Porcupines in trees
A new addition to my series of gripping, action-packed films of porcupines in trees chewing and moving slowly about. This one’s kind of shaky (I forgot the tripod), but the view is novel — almost straight up.
Ladybugs, houseflies and porcupines
I don’t look at my video stats very often, so I had no idea until tonight that the most-watched videopoem I’ve ever made is also my longest: “Fly Away Home,” for a poem I wrote called “Harlequin Ladybird,” has been played 915 times, despite being over five minutes long. As I note on Vimeo, it’s …
Link roundup: Advice for writers, Planned Parenthood, public radio poetry, treeblogging and the King of the Porcupines
Austin Kleon: “How to Steal Like an Artist (And 9 Other Things Nobody Told Me)” I usually hate advice posts, but this one is gold. For example: There was a video going around the internet last year of Rainn Wilson, the guy who plays Dwight on The Office. He was talking about creative block, and …
Questions for the Porcupine
[audio:https://www.vianegativa.us/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/questions-for-the-porcupine.mp3] Porcupine, do the sapless twigs of winter taste any different on the tree you’ve just girdled, this waste of a pine? Its whited branches light the grove like candles, like candelsticks. But you with your poor eyesight must favor the dark: hollows & cavities, the undersides of things, unchewed bark. This pine was unwise …
Porcupine in a tree
Watch on Vimeo. This is without a doubt the Undiscovery Channel’s finest production to date, and possibly the most gripping, action-packed 6 minutes and 14 seconds of film you will ever see. Actually, all kidding aside, this is the closest I’ve ever been to a pocupine while it was feeding. Usually they’re at least thirty …
Porcupine
Despite what this porcupine seems to think, there are plenty of trees for everyone at the 13th edition of the Festival of the Trees. __________ Thanks to my friends Chris and Seung for the use of their laptop and high-speed internet to upload the above video, which I shot in Plummer’s Hollow last week. (I …
On the Ownership of Mountains
We have our own private mountains, but are they already too tired from waiting for us? Etel Adnan a break in the rain itself a break in the snow i take a chance on a walk on my own mountain the one i live on but also the one that lives in my head without …
January Thaw Walk
raindrops land with a random
industrial rhythm
on the metal roof of a trail shelter
wrapped in fog
Way Back
and then i’m on my knees
among baby porcupines
american chestnut husks
spiny and golden
April Diary 14: cardinal, coyote, owl
Dear April there’s a cardinal nesting beneath my bedroom window she’s sitting on three speckled eggs our first hot day. sitting on a bench in the woods where i swear the same two or three bluebottle flies keep landing on me no matter how many i kill. no wonder people used to believe in spontaneous …