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Saturday 14 October 2017

blood in the sun

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Sunset under heavy smoke | by bitonio

Sunset under heavy smoke [Berkeley Marina]: photo by bitonio, 12 October 2017

Sunset under heavy smoke | by bitonio

Sunset under heavy smoke [Berkeley Marina]: photo by bitonio, 12 October 2017

Sunset under heavy smoke | by bitonio

Sunset under heavy smoke [Berkeley Marina]: photo by bitonio, 12 October 2017


Red sun in downtown #Berkeley. Colors true to life. @berkeleyside: image via Joe Hellerstein @joe_hellerstein, 11 October 2017



Red sun! @berkeleyside #EastBay #Berkeley: image via kaitlin Benz @kaitlin_Benz, 11 October 2017


For #syrian people #nafir #tehran #iran #eastreetart: image via nafir @artnafir, 31 May 2017

 

#miriregev #cannes2017 #waringaza #palestine #Nafir: image via nafir @artnafir, 19 May 2017

 
The work of Nafir in Georgia #StreetArt: image via StreetArtNews @streetartnews, 17 June 2017


Kabul stay strong این کار رو کابل کشیدم و به تازگی خبر انفجار رو شنیدم امیدوارم عروسک و عروسک گردان دست وردارن#kabul #nafir #eastreetart: image via nafir @artnafir, 2 June 2017
 

Graffiti Is not a crime. Today in #Tehran: #Tehran by #NAFIR: image via Leili Bazargan @Leili Bazargan, 19 May 2015 


BSA Images Of The Week: 09.13.15 #nafir: image via Brooklyn Street Art @BKStretArt, 13 September 2015
 

BSA Images Of The Week: 11.13.16 #nafir: image via Brooklyn Street Art @BKStretArt, 13 November 2016
 

 #freak #nafir #eastreetart: image via nafir @artnafir, 24 May 2017


#shit #human #man #nafir #iran #eastreetart #strretart #graffiti: image via nafir @artnafir, 22 May 2017


#Nafir #tweetordie: image via nafir @artnafir, 15 May 2017
 

Brush on fire in vineyard, #PocketFire #CentralLNUComplex above Geyserville. #NorthBayNews @CAL_FIRE @JenCarfagno #winecountryfires: image via Kent Porter @kentphotos, 13 October 2017


#airguard makes a water drop on the #pocketFire #northernLNUComplex above Geyserville Thursday morning. .#NorthBayNews @CAL_FIRE : image via Kent Porter @kentphotos, 12 October 2017

  
@berkeleyside otherworldly sunset...: image via Rana Cho @ranacho, 12 October 2017


Smoke, Elmwood [Berkeley]: photo by Koen Jacobs, 13 October 2017

DSC05357 | by noppadol.maitreechit

DSC05357 [Chumphon, Thailand]: photo by noppadol maitreechit, 10 October 2017

DSC05357 | by noppadol.maitreechit

DSC05357 [Chumphon, Thailand]: photo by noppadol maitreechit, 10 October 2017

DSC05357 | by noppadol.maitreechit

DSC05357 [Chumphon, Thailand]: photo by noppadol maitreechit, 10 October 2017

© Spiros Soueref, Cape Coast, Ghana, 2017 www.instagram.com/spiros_soueref www.spirossoueref.com | by Spiros Soueref

Cape Coast, Ghana 2017: photo by Spiros Soueref, 2 September 2017

Changes | by ADMurr

Changes [Baltimore]: photo by Andrew Murr, 13 October 2017

Tyrannosaurus and nemesis | by ADMurr

Tyrannosaurus and nemesis [Mojave desert]: photo by Andrew Murr, 16 March 2017

Frozen Lake Simcoe | by Beaulawrence
 

Frozen Lake Simcoe [Cedar Beach, Ontario]: photo by Tyler Wilson, 19 May 2015

canada 150 | by Beaulawrence

canada 150 [Coal Harbor, Vancouver]: photo by Tyler Wilson, 7 October 2017


open any day now | by Beaulawrence

open any day now [Crown Point West, Hamilton, Ontario]: photo by Tyler Wilson, 19 May 2015

