Shock Box: Scranton

project pilot on the back burner since 2016

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April in Scranton.

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"Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time." -Paul Auster

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Theaster Gates: Using the Art Economy to Funnel Funds to Underserved Communities. Theaster Gates discusses the pitfalls of terms like "community art" and imagines an artistic practice with a lasting impact in real social and urban structures in this interview with Carol Becker.

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L3hlXe3-Uc)

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyDp4wcyyVc)

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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen. —D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Dover Publications, 2012)

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Grodno Regional Drama Theater building in Grondo (Hrodna), Belarus by blackmorefreak

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Bernd Heyden’s street scene, East Berlin (via here)

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Fire hooping at #ScrantonBonfire (at Scranton Iron Furnaces)

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Shadows in my kitchen yesterday afternoon. Was thinking about laying text on this but it's kinda poetic enough already.

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When you're walking downtown for your 12:30 call and this happens... (at West Scranton, Scranton)

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Flying pig, fire hydrant graffito. West Scranton.

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“Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.” Hebrews 10:35-36 ESV

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perhaps the personification of the ironic life force that has crushed her (Eugene O'Neill)