#tinfish art

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When your two hyperfixations collide and you end up making a horrific combination...Furbyklok

Individuals below the cut!

[frenchrivieraforjim]

Our good luck with the weather ran out at the final port of call in Italy at Livorno. Our 2 day stop was cut short due to heavy winds and rain. We missed out on Florence as Pisa was Day 1. I knew Pisa was a waste of time in advance and took no pictures in protest. Classic tourist trap with nothing to see or do except for the display of incompetent geotechnical engineering. Be forewarned.

The French Riviera was of course no disappointment as we anchored in the small harbour at Villefranche between Nice and Monaco. Ditched the tours and did our own thing today. That is….. except for gramma boarding the lifeboat for a quick tender ride to the beach

One of the advantages of a smaller ship is that we docked everywhere but here. However we both enjoyed the tender for something different. After 30 years piloting the tinfish gramma impressed everyone with her sea legs. Next we hoofed along the beach and then up a mountain to see the Rothschild museum and gardens.

About 10 C and brisk winds but we were thrilled to be far from the madding crowd today. Once we made to the top above Cap Ferrat….. our ship rather small.

Now the interesting story begins. In 1907, Beatrice, the 42 year old daughter of Baron Rothschild needed a change. Fresh off a divorce and other disappointments in her life, she purchased an 8 acre plot atop the hill near Villefranche/Cap Ferrat for her new home and gardens. We entered the grounds with strong winds and this was the best hairdo shot you will see today folks

Beatrice of course built a beautiful home which was filled with priceless artwork and statues. She lived alone but in style

Views from every angle in every direction. She never remarried but did share the house with 2 monkeys and other animals exotic and mundane. Although the dogs did not enjoy the glamorous wedding that she hosted for 2 of them. It is the gardens that are simply astounding even in February. Let’s start with Japanese cheery blossoms

Cyclamens(sp?) framing the water features in front of Beatrice’s home.

Special sections for each corner of the globe plus sculpture and other outdoor artwork

Damn Khardhasian gets in the way again. And finally we were treated with a beautiful fountain dance set to music. With her horticultural paradise and treasured objects d’art….. Beatrice found her peace here until she died in 1933.

So Beatrice learned what I did, that the beauty of art and nature, coupled with the love of a good woman ( or quite a few of them in her case) can heal all wounds.

[citylightsbooks]

Signaling Through the Flames: Barbara Jane Reyes, Author of Invocation to Daughters

During this time of uncertainty, we’ve asked City Lights authors how they’re doing, what they’re reading, and any advice they have for our community. Their responses have been very inspiring to us, and we hope that sharing them will inspire you as well.

“Signaling Through the Flames” gets its title from Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s timeless work, Poetry As Insurgent Art, which beings with the line, “I am signaling you through the flames …” This line is, in turn, taken from Antonin Artaud in his landmark book The Theatre and Its Double, in which he says  “If there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.” Follow the hashtag #SignalingThruTheFlames across all our platforms on social media to follow the complete series.

City Lights: Where are you?

West Oakland.

What books make you feel inspired? 

Xyza Cruz Bacani, We Are Like Air. Amanda Ngoho Reavey, Marilyn. Marianne Chan, All Heathens. Monica Ong, Silent Anatomies. Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider. Linda Hogan, Dwellings. Leslie Marmon Silko, Storyteller. Diane di Prima, Revolutionary Letters. 

What gives you hope in this moment? (And/or what are you thankful for?)

Thankful for: Family. Walking and hiking. Teaching. Home cooking. Quiet.  

Any advice that you’d like to share with our community?

Unplug if you have to. Grieve if you need to. Be good to yourself and those around you.

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Barbara Jane Reyes is the author of Invocation to Daughters (City Lights Spotlight Poetry Series, 2017). She was born in Manila, Philippines, raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is the author of four previous collections of poetry, To Love as Aswang (Philippine American Writers and Artists, Inc., 2015), Gravities of Center (Arkipelago Books, 2003), Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish Press, 2005), which received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets, and Diwata (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2010), which received the Global Filipino Literary Award for Poetry. She is also the author of the chapbooks Easter Sunday (Ypolita Press, 2008) Cherry (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2008), and For the City That Nearly Broke Me (Aztlán Libre Press, 2012). Her forthcoming book is Letters to a Young Brown Girl, being published by BOA Editions, Ltd. in September 2020.

