Being Visual

trentgilliss: Ice Rink Photo Poesy. Today, Rilke: “I live my...

beingblog — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:13:36 -0600

Ice Rink Photo Poesy. Today, Rilke: “I live my life in widening circles / that reach out across the world. / I may not complete this last one but I give myself to it.” (Taken with instagram)

This Crab Nebula is a remnant of a star’s supernova...

beingblog — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:54:28 -0500

This Crab Nebula is a remnant of a star’s supernova explosion. It’s six light-years wide and expanding! Congratulations to the three astrophysicists who won this year’s Nobel Prize in physics for discovering that the fading lights of supernovas tell us that our universe is expanding into a cold dark place.

(Photo by NASA via Getty Images)

Time for Moon Cakes A vendor diplays moon cakes for sale at a...

beingblog — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 07:21:29 -0500

Time for Moon Cakes

A vendor diplays moon cakes for sale at a bakery shop in Phnom Penh. Cambodian-Chinese will celebrate the Chinese mid-autumn festival, also called the moon festival, today, September 12.

(photo: Tang Chhin Sothy/AFP/Getty Images)

Created by artists Doug and Mike Starn, “Big Bambú”...

beingblog — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:35:00 -0500

Created by artists Doug and Mike Starn, “Big Bambú” amazed guests in 2010 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The artists and a team of rock climbers created this rooftop installation out of 5,000 interlocking 30- and 40-foot-long fresh-cut bamboo poles, lashed together with 50 miles of nylon rope. The structure changed throughout the exhibit, and ultimately became 100 feet long, 50 feet wide, and 50 feet high with spires, crests, and footpaths.

Photo by artstuffmatters/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

terrysdiary: Get Right With God

beingblog — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 06:05:29 -0500

terrysdiary:

Get Right With God

littleorphanammo: Alicia Graf Mack of Alvin Ailey American...

beingblog — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 16:40:54 -0500

littleorphanammo:

Alicia Graf Mack of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

Such lovely lines.

parabola-magazine: “We do not see through our eyes alone.” —...

beingblog — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:33:43 -0500

parabola-magazine:

“We do not see through our eyes alone.”

— David Ulrich

(Photograph: Bryce Canyon, Utah, 1974

geologyrocks: Sunset on top of the Table Mountain, Golden,...

beingblog — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:18:03 -0500

geologyrocks:

Sunset on top of the Table Mountain, Golden, CO

My goodness!

~reblogged by Trent Gilliss, senior editor

todaysdocument: August 3, 1936 - Jesse Owens wins the 100m...

beingblog — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:00:27 -0500

todaysdocument:

August 3, 1936 - Jesse Owens wins the 100m sprint at the Summer Olympics in Berlin.

The idea of this one man humbling Hitler still sends chills down my spine.

~reblogged by Trent Gilliss, senior editor

A perfect pairing from 3rdcoastfieldnotes: And I shall have some...

beingblog — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 14:35:25 -0500

A perfect pairing from 3rdcoastfieldnotes:

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet’s wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.

w.b. yeats 1865

~reblogged by Trent Gilliss, senior editor

discoverynews: Britney Wehrle was walking with a friend on a...

beingblog — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 08:50:43 -0500

discoverynews:

Britney Wehrle was walking with a friend on a sunny, warm day when she was suddenly struck by lightning, even though the sky above her was clear and blue.

It”s not uncommon for lightning to travel far from its originating cloud, experts say. In some cases, bolts have struck as much as 25 miles from where they originated. Scientists refer to these wayward streaks of electricity as “bolts from the blue,” since it often seems as though the lightning comes out of a clear blue sky.

