The Inner Ear

"Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for."
-Jean Cocteau
http://www.famouspoetsandpoems.com/

Mural

Ferguson, Mo.

http://hyperallergic.com/

Internet Archive

https://archive.org

architecture

http://vi.sualize.us/atomic_splendor_diner_atomic_age_design_architecture_picture_5bDT.html

The Inner Ear

"I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry."
Randall Jarrell
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_poetry37.html#dvgJbqbmhHQJ70I7.99

Universe has a 'golden ratio'

 "...the golden ratio - 1.618 - can be seen ‘related not only to aspects of mathematics but also to physics, chemistry, biology and the topology of space-time.’

"And it may dictate how certain things in the universe take shape.

...

"some 20th century artists used it for the rectangular shape of their portraits from the long side to the short side.
...

"‘Spectacular examples include the Whirlpool Galaxy (M51), ammonites, the shape of Nautilus shells, Hurricane Katrina and the distribution of planets, moons, asteroids and rings in the solar system.’

"The researchers suggest that the reason that this ratio is so ubiquitous is that it is actually a property of space-time."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2862243/Is-space-time-shaped-like-SPIRAL-Universe-golden-ratio-keeps-order-researchers-claim.html

Brain function 'boosted for days after reading a novel'

  "Being pulled into the world of a gripping novel can trigger actual, measurable changes in the brain that linger for at least five days after reading, scientists have said.

  "The changes were registered in the left temporal cortex, an area of the brain associated with receptivity for language, as well as the the primary sensory motor region of the brain.

  "Neurons of this region have been associated with tricking the mind into thinking it is doing something it is not, a phenomenon known as grounded cognition - for example, just thinking about running, can activate the neurons associated with the physical act of running."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/brain-function-boosted-for-days-after-reading-a-novel-9028302.html

Neal Cassady

AP EXCLUSIVE: LETTER THAT INSPIRED KEROUAC FOUND
BY JOHN ROGERS 
ASSOCIATED PRESS

  "It's been called the letter that launched a literary genre - 16,000 amphetamine-fueled, stream-of-consciousness words written by Neal Cassady to his friend Jack Kerouac in 1950... Kerouac described it this way: 'It was the greatest piece of writing I ever saw, better'n anybody in America, or at least enough to make Melville, Twain, Dreiser, Wolfe, I dunno who, spin in their graves.' "

Bill Mauldin's cartoons to be auctioned

"Biographer Todd DePastino said Mauldin's work went beyond boosting soldier morale. It offered a glimpse into life on the front lines at a time when Americans were shielded from many of the horrors of war. His later work centered on issues still relevant today — civil rights, privacy and government overreach."
Susan Montoya Bryan
http://news.yahoo.com/bill-mauldins-cartoons-auctioned-183803483.html

Grimm brothers’ fairytales have blood and horror restored in new translation

  "Rapunzel is impregnated by her prince, the evil queen in Snow White is the princess’s biological mother, plotting to murder her own child, and a hungry mother in another story is so 'unhinged and desperate' that she tells her daughters: 'I’ve got to kill you so I can have something to eat.' Never before published in English, the first edition of the Brothers Grimms’ tales reveals an unsanitised version of the stories that have been told at bedtime for more than 200 years...

  "Wilhelm Grimm... 'deleted all tales that might offend a middle-class religious sensitivity'...

                                                                                      Alison Flood is a writer on guardian.co.uk/books and former news editor of the Bookseller

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/12/grimm-brothers-fairytales-horror-new-translation

graphic design

http://www.logodesignlove.com/iconic-logo-designers

http://www.logodesignlove.com/iconic-logo-designers

Landscape

Nevada Landscape                                                                                 M. Hill 2013

Bloody Dan Aykroyd film clip sparks homicide investigation (2013)

 Ghostbusters star Dan Aykroyd was briefly at the centre of a police investigation in Calgary 

earlier this week after murderous footage of his 1990 film flop Loose Cannons was 

unearthed at a landfill site...

