hunterhunted: Don DeLillo reading from Falling Man.
The voice. Okay, so Hunter and I took an entire class on DeLillo last semester, and after the class was over I vowed I would never read DeLillo again unless I actually felt like it. Hunter had a far less adverse reaction to reading so many of his novels, however.
19 hours ago
when she talks about “Alex A.” THAT WAS ME!
My friends Alex and Julie started a Tumblelog called yrmomsbicurious. You should read it, because it’s funny.
The comments are absurd: “CdG — is there a name for this collection? I’m calling it ‘the vanishing honeybee.’ The show begins with a hive which is empty and crumpling and covered with plastic, moves to other looks (a bug in a spider’s web?) then we have a resurgence of our industrious bee, with honeycombs, and ends with the model looking like she is swarmed with black bees. Has our Queen Bee come home?”
4 days ago
5 days ago“Breach of Peace is a book about the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders, a photo-history told in images old and new. The book features new portraits of 80 Riders and the mug shots of all 328 Riders arrested in Jackson that year, along with excerpts of interviews with the featured Riders.”
The above photo:
“Catherine Burks-Brooks. Born October 8, 1939, in Birmingham, AL.
Then: Senior, Tennessee State, Nashville; active in the Nashville movement.”Read more about the project, and see more of the portraits here.
(via rion.nu)
Cocoons by Beth
My friend Beth takes really cool pictures, which you should look at (click-through link to her Flickr page).
1 week ago