Daily Poetics

To die more fully, if dying is what must be done.

Stever Mcpherson

 






 

Title Quote // Guillvec

Hold the map close to your face. Breathe into it and you will hear a river start.

Link: Experimental Travel - Lonely Planet Online

Anyone up for a little civic caravan?? I've wanted to try one of these adventures for so long ... this spring, no excuses!!

Title Quote // Greg Kuzma

"Experimental Travel is for those people who like their travel a little less formulaic. Bored with coming home sporting a souvenir tea towel and a 'My Mum went to Cardiff and all I got was this lousy t-shirt' t-shirt? Then Experimental Travel is for you. Experimental Travel is not about checking off the major sights or following your guidebook to the letter; it's a playful way of travelling, where the journey's methodology is clear but the destination is usually unknown. Experimental Travel renders all destinations equal - be it a burger shack or the Taj Mahal. 'Experimental Travel is travel with constraints, that at the same time liberates you from the limitations and expectations of classic tourism. By travelling with the constraints of Experimental Travel, you conversely have more freedom'. Joël Henry, founder of Latourex (Laboratory of Experimental Travel)" -ET

 

Moved enough to write my own product review ...

I'm an Apple so I'm surprised to be compelled to post about a Microsoft product. However, their new Arc Touch mouse is noteworthy. Place your hand over it and you will appreciate it's softness and sense of delicacy. It is partially sheathed in what 'feels' like a rose petal - I don't know, it was a little heartbreaking. Yet, it's packaging is embarrassing. Of course that's not news. Now the Apple mouse packing ... Sublime. The glassy gizmo protected only from your touch. The next best thing to no packaging. No waste of materials, nor waste of your time in figuring out what it is or why you would want it.

(I am not a product/packaging design critic but I play one on weekends) :)

 

You are the one. Solid the spaces lean on, envious. You are the baby in the barn.

Boy Of Blue Industries: The Photography of Wayne Martin Belger

Each of these handmade one-of-a-kind cameras are designed to photograph for study a very specific thing or kind of things, from a people suffering from HIV to the beauty of decay to mothers who are at least eight months pregnant ... The HIV camera has actual HIV positive blood used as part of the process...Fascinating.

Title Quote: Sylvia Plath

 


 

Caught between the tounge and the taste.

Tomi Hirokono ... My lovely friend Jenny turned me on to this provacateur ... I couldn't post this fast enough! And deciding on which images to share was difficult indeed ... Enjoy his masterful ability to create and compose beauty while tugging at something deeper inside - tangling it up even.

Title Quote: Anne Carson

 

The cage is open: you may go.

Link: Early 20th Century Industrial Cage Lights.

"
Early 20th Century Industrial Cage Lights USA Early 20th Century Three metal cage lights from 1915-1920s. Shown with Edison bulbs. Lights measure 7-9" h x 4-5" Dia. Priced individually."

Title Quote: Roethke

Piet Hein Eek ::: Reclaiming, giving new context. Modern and nostalgic. I love upcycling.


 
 

 

 

When I think of Simone now, I think of butterfly wings. Beautiful and excruciatingly delicate. Touch them once and they might disintegrate.

Pick A Jewel ::: "These series of accessories don't include jewelry.
Anything you find and put up becomes your own "Jewelry".
Find wonderful jewelry in your daily life." ::: I can't say how much I love this idea. Reminds me of this ::: Originally seen at the ever marvelous Sub Studio Design Blog

Title Quote:Nick Sagan

It is a joy to be hidden, but disaster not to be found.

Valeria Meng ::: Old Polaroids
 

Title Quote: Donald Winnicott