Open …

Like open palms … Brené Brown ‘s talk is first impelling and then, perhaps because of the sympathetic evidence she unearthed, compelling. I hope you will watch/listen to this too. It’s twenty minutes that could change everything.

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Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to the end.

PU TAI – Peeling Tales.

“Peeling Tales” …. the story begins to unravel ……….
Title Quote: Keren Ann

Remember that you call on me today. Be near me, that I may remember you.

Link: Paula Salischiker.
Title Quote: Shakespeare

The memory of objects

Can photography fill the emptiness
of death? Is a photograph enough to remember someone´s existence? Or
are the objects the ones that bring us back the certainty that there
was a past?

Perhaps in the objects and in the longevity of images we find the same painful truth: what does not have a life will never die.

Even
after we are gone, we will be remembered through small things, pieces
of who we were will be kept by the ones who loved us, while trying to
escape the oblivion. My images are born from this gesture of
remembrance. -Paula Salischiker

You must get your loving by living.

Link: Seeing the Everyday | Finding poetry in the prosaic.

“Seeing the Everyday seeks to honestly tell and simply show the everyday beauties found in quiet and humble moments of our own homes and yards with those whom we love most.  It documents through word and image  real stories of the ordinary scenarios that occur in family – finding poetry in the prosaic.” -Editors of Seeing the everyday

Title Quote: Thoreau

Dance with me … dance with me … all night long … / We are the music … we are the song.

Link: Book Works – Fragments d’une Correspondence Litteraire by Sharon Kivland.

Fragments d’une Correspondance Litteraire
by Sharon Kivland (2001)

“Fragments d’une Correspondance Litteraire is an exquisite edition that is available in two versions that display a sensuous use of materials: as a bound volume of texts covered in straight grain leather and as a loose print folio covered in purple book cloth. Fragments d’une Correspondance Litteraire utilises fragments from the letters of Denis Diderot, French philosopher and chief editor of the ‘l’Encyclopedie’, one of the principal literary monuments of the Age of Enlightenment, to his lover Sophie Volland. In this work, that continues her preoccupation with the correspondence of Diderot and Volland, Sharon Kivland has created a work that exists both as a social document and as a record of an extraordinary love affair.

Fragments d’une Correspondence Litteraire is printed letterpress, designed and produced at Book Works Studio.”

Title Quote: Nikki Giovanni

If you’ve heard this story before, don’t stop me, because I’d like to hear it again.

Link: Etsy :: fieldandsea :: Handmade Story Beads.

“Handmade beads made from natural, unbleached paper. Each bead is a line printed with the words of a little tale of a young boy yearning for the attention of a certain little girl. I wrote the story, printed and rolled each bead.”

Title Quote: Groucho Marx

You don’t decide to tell a story, the story decides that you will tell it.

Link: Nina Katchadourian.

“The Sorted Books project began in 1993 years ago and is ongoing. The project has taken place in many different places over the years, ranging form private homes to specialized public book collections. The process is the same in every case: culling through a collection of books, pulling particular titles, and eventually grouping the books into clusters so that the titles can be read in sequence, from top to bottom. The final results are shown either as photographs of the book clusters or as the actual stacks themselves, shown on the shelves of the library they were drawn from. Taken as a whole, the clusters from each sorting aim to examine that particular library’s focus, idiosyncrasies, and inconsistencies — a cross-section of that library’s holdings. At present, the Sorted Books project comprises more than 130 book clusters.”

Title Quote: Gad Yaacob

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But that’s another story …

Link: Vladmaster – Handmade Viewmasters.

“Vladmasters are handmade View-Master™ reels designed, photographed, and hand-assembled by Vladimir. They make use of toys, neglected household objects, and odd ephemera to tell 28-picture tales of train chases, missing steam shovels, disastrous dinner parties, and overly adventurous cockroaches.

Vladmaster performances are simultaneous Vladmaster experiences in which every attendee is given a viewer and set of disks and then led through the story by a soundtrack featuring music, narration, sound effects, and ding noises to cue the change from image to image. Vladimir has given performances across the US and Britain, including shows at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Flaherty Film Seminar in New York, and the Flatpack Film Festival in Birmingham UK.”

Quote: Rudyard Kipling

And thou hast walked about (how strange a story!) In Thebes’s streets three thousand years ago, When the Memnonium was in all its glory. -Horace Smith

Link: Mission Stencil Story – a photoset on Flickr.

“The mission stencil story is an interactive, choose-your-own-adventure story that takes place on the sidewalks of the Mission district in San Francisco. It is told in a new medium of storytelling that uses spraypainted stencils connected to each other by arrows. The streetscape is used as sort of an illustration to accompany each piece of text.

Its a love story with 2 characters who start in different locations. His story starts at 16th and Valencia, in front of the Crown Hotel / Limon Restaurant with the text “He Leaves his Lonely Apartment.” Her story starts at 21st and Guerrero in front of a stunning mansion with the text, “She Leaves her Lonely Apartment.” Eventually their paths merge, at the point where they meet, and their paths travel together until drama pulls them apart.

Their are two possible endings, happy and tragic, and two other points where the story can end unexpectedly if the viewer chooses the wrong ending. All in all, there are 4 possible endings.

We’ve only posted 13 of the tiles here, so as to not give away the plot….”