Daily Poetics

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.

Link: Poesia dorsale - page 3.

Poems written from the arrangement of book titles ... "Poetry Backbone"

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"Putting books one above the other so that the titles will concatenino to form verses. This is done 'poetry backbone.' It is called so because it comes from the backs of books, not by titles. The difference is only visual, because he invented a graphic designer and photographer, Silvano Belloni. What has not had the inspiration pensandoci up, but setting a shelf crowded with books. The journalist Antonella Ottolina was in love the idea and gave life composing the poems backbones. For example: when you're part of me, myself and only you, can I no longer walk. Tell someone you are here. I want to scream the voiceless first steps that poetry is a poem composed by dorsal 8 books that have no relevance gender, only for cases, all signed by Italian authors. These are the headlines: when camilla carrara (new authors 2006) part of me six of raffaella bedini (anagram 2007) and I you only stefano of aroldi (new authors 2007) not rie"

Title Quote: E.M. Forster

The aesthetic 'attitude' is restless, searching, testing- it is less attitude than action: creation and re-creation. -nelson goodman

Link: story | wreck this journal.

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"In 2006 I set out to create a book that was completely experiential. I didn’t know what that would mean when i started. I had become tired of reading (and writing) about creativity and decided to make something that would make it impossible for you to be a passive observer, (how many books have we read but not acted on?). I thought about a book that was somehow integrated into the users everyday life, both as a way of documenting it but also to encourage new experiences.

Over the course of several months I took a small journal with me everywhere and added prompts to it that were based on wherever i was at the time. The idea was to use whatever was at your disposal at any given moment, no need for special art supplies or tools. If you are in a park, use the grass under your feet, or some pebbles and dirt. If you are at the office use office supplies. The act of creating can be implemented in any setting. As it progressed the book caused me to question what it means to create. in it’s simplest form any mark can be an expression of some kind. but what most excited me were the pages that told the simplest of stories, about a physical experience of being human (searching in your pockets and using whatever exists there, documenting the present moment whatever it entailed). the result was more of a conceptual piece in journal form. a journal that required the user to act and move, to think (and at times to not think). definition

Creative destruction is a term that refers to the act of making a physical change to an object, blank page or space. It is based on the premise that if you alter an object in some way, you are in fact participating in a creative experience (regardless of the outcome). The intent of creative destruction is to move beyond aesthetic judgements of whether a mark/alteration is good or bad, but instead to allow the mark to exist as documentation of a physical experience or as kind of expression. While the term “destruction” has historically had a negative connotation, in this context it is used to imply simply “alteration”..." -keri smith

It is a principle that shines impartially on the just and unjust that once you have a point of view all history will back you up. -Van Wych Brooks

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BioWall is not intended for mass manufacture but based on the idea that individuals can craft their environment and begin to understand and use the geometries of life. The notion of craft is fundamental to us because with a crafted object comes an emotional durability and longevity.

 

Accidental Creative

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THE ACCIDENTAL CREATIVE CO. is committed to bringing creative freedom to the masses! It is the age of creativity, and "cover bands" don't change the world. You MUST find your unique voice if you are going to thrive. We challenge creatives, (that's YOU, by the way), to find their unique voice and creative rhythm.

Link: Drawing From Life : Jennifer New.

I began envisioning a book about other visual journals. “Who keeps such journals?” I wondered, figuring that the range of people, professions, styles, and rationales must be huge. On my desk, a file folder grew fat on tear sheets from magazines and newspapers. Friends sent leads. I hunted down people from specific walks—a food person here, a scientist there. In time, a book was hatched.

Journals are unsung heroes, the working stiffs of the creative life. They live in the pockets and shoulder bags of all sorts of people. A birder on a morning walk, the scientist in the field, the film director delayed in a foreign airport, the fashion designer musing over next season’s collection, the teenager avoiding school work. All keep a journal as a trusted confidante or, less romantically, as a reliable workhorse. What is a journal? When I asked people for definitions, the responses were varied and metaphorical: A habit. A map of consciousness. Internal maps. Memory banks. A one-stop shop. One man who keeps a variety of journals—large-sized ones for recording things of interest from the newspaper, tiny ones that operate as to-do lists, medium ones kept by the telephone for doodling—asked, “Doesn’t everyone keep a journal?” Journals are kept for multiple purposes, but in most journals I found at least kernels of:  -Jennifer New

I think we all have a core that's ecstatic, that knows and that looks up in wonder. We all know that there are marvelous moments of eternity that jut happen. We know them... -Coleman Barks

Link: Sigulda Photos - IgoUgo.

 

Sandstone Viktors Cave - featuring 400 years of graffiti carved around its entrance.