~reblogged by Trent Gilliss, senior editor

“Reich’s piece brings back some searing memories, with (for me)...

beingblog — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:11:36 -0500

“Reich’s piece brings back some searing memories, with (for me) an emotional intensity that had dimmed over the last 10 years. His work is a reflection of the chaos and horror of that day, and of the struggle to understand what happened. In that light, using that photo feels, to me, appropriate. I don’t fully appreciate the dark smudging and streaking of the image (the NY sky was a bright clear blue that day)…but this feels like a quibble. The events of that day were ghastly, abhorrent. But I appreciate the way Reich’s piece brings me face-to-face with what happened, and with my own visceral reaction.”
—Fred Child, host of Performance Today

pictoryblog: Pastor Daniel sits with a man in Kibera slum,...

beingblog — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:24:00 -0500

pictoryblog:

Pastor Daniel sits with a man in Kibera slum, Nairobi, where he offers his services as a religious healer. The man has come to him claiming to be possessed by demons and hopes that with prayer Pastor Daniel will be able to rid him of them.

— By Tobin Jones (from “Open Theme”)

~reblogged by Trent Gilliss, senior editor

“In Truth and Method, German philosopher Hans-Georg...

beingblog — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 06:20:52 -0500

“In Truth and Method, German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer wrote that the most important thing in human relationships is to experience the other in a way that allows them to really speak to us. In this kind of communication, says Gadamer, we do not merely listen and then leave unaffected. Rather, we are changed by way of this experience with another individual.”

—Jared Vázquez, from “Are Theological Conversations on Homosexuality Really Pointless?”

“Late adventures at Arco de São Jorge” Searching for...

beingblog — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 08:53:00 -0500

“Late adventures at Arco de São Jorge”

Searching for lead images for our upcoming show “The Far Shore of Aging” with Jane Gross and happened upon this lovely image. Be prepared for more posts of this brilliant photographer’s work in the coming days and months. Fantastic.

(photo: alex@Tlön/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

~Trent Gilliss, senior editor

The sun is rising in this land of soccer. A brilliant...

beingblog — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 18:53:58 -0500

The sun is rising in this land of soccer. A brilliant performance. Just listening to this World Cup Finals on the radio gave me chills.

(photo: Patrik Stollarz/AFP/Getty Images)

curiositycounts: Beautiful soda can paper sculptures by...

beingblog — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 18:37:44 -0500

curiositycounts:

Beautiful soda can paper sculptures by artist Yoshio Hasegawa, a fine addition to these ultimate masters of paper art and a worthy contender for Papercraft 3.

On this day in 1918, the Second Battle of Marne began. This...

beingblog — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:01:06 -0500

On this day in 1918, the Second Battle of Marne began. This photograph of the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery was taken in 1928.

—todaysdocument

Having no idea about the story or the significance of this World War I battle, I did a bit of reading about this major offensive and was struck by the ferocity of General Gouraud’s words (especially his ending lines) appealing to his French troops and American forces well:

We may be attacked from one moment to another. You all feel that a defensive battle was never engaged in under more favorable conditions.

We are warned, and we are on our guard. We have received strong reinforcements of infantry and artillery. You will fight on ground which by your assiduous labor you have transformed into a formidable fortress, into a fortress which is invincible if the passages are well guarded.

The bombardment will be terrible. You will endure it without weakness. The attack in a cloud of dust and gas will be fierce, but your positions and your armament are formidable.

The strong and brave hearts of free men beat in your breasts. None will look behind, none will give way. Every man will have but one thought: “Kill them, kill them in abundance, until they have had enough.”

And therefore your General tells you it will be a glorious day.

(source: Source Records of the Great War, Vol. VI, ed. Charles F. Horne, National Alumni 1923

~reblogged by Trent Gilliss, senior editor

Hidden in the sea of people who brought their chairs to the...

beingblog — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 07:44:53 -0500

Hidden in the sea of people who brought their chairs to the Walker Art Center’s “1,001 Chairs: An Observance in Honor of Silenced Voices” sits Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s desk chair from his studio in Beijing, which was unexpectedly sent after they heard about the Minneapolis institute’s effort. Can you see it?

Kholoud Al Ajarma, a Palestinian woman who coordinates the arts...

beingblog — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:23:06 -0500

Kholoud Al Ajarma, a Palestinian woman who coordinates the arts and media activities for the Lajee Center, whom we met and interviewed while reporting within Aida refugee camp in the West Bank city of Bethlehem this past March. What a gift to meet her and take her photo, along with many others while working there.

(photo: Trent Gilliss)