A Break From our Regular Broadcast

Not sure why, but today has been a day for art.

1. Just look at these pictures, scary and amazing at the same time.
2. If someone had told me that a video about a flying, dancing tentacle creature that shoots birds and light could be so beautiful I wouldn't have believed them.
***The next three videos NEED to be full screened to really enjoy them (if you haven't used Vimeo before you just click on the four little arrows on the video "screen" opposite the play button)***
3. A haunting and intimate video. Vimeo is my friend.
4. Wow, what a video. Strange and abstract. I feel like some of it's over my head but I love it none the less
5. I don't have words to describe this

Poetry

I have my own (private) journal of poetry and art that I keep but this poem was so beautiful that I want to share it more widely. It's by Rowan Williams (I only recently discovered his poetry) and seems very appropriate for the season. All hail the Holly King!

Advent Calendar

He will come like last leaf's fall.
One night when the November wind
has flayed the trees to bone, and earth
wakes choking on the mould,
the soft shroud's folding.

He will come like frost.
One morning when the shrinking earth
opens on mist, to find itself
arrested in the net
of alien, sword-set beauty.

He will come like dark.
One evening when the bursting red
December sun draws up the sheet
and penny-masks its eye to yield
the star-snowed fields of sky.

He will come, will come,
will come like crying in the night,
like blood, like breaking,
as the earth writhes to toss him free.
He will come like child.

Pretty

This is just a beautiful example of craftsmanship (also makes me thing of Merlin's bag)

Really pretty

Just look at these beautiful photographs of a perroquet. The colors are almost shockingly bright.

Interesting blog

This isn't really my shtick but I think some of my friends (who hopefully read this blog) will be interested in this link. It's a blog (often NSFW) of morbid art and history, some of the images are nasty, some are REALLY cool, and some are just pretty. I think you may like it.

Abandond Building Photos

Neat series of photos of an old hydroelectric plant from boingboing

Unbelievable

Take a look at this amazing photography. I'm going post my favorites over time I think.

Wow

Very impressive works of sand art. How the heck does this guy do this in one day??????