Traces of Life

Have you ever spray painted graffiti? Have you ever carved you and your lover’s initials in a tree? Ever wrote or etched the back of a bathroom stall door? How about wrote something on a steamed bathroom mirror, frosty window or dusty car?

What is this human urge to mark things?

Recently while camping with friends we took a hike through the majestic woods of Wyalusing in southern Wisconsin … In the midst of our journey, turning a woodland corner, we came upon this, thrilling and utterly captivating sand cave.  I was suddenly alone, deep in my own curiosity and awe.  There was a slim waterfall from the treetops - The walls variegated from yellows to rusty reds and being of sand and so soft, disintegrating naturally… (We were walking on sand at this point) but what really captured my imagination, what I gave my regard to,   was the hand etched graffiti. There were imprints of words, initials, dates, symbols and other images by so many people before us. It was astonishing; I had this immense and aching urge to carve something myself, an overwhelming compulsion to leave a mark.  Instead, with my fingers I traced the existing marks that others had left (secretly with a stick I scratched a little line)

Much of the walls art was now flocked with moss…sensational…so beautiful…I couldn’t stop thinking about it for days. I remain in its grip. There is something about both the impermanence of the natural decay (evolving beauty) and compulsion to sunder these walls with your own significance/existence; nature not only receives but will enter and join the markings with its velvety moss…a flourishing contingency.  It also reminded me of our true nature and perhaps primal need for spontaneous expression, communication, to be remembered, to leave a signature and make our mark.

We want to receive the images and symbols (messages) of those before us and also propel our own yearnings to the future seekers or finders.

If we look, the cave reminds us how precious, transitory but also shatteringly beautiful our longings are and how temporary life, no matter how grand. The tender walls of the cave, ephemeral … slowly disappearing through the meeting of two natures – deteriorating … And then a beauty is revealed … This is an excavation as well as a marking .

For brief moments it was our territory – we claimed it. Our addition seems to map a precious truth - not ours, so much as our universal, perhaps archetypal truths – human yearning  and  identity – who am I may not know but I am here now - I want to prove it - I am here  – Remember me.

The cave illuminated a fascination I have long been drawn to … Human Individuality or our personal identity (loves) and how we express it, how we expose our dreams, certainties and our presence so that we might be known – so that we might connect with others and our deepest selves (passions).  Our marks and symbols declare us, our truth, they intend our legacy and bespeak that sense of recognition that feels so good, that makes life feel full of purpose and meaning. The question alone pushes us to be more mindful of our marks, the inscriptions we leave … our identity - what we say and do and create and share.  The awe and wonder of this experience transcends delight as I move to acknowledge and explore in some ways, humanity, self – individual significance…the traces of life.

Cool Hunting: Scratchcard Wallpaper

Link: Cool Hunting: Scratchcard Wallpaper.

One-upping the wallpaper trend, London-based textile designer Linda Florence applies a silvery sheen of the type used on scratch-off lottery tickets to a floral pattern. With all of the joy of discovery minus inevitable disappointment over the losing odds, Florence's design is a new foray into interactive décor. Contact her directly through her site for sales.

They said, "You have a blue guitar, You do not play things as they are." The man replied, "Things as they are Are changed upon the blue guitar." -Wallace Stevens

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Delightful task! to rear the tender thought...-James Thomson

Anti Coloring Books Anti = against, opposed Allow children to be creative, not just robots coloring inside the lines. These books let children use their imaginations:     * exciting motivation is provided     * a scene is set     * children get to put on their thinking caps     * exercise their imaginations     * and turn on their critical thinking Most of all they have fun!

A famous artist needs your help. The artist started this picture but was stung on the thumb by a bee. Turn the picture any way you’d like and finish it.

Let us do or die. -John Fletcher

 

DIY Exhibition.
Design it Yourself

 

How to make your own D.I.Y. design exhibition

1. Collect examples of design from the street, from bulletin boards, from people you know, and from people who know the people you know. Collect posters, flyers, business cards, postcards, stickers, zines, t-shirts, cd covers, etc.

2. Get permission to use a public space: gallery, lobby, hallway, classroom, lab, cafeteria, restaurant, lounge, etc. Choose a place that people are likely to walk through. A well-trafficked public area is preferable to a beautiful enclosed gallery.

3. Provide visitors with Sharpies, blank cards, paper, stickers, tape, push pins and other supplies. Invite them to add their own graphics to your exhibit. (We used cardboard to protect the walls and make an obvious zone where the public can add their own stuff.)

4. Buy or borrow furniture that encourages people to relax, talk, and work in your exhibition. If possible, let them draw on the furniture, too.

5. Have parties, workshops, and classes.