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Carolein Smit - Rakker mit gouden trannen (Rascal with golden tears) (2009)
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Cédric Delsaux, Pancarte Hôtel Neige, Zone de repli
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northwindow · 2 days
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“I’d like to retire there and do nothing, or nothing much, forever, in two bare rooms: look through binoculars, read boring books, old, long, long books, and write down useless notes, talk to myself, and, foggy days, watch the droplets slipping, heavy with light.”
— Elizabeth Bishop, “The End of March,” from The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 (via bostonpoetryslam)
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northwindow · 3 days
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winter 2024 emblems: black orchids, black milk, victorian novels, mazzy star, julee cruise, negronis, night tennis, sage and fig perfume
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northwindow · 6 days
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Grasshopper (1987) by Peter Blegvad from Imagine, Observe, Remember
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northwindow · 7 days
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Maeve Brennan (Irish 1980), September, 2020, Oil on canvas
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northwindow · 8 days
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A horseshoe crab being a home to other sea creatures!
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northwindow · 9 days
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How do you choose what to read based on the syllabus? Is your syllabus related to work or school or is it something personal?? Also, how do you organize what you learn form those readings? I used to love when you curated monthly readings and I loved your arena account so I'm curious, I'm really sorry if these are too many questions I understand if you don't want to answer
thank you, it means a lot to me that you like the syllabi! they're personal/for fun. i approach them as a total amateur in any given topic and am not trying to be comprehensive at all, just poking around a concept that interests me. i wrote a little about how i find the readings here. it started basically as a way to “research” creative writing projects-- at the beginning, they all had personal writing prompts attached to them (my envy syllabus had an accompanying envy journal, the color and seeing ones were related to poems i was writing about those topics, etc). one time i synthesized a more cohesive piece of writing about one of the syllabi and published it, but the rest of the thoughts they’ve produced are diffused across a bunch of journaling and poem drafts that will likely not see the light of day.
i’m trying to restart my process after a year off! i thought i'd have one up this week but am running behind... if anyone wants to share any reading/other content they’ve enjoyed that engages with beauty, i’d love to check it out 💗
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northwindow · 10 days
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Brian Eno and photoshop (1995)
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northwindow · 14 days
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Get on with it, Paul Davis
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Sinéad O'Connor photographed by Kevin Cummins, 1989
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northwindow · 15 days
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Kazuo Ishiguro - “Dream Techniques”
1. Unwarranted Emotion 2. Unwarranted Relationship 3. Delayed realization (ENTER/EXIT) 4. Odd postures—figurative postures + escaped metaphors 5. Placing 6. Weird Venues 7. Extended, tangential monologues 8. Distorted time frame 9. Unwarranted recognition of place 10. Private enclaves 11. Unwarranted familiarity with situation (or person or place) 12. Characters from foreign contexts 13. Characters continuing under different surfaces 14. Distorted Logistics 15. Transmuting Narrator 16. Partial invisibility (And odd witnessing) 17. Backward projection of Intentions 18. Bleeding with Memory 19. BACKWARD projection of Judgment 20. Restricted Witnessing 21. Tunnel Memory 22. The Dim Torch Narrative Mode 23. Crowds—Unwarranted Uniformity 24. Robert Altman [illegible] 25. (“More than I expected”) Unwarranted Expectation 26. MIXED PERSONALITY
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northwindow · 17 days
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snowdrop season always close to my heart 🤍
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elk have such beautiful bone webs
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northwindow · 18 days
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Loved your answer to the other anon about your way of keeping track of your life!! I use paper but have too many notebooks and I love the way you use notion to keep track of your dreams, sometimes I feel like all my life is online, how do you manage to use the internet in a way that doesn't feel like is taking over your life?
thank you! i struggle a lot with this same question. i have a very digital WFH job so i'm spending 7+ hours per weekday on the internet by default and easily get overloaded if i add much more!
it's helped me immensely to identify which particular activities have a positive effect on my mood (listening to music and podcasts, writing, tumblr in moderation) and which can leave me with a feeling of irritation or unease (online shopping, email, seeing ads). i really dislike the way traditional social media makes me feel, so i haven't had those accounts for years. i also deleted the mobile app for tumblr and it has invaluably reduced my daily ad exposure. my boyfriend and i also instated a "no phone at the table" rule which has changed our presence with each other. in light of this i've tried to find more occasions when i can leave my devices in the other room... it's game-changing just to remove them from my line of sight when uninterrupted flow is really important (like reading or crafts).
i think it's useful to focus on what i do like about the internet and how to prioritize that instead of framing the internet as entirely bad-- and along the same lines, to actively cultivate my "non-digital" interests instead of just restricting my digital ones. i make a point to schedule stuff into my week like classes, events, plans with friends, exercise, etc; and also recently made a big list of screen-free stuff to do that is tailored to my interests and what's readily available. it sounds like you enjoy writing longhand which is great (i often wish i did more!) and makes me think you probably have other analog stuff to feed into a list like this! i wish you the best of luck, it can be hard out here in the digital age 💗
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northwindow · 20 days
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San Francisco, California // Alexander
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northwindow · 21 days
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Final Poem in Some Poems by Paul Klee, trans. by Anselm Hollo
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