Personism

Links: Indie Authors Overlooked, Cooking, Why Poetry Matters

• Why writers can't go it alone | Books | guardian.co.uk
  "Independent and small presses get short shrift - national newspaper supplements seem loath to review indie books, the big high street sellers won't stock them." (via Murketing)
  (tags: books publishing businesss)
• Supercook - The Intelligent Recipe Search Engine
  For future me, the cooker of things. (Hope springs eternal.) via swissmiss
  (tags: community cooking food reference)
• Why Poetry Matters - ChronicleReview.com
  We listen to the still, small voice of poetry when we read a poem, and that voice stands in ferocious contrast to the clamor in the culture at large and, often, to the sound of society's explosions.
  (tags: poetry society reading culture history)

Links: Library Ladders, Loosening Email ' s Grip

• The Library Ladder - When You Can’t Reach the Top Shelf - NYTimes.com
  There's so much to love about The Putnam Ladder Company! Great story, with an accompanying slide show that is fab.
  (tags: nyc history realestate business)
• Preoccupations - I Freed Myself From E-Mail’s Grip - NYTimes.com
  I just communicated in different and more productive ways. Instead of responding individually to messages that arrived in my in-box, I started to use more social networking tools, like instant messaging, blogs and wikis, among many others.
  (tags: email productivity communication)

Links: Typography, Poetry (lots!), Gut Instinct Rules, Boys ' Clubs of Today

• Anivers — birth of a typeface | i love typography, the typography blog
  Bueno.
  (tags: design typography)
• Book Review - 'Selected Poems,' by Frank O'Hara - Edited by Mark Ford - Review - NYTimes.com
  He began to make poetry from whatever happened around him — today, he might have written a blog. At the time, however, this preoccupation with the trivial, with the nothing of life that is nothing, seemed to jettison everything...
  (tags: poetry frankohara reviews books)
• Scrapple from the Apple: Jazz & Poetry
  As a rhythmic source, jazz provides the illusion of simultaneous spontaneity and inevitability. The velocity of jazz’s rhythms, too, offer progressive and compelling alternatives to iambic meters.
  (tags: jazz poetry writing)
• Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" and the Paperback Revolution
  "With all the passion and drama surrounding Howl and Other Poems... consider that the bulk of the cultural weight that it carries comes not from its text but instead from its material form." Canonical text vs. book as object. Good, if dense, reading.
  (tags: poetry books ideas writing beats)
• Get Out of Your Own Way
  The findings lend credence to researchers who argue that many important decisions may be best made by going with our gut -- not by thinking about them too much.
  (tags: psychology science mind brain)
• Phoenix Journal - Nice Spot to Eat After Golf, but Women Are Barred - NYTimes.com
  Mind-boggling: "here in Arizona, where the governor, secretary of state, chief justice and Senate minority leader are women, it has rankled more than a few women that nonmember men have more rights than paying female members at the Phoenix Country Club."
  (tags: feminism women politics wtf)

Having a Coke with You

Because I am the coolest woman of all in NYC, I'm home on a Friday night reading poetry and about it, and look here! Watching it too. I was pretty damn pleased to come across this video of the man himself reading his poem Having a Coke With You. Here's the text; read along at home!

HAVING A COKE WITH YOU

is even more fun than going to San Sebastian, Irún, Hendaye, Biarritz, Bayonne
or being sick to my stomach on the Travesera de Gracia in Barcelona
partly because in your orange shirt you look like a better happier St. Sebastian
partly because of my love for you, partly because of your love for yoghurt
partly because of the fluorescent orange tulips around the birches
partly because of the secrecy our smiles take on before people and statuary
it is hard to believe when I'm with you that there can be anything as still
as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when right in front of it
in the warm New York 4 o'clock light we are drifting back and forth
between each other like a tree breathing through its spectacles

and the portrait show seems to have no faces in it at all, just paint
you suddenly wonder why in the world anyone ever did them

I look
at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world
except possibly for the Polish Rider occasionally and anyway it's in the Frick
which thank heavens you haven't gone to yet so we can go together the first time
and the fact that you move so beautifully more or less takes care of Futurism
just as at home I never think of the Nude Descending a Staircase or
at a rehearsal a single drawing of Leonardo or Michelangelo that used to wow me
and what good does all the research of the Impressionists do them
when they never got the right person to stand near the tree when the sun sank
or for that matter Marino Marini when he didn't pick the rider as carefully
as the horse

it seems they were all cheated of some marvelous experience
which is not going to go wasted on me which is why I am telling you about it

—Frank O'Hara

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Links: Bowery Art Boom, circa 2005

• The New York Times > Real Estate > Square Feet: New Galleries Set Out To Create a Destination
  Bowery Art Boom, NYT circa 2005: "But being slightly ahead of the curve is not always easy. When Ms. Bekman opened her 400-square-foot gallery in March 2003, there were no other galleries around. "
  (tags: art gallery bowery les nytimes press)

Links: Random Cuteness, Creativity Myths, War Against Distraction

• 100 Year-old Tortoise acts as Mom to Baby Hippo
  More devastatingly cute cuteness from the animal kingdom, via Buzzfeed.
  (tags: animals funny nature random omg!)
• The 6 Myths Of Creativity | Fast Company
  (tags: creativity business design work culture toread)
• Shifting Careers - Fighting a Workplace War Against Distraction - NYTimes.com
  What’s needed is a renaissance of attention — a revaluing and cultivating of the art of attention, to help us achieve depth of thought and relations in this complex, high-tech time.
  (tags: creativity work productivity add)

Links: Bowery Arts District in the NYT

• Surfacing - The Lower East Side - From Pickles to Paintings in New York’s Lower East Side - NYTimes.com
  A round up of LES galleries, which includes the gallery itself plus a link to the Bowery Arts District Google map that we made.
  (tags: nytimes press gallery les maps travel art galleries)

Links: Eames Stamps, Museum Talk

• But does anyone still mail letters? - Stylephile - Boston.com
  I got a few sheets of the new Eames stamps today. This article explains what's what, in case you don't have your midcentury icons memorized.
  (tags: stamps design eames midcentury mail modernism)
• Art Fag City » Massive Links! National Edition
  Please to be reading the comments here. Good thread.
  (tags: art photography museums galleries)

Links: Speaking @ PSFK SF in July

• PSFK Conference San Francisco 2008
  I'll be presenting at this conference in SF on Thursday July 17th, talking about the gallery, 20x200, emerging artists and emerging collectors too!
  (tags: conferences media art sf speaking events)

Ornithology Opens @ Jen Bekman on Wed June 25th

The postcard for Ornithology features a detail from A Dream World Glimmers In The Background Of The Soul, a 30" x 44" gouache on paper painting by Carrie Marill.

Ornithology, our summer group show, opens at Jen Bekman Gallery on Wednesday June 25th. The exhibition features photographs, paintings, drawings + mixed media pieces by a stellar array of artists:

Echo Eggebrecht | Todd Forsgren | Laura Levine | Carrie Marill | Christina Muraczewski | Victoria Neel | Lamar Peterson | Jason Polan | Amy Ross | Alec Soth | Amy Stein | Keith Taylor | Bert Teunissen | Luke Stephenson