photo courtesy of NASA/Jet Propulsion Labs and The Taxpayers
By Jack Brummet
You gather your friends
Around you
Like a shock of wheat,
Like a bulwark
Or last ditch bivouac
In the cold rain and snow.
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Tuesday, January 03, 2012
Poem: A shock of wheat
By Jack Brummet
You gather your friends
Around you
Like a shock of wheat,
Like a bulwark
Or last ditch bivouac
In the cold rain and snow.
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Monday, January 02, 2012
I like what you've done with the place:Tubs in Seattle
By Jack Brummet, Public Arts Editor
In March 2009 The Free Sheep Foundation (I think these are the same guys who liberated the Bridge Motel on Aurora) occupied the Tubs building in Seattle's U District, which has been "slated for demolition" for a couple of years now. It's become an wonderfully and continually changing canvas for whatever artist or tagger shows up. Early on, people were outraged by all the painting, but over time, it has become a popular stopping by point. I think every neighborhood needs a building like this.
I like what you've done with the place.
I always stop by when I am in the neighborhood, but have never seen anyone at work. I think they only come out at night? I believe there is some kind of loophole in Seattle's graffiti law, in which "the authorities" are unable to do anything about the artistic improvements to this long abandoned building.
If you're interested, there is a Flickr group that continually posts photos as the building evolves. I took these seven photos on January 2, 2012.
In March 2009 The Free Sheep Foundation (I think these are the same guys who liberated the Bridge Motel on Aurora) occupied the Tubs building in Seattle's U District, which has been "slated for demolition" for a couple of years now. It's become an wonderfully and continually changing canvas for whatever artist or tagger shows up. Early on, people were outraged by all the painting, but over time, it has become a popular stopping by point. I think every neighborhood needs a building like this.
I like what you've done with the place.
I always stop by when I am in the neighborhood, but have never seen anyone at work. I think they only come out at night? I believe there is some kind of loophole in Seattle's graffiti law, in which "the authorities" are unable to do anything about the artistic improvements to this long abandoned building.
If you're interested, there is a Flickr group that continually posts photos as the building evolves. I took these seven photos on January 2, 2012.
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Sunday, January 01, 2012
Luke Burbank talks about Mitt Romney, and flip-flopping, and why it's not such a bad thing after all
By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Editor
Luke Burbank, talk show host, and star of the wonderful podcast Too Beautiful To Live, weighs in with a great opinion piece on Mitt Romney, and why flip-flopping and changing your mind is what makes us different from the beasts in the field. . .
Luke Burbank, talk show host, and star of the wonderful podcast Too Beautiful To Live, weighs in with a great opinion piece on Mitt Romney, and why flip-flopping and changing your mind is what makes us different from the beasts in the field. . .
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Saturday, December 31, 2011
Yayoi Kusama's fantastic Obliteration Room 2011 at the Queensland Art Gallery
By Jack Brummet, Contemporary Arts Editor
I always enjoy these public, interactive art pieces. Earlier this year, I was knocked out by the gigantic paint-by-number mural at Bumbershoot in Seattle. But this. . .wow.
Installation view of The obliteration room 2011 as part of ‘Yayoi Kusama: Look Now, See Forever’, Gallery of Modern Art, 2011 / © Yayoi Kusama, Yayoi Kusama Studio Inc. / Photographs by Mark Sherwood
Queensland Art Gallery has a long relationship with the artist Yayoi Kusama, and as part of her current exhibition there, she created an interactive children's project. First, she created an all-white room, of "an Australian domestic environment." Next, she created thousands of brightly colored adhesive dots. And then, she turned the kids loose on the room. This is just wonderful.
"While this may suggest an everyday topography drained of all colour and specificity, it also functions as a blank canvas to be invigorated — or, in Kusama’s vocabulary, ‘obliterated’ — through the application, to every available surface, of brightly coloured stickers in the shape of dots."
I always enjoy these public, interactive art pieces. Earlier this year, I was knocked out by the gigantic paint-by-number mural at Bumbershoot in Seattle. But this. . .wow.
Queensland Art Gallery has a long relationship with the artist Yayoi Kusama, and as part of her current exhibition there, she created an interactive children's project. First, she created an all-white room, of "an Australian domestic environment." Next, she created thousands of brightly colored adhesive dots. And then, she turned the kids loose on the room. This is just wonderful.
Installation view of The obliteration room 2011 as part of 'Yayoi Kusama: Look Now, See Forever', Gallery of Modern Art, 2011 / © Yayoi Kusama, Yayoi Kusama Studio Inc. / Photograph: Mark Sherwood
"While this may suggest an everyday topography drained of all colour and specificity, it also functions as a blank canvas to be invigorated — or, in Kusama’s vocabulary, ‘obliterated’ — through the application, to every available surface, of brightly coloured stickers in the shape of dots."