Frank O'Hara: On the Canada Question

 

Amazon Canada drones site

Amazon employees look to the skies at the company’s secret Canadian drones site somewhere in British Columbia, only 2,000ft from the US border: photo by Ed Pilkington for The Guardian, 30 March 2015

In Joe’s deli the old lady 
greets me Sonny     the man with  
the rolls is my son, Sonny, how 
are you today in the cold out? fine  
and coffee too and Camels
  ...............................well  
a saucepan smells of eggs soft sour 
Tanya.......the Barone Gallery  
tomorrow.............the light broke  
before I even got out of bed  
and then it got put together again  
you discard your jacket
  ...........................and go  
sweatered into the afternoon 
wait for me
  ...............I’m staying with you 
fuck Canada
 

Frank O'Hara (1926-1966): from Variations on Saturday, 10 December 1960, in Love Poems (Tentative Title), 1965

Vancouver riot 'kiss' couple

A couple are seen in the middle of the Vancouver riot after the Canucks lost to the Boston Bruins in the Stanley Cup decider: photo by Rich Lam via The Guardian, 15 June 2011


Hi. We're America. Stop Us Before We Kill Again. Wait, Hold That. It Just Became Too Late.


I've just signed an executive order. A tremendous one! Wouldn't you like to know what's in it? Ha, that's for me to know and for you to find out! Thank You!
: tweet via Donnie Drumpf @headupmyass, 13 October 2017


It's all hands on deck standing up to President Trumps's dangerous decision on Iran. Here's my statement.: image via John Kerry @JohnKerry, 13 October 2017


The Colossus: Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, 1810-1818, mezzotint engraving, 285 x 210 mm


The Colossus: Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, 1808, oil on canvas, 120 x 100 cm (Museo del Prado, Madrid)
 

Forugh Farrokhzad: The Wind Will Take Us / Street Art Iran: Nafir (Scream)


#StreetArtist #NAFIR #graffiti #IRAN #pregnant #women: image via Saeed Choobani @saeed_choobani, 14 September 2014

The Wind Will Take Us

In my small night, ah
the wind has a date with the leaves of the trees
in my small night there is agony of destruction
listen
do you hear the darkness blowing?
I look upon this bliss as a stranger
I am addicted to my despair.

listen do you hear the darkness blowing?
something is passing in the night
the moon is restless and red
and over this rooftop
where crumbling is a constant fear
clouds, like a procession of mourners
seem to be waiting for the moment of rain.
a moment
and then nothing
night shudders beyond this window
and the earth winds to a halt
beyond this window
something unknown is watching you and me.

O green from head to foot
place your hands like a burning memory
in my loving hands
give your lips to the caresses
of my loving lips
like the warm perception of being
the wind will take us
the wind will take us.


Forugh Farrokhzad (1935-1967): The Wind Will Take Us, translated from the Persian by Ahmad Karimi Hakkak in The Persian Book Review, Vol. III, No. 12

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@meidaandotcom: #Nafir #Graffiti in #Tehran #Iran for #Kobane: image via jadi  @jadi, 13 October 2014

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#Nafir #Graffiti #STOPACIDATTACKSONWOMEN #StopAcidAttacksIran for #Kobane: image via Sheida Hooshmandi @Sh_Hooshmandijadi, 24 October 2014

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#NAFIR #TEHRAN: image via Hadi @skiey1, 21 November 2014

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@publicartfound: Tehran - Lavasan #streetart by #nafir #newpublicart: image via semprecontro @semprecontro, 13 December 2014
   
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#NAFIR: image via soheil @SoheilMigrant, 1 January 2015
  
Bunch of clowns #streetart by #NAFIR: image via StreetArtAvenue  @vidos, 13 January 2015

