Wordless Wednesday: Tokyo At Dusk
Photo courtesy of Stuck In Customs via Flickr
Tagged: Color, Japan, Meme, Photo, Photography, Wordless Wednesday
Love Lockdown? More Like Jaw Lockdown…
Ever have one of those days where everything seems to be going wrong? I’ve been going through a bit of that this week. I suffer from TMJ pain and I somehow strained a muscle by my jaw, causing the right side of my face to swell. I could barely move my jaw at all, and I was getting nerve pain sent up the side of my face to my head.
After a visit to the hospital to find out what was going on, in case my jaw locked open or shut, I was given anti-inflammatory medicine as well as painkillers with orders to rest until I could eat solid food again and talk without being in pain. I’ll be posting as soon as I’m feeling better. Until then, rock on!
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Edgar Allen Poe – The Black Cat
If you didn’t know already, I love photographs and art. I use different sites to find collect images I find around the internet that speak to me in some form or another. Rather than post images on this site and create clutter, I recently started a Posterous blog that allows me to share pictures I like and add a quote or song lyric that I think of when I see the image. It also helps that I can quickly post from my iPhone via email.
Recently, I came across an image that reminded me of Edgar Allen Poe’s short story The Black Cat. Now, I wanted to share this on Posterous, but if you hadn’t read the story you wouldn’t understand why I chose The Black Cat to quote from unless you are familiar with it. Since The Black Cat is in the public domain, I decided to post it here in it’s entirety so you can read the story yourself, if you so choose.
Tagged: Classic, Death, Horror, Irony, Literature, Metaphors, Painting, Pets, Photo, Photography, Poet, Short Story
Virtual Jam Session
“8 people with 5 instruments from 4 Continents speaking 3 languages for 1 song.” – Cain Masni
That is the simple way to describe Jam Session 2.0. More difficult than getting everyone on board and doing it? Actually creating a great song that you want to listen to and not have it be just something cool that a few musicians threw together for fun. I can listen to this song and not know that it didn’t come from an album and was completely created online using the everyday communication tools that we all use.
The brainchild of Brian at Cain Mosni, he had this to say about the virtual jam session:
We put together a virtual “jam session” with musicians from all over the world! Music was inspired by Galt MacDermot’s amazing “Coffee Cold”. Handsome Boy Modeling School (Prince Paul and Dan the Automator) flipped that song with J-Live and Roisin Murphy from Moloko and called it “The Truth”.
Now that you know what went into this, check out the video or you can listen to the song below. I’ve also included the lyrics as well as the links for everyone who participated in this musical collaboration. If you want to download the track for free, click here to visit Dumbfoundead.com and choose which quality or file type you prefer.
Jam Session 2.0 from Cain Mosni on Vimeo.
Listen to Jam Session 2.0
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Tagged: Collaboration, Dance, Electronic, Flickr, Jam, Jam Session, Lyrics, Mix, Music Video, Photo, Pop, Vimeo, Virtual
Happy New Year From Me To You
Wishing a Happy New Year from me to you. May 2010 bring you all the happiness you deserve. The past is behind us and the possibilities of the future are endless.
The best thing about New Year’s is that we all get to start over. Make the most of it. Besides, 2009 was so last year.
Auld Lang Syne by Mairi Campbell and Dave Francis (my favorite version)
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Collection of Cool Concert Posters
Like music and design? Then you will love this great collection of concert posters posted on Flickr. Between homemade to professional, all of these are great and stunning examples of design and music coming together to make something awesome. Some of the posters are absolutely inspiring.
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If you’d like to become a member of this group on Flickr, click here.
Please enable Javascript and Flash to view this Flash video.If you’d like to embed a set of photos from Flickr as seen above, download the free plugin TylrSlidr for WordPress, courtesy of Tyler Craft. You can display photos from groups like in this post, as well as your own, other users, and individual sets.
Click here to download from the plugin’s official page.
Click here to download the plugin from the WordPress directory.
Many thanks to Tyler for making this cool plugin!
The Girl with Vomit Eyes
I’m a big fan of spoken word poetry and I wanted to share this one. The poet is Oscar S. Cisneros. The poem is called The Girl with Vomit Eyes. You can listen to him perform it by playing the audio file and the words are included below. Keep reading if you would like to read them along with the track.
The Girl with Vomit Eyes (written & performed by Oscar S. Cisneros)
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Tagged: Art, Photo, Poem, Poetry, Spoken Word
The Arrow and The Song
The Arrow and The Song
I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.
I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?
Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.
Photo courtesy of stock.xchng.
Pink Peonies
The peonies are hung-over again,
dew-drunk from loitering in the moonlight,
after taunting the crab apples and redbuds
for having bloomed too soon after the snow.
Lashing out at the daylilies for their dysfunctional
shriveling from a single day of romance with sunlight,
and castigating those whores, the crocus, for being teased
into blossom by a few warm February rays, has become a ritual.
The mornings are now beautiful sermons.
On a manger of mulch, the peonies seem
to be sleeping. Through the sip and swallow of my hot coffee
I thought I heard a hiss or whisper.
It may have been the dogwood,
perhaps the hydrangea, saying to the lilac,
“Look at those pink dumb-asses.
That’s what happens when you get a big head.”
Poem titled The Morning After ©2007 by Steve Meador.
Image courtesy of tollen @ Flickr.
Robert Frost – The Road Not Taken
The poem The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost is one of the greats by a wonderful poet and playwright. It’s definitely one of my favorites. It has a special place in my heart as it has helped me through some hard times. I included a beautiful photo I found on stock.xchng that I thought would compliment it beautifully.
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I–
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
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