straight into the sun

warped wood by a calm river scattered moments from the arc of a life i wouldn’t say such a thing if it wasn’t as true as i could know it  silent snow, weirding the world in which we walk from my homely vantage i see a landscape quiet and solitary reflecting what i carry inside [...]

Fleet Foxes – The Shrine / An Argument Video

Just this morning, Fleet Foxes shared a brand new video for “The Shrine / An Argument,” the eight minute mini-epic (yep, the video is just as long) that stands out as one of the prettiest and most elaborate tracks on this year’s fantastic Helplessness Blues. The video is a delightful, hazy mix of old-world folk [...]

Exquisite Corpse with CleverBot. And King David, and Rodney Dangerfield.

Cleverbot is a web-based application which builds its vocabulary and its repertoire of phrases from “conversations” held with real people. It learns new word associations each time text is entered. Effectively, Cleverbot becomes a messenger service that transcends time and space, a sort of Lake House for the internet. In the following, Cleverbot has been [...]

Old-ographs: Family, Somewhere

…probably USA. Probably the Northeast? Try not to fall in love with the very tenuous sense of focus (compare/contrast: man’s left hand and face, image 3—so instagram). Try not to fall in love with that lady’s beautiful skirt-suit. That car in the background looks pretty ’40s. So does the everything in the foreground, huh?