Micro Texts

Working on a visual poetry project with the help of Nisa Asokan and her microscope. Here are some of the images we captured from household items.

Old Photos

Some photos I found at Kudzu Antiques recently:



I love how it looks like the mom is lowering the kid into the puddle. "Go play with your brothers in the mud!" The photo is dated September 1963.



Anyone have any ideas where this could have been taken? Seems like a nice scene.



Photo dated February 1952, San Antonio Texas.

Now for some animals:

Mourning Photos

"The painting may cheerfully portray the life of the deceased, but to nineteenth-century eyes, the daguerreotype, in showing the moment of death, or one just afterward, does a better job at portraying the person, the essence of the child, his soul."

Links:

• The Social Construction of the American Daguerreotype Portrait: Chapter 3, The Mourning Portrait
• Paul Frecker Photography
• Creepy Photo
• Photos of 'Living' Dead

Should I Call Alex?

Saw this the other day at a coffeeshop:



I think Alex would make a pretty picture of Wendell.

I blurred out the phone number since I'm not sure Alex wants his phone number all over the internet. If you want to call Alex, e-mail me privately and I can get you in touch!

My Life with Mannequins

As a boy, I was unusually obsessed with mannequins. I used to beg my parents to take me to Sears just so I could stand next to one of them. I remember once I got too close and tipped one of them over; I was terrified but the department store staff were all very nice and told me it was okay. The above photo is the only remaining picture of this early obsession.

don't clown you me

Reverse: John Jaccoud, Bonnots Mill MO.

(thanks, Dawn.)

Feral Houses

More here.

The Robots Have Taken Over

These pictures taken at the Exxon on Candler St and Memorial. I think it hasn't opened yet, but all the LCD panels were turned on last night. Strangely creepy.

Things I Saw in SanFran

Saneesh:

Karma:

Just Another Bridge:

Some Peaceful Hills:

Some Books at City Lights Bookstore:

Matthew Barney's Drawing Restraint at the MOMA:

Best Lollapalooza Performances

5. Of Montreal

4. Violent Femmes

3. Broken Social Scene

2. The Dresden Dolls

1. Andrew Bird

List Poem for Todd and Sarah and Baby Oskar

- and me of a width and height
______and a different width
- carrying horses to the shore
- by the inlet where the baby was stiff
- intent on the Puget Sound
- of horses baying
- sound & Squawmish
- I was stiff in the width and height
- such was
- Orcas driven around the Isle
______of Hope
- my tender foot intended stiff
- was I, carried through finishing school
- a battery of roses
- carniverous
- Old Money
- made flighty among a pod of Orcas listening
- a different width
- intent on the Puget Sound
- with horses dimly ashore
- O which they
______had always caused me salmon!
- along such widths a different height
- shooing horses & bees
- a battery of Orcas sounding Squawmish
- at Rainier Pk.
- cavernous
- carried through the height & width
- The Isle of Hope
- intent
- through and through
- a silvery spread



note: photos of chicago, sanfran, and washington coming soon. I'm in Portland right now.

Top 3 Things about Walnut Grove, CA

3. Visiting Isaac's Pear Packaging Plant and Thousands of Acres of Pears, Asparagus, Grapes, Safflower, etc.

2. Watersports on the River by Isaac's House (swimming, kayaking, boating, picking blackberries)

1. Hanging out with Isaac (sleeping, eating).

Top 3 Things About L.A.

3. The Rauschenberg Combines exhibit at the MOCA


2. Theresa recites "Prufrock"


1. Walking along the shore eating funnel cake!