Ou est Monsier le Grenouille?
You know how musicians sometimes remix each other’s songs? Well, sometimes photographers remix each other’s shots. This is Greg Thow’s version of a photo I took in Reynolda Gardens in October.
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Plunge
#SNRGTR: Sam's favorite guitar solos
Part 1 in a series. I’ll go first. And since it’s my idea, I’ll take the editor’s privilege and cheat a bit by giving you two solos instead of one. Up first, we go back to 1974 and “Brighton Rock,” the lead track on Queen’s third album, Sheer Heart Attack. The band’s first two releases had been relentlessly self-conscious in their
Read moreLawn jockey: yard and garden statuary in the post-racial South
A question of black and white
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Hoosier Pass
Just a tree
… but one of my favorite trees. It’s a survivor; it’s a loner; it’s monument to the majesty of the Colorado Plateau. I posted a different angle of this scene this summer.
Read moreAudre Lorde: S&R Honors an icon of artistic vision, diversity and self-awareness
Audre Lorde taught us that power begins with knowing and accepting ourselves. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower. We’ve been taught that silence would save us, but it won’t. It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. The reading list for the contemporary poetry
Read moreStakeout: 1953 Packard Clipper
Above the fruited plain
The spirit of ecstasy
Revelation
When words leave off, music begins
From idea to print: the artistic process of Anders Thyr
My friend Anders Thyr is an extremely talented illustrator and designer, and I’m quite a fan of his work. His ongoing Weltschmerz Bears series, for instance, manages to be both whimsical and deeply thought-provoking, and it has gotten me pondering the ways humor can open a subversive back door into my intellect.
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