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The Manual series, when complete, will tell you everything you need to know that you didn't learn in kindergarten. Belgian video-artist and soundcreator Swoon is making videos for some of its sections. Guest-author Luisa A. Igloria has been writing a poem a day since November 2010 in response to Dave's posts at The Morning Porch. Yet another on-going collaboration is the dialogue in poems and photos prompted by late-night conversations between Dave and British blogger Rachel Rawlins, a project we call Conversari. Finally, the Words on the Street cartoon, featuring Dave's urban doppelganger Diogenes, returned at the beginning of 2012 as a weekly feature after a several-year hiatus.Categories
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- Manual: How to make videopoems, courtesy of Swoon
- Landscape, with Geese; and Later, Falling Snow
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Wow, I really love that landscape, it looks so nice, with all these white trees. Would be totally nice to be there. I think this text on that picture is really true. All in all it’s a very good article.
You captured ice on trees in words and image, but it’s a beauty that breaks my heart because ice is so destructive to trees and I love trees.
these are really wonderful, Dave.
coincidentally, I’ve been reading some Bernal Díaz de Castillo and Sir Walter Raleigh lately:
“Guiana is a country that hath yet her maidenhead, never sacked…the graves have not been opened for gold, the mines not yet broken with sledges…” (come and get it and so on)
anyway, please keep them coming! thanks.
It reminds me of one repeating sentence in Kim from Kipling “this is a wonderful horrible world”
Wow. The picture is as other-worldly as your pronouncement, which helps the reader believe.
Me too, with and without snow.
Thanks for the comments. That’s the western ridge, which we call Sapsucker Ridge, from the middle of our field, taken yesterday morning. A fresh inch of snow had stuck to hoarfrost which had formed on top of a thin layer of ice. I was only sorry I don’t have better photography skills – I so seldom take landscape shots, I’ve never bothered to figure out the settings to make them sharp. But I decided for this use it doesn’t matter.
english – That quote really says it all, doesn’t it? I do hope to keep this series going for a while, maybe re-package some of the stuff I thought through while writing Cibola, put it in a more accessible form.
I really like the way you’re bringing the Cibola themes home to Plummer’s Hollow, in winter no less!