webpage of the day:
Musée d'Orsay
Visits - Events - Collections
Now on: Mystery and Glitter / Probable and Improbable Paris
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
carpe diem poems
webpage of the day:
Carpe Diem -
"poems for making the most of time."
All the World's a Stage / A Psalm of Life/ A Song on the End of the Night ..
Carpe Diem -
"poems for making the most of time."
All the World's a Stage / A Psalm of Life/ A Song on the End of the Night ..
Monday, December 29, 2008
the writer's almanac
webpage of the day:
The Writer's Almanac -
"daily poems, prose and literary history."
the combination of today: snow spaces and James Joyce.
The Writer's Almanac -
"daily poems, prose and literary history."
the combination of today: snow spaces and James Joyce.
Mitch Albom - Tuesdays with Morrie
a remarkable and reflective companion of a book for these days of one year ending, and the next about to begin: an old man, a young man, and weekly life lessons, brought about by the shadow of death.
book page: randomhouse / review with quotes
author page: Mitch Albom (New Jersey, USA)
line to remember: "Morrie had always been taken with simple pleasure, singing, laughing, dancing. Now, more than ever, material things held little or no significance. When people die, you always hear the expression "You can't take it with you." Morrie seemed to know that a long time ago."
book page: randomhouse / review with quotes
author page: Mitch Albom (New Jersey, USA)
line to remember: "Morrie had always been taken with simple pleasure, singing, laughing, dancing. Now, more than ever, material things held little or no significance. When people die, you always hear the expression "You can't take it with you." Morrie seemed to know that a long time ago."
Sunday, December 28, 2008
women's poetry favorite online journals
webpage of the day:
Women's Poetry favorite online journals -
"this is NOT an exhaustive list of all online journals, just WOM-PO favorites."
sweet surprise: BluePrintReview is part of it.
Women's Poetry favorite online journals -
"this is NOT an exhaustive list of all online journals, just WOM-PO favorites."
sweet surprise: BluePrintReview is part of it.
Saturday, December 27, 2008
words without borders
webpage of the day:
words without borders -
"the online magazine for international literature"
translated stories from Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. looking at the page, i read "Worlds without Borders" at first. interesting, though, that all it takes to get from the word to the world is an "l".
words without borders -
"the online magazine for international literature"
translated stories from Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. looking at the page, i read "Worlds without Borders" at first. interesting, though, that all it takes to get from the word to the world is an "l".
Friday, December 26, 2008
the happiness project
webpage of the day:
the happiness project -
"a year I spent test-driving every principle, tip, theory, and scientific study on happiness"
it's a week now that i started this new daily version of the blog. and it seems, the idea of daily is in fact a good thing. here's a happiness advice on resolutions: "Keep your resolution every day. Weirdly, it’s often easier to do something every day (exercise, post to a blog, deal with the mail, do laundry) than every few days."
the happiness project -
"a year I spent test-driving every principle, tip, theory, and scientific study on happiness"
it's a week now that i started this new daily version of the blog. and it seems, the idea of daily is in fact a good thing. here's a happiness advice on resolutions: "Keep your resolution every day. Weirdly, it’s often easier to do something every day (exercise, post to a blog, deal with the mail, do laundry) than every few days."
Nick Hornby - Mein Leben als Leser
14 essays on books read, and on books bought and not read. one surprise came when i looked for a book webpage. the german version is titled: "Mein Leben als Leser" - "My Life as a Reader". turns out, the original title is much more Hornby: "The Polysllabic Spree". reading it, i had this thought again that it would be nice if books came with a button to switch languages.
book page: The Polysyllabic Spree
author page: Nick Hornby blog (London, England)
line to remember (from the blog): "In a moment of extreme blockage, I found myself doing an online questionnaire for a well-known US newspaper. When I reached the end, I was asked to describe my occupation, and the only category to which I seemed to belong was Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation and food services."
book page: The Polysyllabic Spree
author page: Nick Hornby blog (London, England)
line to remember (from the blog): "In a moment of extreme blockage, I found myself doing an online questionnaire for a well-known US newspaper. When I reached the end, I was asked to describe my occupation, and the only category to which I seemed to belong was Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation and food services."
