postwest.

i needed a place for my work to marinate.

[postwest1]

2013

finally starting the Harvard sample. 10 pg max, gonna go to 7. 3-4 characters, fiction, arch is a collective climax. 

[nevver]

AFP Pictures Of The Year 2012 (more)

[michellecallinan-blog]

Map of the month- Bostonography’s ‘Autumn Streets’ map .. While approximate, the graphic diagrams the potential fall foliage of Somerville using city tree data and typical species behavior. There’s quite a bit of red on my street, I can’t wait!

[postwest1]

fall runs in somerville are so rad, infographic proof.

[jjbarattini-photography]

Indian summer camp. Exmoor. 07 September 2012

[julyrosewhite-blog-blog]

flashy

[postwest1]

9/30 sunday

The bottoms of my jeans are wet from the no socks walk down to the square. Only one scuffed knee from slipping on the brownstone. White noise of football in the alley, tomato plants dropping smashed fruit on the pavement, a burnt orange. I'm running out the clock to the 2 minute warning until comatose on the couch. An opaque hue hugs the primary colored houses across the street. Front window, draft across the floor causes slipper decisions over toes. 

[postwest1]

2012 Opportunity Nation Summit

This week I am traveling to Washington D.C. to attend the 2012 Opportunity Nation Summit on September 19 at George Washington University. The event will showcase the work of several low-income youth focused organizations including Year Up, Public Allies, and the organization I work with YouthBuild USA. 

The purpose of the event is to raise low-income youth voice to identify and create pathways to opportunities, opportunities in mentoring, careers and education pathways.

Event sponsors and organizations that will be present include CNN, TIME Magazine, and United Way Worldwide. Showcased speakers include Arianna Huffington President and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post Media Group,Deval Patrick the Gov. of Massachusetts, and Melody Barnes the former Director of Domestic Policy Council under President Barack Obama.

Watch the event live on the Opp. Nation website here, and join the conversation online on Twitter using #OppSummit. I will live-tweeting from the event w/ @YouthBuildUSA and @post_west.

pw

ps. an exclusive message from Ludacris will be shown... blueberry yum yum. 

[tifamade]

I’ve been thinking a lot about how to describe the evening of the Kinfolk picnic Rubi and I hosted a couple of weeks back. The excitement of the entire day was pretty overwhelming, and I’m happy that Clément and our guests took pictures, because if it weren’t for them I’m not sure I would be able to remember it. I remember Rubi coming over and making sandwiches. I remember raising my glass in a toast to the occasion of gathering together in an incredible place to eat. I remember all of the fun people who were there. But it seems like no sooner had we unpacked our picnic that we were packing everything and riding home. I guess what I’m trying to say is that I wish every day could be a picnic like this one.

(pictures by Clément Pascal)

[winstons-and-enochs]

the kinfolk paris picnic. 

[postwest1]

old northeastern Amnesty Int. offices, afternoon

Today I worked with a filmmaker from Break Thru named Brooke, and a facilitator from San Francisco from Colab. Great folk here. The facilitator Jeremy connected me with the site, Kinfolk. It is the digital version of a magazine. Part of the slow food fad its content is on community food and eating. Information is beautifully published in a narrative base with authors explaining simply, elegantly, and with some GD class how they are spending their free time. The picnic is a prominent place with these people. Kinfolk's fleeting romanticism is bold with high resolution images on the unpolished verneer of the intersections with urban spaces and rural spaces that is chin-rising. 

[postwest1]

the commons, mornings

Recently during my weekends I have been going to Haymarket by North Station in Boston to buy produce. On Saturday mornings, sundays sometimes, we invest in the slightly spoiled fruit for a picnic on the commons.  I am going to take pictures next time. 

[postwest1]

rustic, brick building.

Bage, lots of bage ya see

flesh toned

sharp edges announcing ends

of walls, breezeways, nooks, denied

by doorways

outside peering in

repeating floors

[postwest1]

up is down, down is up

Drowning, unsteadily. Tossing, never washing up, always sucked under, sucked under, again. The tide, calm from afar, yet unrelenting and full of anger on shore. I felt like I was drowning, feet overhead sand fills ears hear only turning still, sucked under.

[postwest1]

birds on the train poem

like a bird she squeaks like the hawk he operates flirtatious laughs now permeate the stagnant air of the subway. Only to be interrupted by the other passing birds.

[postwest1]

Church Ave Q train to Coney Island. Brooklyn 2010.

“Look are you, you are black, you are not Jamican, you are black. What is the color of dirt? Brown and black. What color is associated with God? Light. You cannot beat God, you are black, if I am not making any sense let me know.” 

[postwest1]

goldfish poem

I am gold, a fish. Distored in magnification, with my bowl on the floor. Smaller now in stature than I was in the chair. Uncomfortable, and closer in proximity to the imperfections on the floor. Seeing scratches through glass, a twisted realm accompanied with cheap gravel and fake castles.

[postwest]

here is a video of him when at the event. he is shitfaced. talking the knarrr