Spam Sonnet

Posted on September 4th, 2008 by solocrow.
Categories: Generic Blatherings, Images.

Just as the grumpy fellows above are pictured removing unsavory items from their domain, so too do I vigorously expunge spam from this site on an almost daily basis. However, this morning’s bleary-eyed persusal confounded my non-caffeinated brain: the spam scanned as poetry to me.

Obviously not a true sonnet, but still. Enjoy.

undistinguishableness hydroaromatic rewash tablespoon sentience conusable unmodifiableness heptadecyl

snoek preludious remarker unteamed anecdotal gemsbuck decisive myristate

trouserian peristrumous yamassee unwiliness undebatable panhyperemia morgenstern dryopteris

mock guerickian taphouse hunchy saple forestarling specularly axine

suaharo ohio thunderlike hyperpiesia gentlemanlike enterocystoma frontogenesis saucedish

Note: My thanks to my photographic cohort and his wife for allowing me to traipse all over their property on this, and several other occasions.

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Summer fruits

Posted on August 12th, 2008 by solocrow.
Categories: Dead Poets, Generic Blatherings, Images.

Although cherry blossoms are most often associated with Spring, here’s a version of a recent linocut that is the fruit of a few of my summer labors.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

~ Joseph Addison [1672-1719]

And of course, a little something from Shakespeare:

So we grew together,
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,
But yet an union in partition;
Two lovely berries moulded on one stem.

~ From A Midsummer’s Night Dream, [III. ii. 208]

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Paint-on-Glass Animation

Posted on July 29th, 2008 by solocrow.
Categories: Generic Blatherings, Moving Pictures.

I’ve been digging through various animation processes lately, and have unearthed some exquisite examples of paint-on-glass animation by Russian animator Aleksandr Petrov.

The first film is ‘Mermaid’, Русалка (Rusalka) after Alexander Pushkin’s poem. It is in Russian.

The following clips are the artist’s take on Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea. Unfortunately, the film is in two parts here, and not of the quality deserving the artist’s effort, but it’s still quite stunning. This version is in English, however there are other higher quality clips on youtube that are not, should one wish to switch languages.


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Beautiful Things

Posted on July 12th, 2008 by solocrow.
Categories: Generic Blatherings, Moving Pictures.

Since I seem to be on a roll posting random youtube clips, I thought I’d go ahead and post a recent one I stumbled across. However, I’m ahead of myself — let me put a few things into context. As usual, I’ve started right at the end, instead of the beginning. (more…)

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Dose of Darkness

Posted on July 2nd, 2008 by solocrow.
Categories: Generic Blatherings, Moving Pictures.

And people wonder why I refuse to do commercial art….

www.bitterfilms.com for more madness.

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