Thursday, December 25, 2008
luna park 4
luna park, "the carnival world of little and literary magazines", has a new issue out:
luna park winter 2008/09
and it comes with interesting news: "What's more, since Black Wednesday, Amazon's recent selling out of Kindles, and recent announcements that both the Pulitzer committee and the Best American Short Story anthology series will begin considering online content, Internet publishing seems more and more the new horizon."
luna park winter 2008/09
and it comes with interesting news: "What's more, since Black Wednesday, Amazon's recent selling out of Kindles, and recent announcements that both the Pulitzer committee and the Best American Short Story anthology series will begin considering online content, Internet publishing seems more and more the new horizon."
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
grand hotel abyss
webpage of the day:
grand hotel abyss -
"We die. That may be the meaning of our lives.
But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives - T. Morrison"
reflections on books / authors i recently read, too: Toni Morrison, Neil Gaiman, J.M. Coetzee, DeLillo.
grand hotel abyss -
"We die. That may be the meaning of our lives.
But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives - T. Morrison"
reflections on books / authors i recently read, too: Toni Morrison, Neil Gaiman, J.M. Coetzee, DeLillo.
Bill Willingham - Fables #7
the latest stories of the fabulous fables. Pinocchio, Baghhera, Bigby Wolf, Red Riding Hood, Prince Charming, Blue Boy. all wrapped in one ongoing comic tale.
book page: comic book resources
author page: The Story So Far - Bill Willingham (Las Vegas, USA)
line to remember: "Zeit, dass du weiterkommst, Blue Boy, sonst fängst du noch an, mit dir selber zu reden."
book page: comic book resources
author page: The Story So Far - Bill Willingham (Las Vegas, USA)
line to remember: "Zeit, dass du weiterkommst, Blue Boy, sonst fängst du noch an, mit dir selber zu reden."
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
swan lake
photo of the day: stopping to watch swans at the lakeside, 11.17, neuer see
(the swans are the 2 white dots)
this moment
webpage of the day:
this moment -
"is different from any before it. it is now."
it's sad that this moment has ended. it's beautiful that it is still there.
this moment -
"is different from any before it. it is now."
it's sad that this moment has ended. it's beautiful that it is still there.
qarrtsiluni: progress
"Journaling the Apocalypse" is the theme of the current issue of qarrtsiluni. one of my photos was included last month already (Zombi), and now there is a second photo up: Progress. i took it this summer about 10 miles from here, at the Kraftwerk Altbach - the Altbach Power Station.
the photo is paired with an inversed-end-of-time story, "Expansion at at Time of Great Leavings", by Deb Scott. strange but somehow fitting, those apocalyptic tunes in these days of christmas. here the link: Progress
grain short/grain long
grain short/grain long is a one-off project that evolved into a long-term exploration of the limits of text & the visual. their inaugural issue is up right now:
grain short/grain long: issue no. 1
upcoming issue: Collaboration / Stimulus / Response
deadline: December 31, 2008
grain short/grain long: issue no. 1
upcoming issue: Collaboration / Stimulus / Response
deadline: December 31, 2008
Monday, December 22, 2008
oblique strategies
webpage of the day:
oblique strategies -
"Over one hundred worthwhile dilemmas"
strategies to get unstuck by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt - i was greeted with this mesmerizing pick: "Into the Impossible".
oblique strategies -
"Over one hundred worthwhile dilemmas"
strategies to get unstuck by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt - i was greeted with this mesmerizing pick: "Into the Impossible".
Sunday, December 21, 2008
3lights: nocturne
3lights is an online gallery of haiku, tanka and related forms. their issues are featured in oblique online exhibitions, here one that feels very winter solstice:
3lights - nocturne
upcoming exhibition: snowdays
deadline: January 1st 2009
3lights - nocturne
upcoming exhibition: snowdays
deadline: January 1st 2009
photo friday
webpage of the day:
photo friday -
"The weekly photo challenge"
this isn't exactly a discovery of a new webpage. rather a rediscovery of a page i used to visit regularly. the reshaping of this blog feels like the right time to return to their photo challenges. plus, the current theme is a beautiful invitation to visually reflect on this year: Best of 2008.
