[pen and ink on 24x24" muslin drawcloth]
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Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Drawing: Faces No. 198 by Jack Brummet
Faces Drawing No. 198 by Jack Brummet
[pen and ink on 24x24" muslin drawcloth]
[pen and ink on 24x24" muslin drawcloth]
Tuesday, April 05, 2011
Drawing: Faces No. 197 by Jack Brummet
By Jack Brummet
Faces No. 197 - Employee of the Month (August was a tie)
Faces No. 197 - Employee of the Month (August was a tie)
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Monday, April 04, 2011
Poem: Weather Report
Poem by Jack Brummet
Weather Report
Life is a raindrop
Sizzling as it skitters
Across the universal griddle.
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Weather Report
Life is a raindrop
Sizzling as it skitters
Across the universal griddle.
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A poem written by an online poetry Generator: The Cloud Endures
1
The cloud endures like a red sun.
Winds calmly rise like a dead captain.
2
Love, adventure, and anger.
Work, anger, and death.
3
Laughter, anger and death.
The dusty skyscraper grabs the truck.
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Sunday, April 03, 2011
Saturday, April 02, 2011
All this is that reheated: The Imagism movement in poetry
By Jack Brummet
Poetry Editor
We published this article on All This Is That six years ago this month.
In a way, Imagism reminds me of the Dogma 95 movement (although I think it has generated more enduring works of art, and tends less to handcuff the creators).
According to Amy Lowell, one of the founders of the Imagist movement in poetry in the early years of this century, imagist poems should observe seven rules:
1. Use language of common speech
2. Avoid clichés
3. Create new rhythms to express new moods
4. Absolute freedom of subject
5. Create concrete, firm images
6. Strive for concentration as essence of poetry
7. Suggest rather than state
Some of my favorite poets briefly embraced imagism. As a movement it foundered, probably because it just had too many rules. However, some striking, small. and dense lyric poems came out of the movement. A few examples:
Aubade
As I would free the white almond from the green husk
So I would strip your trappings off,
Beloved.
And fingering the smooth and polished kernel
I should see that in my hands glittered a gem beyond counting.
- Amy Lowell
L'Art, 1910
Green arsenic smeared on an egg-white cloth,
Crushed strawberries! Come, let us feast our eyes.
- Ezra Pound
The Red Wheelbarrow
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens.
- William Carlos Williams
In a Station of the MetroThe apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
-Ezra Pound
MONOTONE
The monotone of the rain is beautiful,
And the sudden rise and slow relapse
Of the long multitudinous rain.
The sun on the hills is beautiful,
Or a captured sunset sea-flung,
Bannered with fire and gold.
A face I know is beautiful--
With fire and gold of sky and sea,
And the peace of long warm rain.
- Carl Sandburg
Fog
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
- Carl Sandburg
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Poetry Editor
We published this article on All This Is That six years ago this month.
In a way, Imagism reminds me of the Dogma 95 movement (although I think it has generated more enduring works of art, and tends less to handcuff the creators).
According to Amy Lowell, one of the founders of the Imagist movement in poetry in the early years of this century, imagist poems should observe seven rules:
1. Use language of common speech
2. Avoid clichés
3. Create new rhythms to express new moods
4. Absolute freedom of subject
5. Create concrete, firm images
6. Strive for concentration as essence of poetry
7. Suggest rather than state
Some of my favorite poets briefly embraced imagism. As a movement it foundered, probably because it just had too many rules. However, some striking, small. and dense lyric poems came out of the movement. A few examples:
Aubade
As I would free the white almond from the green husk
So I would strip your trappings off,
Beloved.
And fingering the smooth and polished kernel
I should see that in my hands glittered a gem beyond counting.
- Amy Lowell
L'Art, 1910
Green arsenic smeared on an egg-white cloth,
Crushed strawberries! Come, let us feast our eyes.
- Ezra Pound
The Red Wheelbarrow
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens.
- William Carlos Williams
In a Station of the MetroThe apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
-Ezra Pound
MONOTONE
The monotone of the rain is beautiful,
And the sudden rise and slow relapse
Of the long multitudinous rain.
The sun on the hills is beautiful,
Or a captured sunset sea-flung,
Bannered with fire and gold.
A face I know is beautiful--
With fire and gold of sky and sea,
And the peace of long warm rain.
