enjoying a lovely weekend spent by yourself
...I've recently come across this beautiful album uploaded by nice guys (they surprise with interesting indie works quite often!). The music here is full of lightness and positivity, so it makes a perfect weekend album! It's called Paris which is the topic of my today's moodboard.
May be a couple of the images below are not french by origin, but I just wanted to keep this oh-la-la mood throughout my visual checklist...
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βsome nice ideas of mine that you might like to steal...
Dress up in style and go for a walk around the historical center of your city pretending you're a tourist. Thus you'll see your home city afresh and probably discover new curious places as well.
Make photos of beautiful buildings and architectural details that attract your eyes. You might like to print them out later and stick into your diary - a wonderful way to keep your memories bright.
Visit a museum.
Let yourself have an impulse purchase. For example, buy an interesting piece of jewelry that made your heart flutter.
Get yourself some beautiful flowers to fancy your Home Cafe tea time.
And why not bring home some exquisite confectionery to accompany your end-of-the-day tea/coffee. Or, try your hand at making e.g. lacy crΓͺpes with real edible flowers baked into them.
Lit up aromatic fancy candles and fill yourself with inspiration while leafing through beautiful coffee table books or your favourite magazines.
β illustration by Michel Delacroix via pinterest ...Also, right when I was finishing this post, I came across an amazing piece of poetry! It's about embracing a genuinely managed life; a nature's wisdom philosophy coveyed in a smart, humorous way.
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A Poem about Charleston
Marcus Amaker
charleston,
where the sidewalks scream on saturday nights
and the corners rotate budding musicians
with skin-tight dreams.
where strings of pearls search for salvation
then sweat out their frustrations
on the backs of rooftops.
where the homeless sprout
like weeds through concrete
seeking two dollars, a handshake
and a little bit of sunshine.
where the humidity chokes you out of breath
but you manage to speak to the
spit-shine waiters who serve 95 dollar
bottles of wine.
where two blocks away,
a five dollar pitcher of liquid gold
spills on the canvas of sticky floors.
charleston,
where love lingers on cobblestone streets
in narrow alleyways, and the smell of sex
is the foundation for first and last impressions.
where shadows are surrounded by the ocean
and sea-seeing people gasp for air
from knee-deep bills and dirt-cheap thrills.
where those with
no sense of historyβs melody
will sync with the songs of the cityβs slaves.
where the poets scrape stanzas
off of streetlights
and if they scream loud enough, maybe someone will hear
because we live in Charleston.
i see poems everywhere
in my neighborhood.
they write themselves β
stumbling through winterβs relentless stare
and blinded by the bluntness of spring.
they surround you
before you slip
into the sweet darkness
of a sour night,
sorting through a history
of scrambled words.
i am the tongue-tied baby of the family.
the wide-eyed wanderer
who finally found a home.
walking past the broken down buildings
that hold the streets together
and having real conversations with america β
admiring her ball gowns
down one-way streets
while washing off the doom
of her repugnant perfume.
I Β see poems everywhere in my neighbourhood.
they are the graffiti artists of the sky,
the glowing conversations
written in the stars,
the phone numbers
typed into cell phones,
the endless puddles of alcohol
that linger like rain in an unholy city,
looking for God amongst the ghosts within.
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βBlack Cloth,β Marcus Amaker
Racism,
let us no longer walk in your shoes.
you are a traveler of darkness, a walker of shadows,
cloaking yourself in a black cloth like the grim reaper
and arming your soul with the tools of a terrorist-
a misguided soldier whoβs trying to start a war.
My sisters,
heaven was as close as your breath that night.
You came to Mother Emanuel to worship in the glow of God,
and speak the light that flows from love.
How beautiful of Him to hear your words
and lift you into the arms of Christ
My brothers,
you walked toward heaven with focus,
even when your shoes were stained
with the dirt of intolerance.
A black cloth lays silent at Clementaβs seat, resting under
a single rose. It was taken from our cityβs soil,
where seeds of faith continue to grow.