...and the first link i opened is so inspiring already, like someone spelling out what i want to capture with the idea of posting a daily photo: daily practice - an exercise in mindfulness.
photo friday -
"The weekly photo challenge"
this isn't exactly a discovery of a new webpage. rather a rediscovery of a page i used to visit regularly. the reshaping of this blog feels like the right time to return to their photo challenges. plus, the current theme is a beautiful invitation to visually reflect on this year: Best of 2008.
...and the first link i opened is so inspiring already, like someone spelling out what i want to capture with the idea of posting a daily photo: daily practice - an exercise in mindfulness.
~
update, 1 day later:
i now posted my best of 2008 photo - it's #251, here the direct link: my sky
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Banana Yoshimoto - Kitchen
a beautiful, moody novel. started to read it last week. finished it today. didn't want it to end.
book page: amazon / library thing
author page: Banana Yoshimoto (Tokyo, Japan)
line to remember: "Ich schreibe, weil es schon immer etwas ganz Bestimmtes gegeben hat, das ich sagen wollte, und ich werde um jeden Preis schreiben, bis ich diese eine Sache nicht mehr sagen will." - Nachwort
book page: amazon / library thing
author page: Banana Yoshimoto (Tokyo, Japan)
line to remember: "Ich schreibe, weil es schon immer etwas ganz Bestimmtes gegeben hat, das ich sagen wollte, und ich werde um jeden Preis schreiben, bis ich diese eine Sache nicht mehr sagen will." - Nachwort
daily routines
webpage of the day:
daily routines -
"How writers, artists, and other interesting people organize their days"
interesting. maybe even more so as that's a reacurring theme of my own days: how to organize the hours. or rather: myself. how to find a structure that on the one side provides a good base, and at the same time, gives space.
daily routines -
"How writers, artists, and other interesting people organize their days"
interesting. maybe even more so as that's a reacurring theme of my own days: how to organize the hours. or rather: myself. how to find a structure that on the one side provides a good base, and at the same time, gives space.
time for a change..
it's been in the air since a while.
somehow, this blog needs a new tune. a different approach.
it probably wasn't coincidence that i stumbled over the daily routines link today.
so here's the plan for the next weeks:
- take 1 photo of the day that catches my mood, and post it.
- take some time to follow blog links, and post 1 link that made me ponder.
- skip my book blog, and instead simply post the title of the books i read, and 1 line to remember.
and while i'm at it, i think it's time for a change of blog layout, too...
somehow, this blog needs a new tune. a different approach.
it probably wasn't coincidence that i stumbled over the daily routines link today.
so here's the plan for the next weeks:
- take 1 photo of the day that catches my mood, and post it.
- take some time to follow blog links, and post 1 link that made me ponder.
- skip my book blog, and instead simply post the title of the books i read, and 1 line to remember.
and while i'm at it, i think it's time for a change of blog layout, too...
Thursday, December 11, 2008
episodes of 2 worlds
Gaza (Palestine) and Sderot (Israel): two cities on the Israeli-Palestinian border. On this website, you can find during two months short videos (2 minutes each) on Gaza and Sderot. Every day, one video from Palestine, the other one from Israel. One without the other only would show part of the reality.
i had looked for something completely different, some background on a documentation from ethopia that was up in arte, the german-french-tv-collaboration - which was created in 1992 as a medium to develop european integration.
yet when the arte-webpage opened, it was one of their feature articles that caught my attention:
Web-Documentation: Gaza-Sderot: Life in spite of everything."
what a challenging concept. and extra interesting, as Sderot is a city that also appears in the 2028 story. now it suddenly is there, just a click away.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
emprise review: sky1, sky2, sky3
the sky photos had been in my files since a while. i can't even remember what made me return to them, and put them together in a small series. yet, somehow it was coincidental timing - they now found a place in Emprise Review, in combination with 2 stories from Cambodia and Timbuktu, of all places.
