Daily Poetics

In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty.

Link: Somersaults Life Archives.

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"The genuine little details of everyday experiences when collected and curated add up to the eternal essence of our loved ones’ lives. Hand-me-down moments with the click of a shutter become frozen in time and our hearts. Sand between our toes. Tears of joy at the alter. That certain aroma from the back seat three days into the trip. The impossibly soft strip of satin on that tiny blanket. Fresh cut grass filling our every breath. The nervous first kiss and lingering last dance. Our dreams, loves, fears, triumphs and defeats captured in sights, sounds and words to be relived for generations. Somersaults™ Life Archives collects and protects all of your moments and memories in artfully produced products designed to make sure your loved ones’ lives come full circle." -somersaults

Design by Eric Kass, Funnel
Title Quote: Robert Aris Willmott

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

Link: tatsuya maemura objectos.

"a part of thing where its used everyday is getting older faster.and its changing the color,form and texture is the history of how he is treating on.it occurs only between he and things."

via pan-dan

               

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written

Link: Fiona Gray - Ceramic Artist and Illustrator .

LOVE LETTERS STRAIGHT FROM THE KILN             

"The fragility of letters  and the idea of sentiment and thoughts preserved in such a permanent way is a  powerful concept" Spaces magazine, February 2008
   
Have you ever wanted to write someone a love letter but the old fashioned pen and paper method is not for you? Or perhaps you have been tempted to peek at a secret letter written to someone else?

Ceramic artist and illustrator Fiona Gray has created an art form out of the loving words of others, and the desire of one person to peek at the thoughts of another. Her unique porcelain letter parcels offer the writer the chance to preserve their thoughts and feelings in a more permanent way than paper, at the same time seducing the viewer with a special intimacy with the written words.

Fiona came up with the idea of the letter parcels during her MA course in Ceramics, as she was interested in the hidden meanings within an artwork, leaving the viewer to question what was revealed but also questioning the concealed elements. She prints words from people’s letters and private thoughts, perhaps a diary entry or a letter written or received, and censors areas so the viewer is unable to read the whole letter, thus offering them the chance to fill in the blanks.

“It is that desire to reveal properties below the surface or picture plane, the sneak look or glance that is seduction; the intimacy between viewer and the artwork places the viewer, until the last possible moment, in the position of a voyeur.”

Title Quote: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

                                                   

 

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Link: naoko ogawa gathering jewelry recyclable.
Title Quote: Leonardo da Vinci

"I would like you to enjoy the jewelry by putting this silver plate on your body and crushing it together with your clothes to hold on. This enables you to change the look of your clothes by creating fluid folds on them.

This plate transforms the style of your clothes in many different ways depending on not only your everyday emotions but also the pattern or design of the plate, including the new patterns of the plate drawn by the crush as well as metal fatigue itself. You can basically enjoy an unlimited amount of designs on the silver plate and clothes since they never change in the same way.

It is my intention to make this jewelry enjoyably sensual, to let your hand touch and feel your body line (or silhouette of your clothes) with this plate and then to redefine it through crushing. By doing so, you could find the idea of your everyday clothes destroyed and / or turned into something new with the beautiful gathers which you could not imagine or predict. The gathers made by the redefinition of the crush would create a new body line (or silhouette of your clothes) and wrap you up for the day.

The key message or objective of this jewelry is that you can create a ‘today’ or a new you by destroying ‘your daily life’ or ‘the past’.

Since it is made of metal, this silver plate would be so cracked or broken that you won’t hold or even wear it permanently. In that case, I would like you to stop to use it and send it to me. I will remelt it up and remake it as new one. That is to say you can get new plate perpetually. That is because partially I am afraid of a sharp edge of the broken metal. But moreover, it is because I am afraid that the broken jewelry may end up becoming or being stagnant as ‘your daily life’ or ‘the past’ by keeping using it." -naoko agawa

In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you.

Link: Kiki van Eijk :: Lightbox .

"A poem in a box? When you open the box a candle pops up and from it's shadow shines a light!"

