Posted in Architecture, art,poetry,writing, Cures for the Nothing, History of Architecture, Le flâneur, Lectures, Photography, Poetry, Quotes, Research, San Diego, school, School Work, The Situationist Internationale, Theory and Criticism, Thought in the Alley, Thoughts in the alley, Urban Design, wanderlust, Writing, tagged april is poetry month, Ari Liebegott, flaneur, Photography, Poetry, poetry foundation, san diego, Seamus Heaney, Shift #5, Surveillance on May 6, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Shift #5
Ali Liebegott
for Seamus Heaney
a box of coconut water
two cans of coconut milk
so many looking for help
some people care when a poet dies
a poem is a conscience
a report card, a confession:
today my lies were a motor that spun the Earth
how can you get truth from a hill
when I am the continent that drifts?
how can I taste what I’m mourning
when soon everything will be salt from the sea?
—8/30/13, Register 6
1 PM—5:15 p.m.
Posted in art, Film, Habana Diaries, Photography, Poetry, Thought in the Alley, Writing, tagged Habana, Havana, Movie, night, Poetry, rain, Strangers (2007), street on April 25, 2012| Leave a Comment »
The Arms That Wouldn’t Let Me Go
On this sweet, rainy evening
My thoughts run to you
Like water towards the ocean
In the city’s gutters and roofs
Towards countless drainstorms
Powerless in the face
Of a calculated incline.
It is a sweet rain that is falling tonight
It wears your scent of promises
It is music, it sings of gentle breezes through wooden wind charms,
Of a veranda in the Caribbeans.
A scattering of drops
Like miniscule sand pebbles on my books
As I wait.
O Night, your silence descends upon me like a mantle
It calms me
I could write lines like an ode to your burning eyes
Your long, long lashes that caught my tears
Brushed away listless years
And changed me.
Tonight I don’t see the bus stop in front of me
Or the muted lights of cars
I see you waiting for me on that street
The staircase that separated me from bliss
[I met my two loves on the steps of Italian cathedrals,
they gave me their blessings]
I know you are there
And when you see me, your eyes smile stars,
twinkling benign in the skies between us.
If the world ended in two days,
As predicted,
I would have felt safe
Your broad shoulders would have protected me
From all the walls and crumbling houses of the City.
Sleep, days, a thin membrane
Before and after us
A tender gauze between dusk and your sunset skin.
We stole nights
Like compassionate thieves
Time measured in kisses
A perfect, impossible life
Soft like the sound of a far-away gramophone
Or a clavichord in Vienna
(Will you come with me to cobbled alley-ed Vienna?)
I am home now
The lanes are deserted and streetlights have relinquished
their daytime tyranny
The night is wide with the tabac scent
Of water falling on hot concrete and asphalt
It is a summer night somewhen, somewhere else.
I am home now
The house is still
And bathed in red solitude
I need to stop writing
And conjure up what I’ll be wearing tomorrow
I need to stop thinking
That I could die happy tonight.
San Diego, April 25, 2012
Posted in Drawing, Ink, sketchbook, Spontaneous Constructs, Thought in the Alley, Thoughts in the alley, tagged art, Drawing, inexistent, ink, letters, mailbox, unanswered, unopened on September 20, 2011| 2 Comments »
Ink on Miquelrius paper. September 20,2011.
Ink on Miquelrius paper. September 20,2011.
You can write anytime you like,
But you can never reach.
Posted in Architecture, architecture, art, Art Show, Berkeley Diaries, Competitions and Collaborations, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Experiments, Le flâneur, Photography, photography, Portfolio of Work, Spontaneous Constructs, Thought in the Alley, tagged city imagery., COmpetition, flaneur, international photography, one life international photography competition, Photograph, Photography, photography competition, trip around the world, Urban art on August 19, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Entry for ONE LIFE | An International Photography Competition.
I decided to participate ( characteristically last-minute) to ONE LIFE, an international photography competition, in the ‘City Imagery’ category.
Click here (or on the image above) to see the entry at a higher resolution and, if you like what you see, vote and share my photograph.
The prize is $10,000 or a trip around the world. Guess what I would pick.
Posted in art, art,poetry,writing, Books, Collage, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Digital Manipulation, Experiments, Link Love, Paper Goods, Thought in the Alley, tagged a year in the merde, Digital Collage, Ines De La Fressange, inspired goodness, map, Paris, parisian chic: a style guide on May 18, 2011| Leave a Comment »
The Screen Woman. Digital Collage. Text from "A Year in the Merde" by Stephen Clarke.
Photo from Inspired Goodness.
Posted in art, art,poetry,writing, Books, Poetry, Thought in the Alley, Writing, tagged agata and the storm, agata e la tempesta, american poet, contemporary italian cinema, italian movies, nebraska zen center heartland temple, Poetry, poetry as salvation, william stafford, william stafford poem, writer's block, zen, zen in american poetry on May 15, 2011| Leave a Comment »
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13 Days of a mild artist block and a spring flurry of activities all around. It has been one busy month of May. In the blog-material department, I have been gathering up material for new posts (but failed to..ahem..post them), reading omnivorously,watching foreign movies,writing poetry on walls and collecting books mentioned or shown in said foreign movies — more on this later. It’s a lot to keep up with.
In days that go at double-speed, sometimes poetry finds you…and nothing is the same again.
Posted in art,poetry,writing, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Featured Artists, Photography, Thought in the Alley, tagged artist blog, Brandon Lee, Color, Drawing Class, Drawing portraits, Eric Draven, graphite pencil portraits, Grayscale, Photography, Photography Portraits, Portrait tutorial, Portraits, the art of portrait photography, The Crow, video tutorials on August 27, 2010| 3 Comments »
Let Me In. Graphite on paper. Image via Darrel Tank of the Five Pencil Methd
I ran into Darrel Tank’s Five Pencil Method few weeks ago. His work is breathtaking.
The site full of wonderful video tutorials, and in his blog, Darrel offers videos with step by step advice on submitted portraits. All I can say is I’m Jealous WOW.
I really just drew one portrait, my first — if we don’t count some self-portraits done as homework for drawing classes in college. And I don’t think we want to see that type of work here, or maybe yes, for giggles. Just so you know in one I was made-up like The Crow. Oh yes there is also that whole other side of me…
Just Go Grayscale And Call It ‘Art’
But all of this is just to shamelessly plug in this portrait that the photographer Dianna Ippolito took of yours truly last week. It will go on the Faculty wall of my school. And if a photo could ever make someone happy this is it, and I wanted to share it here, hoping you will overlook the fact that it is my photo: it is the art of photography and catching a soul with a lens as well.
Moreover, I am losing my innocence and naivete’ as we speak, so good thing they were preserved here;)
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