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 #Bunch #Of #Clowns #streetart #Nafir: image via Essouflée @Kian_A_, 15 January 2015

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  #Iran street artist #Nafir pays tribute to victims of the #planecrash today in #Tehran. #art #StreetArt @GEsfandiari: image via Iran Style @Iran_Style, 10 August 2014

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 #NAFIR: image via soheil @SoheilMigrant, 14 August 2014
  
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 #Nafir #graffiti #streetart #Iran: image via Kaveh Ghoreishi @KavehGhoreishi, 8 July 2014

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 #art #streetart #graffiti #Nafir #iran: image via 1973 @hypatia373, 30 March 2015

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 #Nafir #graffiti #streetart #Iran: image via Kaveh Ghoreishi @KavehGhoreishi, 6 September 2014 

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 Artist #Nafir (Scream) #Teheran #Iran. Fabulous Street Art / Mural. #art #streetart #mural: image via Street Art @GoogleStreetArt, 21 April 2014

 Where Is the House of the Friend?


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..and another photo of me! Not taken by me, still pretty handsome! #fly #crow #three #sepehri: image via Black Crow @FartingCrow, 12 January 2015

In the false-dawn twilight
a rider enquired of a passer-by:
Where is the house of my friend?
The sky paused
The passer-by held a branch of light
which brushed the dark sand

He pointed to an aspen:
before you reach that tree
turn off at the garden path
that leads into a space more green
than any god could dream
and go down that path
as far as the wings of honesty can reach

Continue beyond the end
of the first part of your life
and then turn again
take two steps
toward a flower that grows untended
alone
at the base of a fountain
whence springs the second part of your life
stop and you will be swallowed up
by fear transparent as water

In the closeness of the space that flows
something rustles
in one of the surrounding pines
a child has climbed
to pluck a young bird
from a nest made of light
and you call out to that child

Where is the house of my friend?


Where Is the House of My Friend? (After Sohrab Sepehri)
: after Sepehri:
Neshâni (Address): TC, 2009

image

stiil from Where Is the Friend's House, dir. Abbas Kiarostami, 1987

Sohrab Sepehri: Neshâni (Address)

still from Where Is the Friend's House, dir. Abbas Kiarostami, 1987 (image via Poemas del Rio Wang, 28 December 2009)
نشانی

خانه دوست کجاست؟ در فلق بود که پرسید سوار

آسمان مکثی کرد
رهگذر شاخه نوری که به لب داشت به تاریکی شنها بخشید
و به انگشت نشان داد سپیداری و گفت:
نرسیده به درخت
کوچه باغی است که از خواب خدا سبز تر است
و در آن عشق به اندازه پرهای صداقت آبی است
می روی تا ته آن کوچه که از پشت بلوغ، سر به در می آرد
پس به سمت گل تنهایی می پیچی
دو قدم مانده به گل
پای فواره جاوید اساطیر زمان می مانی
و تو را ترسی شفاف فرا می گیرد
در صمیمیت سیال فضا، خش خشی می شنوی
کودکی می بینی
رفته از کاج بلندی بالا، جوجه بردارد از لانه نور
و از او می پرسی خانه دوست کجاست؟


stlil from Where Is the Friend's House, dir. Abbas Kiarostami, 1987
Neshâni (Address)

Khâne-ye dūst kojâst? dar falagh būd ke porsīd savâr
âsemân maksī kard
rahgozar shâkhe-ye nūri ke be lab dâsht be târīkhī-ye shenhâ bakhshīd
ve be angōsht neshân dâd sepidâri o gōft:
nareside be derakht
kuche bâghī’st ke az khâb-e Khodâ sabztar ast
be dar ân eshgh be andâze-ye parhâ-ye sedâght âbī’st
miravi tâ te-ye ân kuche ke az posht-e bolūgh, sar be dar miyârad
pas be samt-e gol-e tanhâyi mipichi
do ghadam mânde be gol
pâ-ye favvâre-ye jâvid-e asâtir-e zamīn mimâni
va to-râ trasī shafâf farâ migirad
dar samimiyyet-e sayyâl-e fazâ, khesh khesi mishinavi
kudaki mibini
rafte az kâj bolandi bâlâ, juju bardârad az lâne-ye nūr
va az ū miporsī: khâne-ye dūst kojâst?
 

