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From the work desk of jh:

Narrative Literary Magazine has a really cool arts section. Free to sign up online, you read poems, stories and see incredible digital and non digital graphic arts.

http://narrativemagazine.com/issues/winter-2009/horse-rider-part-one

Right now, I want to share for three reasons:
1. a amazing digitally crafted graphic comic that is set in the desert. while the story is wierd thus far, i love to mango-sugar dust colors and watercolor pen horses-trans-humans. ropey borders and incredible textures. called: "Horse and Rider"
2. a journey in paris in a limited color palette. makes me wanna draw my life in a notebook. "Paris Sketches"
3. "the West Oakland Project: a photo essay" i found it here by chance. it moved me with the simple black and whites of buildings, community celebrations and tragedies and that haunting east bay sky that drafts above many of us each day now. it reminded me of insider/outsiderness. how big and deep this city is.

LOVE.
ps. if you are in the Bay Area, come hike in Sausalito this weekend. i am dogsitting and the marin headlands are out my front door. then we will drink fizzy drinks and look at the city from the back deck**

JOY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYTwmkvFuH4&eurl=http://dearada.typepad.com/&feature=player_embedded

hi. clare.
i recently got accepted to columbia's religious studies program.
so i will probably move to new york in the fall.
i'm excited.
i'm terrified.
i miss california and i'm still here.
i rub a certain buddha's belly for luck.
i rub for luck for all of you.

Movement

Hey friends

I am moving to the Bay Area! I am Lisa! I have my first job interview tomorrow and I love you.

godis

sometimes collaboration creates beauty. like when a book is found and it is full of poetry that is less than satisfactory to the readers, and so the readers collaborate with the writer and become reader-writers and subtract to create a new word life that has meaning for the beholders.

Here is the outcome of such a transformation:

unwrap the new scent
bathe in jungle flower water
an orchid in Your hair
paint Your nails lavender or tangerine
beckon
to a young clean sinless dance
in beauty's arms
and again
beckon
to another
or another and to one
the promise of love
all of a sudden burst
weeping
and weep for all the supple
sinuous death in the world
and for red blood
shattering green grass
and for all the shattered thorns

hello lovelies

It may be hard to tell, but look close and thats me inside Emily Affolter's sunglasses! 

I have made the move to Portland, Oregon. at least for the time being. my new address is 

4229 NE Skidmore. Portland, Oregon 97218. 

come visit. 

Lecture Series at SFAI

Graduate Lecture Series, Spheres of Interest at San Francisco Art Institute

Fridays, 5:00-7:00pm, Lecture Hall at 800 Chestnut St.

- January 30: Nora Alter, "Hearing the Essay"
- February 20: Julio César Morales, "Cover Version"
- March 13: Lydia Yee, " The Originality of the Chinese Avant-Garde”
- March 27: Ann Goldstein, " Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective”
- April 3: Tony Conrad and Activating the Medium, "Fantastic Glissando"
- April 4: Activating the Medium Festival, (the festival will start at 8:00pm, LH, 800 Chestnut)
- April 24: James Meyer, "From Nomadism to Cosmopolitism”
- May 1: Alexander Alberro, "New Forms of Spectatorship in Contemporary Art”

Art Openings at the SFAI Graduate Center, Tuesdays at 2565 Third Street from 7-9pm (Take the T to 20th, walk south a block and a half).
and most Tuesdays from 5:00-7:00 pm at Diego Gallery at 800 Chestnut Street