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Does anyone read this?

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planes of containment

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A winter night's dream...flies

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Alright, I may be done here. Too much required activation energy to too little response/interaction. I liked this blog, I think I collected some good quotes and things here. I'm leaving it up. If anyone sees this or follows me — where next? Where's it happening right now on the internet, where's the place to take quotes, ideas, images, songs, bits of meaning and value to pass on and circulate and sift through?

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Elizabeth Magill (Irish, b. 1959)

Scenic Route 3, 1997

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Mississippi & Mali

Listen to how much Mississippi bluesman Junior Kimbrough and Tuareg band Tinariwen capture a similar feel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGqOsiFwyq4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix76SFstT0I

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Kent Williams - Lord of the flies - 2013

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Kevin Locke, on dance in indigenous cultures vs. dominant culture

Jo Reed: Dance is something that in Native American culture, it has quite a different meaning than in European culture.

Kevin Locke: I think so.

Jo Reed: Can you explain?

Kevin Locke: I kind of-- I like, maybe I just exaggerate to make the point, but I'll just say the dominant culture-- you know, I always think that in the dominant culture, music and dance are what I would maybe say are superfluous activities. They're extraneous. They're not intrinsic activities. Whereas, in most indigenous cultures throughout the world, music and dance are obligatory activities. They're obligatory. You have to participate. And so that's the difference right there. And I always think that in many cases, for indigenous cultures that I've observed, the use of music and dance is quite different. Because you know, you drive around, you watch people, they're plugged into their little earphones and they're in their cars, and they're just zoned out. They have stressful, routine lives! And they want to, they want to just escape all that, you see? So then they tune into music, or whatever, to kind of give them a release, and they just escape that reality that they're in, you see? Whereas, I find that indigenous people, especially here in North America, they use music for the opposite purpose, you see? We use it to connect with that which is real, and good. That which is holy. That which enables all these barriers to collapse and to dissipate the barrier between ourselves and our ancestors. That disappears, you know, through music! There's a continuity there. The barrier between ourselves and the future. That all disappears. The disconnect between ourselves and nature, we reverse that, and we connect through music and through dance. So that's how we do it, yeah. <laughs>

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游鱼 (swimming fish) by ere on ArtStation

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Forest and Sun, Max Ernst

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I once spent a summer day at the mountain home of a well-known literary woman and editor. She lamented the absence of birds about her house. I named a half-dozen or more I had heard or seen in her trees within an hour–the indigo-bird, the purple finch, the yellow-bird, the veery thrush, the red-eyed vireo, the song sparrow. "Do you mean to say you have seen or heard all these birds while sitting here on my porch?" she inquired. "I really have," I said. "I do not see them or hear them," she replied, "and yet I want to very much." "No," said I; "you only want to want to see and hear them." — John Burroughs, The Art of Seeing Things

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Luiz Carlos Carrera

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Gato Barbieri - Mi Buenos Aires Querido

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Return

Logged in after having not logged in for a bit, and rather than the usual disheartening silence, there was a lot of activity for some old posts, mostly quotes. That's encouraging, I'm going to have to start using this again. The thing is, my desire is to post pictures and music, and it's text that seems to get through here, in my use of the platform. All my verbal thought has been pointing in the direction of things other than verbal thought. Words leading out of the forest of words. Something about words can cut through the scrolling world more easily than sound. The way we operate on phones and computers, the startup cost of reading a word or two to be drawn in to read the rest seems to be smaller than clicking and playing a song. It's like this for me as well; if I come across a tumblr mostly pausing songs, I might click a couple, but I'll imbibe less of it than one with a slew of images and quotes I like. If you pause it all and step out of the modern attention whirlwind and give something your full attention (I think of that James Cameron quote, “Going to a movie theater is less about the size of the screen and the perfection of the sound system, and more about a decision not to multi task. You’re making a deal between yourself and a piece of art to give it your full attention.” ) then you can get as transformative an experience from any medium, sound, film, painting, words. But it's a strange game they all play competing with each other to catch our eye and lead us out of it.

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Hugues Erre

Lozère

France 1973

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Noah Howard — The Black Ark