Art
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she kicks, legs out on imagined grass grown over cotton water. we wash up on the duvet, pursed and pillowy as clouds hovering over the sharp grey of rains dreamt by Northern California fires. we can’t help but be hungry, the sweat of a cool night breeze blowing off my brow, seaside and high like…
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私はラッキーですよ。私の彼女はアッシュリーベアです。彼女はジャーナリストと中学の先生として社員だったけど今マーケティングの経営学修士があります。でも彼女の写真はきれいだと思って、彼女がもっと撮影くれたいです！それに私は詩を書くのが好きだけど詩を書く時間がありません。とにかく、先日、彼女が私に「新しいプロジェクトを一緒にやりたいの？」と言いました。そして「詩撮影」というプロジェクトは生まれました！ 私が詩を書いて彼女は私の詩に似合う写真を取ります。そしたら彼女が新しい写真を取って私は彼女の写真に似合う詩を書きます。いいんでしょう？ 私は今晩に初めての詩をポストします。今朝にもう書きました。楽しみですね！ I’m a lucky man. My girlfriend, Ashley Baer, was a journalist and middle school teacher, and now she’s got an MBA in Marketing, but I think her pictures are gorgeous and I really want her to do more photography! I also love to write poetry, but I never find the time to…
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Austin Walker of Giant Bomb recently asked what parts of gaming or gaming criticism or culture his readership might be afraid of losing or seeing forgotten by the collective consciousness. I had to think about that for a minute. While there’s a lot that I love about the games that have come to us since…
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As some of you may know, I’ve recently returned to studying Japanese. This is something I’d invested heavily in several years ago, but during the course of several traumatic life events had managed to lose sight of. Coming back to it was like a breath of fresh air, an invigorating return to purpose. Because I…
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Ah, “darkness”. Few words conjure up so much immediate meaning and are still so subject to arguments about semantic terminology. What is dark to one, after all, may not be to another. What some find distastefully morbid, others mine for inspiration. Yet to some degree we all know what’s implied when the term is used,…
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Sometimes I need a reminder as regards not just the beauty of the world, but the beauty of its tapestry, the spun consequence of those things we use the inadequacy of the English language to describe: darkness and light, mortality and the spirit. (Dress them up in fancier terms and they suffer no less for…
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I’m sure somebody is going to find this distasteful, but I love weird art, especially the kind that makes you stop and think. If it repels you, why? Are you disgusted? Are you curious? Do you find yourself able to appreciate its interesting qualities while divorcing yourself from the “weirdness” or “grossness” of it? Can…
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I recently finished playing through Dark Souls on the PS3, one of the only games that’s truly grabbed me and made me feel in the last few years. It was an emotional experience for me, due in large part to brilliant art design and often brutal challenges. It did what so few games in the…