Terry shared five short poems the other day (Five Easy Pieces) and I found parts in each and then entangled them into one found poem. Peace (and poems), Kevin ..read more

Image by Ioachim Marcu from Pixabay Each year, my National Writing Project colleague, Deanna, creates an Advent Poetry calendar, with daily links to poems on a theme. This year, the theme is “love” and I am enjoying her curation of poems, as I take lines from the poems to inspire my own writing each morning. See Deanna’s Advent Of Love Calendar and consider writing your own poems. Peace (and Love), Kevin ..read more

I’m doing a five-week, every-Monday (unless I space out and forget) remix of a piece of art from the earlier days of DS106. (Read more about what I am up to here). For this week’s remix, I took the text from the original image as a visual image, then ran it through a series of art filters, and then composed some music to go with it, and finally pulled it all together into a video collage that I hope focuses on the message of the writing (which is about remix and making art). Peace (and remix), Kevin ..read more

Peace (on a pedestal), Kevin ..read more

Today, I published an album of 20 short musical pieces over on Bandcamp. The album is called In An Otherwise Odd World and the musical pieces are all short (mostly under 2 mins). They are more like sound sketches than fully developed songs. Take a listen, if you are interested. Peace (and Song), Kevin ..read more

Dan Nott’s graphic book — Hidden Systems (Water, Electricity, the Internet, and the Secrets Behind The Systems We Use Every Day) — is a visual exploration of what the subtitle says it will do — go deep into the workings of three main systems that are part of our modern lives: the Internet, the electrical grid and water networks. In each section, Nott shows how well-informed he is with his research as well as how skilled he is as a visual artist and storyteller. The reader is quickly immersed in systems thinking, and architectural and engineering design, but Nott never goes so far into the wee ..read more

I submitted the idea for this morning’s Daily Create, using River to navigate through a series of artistic tiles and end on a page of art. I made a short video of my excursion with my ten clicks. I found it interesting and mesmerizing and rather soothing. Peace (Wandering In), Kevin ..read more

After a DS106 Daily Create prompt yesterday (Sunday) about coming up with a new day of celebration based on Stir-Up Sunday, I decided that a Remix Monday sounded cool. Then, I thought, maybe I should try to do it — to remix a single piece of art, five different ways, over five weeks, every Monday. I dove back into the DS106 archives and found this image and text that was used more than 10 years ago by the DS106 community (before my time) for a Kickstarter campaign, and began to brainstorm some ideas. I soon realized that the image was actually a remix itself, from a Sonic Youth album cover ..read more

Peace (in pages), Kevin ..read more

I love Margaret Renkl’s regular column of observational writing in The New York Times and I enjoyed her last book – Late Migrations – immensely. Her latest book — The Comfort Of Crows — hit me in a different way, as she documents the seasons of the year through the lens of nature in her Nashville yard. My connection with her narrative is that, like her, our three sons have all moved out of the house (the last one is in his first year of college) and my wife and I are navigating these empty spaces that were once full of noise and activity. We’re awash in the stories of their childhoods in sudd ..read more