Saturday, July 23, 2011

Scavenged Materials: The Novelist


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Office of the Norwegian Prime Minister with windows blown out shortly after the Oslo explosion of 23 July, 2011: photo by Johannes Grødem




A female character not a plausibly real woman spilling out in a female character saying "What's wrong with you, this crippling, these blistering resemblances not to worry too much about some things it's probably still a flaw, inexplicable sometimes obtrusive midwestern childhood the old material investigating the shame and fear: the shame of self-exposure, the fear of ridicule or condemnation, the fear of causing pain or harm self-analysis interlude between those two materialistic master languages a shining example of how not to approach this radioactive material -- a reminder of the pressing need to find a structure and a tone and a point of view that would ironize it enough to make it old no personality, just these various intersecting fields: that personality is socially constructed, genetically constructed, linguistically constructed, constructed by some semiconscious maskless self, underlying extremity static lives being disrupted self-deception is funny, to aggressively inflict painful knowledge in joining the characters in their dream, and experiencing it with them, scavenged materials buried in a drawer or stored in some remote, inaccessible location to the structure, too, a clear and present danger the impulse to defend but the foes change with death happening to wild birds around the world on earth however many metaphor-free days --"

(gradual dawning prescience -- )







Smoke from the Las Conchas fire turns the setting sun red over the Jemez Mountains behind the town of Los Alamos, New Mexico, on 28 June 2011: photo by Jim Thompson/Albuquerque Journal via Associated Press


Toyota Motor Corporation partner robots play instruments at the company's showroom in Tokyo on 4 May 2008: photo by Reuters/Toru Hanai

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Immediately after the explosion, Oslo, 23 July 2011, around 15:27. Smoke from the office of the Prime Minister: photo by Johannes Grødem



A mock intruder, tangled in a net that was launched by the remote-controlled security robot T-34, lies on the floor while posing beside the robot in Tokyo, 21 January 2009. T-34 users can see live images from the robot's camera and control the robot using a mobile phone. The robot, which has sensors that react to body heat and sound, can launch a net against an intruder by remote-control during its surveillance: photo by Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon



The bridge that separates the town of Los Alamos, New Mexico from Los Alamos National Laboratory is shrouded in smoke from the Las Conchas wildfire on 28 June 2011: photo by Craig Fritz/Reuters

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Emergency personnel responding to the explosion, Oslo, 23 July 2011: photo by Johannes Grødem



Alex Lopez plays baseball with his sister Sugey while smoke generated by the Las Conchas fire covers the sky in Espanola, New Mexico on 29 June 2011. As crews fight to keep the wildfire from reaching the country's premier nuclear-weapons laboratory and the surrounding community, scientists are busy sampling the air for chemicals and radiological materials: photo by Jae C. Hong/Associated Press)



The MSI produced robot named "Rich" demonstrates giving a tour walking down a garden trail in the Grand Hills apartment showroom of the Far Glory property company in Linkou, Taipei County, Taiwan, 18 October 2008: photo by Reuters/Nicky Loh (Taiwan)


People
gathered in the street in Storgata, Oslo,
after the explosion, Oslo, 23 July 2011
: photo by Johannes Grødem

Hölderlin: Der Neckar (By the Waters of Synthetica)


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Sammlung von Treibgut im östlichen Teil der ostfriesischen Nordseeinsel Juist (Niedersachsen, Deutschland) [Collection of floating debris in the eastern part of the East Frisian North Sea island of Juist (Lower Saxony, Germany)]
: photo by 4028mdk09, 25 September 2010



Und ihrer Gottesbilder auch dich begräbt,

..Denn lang schon einsam stehst du, o Stolz der Welt,

....Die nicht mehr ist.



And their statues of gods; for long now you have stood lonely, O pride of the world that is no more.


Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843): from Der Neckar [The Neckar], 1800



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Treibgut auf dem Neckar [Floating debris on the River Neckar]
: photo by 4028mdk09, 7 March 2010

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Rubbish floating on the River Lea, London
: photo by Iridescenti, 20 September 2007

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Gesammelter Müll nach Sturm, fertig zum Abtransport, fotografiert auf der ostfriesischen Nordseeinsel Juist (Niedersachsen, Deutschland) [
Garbage collected after a storm, ready for shipment, photographed on the East Frisian North Sea island of Juist (Lower Saxony, Germany)]: photo by 4028mdk09, 5 October 2009

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Plastic pollution, Gallipoli
: photo by Nevit, 2007

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Marine debris, St. John's Point, County Down, Northern Ireland
: photo by Ardfern, 5 October 2009

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Pollution: a Mute Swan (Cygnus olor) has built a nest using plastic garbage: photo by Thue, 28 May 2005

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Flotsam collected on beaches on Tern Island in French Frigate Shoals over one month: items collected were 288 miscellaneous plastic pieces, 13 fishing floats, 33 plastic bottles, two toys, 1 lightstick, 34 bottle caps, 1 lighter, 2 balls, 5 shoes, 3 fluorescent bulbs, 3 regular lightbulbs, 19 glass bottles, 1 metal flask, two baskets, 21 pieces of rope, one large (3 square foot) net ball and one large piece of styrofoam
: photo by Duncan Wright, U.S Fish & Wildlife Service, June 2006

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Marine debris on beach of Henderson, Pitcairn Islands
: photo by American, April 2001

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Marine debris on the beach of Green island, Kure Atoll, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
: photo by Keeley Belva, 23 July 2007 (NOAA)

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Brown Boobies (Sula leucogaster) sitting on marine debris, Green Island, Kure Atoll, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
: photo by Dr. Dwayne Meadows, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service; image by Telim tor, 2009

Friday, July 22, 2011

Plastic Habitat


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Lobularia maritima (habitat with marine debris and Black footed and Laysan Albatrosses), Midway Atoll, Northwest coast Eastern Island Island
: photo by Forest & Kim Starr, 6 June 2008, from Plants of Hawaii

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Lobularia maritima (habitat with marine debris and Black footed and Laysan Albatrosses), Midway Atoll, Northwest coast Eastern Island Island
: photo by Forest & Kim Starr, 6 June 2008, from Plants of Hawaii

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Sesuvium portulacastrum (habitat with marine debris and view of Spit Island), Midway Atoll, Northwest coast Eastern Island Island
: photo by Forest & Kim Starr, 6 June 2008, from Plants of Hawaii

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Lepturus repens (growing among marine debris), Midway Atoll, Eastern Island
: photo by Forest & Kim Starr, 6 June 2008, from Plants of Hawaii

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Tournefortia argentea (habitat with Laysan Albatross chick and marine debris), Midway Atoll, Spit Island
: photo by Forest & Kim Starr, 3 June 2008, from Plants of Hawaii

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Tournefortia argentea (habitat with Laysan Albatross chicks and marine debris), Midway Atoll, Spit Island
: photo by Forest & Kim Starr, 3 June 2008, from Plants of Hawaii

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Boerhavia repens (habitat with Laysan Albatross chick and marine debris), Midway Atoll, Spit Island
: photo by Forest & Kim Starr, 3 June 2008, from Plants of Hawaii

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Marine debris and Laysan Albatross chick, Midway Atoll, Spit Island
: photo by Forest & Kim Starr, 3 June 2008, from Plants of Hawaii

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Tournefortia argentea (habitat with marine debris and Laysan Albatross chick), Midway Atoll, Spit Island
: photo by Forest & Kim Starr, 3 June 2008, from Plants of Hawaii

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Tournefortia argentea (habitat with marine debris), Midway Atoll, Spit Island
: photo by Forest & Kim Starr, 3 June 2008, from Plants of Hawaii

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This Laysan Albatross chick has been accidentally fed plastic by its parents and died as a result
: photo by Duncan Wright, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 2006

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Dead Laysan Albatross chick with ingested plastic in its stomach
: image by Innotata, 30 June 2010, from Lindsay C. Young, Cynthia Vanderlip, David C. Duffy, Vsevolod Afanasyev, Scott A. Shaffer: Bringing Home the Trash: Do Colony-Based Differences in Foraging Distribution Lead to Increased Plastic Ingestion in Laysan Albatrosses? (Public Library of Science, 2009)

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Issa: Do not kill the fly!


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A female mosquito of the Culicidae family (Culiseta longiareolata), about 10 mm in length, Lisbon region, Portugal: photo by Alvesgaspar, November 2007




.....Mosquitos in the day-time;
Buddha hides them
.....Behind him.


