michal jedrzejowski – hand
Hand by Michal Jedrzejowski Website: Michal Jedrzejowski
Month: March 2009
andrew sullivan – harlem jazz
[slidepress gallery=’andrewsullivan-harlemjazzmm’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Andrew Sullivan Harlem Jazz play this essay Tap dancer Omar Edwards thrust the metal toe of his shoe forward and scraped an arc on the Minton’s Playhouse stage. An audience of three heard the sound of saws cutting through logs. African drums …
david plummer – feast of losses
Feast of Losses by David Plummer Feast of Losses, is an ongoing project that documents the life of David Pembroke, who in 2003 was diagnosed with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, a rare brain disease that causes nerve endings at the base of the brain to gradually die. These neurons mainly control movement and balance, vision …
akaky – no pictures please
No Pictures Please by Akaky When I was a young man, a time I like to think of as only yesterday and the calendar likes to tell me wasn’t, I had no suicidal tendencies. Yes, I bumbled my way through the usual raft of silly foibles allotted to the young and hormonally overwhelmed male. …
laura el-tantawy – fervent
[slidepress gallery=’lauraeltantawy-ferventspirits’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Laura El-Tantawy Fervent Spirits play this essay Fervent Spirits is about faith. Believing in the invisible. A power only heard of, but never quiet seen. I started this project in the holy Land in Jerusalem, inspired by a 60-year-old conflict that has …
times and timing…
i have been suggesting recently that it might be easier for discussion here if all comments came under Dialogue…this seems to be the right time to give it a try….as with all things, it is timing, timing and timing…. when i read Laura El Tantawy’s comment under the Chiara Tocci “selected single”, it seemed perhaps …
chiara tocci – enlightened
Enlightened by Chiara Tocci In the Sunna, the other major holy Muslim book together with the Quran, the pictures of living beings are condemned. “Whoever makes a picture will be punished by Allah. He (the picture maker) will be ordered to breathe life into the picture, but he will not be able to do …
stephen burrows – auschwitz
Auschwitz by Stephen Burrows Auschwitz in the snow as the debate whether the site should be kept in its time locked state or left to nature is being considered. Website: Stephen Burrows
charles peterson – felix
Felix Mars Peterson and his mother nine hours and ten minutes after coming into this world. Swedish Hospital, Seattle, WA , 1/29/09 9:34pm. Felix was born to Mascha Kroenlein and myself after an arduous 30 hour labor and a vacuum assisted delivery (he was face up and coming at a strange angle). He …