2011
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“The blowtorch is the secret weapon in design…”
Benedicte Page explores the world of “extreme book design.” (via TheBookBench)
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Glass Is Really a Liquid
The hard thing about these poems is that they make sense, fundamentally, but they’ve got a strange, skittering-away sense to them, a resistance to being pinned down.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Rumpus buddy Will Schofield (of A Journey Around My Skull) will be updating weekly at But Does It Float. Here he is his first. Moonlight Sonata reverberating through milk. That’s DOCTOR kitty to you. Update: nature is still crazy. No,…
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Readers Report Back From… Impossible Love
Rumpus readers take on Impossible Love. Edited by Susan Clements. The woman never forgot her body had once been covered in tiny holes. She’d been born with them all over. They were practically undetectable and no one ever got close…
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Nicholas Rombes’ Art Film Roundup
Another clip from Polish director Andrzej Zulawski’s masterpiece Possession (1981), starring Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill. The movie piles on one outrageous, tornado-like scene after another, but it is often the quiet, in-between moments that are more deeply eerie. In…
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Fetishizing Ruins
“So much ruin photography and ruin film aestheticizes poverty without inquiring of its origins, dramatizes spaces but never seeks out the people that inhabit and transform them, and romanticizes isolated acts of resistance without acknowledging the massive political and social…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Another useful Google development: desktop Gmail notifications. One year in, the iPad is blowing away everyone’s expectations. Take a look at what the Internet had to say about the State of the Union address. Although Facebook is unleashing a new…
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Long Live Hobos
In Santa Cruz, I had occasion to meet some hobos. Real or fake hobos: it was hard to make the distinction in a town so enshrined to the misfit ideal. There was a train bridge near the roller-coaster that you…
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WHERE I WRITE #1: Hotels, Highways, Hotspots, Haiti
If I were independently wealthy, I would be less for it, because the chase for money to pay for food, shelter, babies, and now small children has taken me from sharing with two women an eighty square foot octagonal house…
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Elementary, My Dear Patti
Patti Smith says “she has completed ‘68%’ of a ‘detective story’ based in England.” (via LargeHeartedBoy)