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LOCATING

September 27th, 2011

VENICE CANALS F. ROBINSON

 

PAINTING BY F. ROBINSON

 

 

 

There used to be canals here.   built by the man who started this town and had a love affair with a city five or six thousand miles away.  Imagine that devotion.   To carve out the earth by the sea with barely a tractor and to build this mini-palace-city known to us as such an easy place. 

They built houses on top of the sand they started to fall in and the map of his heart began to dissolve.  The younger ones came and because all the work had been done, they started buying lemonade and cutting their hair and wearing sunglasses,

It is only a matter of time though until we all sweep our bodies off the ground and become again like the sea and somehow return to that place a thousand miles away.  
 
the artichoke heart is the floating vessel and the little stingers are just temporary sail boats; but the sea is still moving.

 

 
LOCATING BY D.B.

RECREATING TIME

July 11th, 2011

 

IT IS BEST TO TRAVEL LIKE A COMET, WITH THE OTHERS, THOUGH ONE DOES NOT SEE THEM

 

GRAND ABACUS BY JOHN ASHBERY

 

 

35MM STILL  D. BIRRITTELLA BY SANJIV SOLANKI

TOTEMS

June 10th, 2011

 

Mullinville, KS

 

I have a very different kinda outlook on life.  You can't make me mad. Only me can make me mad.  

 

TOTEMS by M.T. LIGGETT

HEADQUARTERS

May 19th, 2011

 

VENICE, CA

DREAM NASCITUR

May 3rd, 2011

. . .

 

(While you and i have voices which

 

are for kissing and to sing with


who cares if some oneeyed son of a bitch


invents an instrument to measure Spring with?

 

 

each dream nascitur, is not made...)


why then to Hell with that: the other, this,

 

since the thing perhaps is

 

to eat flowers and not to be afraid.

 

 

from Voices to voices, lip to lip by e.e. cummings 

HOLD TO LIGHT

April 1st, 2011

 

HOLD TO LIGHT BY SKOT

FROM WHERE WE STAND

March 19th, 2011

 

THE BENTLEY RESERVE, SAN FRANCISCO

THE CRAFTSMAN

March 2nd, 2011

 

The ancient craftsman smiled


when I asked him to blow a bottle


to keep your tears in


And he smiled and hummed in rhythm with his hands.


as he carved delicate glass


and stained it with the purple


of a drifting evening sky.


But the bottle is lost in a corner of my house.


How could I know you could not cry?


 

 

FOLK SONG by Leonard Cohen


A WEEK OF CARVINGS

February 24th, 2011

 

SOUTH HILL ST, LOS ANGELES

AT THESE TIMES

February 10th, 2011

 

UN-emotionally Paralyzed by David

 

"IT'S A CHALLENGE," DECLARED ONE ENTRANT.  "THE DESERT TERRAIN IS ALWAYS A LITTLE ROUGHER THAN YOU ARE." 

THIS IS PERFECT

January 1st, 2011

JANIE BRYANT'S GIFT GUIDE

December 24th, 2010

Exceedingly inspired Mad Men costume designer, Janie Bryant, chose cosntellations as top holiday gifts on Fashionista.

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SPOTLIGHT VIBE MAGAZINE

November 29th, 2010

ELLA POE WAS SPOTLIGHTED ON VIBE.COM

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WOODSHED

November 25th, 2010

 

FOUR POINTS, SOUTH BOSTON

 

THE FUN AND DANGER KINDA GO HAND IN HAND.

I'M LOOKING AT WAYS TO PROCESS MATERIALS TO RENDER THEM INTO SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL, OR USEFUL, OR PLAYFUL, OR ALL OF THOSE THINGS.

 

BY JEFF SMITH, JEFFSMITH.ORG

LEARNING FROM THE MASTER

October 17th, 2010

 

BEVERLY HILLS, CA

REVIEW CONNECTION

October 7th, 2010

ELLA POE HAS BEEN FEATURED IN AN ARTICLE ON THE REVIEW CONNECTION.  

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THE AGAVE

September 3rd, 2010

 

SIRACUSA, SICILY

LOS LIONES

August 14th, 2010


PACIFIC PALISADES, CA

PRAYER for GIVING TREE

August 12th, 2010

THE GIVING TREE, ONE OF OUR FAVORITE BOUTIQUES, HAS JUST DONE A LOVELY INTERVIEW ABOUT OUR PRAYER COLLECTION...


SHECKY'S BEST GIFTS

August 3rd, 2010

SHECKY'S GAVE US A SHOUT FOR HAVING THE BEST, "BEJEWELED GIFTS FOR YOUR BEST GIRLFRIENDS."

 

EVERY GIRL WANTS A SONG

July 17th, 2010

 

YOUR ABSENCE HAS GONE THROUGH ME

LIKE A THREAD THROUGH A NEEDLE

EVERYTHING I DO IS STICHTCHED WITH ITS COLOR.

W. S. MERWIN

THREE MADRIGALS

July 2nd, 2010

 

Two met each other on a star

 

They drank the wine from another life

 

Time passed.

 

 

Two met each other on a star

 

They saw the sky 

 

of all colors

 

as Brother, Sister, one.

 

 

Two parted ways

 

She will remain his Mother

 

and he her Father

 

on a star

 

The earth calls.

 

 

Entfernung by Schnittke

SUN SHOWERS

June 18th, 2010

 

SINGEL 122, AMSTERDAM

 

A FEW SOLITARY DAYS IN JUNE, I WANDERED THROUGH SPRINKLING RAIN AND SUN SHOWERS AND CAME UPON A CARDBOARD SIGN, HIDDEN, NEARLY MISSED.  IT READ: You Cannot Avoid Paradise, You Can Only Avoid Seeing It

GREAT AMERICAN APPAREL DIET

June 11th, 2010

THE GREAT AMERICAN APPAREL DIET HAS JUST RANKED US AMONG THE TOP CONSCIOUS SHOPPING LINES.  

IN THEIR WORDS: fashionable, eco-friendly and made in the US or fairly traded.

NAZIONALE

June 9th, 2010

 

BIVONA, SICILY 

 

THIS WAS THE CENTER OF THE WORLD

JUST AS THE CENTER OF MY STORY

THE LOVE I BORE IT


PIER PASO PASOLINI


LA'S BEST ECO-FASHION

May 30th, 2010

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