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Friday, December 30, 2011
Iowa Republican Caucus Contestants: Huntsman, Bachmann, Gingrich, Romney, Perry, Santorum, and Paul
Illustrations by Jack Brummet, except Newt Gingrich No. 2 (Artist unknown)
The Govnah
Ron Paul
Newt One
Newt Two
Newt Three
The Hunt
Santo
Hotlips Bachmann
Mittens
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
Poem: The Curtain
By Jack Brummet
1
There are pockets of sanity
Scattered among us
And light years between those
Shimmering Seas of Tranquility.
2
The puzzle we face
Is keeping the tiller
Aimed away from
The Sea of Madness.
3
The silver rain
Is drawn
Like a curtain
Between us and God.
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1
There are pockets of sanity
Scattered among us
And light years between those
Shimmering Seas of Tranquility.
2
The puzzle we face
Is keeping the tiller
Aimed away from
The Sea of Madness.
3
The silver rain
Is drawn
Like a curtain
Between us and God.
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Rumored Closeted Republican Politician of The Week: Richard Nixon!
By Jack Brummet, Presidents Editor
This article was just sent by reader Dean Ericksen: Rumored Closeted Republican Politician of The Week: Richard Nixon!
This is a mind-effer of all mind-effers. As a long-time Nixon student (see our articles on him, below), I'd never caught even a whiff of this one before. Yeah, we knew Bebe and The Trickster had a close friendship, but Hoover-Tolson close? Sure, the evidence is pretty flimsy, but it torques the mind to even consider that bright, but thoroughly mean-spirited misanthrope holding hands under the table with Bebe Rebozo! Unfortunately, neither Bebe or Tricky Dick are around anymore to ask. . .
This article was just sent by reader Dean Ericksen: Rumored Closeted Republican Politician of The Week: Richard Nixon!
This is a mind-effer of all mind-effers. As a long-time Nixon student (see our articles on him, below), I'd never caught even a whiff of this one before. Yeah, we knew Bebe and The Trickster had a close friendship, but Hoover-Tolson close? Sure, the evidence is pretty flimsy, but it torques the mind to even consider that bright, but thoroughly mean-spirited misanthrope holding hands under the table with Bebe Rebozo! Unfortunately, neither Bebe or Tricky Dick are around anymore to ask. . .
Other ATIT articles on Richard M. Nixon:
Fun with Richard Nixon's Ghost
Nixon's Back Pocket speech in case of a space disaster
RMN's Comedy of Errors
The photographer who stole Richard Nixon's Soul
Lying and Contractions
POTUS 37, or, the comedy of errors
Presidents it was fun to vote against
Nixon's Back Pocket speech in case of a space disaster
RMN's Comedy of Errors
The photographer who stole Richard Nixon's Soul
Lying and Contractions
POTUS 37, or, the comedy of errors
Presidents it was fun to vote against
The image Wonkette used in their story, hearkening back
to this year's Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann memes
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Poem: [The Streetlight’s Blue Shadows]
by Jack Brummet
The streetlight's blue shadow
Pools on the macadam of 24th Avenue NW
As stars coruscate through a nebulous fog.
I tilt my head to see The Big Dipper,
Polaris, Ursa Minor, Cassiopeia, and Andromeda.
The streetlight's falling shadow
Marks a twilight world I take for granted.
The bats' sonar
And the muffled bark of sea lions
Are the songs I hear
When I go outside to see the stars
Twinkling in the briny air.
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The streetlight's blue shadow
Pools on the macadam of 24th Avenue NW
As stars coruscate through a nebulous fog.
I tilt my head to see The Big Dipper,
Polaris, Ursa Minor, Cassiopeia, and Andromeda.
The streetlight's falling shadow
Marks a twilight world I take for granted.
The bats' sonar
And the muffled bark of sea lions
Are the songs I hear
When I go outside to see the stars
Twinkling in the briny air.
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Ernest Hemingway's shortest story?
By Jack Brummet, Literary Editor
Ernest Hemingway famously wrote this, to prove an entire story could be written in six words:
Some people say Hemingway called his his best work. Others claim that it's nothing more than a literary folk tale. No one really seems to know for sure.
In 2008, inspired by this story, Smith Magazine published a book of six word memoirs inspired by this story. It's pretty good--with examples from both famous and obscure writers. The book is called "Not Quite What I Was Planning" (Harper Perennial Books, 2008). I found a copy in my local Value Village, and am enjoying. If you have a short enough attention span, I guess this book could provide you a year's worth of stories. . .
Ernest Hemingway famously wrote this, to prove an entire story could be written in six words:
"For Sale: baby shoes, never worn."
Some people say Hemingway called his his best work. Others claim that it's nothing more than a literary folk tale. No one really seems to know for sure.
In 2008, inspired by this story, Smith Magazine published a book of six word memoirs inspired by this story. It's pretty good--with examples from both famous and obscure writers. The book is called "Not Quite What I Was Planning" (Harper Perennial Books, 2008). I found a copy in my local Value Village, and am enjoying. If you have a short enough attention span, I guess this book could provide you a year's worth of stories. . .
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