Sohrab Sepehri (1928-1990): Neshâni (Address): text and transliteration via Poemas del Rio Wang, 28 December 2009

 Tomorrow an entire generation will learn who Israel’s PM @netanyahu is… the man who won't allow #Iran to go nuclear !: image via Defund NPR PBS and NEA @Jarjarbug, 2 March 2015
 

We'll do okay (ridiculous): image via Sohrab Sepehri 3 @Sohrabsepehri3, 26 February 2015


"What woman flower: @san3tm"": image via Sohrab Sepehri 3 @Sohrabsepehri3, 23 December 2014



"feransesz:
Undoubtedly, the discovery of a river to the sea is unlikely" he might be homeless but still managed cartoons
: image via Sohrab Sepehri 3 @Sohrabsepehri3, 4 December 2014


Bir bekleyiş sallanmadaydı Bir bakış yolda kalmıştı ve bir ses yalnızlıkta ağlıyordu #SohrabSepehri: image [Sohrab Sepehri, 1928-1990] via Ahmed Bozkurt @LePoetTravaille, 3 January 2014

Neden İran sineması? #Kiarostami: image [from Close-Up, dir. Abbas Kiarostami, 1990] via Zeynep Cavusoglu @zepcavusoglu, 15 March 2013




Still from Close-Up [1990], dir. Abbas Kiarostami: image via Bombastic Scholastic @BombasticScholastic, 3 February 2015


Still from Close-Up [1990], dir. Abbas Kiarostami: image via Bombastic Scholastic @BombasticScholastic, 3 February 2015


Still from Close-Up
[1990], dir. Abbas Kiarostami: image via Bombastic Scholastic @BombasticScholastic, 3 February 2015


Neden İran sineması? #Kiarostami: image [from Close-Up, 1990] via Stella Morgana @stellamorgana, 16 November 2013


El viento nos llevará Forough Farrokhzad #Poetuit #Cine #Kiarostami: image [from The Wind Will Carry Us, 1999] via Jorge Fuentes  @jjorgefuentes, 26 December 2013


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"Le vent nous emportera" d'Abbas #Kiarostami: un hymne à la vie et aux régions septentrionales d'#Iran: image [from The Wind Will Carry Us, 1999] via Voyages et cinéma @routardcine, 18 July 2014

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Avec un sens incroyable de la couleur,
#Kiarostami exalte la beauté naturelle du #Kurdistan: "Le vent nous emportera": image [from The Wind Will Carry Us, 1999] via Voyages et cinéma @routardcine, 25 July 2014


Dede kapıyı aç! #Hamsarayan #Koro (#KisaFilm) #Abbas Kiarostami (1982): image [from Hamasarayan / The Chorus, 1982] via Mahmut Islam @mahmutislam, 24 September 2013


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La banlieue de Téhéran capitale d'un pays très riche en Pétrole! Merci #Kiarostami et #Farhadi pour vos beaux films!: image via Dadsetan Djavad @Dadsetan, 9 April 2014

You can sympathize, understand, show compassion. But feel my pain? No. #Kiarostami #TasteofCherry: image [from Taste of Cherry, 1997] via Alma Krillic @ AlmaKrillic, 2 August 2014


If I told you, ... you wouldn't understand. #Kiarostami #TasteofCherry: image [from Taste of Cherry, 1997] via Alma Krillic @ AlmaKrillic, 2 August 2014


Et La Vie Continue... (Va Zendegi edame darad, 1992) Abbas Kiarostami #Kiarostami: image [from And Life Goes On / Life, and Nothing More, 1991] via Xacobo Martínez @Iacobus_81, 9 August 2014