[fatehbaz]

New Poetry by Queer Indigenous Women - A Series Curated by Natalie Diaz - Literary Hub - 12 April 2018

The words of Natalie Diaz:

In my Mojave culture, many of our songs are maps, but not in the sense of an American map. Mojave song-maps do not draw borders or boundaries, do not say this is knowable, or defined, or mine. Instead our maps use language to tell about our movements and wonderings (not wanderings) across a space, naming what has happened along the way while also compelling us toward what is waiting to be discovered, where we might go and who we might meet or become along the way.

This feature of indigenous women is meant to be like those song-maps, to offer myriad ways of “poetic” and linguistic experience—a journey through or across memory, or imagination, across pain or joy or the impossibility of each, across our bodies of land and water and flesh and ink—an ever-shifting, ever-returning, ever-realizing map of movement, of discovery, of possibility, of risk—of indigenous and native poetry. It is my luck to welcome you to this indigenous space and invite you into the conversations of these poems, languages, imageries and wonders. In the first installment of this bi-monthly feature, I’m pleased to share the work of Noʻu Revilla, Janet McAdams, Lehua M. Taitano, Deborah A. Miranda, and Arianne True.

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Noʻu Revilla is a queer Indigenous poet and educator of Hawaiian and Tahitian descent. Born and raised on the island of Maui, she has performed and facilitated creative writing workshops throughout Hawaiʻi as well as in Canada, Papua New Guinea, and at the United Nations. Her work has been exhibited at the Honolulu Museum of Art and appears in Poetry magazine, Black Renaissance Noire, The Missing Slate, Hawaiʻi Review, and Poem of the Week by Kore Press. Her chapbook Say Throne was published by Tinfish Press in 2011, and she is currently finishing her PhD in creative writing at the University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa.

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Janet McAdams is the author of three poetry collections, most recently the chapbook Seven Boxes for the Country After.  With Geary Hobson and Kathryn Walkiewicz, she coedited the anthology The People Who Stayed: Southeastern Indian Writing after Removal. A writer of mixed Scottish, Irish, and Creek (Muscogee) ancestry, she grew up in Alabama and now lives in Ohio, where she teaches at Kenyon College.

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Lehua M. Taitano, a native Chamoru from Yigo, Guåhan (Guam), is a queer writer and interdisciplinary artist.  She is the author of two volumes of poetry–Inside Me an Island (forthcoming 2018) and A Bell Made of Stones. Her chapbook,  appalachiapacific, won the 2010 Merriam-Frontier Award for short fiction, and her most recent chapbook, Sonoma, was published by Dropleaf Press in 2017. She hustles her way through the capitalist labyrinth as a bike mechanic who sometimes gets paid to make art.

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Arianne True (Choctaw, Chickasaw) is a queer poet and folk artist who has worked everywhere from the temperate rainforest canopy to the rocky edges of the Salish Sea. Arianne has taught and mentored with Writers in the Schools (WITS), YouthSpeaks Seattle, and the Richard Hugo House, and has served as a guest editor for cloudthroat. In May, Arianne will graduate from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts.

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Deborah A. Miranda is the author of Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir (winner of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award), as well as three poetry collections, Indian Cartography, The Zen of La Llorona, and Raised By Humans.  She is co-editor of Sovereign Erotics: An Anthology of Two-Spirit Literature and her collection of essays, The Hidden Stories of Isabel Meadows and Other California Indian Lacunae is under contract with U of Nebraska Press.  Miranda is an enrolled member of the Ohlone-Costanoan Esselen Nation of California.  As John Lucian Smith Jr. Professor of English at Washington and Lee University, Deborah teaches Creative Writing (poetry and memoir), composition, and literature of the margins (Native American, Chicana/o, LGBTQ, African American, Asian American, mixed-genre, experimental).

