Curious Composition

Collections. Creations. Musings. From a modern day junk lady.  

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Aware moment #1.

That moment when you’re brought to tears on the drive home because, for the first time, you actually listened to a song you’ve heard a hundred times before.

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Reading is Freedom.

When a story is intriguing enough that a teenager in today’s digital circus would put down their iPhone they would otherwise spend hours insta-stalking celebs or Snapchatting with friends on to read a book, it’s worth reading. There are many authors and adult readers on both sides of the all-books-are-good-books debate, but I really think it’s a discussion that is only complicated if you make it so. And I’m siding with Neil Gaiman on this one. I’m a writer. I admire exceptional writers and I’m intrigued by good stories. But I don’t limit my absorption or experience by what others think or perceive as quality. So the stories from the pens and digits of mediocre or elementary writers often move me just as those the high-brow literature aficionados consider worthy of their time. Evocative narrative is about heart. Divergent ideas. New perspective. Genuine voice. The power of words comes through more clearly in the polish of a well-written story; but I don’t prefer a gloss to a sheen. And sometimes, tales are told better with more dirt in the seams. To the curious beating hearts of the world, be you youthful or weathered, I say unabashedly, read on. 

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Eric Yahnker

1. Trillary Clinton, 2015, charcoal and graphite on paper. 2. Faith Face #2, 2015, colored pencil on paper. 3. Abe Lincorn, 2015, colored pencil on paper 4. Scrambled Actress #1, 2015, colored pencil on paper. 5. 4-Eyed Cat, 2015, charcoal and graphite on paper. 6. Selected Reading (Sleep Book), 2015, colored pencil on paper. 7. Selfie Preservation, 2015, pastel on paper. 8.  Fretful Flowers, 2015, charcoal and graphite on pap

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Eric Yahnker. Smart. Loaded. Revealing. 

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An SNES coffee table that you can play with. It’s so good I’m actually upset I can’t afford it.

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“D” close-up by @vanhoning

#Goodtype #StrengthInLetters

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Holding on and letting go. Made up and undone. Colorful, even in black and white. She’s just scratching the surface. Clown girl on the edge of the city. 

Watercolor; the first of a series. 

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Bonnie and Bill Rutherford. They capture the magic of children’s books in the ‘60s. Does anyone know anything about them? I want to know their story. 

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Having lunch with the women of the Weisman Art Museum while wearing Walmart shoes.

Beautiful contradictions. 

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The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little…

Raymond Chandler

(via thescriptlab)

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Contrast and parking ramps. Perspective and cement stairs. 

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The tricky thing about mazes is that you don't know if you've chosen the right path until the very end. If it turns out you were wrong, it's usually too late to go back and start again. That's the problem with mazes.

Haruki Murakami, The Strange Library