A worker, who stumbled upon the images of Aykroyd standing over a bloody corpse, failed 

to recognize the actor and thought he had found evidence of a sickening crime...

"The movie should have been left in the landfill where it belongs,"(said Aykroyd).

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/05/31/bloody-dan-ackroyd-film-clip-sparks-police-homicide-investigation

Reading

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- More U.S. residents, especially young people, are reading literature, the first time that's happened in 25 years, the National Endowment for the Arts says.

Read more: http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2009/01/12/Survey-More-Americans-reading-literature/UPI-37781231787345/#ixzz3I0mKnC57

Photography

All the presidents of the United States from 1789 to 1889.

Do All U.S. Presidents Look the Same? What About Japan’s Prime Ministers?

"The aesthetics of official portraits of world leaders are no accident. As Alejandro Almaraz demonstrates in his series, “Portraits of Power,” they’re precisely constructed compositions, created with the intention of reinforcing the authority of their subjects...Almaraz created the images in his series by overlapping between four and 40 photos (and sometimes paintings) of successive heads of state, procured over 'many, many hours at the library.' "

Jordan G. Teicher writes about photography for Slate’s Behold blog. Follow him onTwitter.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/10/22/alejandro_almaraz_creates_composite_images_of_world_leaders_in_his_series.html

The Inner Ear

"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."

Robert Frost

brainyquote.com

Seagull

sculpture                                Palanga, Lithuania

The Inner Ear

"Every author portrays himself in his works, even though it be against his will."
-Goethe

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/read.php?CATEGORY_PK=&TOPIC_PK=6497

Television

1927

The Inner Ear

"I will share the world's beauty with my enemies
even though their greed destroys the innocence
of my Adamic island."
-Derek Walcott, "White Egrets"

The Inner Ear

"Thou shalt leave the world and know the muse only. Thou shalt not know any longer the times, customs, graces, politics, or opinions of men, but shall take all from the muse."
-Emerson, "The Poet"

The Dutch Boy's Lead Party

tumblr_m9w89fv8p21qabj53o1_500

Jung

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/345792077613301602/

Atomic Man

tumblr_lzpp29cRaX1qmho7ko1_500

Art and the Atom

Exhibition catalog, pub. The Stables Art Gallery of Taos. n.d., circa 1963.

The Inner Ear

"I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet."

Bob Dylan

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_poetry2.html#Ehj5kv5PEyVfgwrX.99

Daily Swipe

Franz Kline

Crow                                                                                      M. Hill, Lithuania 2014

Modern Man

The Inner Ear

"The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics!"
-Emerson, "The Poet", 1844
The Best of Ralph Waldo Emerson, cr. 1941 by Walter J. Black, Inc., New York

Space 1966

Ceramics Studio

The Inner Ear

"Poetry is the language of a state of crisis."
-Mallarme

The Inner Ear

- A story is told according to which Saint-Pol-Roux, in times gone by, used to have a notice posted on the door of his manor house in Camaret, every evening before he went to sleep, which read: ‘THE POET IS WORKING’. 
* artist quote on Saint-Pol-Roux, taken from: ‘Manifesto du Surréalisme’, André Breton, 1924

http://www.quotes-famous-artists.org/andre-breton-quotes

Lenin in Lithuania

Grutas Park                                            M. Hill 2014

The Inner Ear

“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.” 
― Marcel Duchamp
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/surrealism

Kaunas is New

M. Hill 2014

"TV Tower and Billboard", Vilnius, Lithuania         Mike Hill 2014

Musician

from Devil's Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania

 The Ballads of Kukutis

Marcelijus Martinaitis

Arc Publications, 2011

on vacation

New York Night                  Georgia O'Keeffe,1929

WikiArt

The Inner Ear

"Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity."

