Going the Way of the Passenger Pigeon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_Pigeon

I like this quote

Maria:

-How can we love?--

Giovanna (interrupting):

-Mainly, by hearing none

Decry the object, then by cherishing

The good we see in it, and overlooking

What is less pleasant in the paths of life.

All have some virtue if we leave it them

In peace and quiet, all may lose some part

By sifting too minutely good and bad.

The tenderer and the timider of creatures

Often desert the brood that has been handled,

Or turned about, or indiscreetly looked at.

The slightest touches, touching constantly,

Irritate and inflame.

(LANDOR'S Giovanna and Andrea.)

OH MY GOD!

http://www.wackyarchives.com/offbeat/the-baby-jumping-festival.html#more-2330

Beautiful books made entirely out of copper.

http://www.zyarts.com/zybooks/yana.html

I love teaching

Because I get to write e-mails like this one...

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

In general, while doing the readings or reviewing the lectures, consider the following in the final weeks of the class:

-Now that we have learned about postmodernism, and more significantly, its disbelief in the ability of signifiers (words, images, representation) to accurately or sufficiently live up to their signified?s, how do visual artists address that?How does postmodern visual art (which is, arguably a fundamentally representative medium-that is, it relies on signifiers to function) deal with that disbelief? How, from a postmodern viewpoint, does it address the representation of the self, the body, of memory, of history, of emotion when it doesn't believe in the ability to do so adequately? There is no single answer to the question. There is no end.

Whoa.

So anyway, put that in your pipe and smoke it. Smoke it for the next two weeks, or maybe even for the rest of your life. Definitely smoke it while doing the readings.

-Fondly yours, Bertrand.

Some new work, M.F.A. show coming up.

Here's some new work. I'm not sure the colors are displaying correctly online. Let's give it a try.

A treatise on how to spell "repetitive".

I almost sent this to my students until I realized how horribly dorky it is.

Dear Students,
It's spelled repEtition, not repItition.
You'll thank me for it someday, perhaps even tomorrow.

So just repeat in your pretty little heads,

repetition
repetition
repetition
has repetitive I's and repetitive E's.

Affectionately yours, Kyla.

The following is a brief poem that I wroteto help you remember. I wish I could say it was the dorkiest thing I've ever done, that it's the only thing that I've distracted myself with today, and that it only took me 5 minutes, but that would all be a lie. I guess I got distracted in coming up with it in the way one is disracted by solving a crossword, only this is much sillier and much dorkier. Now I'm just kind of embarrased by how elaborate it is, but I wouldn't want my efforts to go to waste. Anyway, here it goes:

Repetition Is A Repetitive Word*

-by Kyla Zoe Luedtke.

Repetition is a repetitive word,
the repetitive "I" is never forgot, and neither is the "T",
but for every "I" there is an "E" and without it is absurd.

So remember now, right here on the spot,
repeat the I's and T's, and E's,
without them there's no word.

Just one vowel repeats to three
it's in the word "repetitive"
and with the triple E!

So once and for all, repeat after me,
Repeat the E repetitively.

*I may change the title to: Two E's, Two and I's makes you rEpEtItION wise!, but I haven't made up my mind yet. Ok. No more distracting myself.