Charleston,
I see heaven in your tears and feel the weight of sadness
in your voice. Iβve seen strangers hold hands
as the sun wraps us in unbearable heat,
Iβve watched children of contradiction come together
for the unity of the Holy City.
South Carolina,
nine members of your family are now in heaven
and you have to confront the reality of racism,
the dusk of pain, the lightlessness of the dawn.
Because I would rather hang a black cloth on a flag pole
than give the Confederate flag
another glimpse of the sun.
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βOurs Poeticaβ Poems
this is a master list of all the poems used and referenced in βOurs Poeticaβ by zeeskeit on A03
Chapter 1: βwhere beauty stands and waits"
Constantly Risking Absurdity by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Chapter 2: "The nows of summer glitter in a ring; These are cities where I had hoped to live"
Triolet for Late July by Peter Kline
Chapter 3: βand my nights, and my doubts, and my friends/my beautiful, credible friends.β
All My Friends Are Finding New Beliefs by Christian Winan
Chapter 4: "I do the very thing I hate...I do not do/the good I want.
Eating Dust by Joyce S. Brown
Birthday by Richie Hofmann
Chapter 5: "my darling turns to poetry at night"
My Darling Turns To Poetry At Night by Anthony Lawrence
Chapter 6: βI gave/shape to my fears and made excuses. I varied my/velocities, watched myselves sleep.β
Birds Hover the Trampled Field by Richard Silken
Chapter 7: βAnd I learned after:/everything that opens is a mouth./Every mouth will spit you right out.β
Plastic Bag from Corner Store Laments the Self by Aliyah Cotton
Pristine by Hilda Raz
Chapter 8: βthe only way to run through the neighborhood/was to run through it together,β
Teenage Riot by Matthew Dickman
Chapter 9: βThis is an ancient practice: predicting the future/in anotherβs prone bodyβ
Haruspex by Teresa Pham-Carsillo
Chapter 10: βyou hurt because there are things/youβve never been taught to doβ
failed avoidance of "the body" in a poem by Destiny O. Birdsong
Cento Between the Ending and the End by Cameron Awkward-Rich
Chapter 11: βWe are the sons of flint and pitchβ
I see the boys of summer by Dylan Thomas
Chapter 12: βI donβt remember/what it was like when my lungs/arrived under water[β¦]I just/know what it feels like to be a new/parent.β
A Doctor Tells Us Itβs Not a Life or Death Situation by Marcus Amaker
Hope is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson
*this will be updated as chapters are posted*
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Tomb of the Unknown @ 100
Tomb of the Unknown @Β 100
100th Anniversary of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is commemorated by new musicNovember 11: Online premiere of βUNKNOWNβ, a dramatic song cycle, filmed on location
UrbanArias commissioned acclaimed composer Shawn Okpebholo and poet laureate Marcus Amaker
Arts organizations across the country are co-commissioners: Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, Opera Colorado, The Dallas Opera,β¦
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@Regrann from @umojaizm - LIBATION opens September 30th as a part of Charleston's MOJA Arts Festival! Join Dogon Krigga Roni Nicole and myself as we offer up this healing, this magic, this work. City Gallery | 34 Prioleau St. 4-7pm Promo Cred. Camera| Larry James Frazier II + Roni Nicole Soundscape| Stephen Perez for evolv audio MOJA Poster Art| Cedric Umoja MOJA Poster Design| Marcus Amaker Mo' info| mojafestival.com #art#artshow#gallery#newart #installation #installationart #urban #newcontemporaryart #urbancontemporary#film #collage #Afrofuturism#black #afrosurrealism#melaninpoppin #artcollectors#artbuyers#moja #professionalartist #libation #charleston#citygallery #exhibition #show #painting #drawing - #regrann
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Announcing BiblioSummit: Cities + Libraries 2017
BiblioLabs is excited to announce that BiblioSummit will take place in Charleston, SC on November 7. The half-day event will be the fifth installment of BiblioSummit, expanding this year into the tech incubator Flagship 2 of The Charleston Digital Corridor, the perfect venue for discussing how libraries are conquering the digital space.
