31.8.09
30.8.09
29.8.09
Hyannis Port Compound by Senator Ted Kennedy
Senator Edward Kennedy signs the limited-edition serigraph at the family house in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts(web images)
Specifically created to benefit Very Special Arts (Larry Smith Fine Art)
Honoring Ted Kennedy(1932 - 2009), Obama's Eulogy
It's a sad day, today, here in Massachusetts. I dreaded the passing of Ted Kennedy. I grew up believing in goodness, compassion, and helping those less fortunate. Much of this had to do with the examples the Kennedy family showed me. Ted cared if you didn't have health insurance, he cared if you didn't have a home, he cared if you were cold or hungry or drug-addicted. And every day he tried to make it better for us here in Massachusetts, and beyond. I hope and pray this legacy of kindness endures and grows and evolves into a better world for us all. Below are remarks from Obama's eulogy today. - Christine
..."Indeed, Ted was the "Happy Warrior" that the poet William Wordsworth spoke of when he wrote
As tempted more; more able to endure,
As more exposed to suffering and distress;
Thence, also, more alive to tenderness.
As more exposed to suffering and distress;
Thence, also, more alive to tenderness.
The landmark laws that he championed -- the Civil Rights Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, immigration reform, children's health care, the Family and Medical Leave Act --all have a running thread. Ted Kennedy's life's work was not to champion those with wealth or power or special connections. It was to give a voice to those who were not heard; to add a rung to the ladder of opportunity; to make real the dream of our founding. ...
...He was given the gift of time that his brothers were not, and he used that gift to touch as many lives and right as many wrongs as the years would allow."
...What we can do is to live out our lives as best we can with purpose, and love, and joy. We can use each day to show those who are closest to us how much we care about them, and treat others with the kindness and respect that we wish for ourselves. We can learn from our mistakes and grow from our failures. And we can strive at all costs to make a better world, so that someday, if we are blessed with the chance to look back on our time here, we can know that we spent it well; that we made a difference; that our fleeting presence had a lasting impact on the lives of other human beings....
...In the days after September 11th, Teddy made it a point to personally call each one of the 177 families of this state who lost a loved one in the attack. But he didn't stop there. He kept calling and checking up on them. He fought through red tape to get them assistance and grief counseling. He invited them sailing, played with their children, and would write each family a letter whenever the anniversary of that terrible day came along. To one widow, he wrote the following:
"As you know so well, the passage of time never really heals the tragic memory of such a great loss, but we carry on, because we have to, because our loved one would want us to, and because there is still light to guide us in the world from the love they gave us."
We carry on.
"As you know so well, the passage of time never really heals the tragic memory of such a great loss, but we carry on, because we have to, because our loved one would want us to, and because there is still light to guide us in the world from the love they gave us."
We carry on.
David Chirot Featured This Week at The New Post Literate
http://thenewpostliterate.blogspot.com
this week 's gallery feature the work of david chirot
This is a very amazing project of/ Michael Jacobson's' in which each week he features a different Visual Poet, Artist, Poet's pieces made with a sense of conveying their consideration of "what IS the new post literature" and also just what is asemic writing, or the role of asemic writing-- in relation with this?
Since everyone may well have different approaches quite various and wide ranging, the way Michael is giving a week each to the works helps present this swarming cosmos of possibilities--as an open one, rather than an apriori categorically divided and defined "New Post Literature" which is instead an area of excavation, investigation divigation and Anarkeyological Expo- and Explosivagation--
this week 's gallery feature the work of david chirot
This is a very amazing project of/ Michael Jacobson's' in which each week he features a different Visual Poet, Artist, Poet's pieces made with a sense of conveying their consideration of "what IS the new post literature" and also just what is asemic writing, or the role of asemic writing-- in relation with this?
Since everyone may well have different approaches quite various and wide ranging, the way Michael is giving a week each to the works helps present this swarming cosmos of possibilities--as an open one, rather than an apriori categorically divided and defined "New Post Literature" which is instead an area of excavation, investigation divigation and Anarkeyological Expo- and Explosivagation--
27.8.09
NP/bbs
NOW PLAYING:
over 13 hours of fresh mp3 rips of long reticent monoaural, radio-drifts•, soup
kitchens, police sirens, and forgotten film-soundtracks
--- bbs: brad brace sound ---
--- http://69.64.229.114:8000 ---
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• strangely compelling recordings from car radio while travelling under
high-frequency transmission lines in central california
--- bbs: brad brace sound ---
--- http://69.64.229.114:8000 ---
--- http://bbrace.net/undisclosed.html ---
[ eventually these will also be uploaded to internet archive, scrib and lulu ]
26.8.09
A Book About Death : Opening Sept 10 at The Emily Harvey Foundation NYC, NY
A Book About Death Opening Sept 10 at The Emily Harvey Foundation
Please take a look: 313 entries thus far. Note the posters (8 of them), free to download and print.
Visit: http://abookaboutdeath.blogspot.com/
Please take a look: 313 entries thus far. Note the posters (8 of them), free to download and print.
Visit: http://abookaboutdeath.blogspot.com/
(kindness of Matthew Rose)
25.8.09
24.8.09
21st Century Fluxus Artists Jigsaw Puzzle Book, TARANTINO
Unique artist book created from portraits at 21st Century Fluxus Artist link:for Fluxhibition #4, Puzzles and Games... project of Cecil Touchon, USA.
23.8.09
Freedom of Speech? Thought? Seeing? Eating?--To Silence & To Force to Speak
a Russian artist said that language is a Fascism not because it censures, silences, but because it FORCES ONE TO SPEAK
this person is being made blind, deaf & mute in order to FORCE HIM TO SPEAK
Language and its relationships with Power: includes Torture
"Enough to Exist. Not Enough to Live"
for Larry Meissinger
new REDFOXPRESS book
Fritz Sauter is a swiss "post-dada" artist and writer of theater and radio plays.see http://www.redfoxpress.com/dada-sauter.html
22.8.09
Book Launching Ceremony
Buriganga Arts & Crafts
Takes pleasure to invite you to the book launching ceremony of Canadian-Bangladeshi writer, Hasan Mahmud's Islam and Shariah
on 9th September, Wednesday at 5 PM.
Eminent British-Bangladeshi journalist Mr. Abdul Gaffer Chowdhury will be present as Chief Guest.
Panelists :
Professor Dr. Syed Anwar Husain
Professor Dr. Shawkat Ara Husain
Professor Nisar Husain
Professor Dr. Sukomal Barua
Shah M. Khairul Mustafa
Chairperson :
Ambassador Wali-ur Rahman
You are cordially invited.
Takes pleasure to invite you to the book launching ceremony of Canadian-Bangladeshi writer, Hasan Mahmud's Islam and Shariah
on 9th September, Wednesday at 5 PM.
Eminent British-Bangladeshi journalist Mr. Abdul Gaffer Chowdhury will be present as Chief Guest.
Panelists :
Professor Dr. Syed Anwar Husain
Professor Dr. Shawkat Ara Husain
Professor Nisar Husain
Professor Dr. Sukomal Barua
Shah M. Khairul Mustafa
Chairperson :
Ambassador Wali-ur Rahman
You are cordially invited.
(kindness of Rafique Sulayman, Curator)
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