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Read more, including some poems from each of the listed writers.

[inthevintagekitchen]

New treasures are swimming into the shop this week. Leading the way for a season of summer fun is this vintage Portuguese copper and tin lined jelly mold. He's functional but also I'll of personality and looks stylish hanging on the wall. Art and epicurean entertainment all rolled into one. Find him listed in the shop shortly! . . . . . #copper #fish #vintagefish #wall #vintagemolds #tinfish #vintagekitchenwares #shopinthevintagekitchen #portuguese

[finishinglinepress]

FINISHING LINE PRESS FEATURED AUTHOR OF THE DAY: Margaret Rhee is a poet, artist, and scholar. She is the author of chapbooks Yellow (Tinfish Press, 2011), Radio Heart; or, How Robots Fall Out of Love(Finishing Line Press, 2015), and her forthcoming full-length collection, Love, Robot (The Operating System, 2017). Her project The Kimchi Poetry Machine was selected for the Electronic Literature Collection Volume 3. She edits Machine Dreams Zine,a free collection of creative and critical work on machines, arts, and difference. As a scholar, she is at work completing her first monograph, "How We Became Human: Race, Robots, and the Asian American Body. She received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in ethnic and new media studies. Currently, she is a Visiting Scholar at the NYU A/P/A Institute, and a Visiting Assistant Professor at SUNY Buffalo in the Department of Media Study. CONGRATULATIONS Margaret Rhee! Radio Heart, or, How Robots Fall Out of Love (Finishing Line Press) is given the Elgin Award second place by the SFPA. “SF is the only genre of literature in which it’s possible for a writer to explore the question of what this world would be like if you could get rid of [X], where [X] is filled in with any of the multitude of real world facts that constrain and oppress women.” -- Susan Elgin http://www.sfpoetry.com/el/17elgin.html

[tincanfish]

Who you gonna call? >:) Poster for Better Call Saul! I had to do it for class, so I decided to have some fun with it

[tincanfish]

When the winner takes it all and all you get is a shitty bald spot

[tincanfish]

Do you struggle with having a cowboy lawyer stuck in your head at all times? I sure do

I've had this thought in my head for WEEKS to draw cowboy Jimmy in the same pose as Orville Peck on the Out Magazine cover he did

And yes I erm. listened to so much Orville while drawing this teehee

[tincanfish]

I love my linework from the original poster that I wanted to post a doodle with simple colors just to show it off! I love this new pen I got sm...jimmy works so well for it

[tincanfish]

I made a cute little base to draw as many Jimmy / Gene / Saul clothing options as I could >:) this is only a mf smidgen of them that I'm gonna do but I wanted to post some of the ones that I worked on already! If you got clothing idea from any era of BrBa or BCS I'm always open to suggestions >:P

I plan on fully lining and color them when I got enough and then who knows what they might turn into after that yahoo

[tincanfish]

A little doodle redraw of some fanart I did for Lucky Hank a few months ago!

Maybe I'll color it and bring it to a full render later

[smallpressdistribution]

8 SPD Books about the Dilemma of Prison

As the summer wanes the heat is turning up on the Prison Industrial Complex! Prisoners and supporters across the country are organizing a National Prison Strike starting August 21st and continuing through September 9th. We put together a few books that reflect the struggles and lives of those incarcerated inside to spot light their contribution to our literary community. 

1. Come to Me by Sin Soracco (Ithuriel's Spear)

“Sin Soracco is a unique voice among crime novelists. She doesn’t write about private eyes and her stories are not plot-driven, but she does pull the reader into the off-kilter lives of women and men living outside mainstream society. Having spent time in California jails and prisons, Soracco is intimately acquainted with milieus like the ones her convict and ex-convict characters inhabit. They are far from the mostly lily-white preserves of too much U.S. literary fiction, and far more interesting.“ -  Ben Terrall, Counterpunch.com 

2.Inside/Out: Selected Poems by Marilyn Buck (City Lights)

“ With the grace of Lucille Clifton and the force of June Jordan, Buck establishes undeniable presence. Courageous and compelling—make room for some new “survival code.”“ - Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, The Brooklyn Rail 

3.  Locked Out: Voices from America’s Second Prison Edited by Jesse Wiese (Couterpath Press)

“ While many people find hope and a new identity behind prison walls, they lose it a few steps past the prison gate when faced with seemingly insurmountable barriers that prevent them from fulfilling their potential. In effect, these men and women are consigned to a "second prison" that curbs rehabilitation, diminishes success, denies them the opportunity to make meaningful contributions, and minimizes their human value.”