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SPECIAL GUEST: MARCUS AMAKER, CHARLESTONβS POET LAUREATE
Before and between panels, attendees will be treated to performances by Marcus Amaker, who was deemed Charlestonβs first-ever poet laureate in 2016. Watch MarcusΒ perform at Charleston TEDx with legendary jazz musician Quentin Baxter here.
The event will include both breakfast and lunch, with an opening welcome from Scott Watson, Executive Director of The City of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs, and closing comments from Ernest Andrade, Executive Director of The Charleston Digital Corridor Foundation.
βI am moderating both sessions at this event and I am not even pretending to be impartial,β said Founder & CEO of BiblioLabs, Mitchell Davis. βThis event is about thinking way forward about libraries and the impact they have had and need to continue to have on bridging the digital divide. This is for anyone in the library community, or here in Charleston, who cares about equal access to information and a robust creative and cultural community.β
BiblioLabs will also be launching a citywide geolocated library in Charleston on November 7th alongside dozens of other cities in North America, including Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Kansas City and more.
Here are this yearβs panel sessions:
HOW LIBRARIES ARE THRIVING IN THE DIGITAL WORLD
In the digital age, all bets are off as to how the future of libraries unfold. How will the mission of the library change and adapt to the new world dominated by giant media corporations? How are libraries experimenting with new models and working more closely with civic, nonprofit and community leaders to create digital information strategies for their citizens that are simple, highly visible and inclusive of the entire community?
Panelists include:
Laura Cole
Executive Director,
BiblioTech Library (San Antonio, TX)
Veronda Pitchford
Director, Membership Development and Resource Sharing
RAILS Consortia (Reaching Across Illinois Library Systems)
Patrick βPCβ Sweeney
Political Director,
EveryLibrary
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LIBRARIES AND LEARNING
We live in a world that requires lifelong learning. Reflecting on his childhood education, author Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote in his pulitzer prize winning book, Between the World and Me, βI was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other peopleβs interests. The library was open, unending, free.β How can communities leverage existing relationships and resources to provide a new kind of educational and cultural resource that evolves into the future?
Panelists include:
Kate Lawrence
VP of User Research,
EBSCO
Carl Pritzkat
VP ofΒ Business Development & Executive Committee Member
Publishers Weekly
Jonathan Sanchez
Owner, Founder,
Blue Bicycle Books, YALLfest
Nancy Kirkpatrick
Associate Director
Midwest Collaborative for Library Services (MCLS)
AFTERNOON ENTERTAINMENT: THE V-TONES
After the closing comments, hang around and cut loose with Charlestonβs own V-Tones. Unapologetically off-the-wall, The V-Tones bring a bit of flare to traditional folk, or well, as they put it: βCharlestonβs only ukulele hot club jug band vaudeville ragtime neo-retro-post-postmodern beachfront quasi-primitive anachronistic revolutionary anti-inflammatory mass catharsis jazz freakout and philharmonic group therapy session.β Watch their music video forΒ βDinahβ here.Β
FULL SCHEDULE:
8:30 AM: Breakfast
9:00 AM: Welcome (Scott Watson, Marcus Amaker)
9:20 AM: βHow Libraries Are Thriving In The Digital Worldβ
10:40AM: Break (w/ Marcus Amaker performance)
11:00AM: βThe Relationship Between Libraries And Learningβ
11:55AM: Closing Comments (Ernest Andrade)
12:00PM: Lunch (w/ V-Tones performance)
BiblioSummit: Cities + Libraries 2017
Nov 7th, 2017 // 8:30 am - 12 pm (Free)
Flagship 2 - Charleston Digital Corridor
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Two images for upcoming Poetry Slam at the Charleston Music Hall.