- Carl Sandburg
Fog
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
- Carl Sandburg
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Friday, April 01, 2011
Drawings: Faces No. 194 and 195: Two couples at the Braxton show last night
Drawings by Jack Brummet
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click to enlarge
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Thursday, March 31, 2011
All This Is That finds nude TSA scans of George Clooney, Angelina Jolie, Michele Bachmann, Glee's Dianna Agron, and Jessica Alba, on the internet
By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Editor
and Mona Goldwater, Gen X Desk
To no one's real surprise, an underground market for body scan images taken by the TSA has popped up. In fact, the All This Is That editors were able to purchase explicit, nude "backscatter" images of George Clooney, Angelina Jolie, Presidential Candidate Michele Bachmann, Glee's Dianna Agron and Jessica Alba, among others. We purchased these images 50 minutes after we began searching--from an underground, but fairly easily found website, with a room labelled "TSA's Hottest And Greatest Hits." Jack hooked us up with an email reference and we were in.
Jack Brummet, our arts, paranormal, and animal husbandry editor, began this story with a sonic boom and then bugged out. He was off the story (with a bogus excuse about needing to focus on blah blah blah), handed it off to us and hooked us up with his contact in TSA management, who--surprise!--denied everything. You could tell he was lying because he really sucked at it. Jack's contact (a guy just below the top exec, level of the TSA) told him the TSA had discovered that employees were trading high quality TSA screening scans--digitally enhanced photos of celebrities and of "hot" men and women, often in categories like "grotesque" "hot jailbait" "long dong silvers" "great racks" or "belugas." Not long before TSA security swept in, the images began appearing online, and finally, for sale online.
The TSA and other government agencies often tout the quality of "Advanced Imaging Technology" like the Gen 2 millimeter wave scanner from Brijot Imaging Systems, Inc., while assuring customers that their operators "cannot store, print, transmit or save the image, and the image."
Gizmodo busted them on that set of lies, by requesting (under the Freedom Of Information Act) 100 scans from among the 35,000 federal agents had saved on the scanner that "cannot store. . .or save the image." The images Gizmodo released were less explicit images from the older scanning technology, not the new "backscatter" X-ray technology. The backscatter images leave nothing to the imagination, which is how the trading and then black market for the celebrity and other images emerged.
The TSA, natch, posits that the leaked photos on Gizmodo were fakes. The TSA announced on their blog that the images they look at (but do not save!) look like this (click here to visit the TSA blog):
and Mona Goldwater, Gen X Desk
Jack Brummet, our arts, paranormal, and animal husbandry editor, began this story with a sonic boom and then bugged out. He was off the story (with a bogus excuse about needing to focus on blah blah blah), handed it off to us and hooked us up with his contact in TSA management, who--surprise!--denied everything. You could tell he was lying because he really sucked at it. Jack's contact (a guy just below the top exec, level of the TSA) told him the TSA had discovered that employees were trading high quality TSA screening scans--digitally enhanced photos of celebrities and of "hot" men and women, often in categories like "grotesque" "hot jailbait" "long dong silvers" "great racks" or "belugas." Not long before TSA security swept in, the images began appearing online, and finally, for sale online.
The TSA and other government agencies often tout the quality of "Advanced Imaging Technology" like the Gen 2 millimeter wave scanner from Brijot Imaging Systems, Inc., while assuring customers that their operators "cannot store, print, transmit or save the image, and the image."
what you see in a digitally reversed backscatter body scan
Gizmodo busted them on that set of lies, by requesting (under the Freedom Of Information Act) 100 scans from among the 35,000 federal agents had saved on the scanner that "cannot store. . .or save the image." The images Gizmodo released were less explicit images from the older scanning technology, not the new "backscatter" X-ray technology. The backscatter images leave nothing to the imagination, which is how the trading and then black market for the celebrity and other images emerged.
The TSA, natch, posits that the leaked photos on Gizmodo were fakes. The TSA announced on their blog that the images they look at (but do not save!) look like this (click here to visit the TSA blog):
what the TSA claims you see in a body scan
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Amateur video of The Band's Don't Do It
This is obviously film (it's 1971), but feels like it was shot by an amateur. On the other hand the sound is great, which argues against an amateur. Anyhow, The Band's cover of a great old Motown tune (not so old back then). It's always amazing seeing Levon drumming like crazy as he sings .On second thought, I bet they sync'd the music from the Rock of Ages live album, which came from those shows. BTW, the great Alan Toussaint arranged the horns for these shows. . .
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Carla Bruni, Hillary Clinton, and Michelle Obama Measure Up
A Note From Mona Goldwater, Women's Editor
Jeff Clinton sent us this interesting image. Exactly what are French First Lady Carla Bruni, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and US First Lady Michelle Obama measuring?
Jeff Clinton sent us this interesting image. Exactly what are French First Lady Carla Bruni, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and US First Lady Michelle Obama measuring?
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Tea-Party/GOP Presidential Candidate Michele Bachmann channels President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho
By Mona Goldwater
Tea Party Correspondent
Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann seems to have taken a page from the playbook of Idiocracy's President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho. Who knows? It just might work.
Tea Party Correspondent
Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann seems to have taken a page from the playbook of Idiocracy's President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho. Who knows? It just might work.
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
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