Yoko Ono

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/creative.html#mxljDKdmaOH4QyiB.99

"I had a good job but lost it in the crash of 2008 ... I was an artist before ... so if I can get a little money, I buy art supplies."
— Jeanine Mordon
http://projects.aljazeera.com/2014/poverty-gettingby/#sonyabegay

The Street

Chicago                                                      M. Hill 2014

Red Grooms

Jackson in Action

http://www.wikiart.org/en/red-grooms/jackson-in-action-1997

Real Americans

Owned by atomickommiecom

The Inner Ear

"I have no friends but the oldest, words."
-Derek Walcott

COMIX/NOT COMIX

THIS IS COMIX
file:///C:/Users/owner/Desktop/comixnot%20comix/realcostsheet.pdf

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COMIX/NOT COMIX

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THIS IS NOT COMIX

The Inner Ear

I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.
- Ovid
http://www.coolnsmart.com/writing_quotes/

The Inner Ear

To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it. 
- Kurt Vonnegut

Source : http://www.coolnsmart.com/art_quotes/

COMIX/NOT COMIX

THIS IS COMIX



THIS IS NOT COMIX

The Inner Ear

“If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad.” 
-George Gordon, Lord Byron
http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/44407.George_Gordon_Byron

The Inner Ear

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night."

Edgar Allan Poe

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_imagination.html#lVAkTJoMly1VyJZs.99

COMIX/NOT COMIX

THIS IS COMIX

THIS IS NOT COMIX

The Inner Ear

"If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty."

Rainer Maria Rilke

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/r/rainer_maria_rilke.html#VReptR1z8r8cBQqL.99

Albrecht Dürer

"This year marks 500 years since the creation of Albrecht Dürer's 'Melencolia I' one of his three 'Master Prints,' widely considered the pinnacle of classical printmaking. Dürer, a Renaissance man, incorporated his world view and his deep interest in science, especially mathematics , into his prints. Among the prints, 'Melencolia I' holds a special place, influencing many generations of artists, philosophers, scientists, mathematicians and students of science."

http://www.livescience.com/45557-durer-engraving-shaped-science-and-math.html

R.I.P. White Buffalo Gazette

The Inner Ear

...education and the arts help spread “wisdom, and knowledge, as well as virtue.” And that fostering these qualities is “necessary for the preservation of ... rights and liberties.”
-John Adams
http://artery.wbur.org/2014/04/10/art-harvard-massachusetts-constitution

William Poulson

American GI Lt William Roberston greets Russian soldier Lt Alexander Sylvashko, as the historic meeting of the two armies near Torgau on the Elbe. (Photo by William Poulson/Keystone/Getty Images). 25th April 1945
http://avaxnews.net/educative/1945_In_Photos_2.html

Dreamachine Plans

created by

Brion Gysin

Temple Press Limited, 1992 

 

http://magazine.seymourprojects.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/dream-machine-plans.pdf

Jonas Mekas

"An Elegy for Allen Ginsberg"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQSabbZXmi0

Boris Pasternak

CIA Declassifies Agency Role 

in Publishing Doctor Zhivago

  "The Central Intelligence Agency on Friday, April 11^th posted to its public website nearly 100 declassified documents that detail the CIA’s role in publishing the first Russian-language edition of Doctor Zhivago after the book had been banned in the Soviet Union.  The 1958 publication of Boris Pasternak’s iconic novel in Russian gave people within the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe the opportunity to read the book for the first time...

  "In a memo dated April 24, 1958 a senior CIA officer wrote: “We have the opportunity to make Soviet citizens wonder what is wrong with their government when a fine literary work by the man acknowledged to be the greatest living Russian writer is not even available in his own country [and] in his own language for his people to read.”

  "After working secretly to publish the Russian-language edition in the Netherlands, the CIA moved quickly to ensure that copies of Doctor Zhivago were available for distribution to Soviet visitors at the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair.  By the end of the Fair, 355 copies of Doctor Zhivago had been surreptitiously handed out, and eventually thousands more were distributed throughout the Communist bloc."

https://www.cia.gov/news-information/press-releases-statements/2014-press-releases-statements/cia-declassifies-agency-role-in-publishing-doctor-zhivago.html

Foundry

Found Art