Tanzania

Missing Tanzania I looked and found this link with some news from the home I worked on, including this great picture of Br. Pasquale, standing oddly by, what looks like an overland truck. i miss them.

Marcel Marceau- artiste} In Pace

In Pace • The 'you tubery' (above right) does not exactly do great grace to the art of Marceau, pretty much abusing it further with the Amelie tune (wrong sound, wrong place), however if you listen to what he's saying, that's an artist. Nail, head, hit.

owl and boy- slowly expressing themselves

New pic work to finish

The Ecologies of Language - Desire Lines

Just back from} Friday a funeral, a night in London seeing a new artist's work for Mark's annual Rising Stars exhibition, a drive back down on Saturday to join the third international Desire Lines (Arts and Ecology) symposium at Dartington- this year concerned with 'the ecologies of language'.
The funeral and London weren't exactly my greatest diary dates but Desire Lines was interesting. My job has been to try and run some kind of a coherent blog on it. Being as it operates an 'open space' forum that should have proved pretty easy but I arrived tired and late (a day and a half - for a three day symp.). So what has been sorted you'll see below:

Slept with some nice new friends in Totnes, went back to it on Sunday and finally to rest Sunday evening after sadly hearing that yet another guy from my school year has suddenly died- there'll be another funeral on Friday.

The Desire Lines blog i'm currently working on.

i wish

photo • barcelona wall • jan 07
by me

I wish I could spend more time with my friends
I wish I could spend more time with you
I wish we could spend more time singing
I wish we could spend more time dancing
I wish we could spend more time thinking
I wish we could spend more time drinking
I wish we could spend more time loving
I wish we could spend more time speaking
I wish we could spend more time holding
I wish we could spend more time dreaming
Together.

by me

Still there

just checking, even if it's only to get an extra copy of Snow.

Recent picture 'Milan XXI'

Recent picture in the same vein as the journey man below.

for daf and alex

a little bit of Tones, Barcelona and Colombia.

Why We Fight

A reflection on the uni-polaric 'pax Americana' quagmire we have found ourselves in.

life

-when it get's you down or is too straight there's always Kusturica, for good


and bad

and just because,*f

The Loudest Sound and Nothing

Clare's book is now published- her faber link
and more personal and interesting myspace page

malimi

sweets

everloving

could be interesting to see where Laith Bahrani and moby take this :

malin

Now you're dancing, around Boston snippets of inspiration- threads that you tease. In a cafe or an aquarium you're looking through them, and all the while dreaming in snow and gypsies and seahorses. I miss you, but i love you and i love knowing a little of what you're feeling.
pus *f

silk

Great, so they've made 'Silk' into a film, have they snuffed out the beauty? Keira Knightly / Michael Pitt- quite possible.
the film
What next 'Snow', is nothing sacred!

for all the fallen flowers

and how could you have known how i felt
when i rarely knew myself
but someone had told me you were seeing a singer and you had told me he were only a man
we kissed in moonlight, we kissed beneath star laden skies
to me you felt like Garcia's realism, you always took me someplace else
but my eyes too oft betrayed my soul when i with friends and you absent they would talk.
and your singer, your singer, your artist, your poet my childlike jealous mind would inspire,
while myself all the time would fight and strain to try and maintain that small and fragile love tie between us , that barely perceptible gossamer thread. . . ...

by me

great day, great word

a really beautiful day, perfect light- not too rushed- fascinating students from the Yemen, Senegal, Malaysia, Jordan.. and more...
Also heard a great word 'pracademics' (Paul Cave of BridgeClimb), plus the narwarl is the new seahorse or dragonfly, perhaps- i'll see what mali thinks...

the brilliance of basic flash

a great tune and sweet animation to go with
and something a little darker.

reading matter

Eight - High-quality, independently published, sensitive photo/documentary journalism.

Monocle - a 'Tyler Brule' take on the world about us (his 'new' mag). After the first few pages of real reading (or watching, heavy flash content on w/site) you realise that it's not all style over content.

Colors - each issue is a themed topic, run by Fabrica aka Benetton> creative.


PingMag - Japanese creative online digest. high-brow creative/industry mag. Not a smug self satisfied publication but one which genuinely contributes.

Financial Times (Sat. Ed) - good quality digest of news and comment particularly good mag
Guardian Unlimited - good daily news both political & cultural (difference?)