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@Regrann from @hilarryous_f - The fam all over SC this weekend, catch my big bro @umojaizm at MOJA Arts Festival this weekend premiering Libation! Repost from @umojaizm - LIBATION opens September 30th as a part of Charleston's MOJA Arts Festival! Join Dogon Krigga Roni Nicole and myself as we offer up this healing, this magic, this work. City Gallery | 34 Prioleau St. 4-7pm Promo Cred. Camera| Larry James Frazier II + Roni Nicole Soundscape| Stephen Perez for evolv audio MOJA Poster Art| Cedric Umoja MOJA Poster Design| Marcus Amaker Mo' info| mojafestival.com #art #newart #artshow #gallery #exhibition #charleston #show #black #afro #moja #urban #melaninpoppin #urbanart #newcontemporaryart #newcontemporary #urbancontemporary - #regrann
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BIBLIOSUMMIT 2017: MEET THE PANELISTS
BiblioLabs is thrilled to host the fifth installment of BiblioSummit: Cities + Libraries this year in our hometown of Charleston, SC on Tuesday, November 7. The annual event brings together top minds from libraries, publishing and technology to have a conversation about how libraries are conquering the digital space, and what to expect next.
COUNT ME IN!
HOW LIBRARIES ARE THRIVING IN THE DIGITAL WORLD
In this panel discussion, contributors will speak about the future of libraries in the digital landscape: how to adapt in a world dominated by giant media corporations with new models for community engagement, and how these new digital strategies can be inclusive for the entire community.
Laura Cole is the Executive Director of BiblioTech Library in San Antonio, the first all-digital public library in the United States. Cole has directed BiblioTechβs expansion over the past four years through numerous community partnerships including VIA Metropolitan Transit, University Health System, San Antonio Housing Authority and 14 area school districts. Laura has engaged in dialogue with government officials and librarians across the world aboutΒ the need to challenge the inveterate understanding of the public library while fortifying its coreΒ mission and the opportunity afforded by digital libraries to meet this objective.
Veronda J. Pitchford is the Director of Membership and Resource Sharing for the Reaching Across Illinois Library System (RAILS). She manages the eRead Illinois Axis 360 shared ebook collection and PopUp Picks on the BiblioBoard platform, which is statewide and geolocated. Pitchford works nationally with library consortia, vendors and publishers to position libraries as the rock stars of e-content in the communities they serve. A βdie-hard library chick,β Veronda was named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker in 2005.
Patrick βP.C.β Sweeney is co-author of Winning Elections and Influencing Politicians for Library Funding. He is the former Administrative Librarian of the Sunnyvale (CA) Public Library and Executive Director of EveryLibrary California, a statewide initiative to support library propositions. Sweeney currently works as the Political Director for EveryLibrary, the nationβs first and only national political action committee (PAC) for libraries, and is a lecturer on politics at the San Jose State University iSchool. He is a 2015 Library Journal Mover & Shaker recipient for his advocacy work in California and across the country. He can be found online as PC Sweeney.
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LIBRARIES AND LEARNING
We live in a world that requires lifelong learning. Reflecting on his childhood education, author Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote in his pulitzer prize winning book, Between the World and Me, βI was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other peopleβs interests. The library was open, unending, free.β How can communities leverage existing relationships and resources to provide a new kind of educational and cultural resource that evolves into the future?
Kate Lawrence is the Vice President of User Research at EBSCO Information Services, leading the UX research and design activities that power EBSCOβs evidence-based product development process, across the portfolio of EBSCO products. Since 2011, Kate and her team have observed thousands of users interact with EBSCO products, mobile devices, websites and interface designs, and have discovered insights that drive improvements to products, services and processes. Kate is a member of the User Experience Professionals Association (UXPA) and an active presenter in the Boston and international UX community.