here the direct links:
- sky1 ("Timbuktu" / Andrew Farkas)
- sky2 and sky3 ("Greetings from Cambodia" / Pal Nyiri)
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
qarrtsiluni: zombi
"The theme this time is Journaling the Apocalypse. We’re soliciting original writing, video, music, art and photography created in response to this self-destructive prophetic fire at the heart of our civilization — or any civilization (and there are many) with end-of-time myths. We’re not looking for grand syntheses, but concrete and intimate portraits of the earth’s inhabitants and landscapes as they approach ground zero."
said the quarrtsiluni call for submissions.
some days later, i browsed photo files. and came across this street scene from Crete. the wall belonged to a building next to a parking spot, not far from the public swimming hall. it's picture #4227 from that camera. i cropped the photo.. and out came a colourful graffiti moment, including Pax and a fast-forward icon in blue: Zombi.
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said the quarrtsiluni call for submissions.
some days later, i browsed photo files. and came across this street scene from Crete. the wall belonged to a building next to a parking spot, not far from the public swimming hall. it's picture #4227 from that camera. i cropped the photo.. and out came a colourful graffiti moment, including Pax and a fast-forward icon in blue: Zombi.
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Monday, December 1, 2008
stray future questions
some links i came across this weekend:
Paper Cuts - the New York Times book blog, a place i keep returning to regularly. they have a video interview with Toni Morrison up, a conversation with Toni Morrison about her book that reaches back in time to the founding century of the States. also new: a new part of their "Stray Question" series, this time featuring author Elizabeth Graver. i like this interview form, casual and short, the same questions for different authors. and Graver's answer to the web-question "Is the Web a distraction or a blessing?" is interesting: "I do wonder how the Web is changing the texture and reach of contemporary fiction, as well as the writing process. It’s so easy, now, to find out a little about a lot or a lot about a little. It’s so easy to get interrupted or to interrupt yourself. But what a lovely lot of things to find. If it’s the Web, are we the spider or the fly?"
and browsing blogs, i came across the link to an interview with Cory Doctorow in the Guardian, on his new book, and on sciene fiction: willing science fiction into fact. it made me remember the tv feature i saw with him earlier this year, and his reflection on science fiction, back then i tried to piece his thoughts together from memory in translation (here the blog post: wastelands or magic kingdoms). In the Guardian interview, there is the statement again, now directly from him: "All science fiction writers, whether they admit it or not, are writing metaphorically about the present. To extrapolate the future is really to comment on the now. - The job of a science fiction writer, historically, has been to understand how technology and social factors interact," he says, "how technology is changing society."
Paper Cuts - the New York Times book blog, a place i keep returning to regularly. they have a video interview with Toni Morrison up, a conversation with Toni Morrison about her book that reaches back in time to the founding century of the States. also new: a new part of their "Stray Question" series, this time featuring author Elizabeth Graver. i like this interview form, casual and short, the same questions for different authors. and Graver's answer to the web-question "Is the Web a distraction or a blessing?" is interesting: "I do wonder how the Web is changing the texture and reach of contemporary fiction, as well as the writing process. It’s so easy, now, to find out a little about a lot or a lot about a little. It’s so easy to get interrupted or to interrupt yourself. But what a lovely lot of things to find. If it’s the Web, are we the spider or the fly?"
and browsing blogs, i came across the link to an interview with Cory Doctorow in the Guardian, on his new book, and on sciene fiction: willing science fiction into fact. it made me remember the tv feature i saw with him earlier this year, and his reflection on science fiction, back then i tried to piece his thoughts together from memory in translation (here the blog post: wastelands or magic kingdoms). In the Guardian interview, there is the statement again, now directly from him: "All science fiction writers, whether they admit it or not, are writing metaphorically about the present. To extrapolate the future is really to comment on the now. - The job of a science fiction writer, historically, has been to understand how technology and social factors interact," he says, "how technology is changing society."
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