Personism

Links: Synesthesia + Poetry, Photo, Madrid Misc.

• Poetry Comes from Our Tree-Climbing Ancestors, Neuroscientist Says | Wired Science from Wired.com
  The essence of art is, arguably, metaphor, and its practitioners are especially prolific -- and metaphor is just a convenient shorthand for the connection of unlinked cognitive phenomena. That's exactly what appears to happen in the minds of synesthetes
  (tags: poetry science mind psychology creativity)
• Kanako Sasaki
  Quirky narrative environmental/staged portraiture. Esp. like Wanderlustful and Walking in the Jungle. Really odious Flash interface makes browsing a drag. (via winter sleep)
  (tags: photography portraits)
• Google Maps
  Free wifi in Madrid.
  (tags: madrid wifi travel spain)
• El Rastro
  Flea market in Madrid.
  (tags: madrid spain travel consume)
• The 3 best places to eat chocolate & churros in Madrid | Venere Travel Blog
  Yum
  (tags: chocolate food travel madrid spain)
• Notes from Madrid
  Madrid city guide/blog in English.
  (tags: blog travel madrid spain)
• Domestic AC power plugs and sockets - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Because I never know what to bring where.
  (tags: travel tips reference electronics)

The Body Breaks (Musical Interlude)

The Body Breaks by Devendra Banhart. The video itself is a really nice animation.

Links: Picnic in Amsterdam, Every Person in NY

• PICNIC - Create the future
  Looks interesting, plus: Amsterdam!
  (tags: conference design education events media amsterdam)
• Gen Art Pulse - new york - he hearts ny
  Item on Jason's Every Person in New York project.
  (tags: 20x200 jasonpolan newyork art editions drawings)

Paired: Rinko Kawauchi + William Carlos Williams

Untitled 2007 by Rinko Kawauchi

Spring and All
by William Carlos Williams

By the road to the contagious hospital
under the surge of the blue
mottled clouds driven from the
northeast-a cold wind. Beyond, the
waste of broad, muddy fields
brown with dried weeds, standing and fallen

patches of standing water
the scattering of tall trees

All along the road the reddish
purplish, forked, upstanding, twiggy
stuff of bushes and small trees
with dead, brown leaves under them
leafless vines-

Lifeless in appearance, sluggish
dazed spring approaches-

They enter the new world naked,
cold, uncertain of all
save that they enter. All about them
the cold, familiar wind-

Now the grass, tomorrow
the stiff curl of wildcarrot leaf
One by one objects are defined-
It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf

But now the stark dignity of
entrance-Still, the profound change
has come upon them: rooted, they
grip down and begin to awaken

Links: Ornithologie

• Ornithologie - François Nicolas Martinet | Smithsonian Institution Libraries
  Goodness gracious, those are some beautiful birds. (Via Bibliodyssey)
  (tags: birds art ornithology history museums)

Curating 2.0 Panel @ The New York Photo Festival

I'll be appearing on a panel which is part of Aperture Presents at The New York Photo Festival this coming Friday, May 16th. Please try to make it if you can!

Curating 2.0
Friday May 16 | 5-6pm
St. Ann's Warehouse
38 Water Street
Brooklyn, New York

The internet is undoubtedly incubating a new generation of photo curators. How is the medium being radically redefined in this online context? This panel discussion will feature NYPH08 curator Tim Barber of tinyvices.com, Laurel Ptak of i heart photograph, and gallerist Jen Bekman of Hey, Hot Shot! and 20x200.

Links: Colossal Squid

• Colossal squid « Te Papa’s Blog
  The colassal squid's eye is bigger than a dinner plate. Holy smokes! Squid autopsies are highly riveting. Who knew?
  (tags: science nature squid random)