.....A matter for congratulation!
I have been bit
.....By this year's mosquito too.


.....A glimpse of a mosquito:
From now on
.....An old man's world.


.....The bean-curd of last night
Gleams whitely:
.....Striped mosquitos hover.


.....Do not kill the fly!
See how it wrings its hands,
.....Its feet!




Issa: haiku translated by R. H. Blyth in Haiku, Volume 3: Summer-Autumn, 1952



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Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation advertisement: Fortune, August 1943 (via full table)

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Union Carbide Corporation advertisement
: Saturday Evening Post, June 1949 (via full table)

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Black fly: photo by Mark Span, 19 May 2011

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Good Table


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Parfait sample, Osaka: photo by pinguino, 2008




In the neighborhood of the ruling elites
a good

downstairs table having been miraculously scored,

he said, like one who has had
an unwonted stroke of luck,
"They took my plastic"





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Pudding sample, Asakusa, Tokyo
: photo by OiMax, 18 November 2006

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Fake food in a restaurant window in Japan: photo by James Heilman, 9 February 2010


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Neapolitan spaghetti of Japanese origin, Nakanobu, Tokyo: photo by OiMax, 21 June 2008

In the Lost Forest of Synthetica (A Story of White Magic)


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OWENS-ILLINOIS PLASTIC PACKAGING SATURDAY EVENING POST 06/11/1960 p. 109

Owens-Illinois Plastics advertisement
: Saturday Evening Post, 11 June 1960 (via Gallery of Graphic Design)

DU PONT CELLOPHANE GOOD HOUSEKEEPING 11/01/1933

Du Pont Cellophane Company advertisement
: Good Housekeeping, 1 November 1933 (via Gallery of Graphic Design)

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Dow Chemical Company advertisement
: Fortune, June 1942 (via full table)

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Dow Chemical Company advertisement
: Fortune, September 1942 (via full table)

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Dow Chemical Co. advertisement
: Fortune, 1937 (via full table)

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Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corporation advertisement
: Fortune, September 1940 (via full table)

INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS TIME 10/04/1963 p. 9

Celanese Plastics advertisement
: Time, 4 October 1963 (via Gallery of Graphic Design)

Summertime in SyntheticWorld: How Green Are My Beaches?


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Chinese Beach Turns Green (8 pics)

People swim at the No 1 Bathing Beach in the East China coastal city of Qingdao where the water was filled with enteromorpha prolifera, a sea plant that reproduces rapidly, putting the swimmers at risk, July 15, 2011. Several of the beaches in the city have been attacked by the green stuff for the past week and the clearing work is under way: photo by Zhou Kun/China Daily

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Chinese tourists play by the algae-filled coastline of Qingdao, in eastern China's Shandong province, 17 July 2011. Green algae continues to spread in waters off China's east coastline: photo by AFP



A boy plays at a bathing beach filled with green algae in East China coastal city Qingdao, 16 July 2011
: photo by Xinhua




People swim at a bathing beach filled with green algae in East China coastal city Qingdao, 16 July 2011
: photo by Xinhua




A girl swims at a bathing beach filled with green algae in East China coastal city Qingdao, 16 July 2011
: photo by Xinhua

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A Chinese man swims along the algae-filled coastline of Qingdao, in eastern China's Shandong province, 17 July 2011. Green algae continues to spread in waters off China's east coastline
: photo by AFP

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Chinese children swim along the algae-filled coastline of Qingdao, in eastern China's Shandong province, 17 July 2011. Green algae continues to spread in waters off China's east coastline
: photo by AFP

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A Chinese man swims with his son along the algae-filled coastline of Qingdao, in eastern China's Shandong province, 17 July 2011. Green algae continues to spread in waters off China's east coastline
: photo by AFP

Chinese Beach Turns Green (8 pics)

A boy swims along the algae-filled coastline of Qingdao, in eastern China's Shandong province, 17 July 2011. Green algae continues to spread in waters off China's east coastline
: photo by AFP

Chinese Beach Turns Green (8 pics)

Beach on the algae-filled coastline of Qingdao, in eastern China's Shandong province, 17 July 2011.
Green algae continues to spread in waters off China's east coastline: photo by AFP