4. The Cutting Four-Piece: Crime And Tragedy In An Era Of Prison-Overcrowding by Scott Thomas Anderson (Coalition for Investigative Journalism)

“ Prison culture is an entity that feeds itself with rage, indifference and the force of addiction. It is a culture that's born in the streets, germinates behind bars, and then flows back into neighborhoods as ongoing cycles of victimization. The U.S. currently has the most overcrowded prisons in the world; some states are combating the legal and political fallout from this reality by enacting new experiments for handling criminals. But behind the clichéd expressions from lawmakers, oversimplified narratives from officials and fragmented reporting by the media, truths around America's justice system lie out of sight for most citizens, purposefully hidden behind curtains of overwhelming failure. Many who work within the system understand its dysfunction comes not only from the confusing nature of criminality, but also from laws tied more to bureaucratic advantage and financial gain than the truth of what is happening in the streets. In THE CUTTING FOUR-PIECE, award-winning journalist Scott Thomas Anderson builds on his years as a newspaper crime reporter to probe the link between prison overcrowding, criminal thinking, addiction, mental illness and policy born from political exploitation. “ 

5. Poems from the Prison Diary of Ho Chi Minh by Ho Chi Minh Translated by Steve Bradbury (Tinfish Press)

“ It is said jails are finishing schools for criminals. A young lawbreaker goes in and learns all the tricks of the trade. Something analogous is described in this poem. The lockup becomes a military training camp in which the strategies for guerrilla warfare are debated and mastered. “ -  Jim Feast from Jacket Magazine 

6.  Prison/Culture Edited by Sharon E Bliss, Kevin B. Chen, Steve Dickison, Mark Dean Johnson, & Rebeka Rodriguez (City Lights)

“Over two million individuals are behind bars in U.S. prisons, living in isolation from their families and their communities. PRISON/CULTURE investigates the culture of incarceration as an integral part of the American experience through a compilation of stunning and often heartrending artwork by inmates as well as by artists on the outside, such as Sandow Birk and Keith Antar Mason, who address incarceration, criminal profiling, wrongful conviction, prison labor, and the death penalty. The book also includes essays on prisons and prison art by Angela Y. Davis and Mike Davis, and poetry by Amiri Baraka, Ericka Huggins, Luis Rodriguez, Sesshu Foster, and more.” 

7.Memoirs from a Swiss Prison by Ignazio Silone (Cross Cultural Communications)

“Ignazio Silone has played an important role in modern history. A founding member of the Italian Communist Party (PSI), he was expelled from the Communist International in 1927 for refusing to back Stalin in his vilification of Trotsky. Forced into exile in Switzerland, Silone took to writing—novels, plays, satirical essays and theoretical works—while at the same time funneling money to colleagues in the anti-Fascist resistance in Italy. In this memoir, written in 1942 while in prison (and nicely translated here by Pugliese, currently at work on a biography of Silone), Silone tries to clear his name from nasty charges made against him: of trying to foment violence and subjugate sovereign states. He does not seek absolution—he considers imprisonment to be an honor and a sign of devotion—but rather an honest rendering of history” - Publishers Weekly

8.Desperate Inscriptions: Graffiti from the Nazi Prison in Rome 1943-1944 by Stanislao G. Pugliese (Bordighera Press)

“ Pugliese's thoughtful narrative, accompanied by black-and-white photos by Lianna Miuccio, documents the lives of such antifascist prisoners as Arrigo Paladini, who wrote on the wall as he was dying, ""There is nothing that can give the joy of a beautiful death as the consciousness of having served the country until the last breath of life."" “- Publishers Weekly