Vellums

unprepared skins

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Elisabeth Tonnard, Let us go then, you and I, Acquoy, 2003, Edition of 250 numbered copies

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Kathy Hinde, Piano Migrations. from Kathy Hinde on Vimeo.

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Randolph Bourne’s idea, that critical discernment is in knowing why we like what we like, is intelligent and wise. He was disturbed that education in art is geared to an imposed canon. Our problem now is that nobody knows anything to begin with. A love of knowledge is gone, and with it curiosity and a critical eye. We have theory instead of perception, contentiousness instead of discussion, dogma instead of inquiry.

Guy Davenport, “Journals II” 

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Book of Annotations

Cameron Anstee’s new collection, “Book of Annotations,” is remarkable. He manages to balance the entire horizon on his finger tip with enviable clarity and economy. I wish I’d written this book. All beautifully designed by Megan Fildes and Invisible Publishing.

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Emiliana Torrini, "Sunny Road," Fisherman's Woman

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Travis Shilling | Unknown Legends | on now #AtTheGallery http://www.ingramgallery.com/artists/travis-shilling/index.htm

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Frederic Clements’s quadrat method showed that plant communities act as a single "super organism." Can this idea show that humans and nature are the same?

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Milne’s Mineshafts: A Conversation with Edward Burtynsky - Photo London

Photo London brings together the world’s leading galleries in a major international photography Fair at Somerset House

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Reading

I’ll be reading from my collection Faunics 

(cover image: “Two Coyotes” by Travis Shilling)

this coming Saturday, March 31st, at 3pm at AC Hunter Library, St. John’s, NL, with the wonderful Ronna Bloom.

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(David Brown Milne, Camp Porch, 1921, watercolour over graphite on wove paper, 39.4 x 41.6 cm, Gift from the McLean Foundation, 1960)

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A bit of dark nighttime music, made by me (st alkinghorse), in my cabin deep in the northernmost north woods of Alberta, Canada, at the fire tower I’ve worked every summer for the last nine years. 

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#NowPlaying An Open Cage by Florent Ghys, Bang On A Can All-Stars

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Self-similar. Ferns after rain. #magic #nature #art #northernontario #laketalon #forest #woods #atthecabin #naturelovers #naturelove #patterns #fractal #green #outlandadventures (at Lake Talon)

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It’s finally raining here at the fire tower which means some long-wished for days on the ground and time to work on whatever I like. Today I made some music. 

[cover photo by Gustavo Thomas]

(via https://soundcloud.com/kinds_of_quiet/sitas-shadow?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=tumblr)

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This handsome old country gentleman arrived in the mail yesterday, via helicopter, to me here at the fire tower. An 1830 edition of John Knapp’s Journal of a Naturalist. I’ve wanted a copy of this book since first finding it in a university library many years ago, even if for nothing else but the wonderful found nature poem of its index.  

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Just a week into my eighth summer here at Amber Lookout Tower in northern Alberta, just shy of the Northwest Territories Border. This is already shaping up to be one of the driest and most flammable seasons on record, which means 12 hour days in the tower for me, every day, for the next four months. Let the reading begin.

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UPDATED with 4 newly digitalized titles!

 In an effort to increase readership and accessibility, UDP has decided to offer PDF “documentation” of full-length books for free download on our site. These are not formatted e-books—they are digital proofs. It is our belief that the technology of the physical book is essentially different from that of the […]