Day: August 19, 2019

The phones are smarter than we are ourselves

I like to go out in the country to see lambs gambling in the meadows  as the horses are racing all day.

I told a  lie once.I  said, I will when I get married.

I must make a will, so I am told.From what?

The sausages are rolling the  pastry. They are just like pins.

I don’t know what language cows speak.Moo,moo.Metoo# I blame the paypal bulls,

The cats are at it now MioawMiaow2#.How did they l earn  about unacceptable behaviour when they don’t  even speak English or read the Telegraph?

Apparently  our soles are black and desperately need someone who can dye for them

I believe in salvation as long as I can pick who gets it.Do you get that?

I’d prefer an immobile phone  but who makes them?

Smartphones implies we are stupid,How did they know?

The universal suffrage of the dark

 

Nothingness has caught me by the throat
Tossed me  to the innards of  its prayer
Joan of Arc unhorsed in  a nightmare
Burgundy makes  offers for her coat

When we’re real and know the here and now
Do we entertain our thoughts and dare
To let   perception grow in all its  flair
Lamenting   foreign   insights we won’t know

From the mountain, I see Windermere
I see Coniston and Morecambe Bay
I see sheep and  flat  green fields arrayed
The shadows of the hills , the dread, the fear

Where can we be now on this  our March?
The moon, the sky , the aluminium arc
The universal suffrage of the dark
The  rights  of strangers, the Triumphal Arch

The best of  our goodwill ‘s already wrecked

Heil , O  Johnson liar and right wing crook
I wonder what they’ll write  about you next
As you   dictate to us,will we be hooked?

The Germans knew their leader wrote a book
You may send out vitriol by text.
Heil , O  Johnson, liar and right wing crook

You do not care, you lie as we onlook
You play Big Brother wearing Hitler’s vest
When you   dictate to us,will we be hooked?

Have you come to power just by a fluke?
We hope the coming weeks will prove a test
Heil , O  Johnson ,liar and right wing crook

Whatever words you say, they will be  cooked
You rich men plunder, in the sinking West
When you   dictate to us, will we be hooked?

You play upon the panic and unrest
The best of  our goodwill ‘s already wrecked
Heil , O   Caesar Johnson liar and  crook
As you   smiled and cheated. we just looked

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The brave Nazis round up their victims

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising

January revolt

On 18 January 1943, the Germans began their second deportation of the Jews, which led to the first instance of armed insurgency within the ghetto. While Jewish families hid in their so-called “bunkers”, fighters of the ŻZW, joined by elements of the ŻOB, resisted, engaging the Germans in direct clashes.[19] Though the ŻZW and ŻOB suffered heavy losses (including some of their leaders), the Germans also took casualties, and the deportation was halted within a few days. Only 5,000 Jews were removed, instead of the 8,000 planned by Globocnik. Hundreds of people in the Warsaw Ghetto were ready to fight, adults and children, sparsely armed with handguns, gasoline bottles, and a few other weapons that had been smuggled into the ghetto by resistance fighters.[1] Most of the Jewish fighters did not view their actions as an effective measure by which to save themselves, but rather as a battle for the honour of the Jewish people, and a protest against the world’s silence.[15]

Why drawing is important when we learn art

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Why Having a Dedicated Drawing Practice Is Key for All Artists

EXTRACT

 

Drawing liberates us from the fear of wasting materials or failing. It can be playful and lighthearted. Even doodles count!

Drawing is crystallized seeing. It is the doorway to understanding form through light. If we draw representationally, we simply capture light and shadow. If we draw abstractly, we work on building an assortment of marks.

Having a drawing practice connects our eyes with our hands. Often, we need to get the mind out of that loop. The mind likes to tell us things such as, “I can’t paint hands,” often hijacking our creativity.

Photo by Jill McNamara | Why Having a Dedicated Drawing Practice is Key for All Artists

In Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, author Betty Edwards offers an activity for overcoming this cognitive trap in a lesson involving drawing from a photograph. She encourages readers to flip the photo upside down to better see the shapes and their relationships to each other. This way, the forms are seen as just shapes, instead of a hand, arm, etc.

I highly recommend that you enroll in a drawing class, no matter how proficient you think you are. I take a drawing class every year or two. It realigns me, and makes me a better artist. To that end, below are two quick and easy ways to enhance your drawing practice.

Drawing Practice | Activity 1

Sit in front of a mirror every day for 30 minutes and do a self-portrait using compressed charcoal and a large newsprint pad. Start with several quick one- to two-minute drawings of your face as a warm-up, and then progress to a 20-minute detailed self-portrait.

Assess your image as a collection of shapes. Notice how the shapes change when you move. Look for different proportions within your image, and identify the negative spaces. Hold the charcoal at a low angle to the paper, almost drawing on the side of the charcoal.

Self-portraits offer us the gift of connecting with ourselves and checking in with our emotional state. Life can be so full, busy and distracting that we can lose touch wit the person staring back at us.

Self-Portrait by Carrie Bloomston | Why Having a Dedicated Drawing Practice is Key for All Artists

Drawing Practice | Activity 2

Using charcoal or a 6B charcoal pencil, explore alternate forms of mark making:

>> Draw, holding a pencil in your non-dominant hand.

>> Jab the charcoal onto the paper as if you’re a woodpecker.

>> Explore drawing with firm pressure and with very light pressure, changing a continuous line on the page from dark to light.

>> Make repeating loops until the whole page is a field of marks and overlapping shapes.

>> Cover the paper in charcoal, then use an eraser as you would a pencil, creating marks and lines by erasing.

What poetry changes by Eric Pankey

beige and gray barn owl
Photo by Jean van der Meulen on Pexels.com

https://poems.com/features/what-sparks-poetry/eric-pankey-on-what-poetry-changes/

EXTRACT

In a 1987 interview that appeared in the Partisan Review, the Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert said, “It is vanity to think that one can influence the course of history by writing poetry. It is not the barometer that changes the weather.” With that metaphor, we are asked to see poetry as a gauge, a measure, a tool, a way of understanding the nature of phenomenon. When I say poetry changed the way I see the world I mean it taught me to be attentive, to be curious, to be empathic, to understand both the power and danger of language itself. It is a lens that allows one to see the microscopic and a distant star nursery. The poem, “Five Men,” gives us an insight into the minds of those about to be killed as well as insight into the minds of those leveling their guns as executioners. The poet wonders in “dead earnest” what poetry might offer in the face of horror and trauma. What does it offer? What might it offer?