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Charles Bukowski “Excuses”

Sun, 16 Sep 2018 12:21:25 -0700

Charles Bukowski “Excuses”

kogaionon: Illustrations inspired by Edward Hopper’s...

Mon, 31 Jul 2017 14:37:01 -0700

Nightthings (Stranger Things)

Nightthings with Waffles (Stranger Things)

Nighthawks 2019 (Blade Runner)

Nightdudes (The Big Lebowski)

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Illustrations inspired by Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks by Casey Callender / DeviantArt / Facebook / Twitter / Store

Nightthings & Nightthings with Waffles (Stranger Things) - 16" x 24" giclée prints, editions of 250 each. Available here.

Nighthawks 2019 (Blade Runner) - 16" x 24" giclée print, edition of 250. Available here.

Nightdudes (The Big Lebowski) 16" x 24" giclée print, edition of 250. Available here.

"If you inherently long for something, become it first. If you want gardens, become the gardener...."

Sun, 02 Apr 2017 22:09:06 -0700

“If you inherently long for something, become it first. If you want gardens, become the...

"He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a..."

Mon, 20 Jun 2016 14:41:27 -0700

“He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been...

“Me, The Fat Boys, and Mr. T at the premiere of...

Thu, 19 May 2016 23:34:14 -0700

“Me, The Fat Boys, and Mr. T at the premiere of Pee-wee’s Big Adventure in 1985!”

Just listened to Beyonce - 6 inch for the first time and heard...

Thu, 28 Apr 2016 14:29:58 -0700

Just listened to Beyonce - 6 inch for the first time and heard the sample. It’s the guitar lick and some of the drumming in part of the beat of the song. Wanted to post the original song which is also great on its own for people wondering where it came from.

The History Of One Tough Motherfucker by Charles...

Thu, 25 Feb 2016 13:58:20 -0800

The History Of One Tough Motherfucker by Charles Bukowski

he came to the door one night wet thin beaten and
terrorized
a white cross-eyed tailless cat
I took him in and fed him and he stayed
grew to trust me until a friend drove up the driveway
and ran him over
I took what was left to a vet who said,“not much
chance…give him these pills…his backbone
is crushed, but it was crushed before and somehow
mended, if he lives he’ll never walk, look at
these x-rays, he’s been shot, look here, the pellets
are still there…also, he once had a tail, somebody
cut it off…”
I took the cat back, it was a hot summer, one of the
hottest in decades, I put him on the bathroom
floor, gave him water and pills, he wouldn’t eat, he
wouldn’t touch the water, I dipped my finger into it
and wet his mouth and I talked to him, I didn’t go any-
where, I put in a lot of bathroom time and talked to
him and gently touched him and he looked back at
me with those pale blue crossed eyes and as the days went
by he made his first move
dragging himself forward by his front legs
(the rear ones wouldn’t work)
he made it to the litter box
crawled over and in,
it was like the trumpet of possible victory
blowing in that bathroom and into the city, I
related to that cat-I’d had it bad, not that
bad but bad enough
one morning he got up, stood up, fell back down and
just looked at me.
“you can make it,” I said to him.
he kept trying, getting up falling down, finally
he walked a few steps, he was like a drunk, the
rear legs just didn’t want to do it and he fell again, rested,
then got up.
you know the rest: now he’s better than ever, cross-eyed
almost toothless, but the grace is back, and that look in
his eyes never left…
and now sometimes I’m interviewed, they want to hear about
life and literature and I get drunk and hold up my cross-eyed,
shot, runover de-tailed cat and I say,“look, look
at this!”
but they don’t understand, they say something like,“you
say you’ve been influenced by Celine?”
“no,” I hold the cat up,“by what happens, by
things like this, by this, by this!”
I shake the cat, hold him up in
the smoky and drunken light, he’s relaxed he knows…
it’s then that the interviews end
although I am proud sometimes when I see the pictures
later and there I am and there is the cat and we are photo-
graphed together.
he too knows it’s bullshit but that somehow it all helps.

How Mindfulness Empowers Us

Wed, 03 Feb 2016 11:27:25 -0800

How Mindfulness Empowers Us

"Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see..."

Thu, 17 Dec 2015 21:21:12 -0800

“Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all...

"The secret of a full life is to live and relate to others as if they might not be there tomorrow, as..."

Mon, 07 Dec 2015 23:01:19 -0800

“The secret of a full life is to live and relate to others as if they might not be there...

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Wed, 04 Nov 2015 19:59:17 -0800

"‘A kernel is hidden in me, a spark, a thought, I am life from eternal life. The attempt and..."

Fri, 30 Oct 2015 15:53:53 -0700

“‘A kernel is hidden in me, a spark, a thought, I am life from eternal life. The attempt...

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Tue, 22 Sep 2015 13:50:57 -0700

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Mon, 21 Sep 2015 16:06:03 -0700

‘Mirrored Ziggurat’ by Iranian artist Shirin...

Thu, 17 Sep 2015 15:34:07 -0700

‘Mirrored Ziggurat’ by Iranian artist Shirin Abedinirad

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Tue, 15 Sep 2015 23:41:45 -0700

chicagoarchitecturebiennial: Minimal Maps, Big Data: Michael...

Fri, 11 Sep 2015 20:14:27 -0700

chicagoarchitecturebiennial:

Minimal Maps, Big Data: Michael Pecirno Makes Data Visualization Both Beautiful and Illuminating

Michael Pecirno is a multi-disciplinary designer based out of London, England. Originally trained as an architect and later working as an art director, his practice focuses on storytelling through visual and built experiences. Minimal Maps is an ongoing project by Pecirno that explores how richly-detailed single subject maps can give us new imagery to understand our landscape. For example, corn fields take up 91 million acres of the American landscape, a staggering 4.83% of the contiguous United States. Though the value sounds astounding, visualizing what 4.83% of the American landscape looks like, or furthermore, where this land is, is extraordinarily difficult. These maps, which use tremendous amounts of raw data provided by the USDA, attempt to accurately and explicitly convey this information. Pecirno’s maps and research, the latest of which will be shown at the Chicago Architecture Biennial this fall, provide an alternative to the often information-poor data visualization maps that have become ubiquitous today.

Trade Secrets is a new live electronic music collaboration...

Wed, 09 Sep 2015 16:53:32 -0700

Trade Secrets is a new live electronic music collaboration between producer and songwriter duo, Le Castle Vania (@lecastlevania) and Moving Units (@movingunits) frontman, Blake Miller.

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