An obscure Joe Strummer song was playing on my Spotify daily suggestions and it reminded me of The Burning Man: both the movies and the festival. I …Burning Man During Covid-19 – The Hollow Ones #37
Strange Style Choices
Well, let’s just say that I was as uncomfortable of this shirt he’s wearing as it looked in the photo I used for source material. It appeared to be a…Strange Style Choices
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #438 – Long Days
Long Days Musings of the Artists Mind Some days feel like everything is… just longer. Follow this guy on his walk among the tall tree(s). Enjoy his … 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #438 – Long Days
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #90: The Hollow Men 88 – Bird
The Hollow Men 88 – Bird: The History: Here’s my story on this… I have to blame this one on Monty Python’s Parrot Skit. There goes my absurdist …500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #90: The Hollow Men 88 – Bird
T.A.E.’s. Book Review – Smith of Wootton Major by J.R.R. Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien’s Smith of Wootton Major is a seemingly modest fairy tale that reveals, on closer reading, one of his deepest imaginative convictions: that the ordinary world is not diminished by enchantment, but clarified by it. At first glance, the story appears almost slight—a village feast, a child who swallows a star, a smith who … Continue reading T.A.E.’s. Book Review – Smith of Wootton Major by J.R.R. Tolkien
T.A.E.’s Book Review – Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien
Farmer Giles of Ham is one of Tolkien’s most delightfully subversive works: a mock-heroic tale that looks at first like a rustic folktale, then quietly reveals itself as a sophisticated satire of epic language, aristocratic power, and the unstable relationship between legend and local history. Where much of Tolkien’s fiction seeks the sublime, this novella … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Book Review – Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #437 – Hey, Man! You’re Kinda Blockin’ My Sun!
Hey, Man! You’re Kinda Blockin’ My Sun! Musings of the Artists Mind Some people are grumpy about everything. Which one of these two fellows is the …500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #437 – Hey, Man! You’re Kinda Blockin’ My Sun!
Revisionist Poetry – “A Photograph of Scent” – Into The Heart, v.4
The photographer descendsinto the heart of the rose,where the blossom turns inwardand every petal seems to listen. There is no need for colour now.The bloom speaks in fragrance,in velvet edge, in fragile fold,in the slow opening of its own astonishment. Through the lens he gatherswhat the eye alone cannot hold:the soft architecture of scent,the pulse … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “A Photograph of Scent” – Into The Heart, v.4
No Cap, Time Comes for Us All (Revisionist Shakespeare – Sonnet 2 for Gen Z)
When forty winters shall have boxed up your face,And dug deep lines into your beauty’s glow,Your once-lit youth, now kinda out of place,Will be, like, totally low-key let go. Then, if someone asks where your vibe went,Where all the fresh got up and dipped away,To say, “That was my look” will feel like rentOn a … Continue reading No Cap, Time Comes for Us All (Revisionist Shakespeare – Sonnet 2 for Gen Z)
Don’t Let Time Roast You (Revisionist Shakespeare – Sonnet 2 for Gen X)
When forty winters shall have clocked your face,And carved deep lines into your once-smooth brow,Your youth, all hot and shiny, out of place,Will look like some old-ass thing from way back now. Then beauty, draped in clothes you used to wear,Will ask, “Who the hell are you?” with a sneer,And people will see through the … Continue reading Don’t Let Time Roast You (Revisionist Shakespeare – Sonnet 2 for Gen X)