Title Quote: Rumi

It may be said that evey creative achievement or innovative insight is a philosophical act, and that the pursuit of such achievements and insights, practiced continuously and single heartedly, turns the pursuer into a kind of philosopher.

Link: Especially_For_You.MGX.

About Especially_For_You.MGX

"That architect Amanda Levete’s chromed bowl resembles a piece of mangled scrap metal—or perhaps a necklace one would find in the MoMA store—is part of its intrigue: The private, handwritten message “this is designed especially by me for you with love” has been expanded into a 3-D form that hides its meaning from everyone but its owner. Levete offered the design to Materialise MGX because the complex twists of each letter and the gaps they create would otherwise be murderous to realize, even by hand. “Especially For You is completely freeform, without any geometric logic,” Levete says. She ups the thematic ante by proposing the bowl be put to very private use as a bedside condom holder."

Title Quote: Robert Grudin, The Grace of Great Things

And suddenly I heard them cry aloud as they beat,  "We are seeking! - we are seeking! - we are seeking!"  and the broken barrel organ at the street corner sobbed, "The Beautiful! - the Beautiful! - the Beautiful!" And my heart, which had been dead, cried out with every throb, "Love! - Truth! - the Beautiful! - the Beautiful!"

-Olive Schreiner, Dreams

The experience of the sacred is a repulsive experience. Or more accurately: revulsive. It is a casting out of the inner and secret, a showing of the entrails...It is a revelation of the hidden...

Link: Klimt02: deVille, Julia jewelry design unique handmade jewelry images jewelers.

"My jewellery is inspired by the Memento Mori jewellery of the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries and Victorian Mourning jewellery. I find the

acceptance of death in these periods fascinating.

I work predominately in traditional gold and silversmithing, combined with materials that were once living such as jet, a petrified wood historically used in Victorian Mourning jewellery, human hair and taxidermy. I use these materials as a Memento Mori, or reminder of our mortality.

I incorporate the symbols of death through out my work because I think it is important to identify with the concept that we are in fact, mortal creatures. The nature of our culture is to obsess over planning the future, however in doing so, we forget to enjoy the present.

I consider my taxidermy to be a celebration of life, a preservation of something beautiful. I feel strongly about the fair and just treatment of animals and to accentuate this point I use only animals that have died of natural causes." Julia deVille

Title Quote: Octavio Paz

I am here to seduce you into a love of life; to help you to become a little more poetic; to help you die to the mundane and to the ordinary so that the extraordinary explodes in your life ...

Link: dbqp: visualizing poetics.

"Prospectus A kaleidoscopic review of visual poetry and related forms of art over the centuries, joined with the recollections of one contemporary visual poet. Topics of interest include visual prose, comics art, illustrated books, minimalist poetry, and visually-enhanced textual poetry."

Visualizing Poetics a blog by Geof Huth ... magnificent!

Quote: Bhagwan Shree Ragneesh

We met,—’t was in a crowd.

Link: TagCrowd - make your own tag cloud from any text.What is TagCrowd?

 

acre ballad bents bouquets daubed decked ever garments god ing innocence knew loved memory nature nue repents review rhyme sable shower song sum tender until

created at TagCrowd.com

"TagCrowd is a web application for visualizing word frequencies in any user-supplied text by creating what is popularly known as a tag cloud or text cloud.

It was created by Daniel Steinbock, a doctoral student in Design and Education at Stanford University...

When we look at a tag cloud, we see not only a richly informative, beautiful image that communicates much in a single glance. We see a whole new approach to text.

TagCrowd is being used far beyond the online realm:

    * as topic summaries for speeches and written works
    * as visual summaries for survey data mining
    * as name tags for conferences, cocktail parties or wherever new collaborations start
    * as resumes in a single glance
    * as visual poetry

The list goes on and continues to grow...

Our mission is to push the innovation envelope for tagging into online and face-to-face communities of all stripes."

TagCrowd From the poem by Dorothy Parker ... Ballade at Thirty Five

quote by Thomas Haynes Bayly