Untitled, 1978, Abbas Kiarostami © 2003, from a series of 32 photographs, 122 x 93 cm.#Fotografía #Cine #Kiarostami:
image via Xacobo Martínez @Iacobus_81, 9 August 2014

On the matter of human perfectibility: Dan Hayon / Ron Padgett: How to be perfect (2017) 


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April 24, 2017
  
  For those who always wanted to be perfect but were afraid to ask, Ron Padgett wrote the instructions, I added the pictures. Dan Hayon, 2017








 











 

 






 










 






























































 

... and so ends another perfect day by the Stygian shore ...

 

 
Update: It's still empty as heck at Memorial Stadium. #Cal deferred, #WSU to receive.: image via Theo Lawson @TheoLawson_SR, 13 October 2017



Sunset on Oct. 11. Photo taken from the East Bay looking toward the Marin Headlands, by Chris Polydoroff: photo by Chris Polydoroff via berkeleyside, 11 October 2017



Sunset before sunset in Berkeley /cc @berkeleyside: image via bitonio @bitonio, 11 October 2017

5 comments:

tpw said...

Thanks, Tom. Fortunately, I have always obeyed Ron's instructions.

TC said...

Thanks Terry. That's what the disheveled Irishmen lying by the side of the road all say.

I would be prone... or more optimistically upright, with a bit of help... to believe every last one of them.

(Believing and obeying, alas two different tricks, it is to be feared, said the disheveled Irishman.)

The coyote I saw chasing a big deer up the street in the choking smoke last night was, I guess, being perfect, in a hungry smoke-breathing coyote kind of way.

Everyone is supposed to be having a N-95 mask now, whatever that is.

Fairly certain neither predator nor prey, in said observed incident, was wearing an N-95 mask.

Radio says the last N-95 masks were sold out three days ago.

Something tells me there will be more N-95 masks manufactured soon.

Meanwhile there are those who are making do by wearing a bandanna over the face.

I see them out the window, down there in the street, milling about suspiciously, like a perfect stick-up gang.

(Also, as nobody else will say anything, let's not round out this generous discussion of the work before acknowledging Dan Hayon's perfect-genius contribution.)

(And furthermore, let's make sure not to escape back into silence by making even the slightest passing mention of those Iranian poets and artists also featured here, as they must be perfectly evil... I know this because Donnie, our absolutely perfect leader on the highway to perdition, has told me so.)

TC said...

On the smoke thing, I go both ways, by the way (though nobody's asking), alternately choking and dizzy (can't breathe even indoors, smoke inveigles its way into everything, one poor dear dumb outdoor cat who shows up every hour or so for pit stop now reeks of smoke saturated fur), and impatient and furious with the entire human race, which continues to race up and down the freeway feeder in its carbon dissemination machines almost as though these were not the final days of animal habitation of planet Earth, and they were on a mission to accelerate the disaster.

Hilton said...

The Ron and Dan collaboration is wonderful. Page 15 has Polish which translates as "Good morning." The air seems clearer today - but as soon as I step outside I start coughing. Be well.

TC said...

Hilton, Yes, stept out in trepidation this eve only to find the wind has shifted and is now blowing the smoke from the fires out to sea. My mother's expression was "Thank God for small favors". Sometimes little things mean a lot.

Another small favor, Trump hates Cali so much we can be fairly sure he won't show up to throw paper towels at us. Maybe he could stay home in the Casa Blanca and throw paper towels at straw Iranians.

Who ever thought we'd be down to pining for a Regime of the Generals. ABT, anybody but Trump.

Yes, Ron and Dan, a beautiful marriage. I don't know Dan, Ron I know. It would take a good person to write such a work. I don't think anybody could pull it off unless they were able to live up to it -- oh, say, maybe 78% of the time. But how would I know about goodness of person. Whatever it is, RP must have it. Thank God for etc.