Bear Creak
Carolyn and I went out to Bear Creak park on Sunday. It was the first day that I really felt like myself again. While we were out I got a few interesting shots: You can see more at my TH album HERE.
"Fix" by Alicia Suskin Ostriker, from No Heaven.
Poem: “Fix” by Alicia Suskin Ostriker, from No Heaven. Fix The puzzled ones, the Americans, go through their lives Buying what they are told to buy, Pursuing their love affairs with the automobile, Baseball and football, romance and beauty, Enthusiastic as trained seals, going into debt, struggling — True believers in liberty, and also security, And […]
Sharon Kopriva
I ran across a booklet I picked up in 2001 that showcases the art of Sharon Kopriva. I really like her work even though it is grotesque. It tends to speak volumes about the worst of Christianity – which I appreciate since the caustic side of that faith was used as a weapon against me. To me, her work seems to speak to that part of Christianity that is grotesque, vial, retched, small and… well… dead.
Cristan’s Tsuboniwa
Making your own Japanese garden on outside your apartment door.
Japanese Gardening in an Apartment
… Walking up to my door… … Still walking to my door… what you are looking at is my tsukubai… a bamboo water spout draining into a large hand carved (by me: ) stone basin … … This my patio – looking to the left of the tsukubai. What you are looking at is my […]
3-Iron, AKA Bin-jip
“Bin-jip” or “3-Iron” is an amazing movie. Here is the trailer – but it doesn’t come close to capturing the haunting quality of this movie!
Japanese Gardening
Now, when I said that I didn’t do anything today… I suppose that was a lie. I did do something: I messed with my tsuboniwa some today. I know how much ALL of you just LOVE listening to me talk about Japanese gardening! So, luckily for you, I took pictures!
Koi Pond at My Apartment
This is looking into the “pond” or whatever it is. You can see one of my white dragon koi… I think it turned out okay and it cost me under $100 to make. Inside is a 52 gallon plastic storage container lined in black plastic with Mexican beach stones lining the bottom (smooth, roundish-whitish stone) The wood is just treated fenceposts and the decorative spaced wood is just treated lattice wood.
