if a creek) tadpole all the names I cunning

for you: preordain, prehensile, prepay, prescient, predate.

I cunning for you: mistake, misery, misalign. My people

(larks) I would catfish. I would bass boat. I would cast a fly.

by Anne Boyer

published in TYPO 15

Filed under: Poetry, Web, anne boyer

What Have We Here

This work by Sebastiaan Bremer truly blows me away! Whoah!

[via grain edit]

Filed under: Art, Books, Web, Sebastiaan Bremer

Newborn at Born Magazine

Check out the latest in poet/artist/composer collaboration at Born Magazine.  I always find something to love.

Artists in this issue:

Layne Braunstein, New York, New York
Martin Brolin, Stockholm, Sweden
Meredith Dittmar, Portland, Oregon
Dave Selden, Portland, Oregon

Writers in this issue:

Dan Albergotti, Conway, South Carolina
April Kopp, Chicago, Illinois
Zachary Schomburg, Portland, Oregon

Filed under: Art, Design, Music, Poetry, Web, Writers, born magazine

Get Inspired with New June Wallpaper

Dress up your desktop. Free from Smashing Magazine.

Filed under: Art, Design, Photography, Web, desktop wallpaper, free desktop wallpaper, free wallpaper, graphic design

Art Cars Go Upscale: Jeff Koons Meets BMW

BMW commissioned artist Jeff Koons to art up a BMW. Here it is. Read more about in at Design Boom.

Filed under: Art, Current Events, Design, Web, art, Art car, BMW, Jeff Koons

You Can Count On Me

from Susan Connor’s design blog, Hey Susy

Filed under: Art, Design, Science, Web, abacus, graphic design, Susan Connor

A Field Guide to Fanciful Bugs

New Must-See VisPo

View this document on Scribd

Filed under: Books, Poetry, Vispo, Web

Avantacular in Orbit

New visual poetry from Avantacular

Filed under: Art, Poetry, Vispo, Web, visual poetry

Simplify!

If you find all those desktop wallpaper designs too busy and distracting, you may prefer the clean unobtrusive designs found at Simple Desktops.  In the spirit of “less is more,” this cool site is curated by Tom Watson.

Filed under: Art, Design, Web, desktop wallpaper, free desktop wallpaper, free wallpaper

Evolution by Veronica Diago

evolution, originally uploaded to flickr by veronica diago.

Meet my new favorite artist, Veronica Diago. You can find out more about her through flickr, her blog, and her etsy store. She’s wow!

Filed under: Art, Web, veronica diago

More Precisely by Ander Monson

What I meant was stars: lots of them.
What was in the bag: a hundred other bags,
each filled with a star. What came after the world:
silence, lots of it. Like being in a bag for a year,
a portable hole, losing the sensation of sound.
After only two nights stars appear
where there were none. So: I’m sorry. I’m here,
not the star of this poem, nor are you. Nor beauties
in bags draped down by the river in books about bodies
and necks stretching upwards to sky. What comes after beauty
is water, just water, nothing reflecting in it, not even the song
of water. Drink. Take this. It’s yours. There’s no one at work
in the world. No dogs rambling the park.
Nothing in darkness or pressure arising by depth.
What was in the works but ears, ears everywhere,
on the land like leaves, caught up in updrafts like silk,
like slick maps written on it and worn on a body.
You know it’s a beauty. Even seen from a mile,
at which point it’s only a dot, it stretches and grows.
Comes closer. She’s coming for you. She walks like a star.
Towards you. In her bag is a book. Each page
draped with stars. You’ll know her
when she arrives. You’ve seen her breathing before.

by Ander Monson

published in Salt Hill
and also from Poetry Daily

photo by ein.seltener.vogel / van rijn on flickr

Filed under: Photography, Poetry, Web, ander monson

Your Wall for Art

Home ownership isn’t everything. Hang up some free art on your desktop. If you want to be newly inspired, you must check out Totally Severe. Very wow!

Filed under: Art, Design, Poetry, Web, desktop wallpaper, free desktop wallpaper, free wallpaper