Carl Pritzkat is the Vice President of Business Development for PWxyz, the company that owns Publishers Weekly and BookLife. Pritzkat oversees all new business, digital strategy and product development for PWxyz and serves as president of BookLife, PWxyz's site dedicated to indie authors. Prior to PWxyz, Pritzkat co-founded the interactive media company Mediapolis, Inc., where he oversaw projects for The New York Times, Viacom, NPR, Sony, Johnson & Johnson, Volvo and others.
Jonathan Sanchez is a writer and the owner of Blue Bicycle Books in Charleston. The author of the short-story collection Bandit, Sanchez is a two-time winner in The S.C. Fiction Project and a former writer-in-residence at the Kerouac House in Orlando. He is the founder of The Write of Summer camp for kids, the Poets in the Schools program at Burke High School and YALLFest, Charlestonβs Young Adult Book Festival. Originally from Charlotte, he lives in Charleston with his wife Lauren and two children.
Nancy Kirkpatrick is a recovering attorney who gambled that it would be more interesting to work with bibliophiles than barristers. She won that bet. As the Associate Director of Midwest Collaborative for Library Services (MCLS), she gets to work with libraries of all types and wear her lawyer hat negotiating group licensing. Prior to joining MCLS, Nancy was the library director at Marian University in Indianapolis. Every spring, Nancy teaches Academic Library Management for the LIS Department in the SOIC at IUPUI. And, in case it wasnβt clear, she speaks fluent acronym.
FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT: POETRY & MUSIC
In 2016, Marcus Amaker was named Charleston, South Carolinaβs first Poet Laureate, as appointed by Mayor John Tecklenburg. Amakerβs poems have been featured on TEDx, PBS Newshour, A&E, The Huffington Post, several journals and poetry collections. His seventh book, Mantra, is also an app featuring audio, video and new poems. In 2017, He was named one of βCharlestonβs 50 Most Influentialβ people by Charleston Business Magazine. As a musician, heβs recorded more than 15 albums, including a poetry and jazz album with Grammy-nominated drummer Quentin E. Baxter. Amaker graduated from The University of South Carolina with a Bachelor's in Journalism. He worked in newspapers for 12 years, during which he was the editor of Charleston Scene of The Post & Courier.
The V-Tones describe themselves as Charlestonβs only ukulele hot club jug band vaudeville ragtime neo-retro-postpostmodern beachfront quasi-primitive anachronistic revolutionary anti-inflammatory mass catharsis jazz freakout and philharmonic group therapy session. Youβre just going to have to see...and hear for yourself.
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βbreathe,β Marcus Amaker
two words with two Gβs
spread hate like a disease
the smoke is everywhere
and i
canβt
breathe.
it only took one arm to squeeze
the life out of an unarmed man
the only thing in his hands
were the lifelines
embedded on his palms,
now we stand on the front lines
singing songs
of injustice.
we are slaves to the melody
and hum the tune
while digging graves
for another life
that is gone too soon β¦
two words with two Gβs
spread hate like a disease
the smoke is everywhere
and i
canβt
breathe.
what kind of world do we live in
where women and men have to fight for the right to love?
what kind of world do we live in
when a private union is a public sin?
itβs the same world where a killer
can easily get a marriage license from jail.
is love for sale?
or is it in the hands
of politicians whose lifelines have lost their way,
whose want for one is greater than the needs of all,
taking negative steps on a path to enlightenment,
the math doesnβt add up
two words with two Gβs
spread hate like a disease
the smoke is everywhere
and i
canβt
breathe.
speaking of math,
television promotes division,
we are losers in a war for ratings.
itβs the great divide
and we canβt hide
from the deception.
Be mindful of the way
βtruthβ is portrayed,
or your mind will sway
toward a bad perception.
but if you open up your hands,
you will see that we
are united by the lifelines
given to us by the greater good,
donβt deny our connection.
two words with two Gβs
spread hate like a disease
the smoke is everywhere
and i
canβt
breathe.
this is not a
black and white thing
this is a human rights
thing
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