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Day: February 3, 2021
Abbas Rabi'u Adamu: "My Aurora"
My Aurora Per se, I remain silent to the plain trunk of Ginkgo with etched bark of sere serenity. I uttered— “Oh my Gosh! my feet never feel a tavern Though my lips to feel liquor I’m drunk after glaring an Annabel Lee. ……..Then I muttered— She must be a Persian tapestry of glitz and …
Dance With Me
When a music video for Selena Gomez ends up on the online arts & culture magazine Hyperallergic, it’s time to take notice. While I’m a staunch believer in the crossover of art and commercial platforms, and especially in recognizing that there is often a thin line between “concept dance films” and “music videos”, I’ll admit …
Homage to Los Angeles
A few words about my latest art film — 1.5 minutes in length. The film is posted below. Nearly 15 years ago while driving to my Los Feliz apartment, I spied an old lamppost on Hollywood Blvd. with a bunch of plastic bags caught in it, blowing wildly. Back home, I grabbed my video camera …
In Loving Memory of CPAL: An Obituary for COVID-19 Relief
DECEASED: CPAL TERMINATED December 31, 2020 BORN March 2020 RESIDED California State University (CSU) OBITUARY: CPAL (AKA Covid-19 Temporary Paid Administrative Leave) lived a very brief tumultuous life in the California State University system. Full of promise and unfulfilled potential, CPAL came into existence as an emergency relief program in the spring of 2020. CPAL …
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Are We There Yet?
Operas learn to dance, week 3 of global dance films, new music with new dance, more dance films, plus online encores, where to submit dance videos, where to take online dance classes, and more SoCal dance this week. Author’s note: Many of the dance events and classes rounded up below are free with donations encouraged. …
Poets on Craft: Nahshon Cook and Joseph Ross
Poets on Craft is a cyberspace for contemporary poets to share their thoughts and ideas on the process of poetry and for students to discover new ways of approaching the writing of poetry. In the face of a pandemic that is both viral and political, it is a resource for strength and creativity, friendship and beauty, …
A Review of American Ash by Michael Simms
The final poem of Michael Simms’s recent book of poetry, American Ash, ends with the lines “… and everything is / Beautiful as you feel yourself / Floating over the city and you wish / The story didn’t have to end” (79). Simms is talking about getting old, but this was also exactly my sentiment …
Michael Simms: Two Poems
Tree of Life When the young man wearing a yarmulke Asks Excuse me sir are you Jewish? I want to say Yes I’ve studied history and know Something about suffering But that’s not what he means. He’s trying to find ten men For a minyan At Rodef Shalom down the street And when the young …
Visual discoursing – part 4
Derivative figure from a photograph How to interpret key composition elements from a generic photograph into a derivative graphic figure? In the feature image of a bench in winter the muted color combination, with one strong contrasting element and with the simple repetitive horizontal composition inspired me to overlay, phantom fashion, the letter “F” (for …
Eco-Friendly Car Owner: Best Practical Electric Cars For 2021
Cars will keep improving and manufacturers will not stop getting more and more technologically savvy with each passing year. The latter are pressed to keep up with the trends that the world’s innovators keep setting in their attempt to find ways to care for Mother Earth. Lessening our carbon footprint by creating “cars that care” …
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