Intersections
Saw this right at the corner of North and Wood. The overlapping lines fascinated me, and I wanted a picture so I could remember the moment. Before I get my daily coffee, I’m weird like this.
Archive for February, 2004
New Experiment: Virus
Click here to view it. Well, technically it’s not an experiment. It’s more of an animated Flash poem. But since I don’t have an area for Flash poems yet, I’m being lazy. Found poems are pretty fun. I guess it’s the closest thing the poetry world has to sampling. Honestly, I’m not sure how serious I feel about them –…
It’s a Good Sign
When it’s 1:45 AM, and you’re tired… but you don’t want to go to sleep because you want to keep working. :)
The Atomic Theory of Valentines
by Felix Jung Weíre given paper, scissors, glue, as ifthese tools can make or mend our little hearts. Each February teaches us that redmeans love, despite the worldís requestto stop, to see our anger like a film, to hearan ambulanceís shrill and vacant wail. Democritus believed the world composedof atoms, tiny specks defining pleasureand unpleasantness. The sweetnessof the honeycomb resides…
Not Really
I mentioned a while back that I had some big project in mind for Valentine’s day. Unfortunately, that’s fallen through. I was going to animate one of my old poems but, I’m just going to type it in instead. However – as a side note, I’m currently working on taking an older found poem, and playing with it in Flash….
Random Trivia
In 1923, Rudolph Valentino published a small book of poetry entitled “Day Dreams.”
Organizing
I’ve spent most of tonight going over all my old poems. And I mean, all of them. Everything I’ve ever written has been systematically dumped inside a “Poems” folder. Stuff that’s from my undergraduate days, saved as .wri Microsoft Write files. I went through and pulled out anything that I thought was worth working on, as well as the files…
It’s Weird
I’m getting home at a decent hour. But I’m simply not sitting/working in front of the computer much at all this week. Hell, I’m not even drinking much beer at all this week. I crack one open, but I seldom finish a whole one. Maybe it’s the winter, digging its claws into me. All I seem to want to do…
Bulls vs. Celtics
First time (for all of us), visiting the United Center. You know what’s better than 19th row tickets? FREE 19th row tickets. Emmett, making his way through the crowd. Poor guy – a bit later on, as he was dancing to some music (below), he ended up getting knocked down (and almost trampled) by someone who was dressed up as…
Crumbling to Peer Pressure
I said no. I had no interest. But still, I was talked into going to see a Bulls game. I’m not crazyabout basketball (or crowds for that matter), but I’ve never been to a game. I’ve been told that I can’trenew my Chicago residency unless I’ve been. Some convincing taunts thrown my way: Ben: I’ve read your blog lately. It’s…
More Notes
More notes scrawled on the city.
Flashback: 1994
Man, that was some long hair I had back then. And that’s a cigarette, thank you very much. On the right is my friend Jim; to the left, a youthful looking Dave Fischoff.
One of these days
Another project of mine is to start categorizing some images. I may still leave them stored in the same folders/structures, but grouping them together somehow would be nice. Thematically linked or some such thing. Like getting all my Halloween images together, or linking up all the separate images from that bit of found art I encountered. So much time, so…
Signs of Life
Cool idea, with some pretty fun images. Check out Signs of Life. I ended up submitting a few images; we’ll see if they get accepted. On looking back, I know I have a *ton* of these sorts of signs/photos. As I was digging through my files I came across those notes I found, where a girl was trying to track…
Hungry
So I made myself a salad tonight. And dammit if, not an hour afterwards, I’m hungry again. I’ve been trying to contain my snacking (I don’t really have any junk food around, so I’m munching veggies or drinking water). Now I remember why I don’t like salads: they don’t do anything. *sigh* This is going to take some getting used…