Emily M. Danforth's Blog, page 71
September 17, 2012
Not sure where this image came from but I’m digging it.
Not sure where this image came from but I’m digging it.
September 16, 2012
One afternoon a few weeks ago a local teenage arts collective...
One afternoon a few weeks ago a local teenage arts collective here in Providence left scads of gold glitter behind on the sidewalk. Behind after what? I’m not sure—but it was there, scattered and shining, for several days after. I saw it in the mornings when I went next door to the very hip coffee house—White Electric—to get my coffee. People tracked the glitter in there, too. It glinted in crevices and floorboard cracks like so much gold dust in a miner’s pan. Walking that sidewalk was a little like being in a Ke$ha video. Or, better: it was like the sidewalk had become the bottom of one of those non-snow snow-globes, the kind where glitter rains down on whatever plastic scene is entrapped therein. Only no one had shook us for awhile and so the glitter stayed put on the ground. I loved that glitter sidewalk. I loved that folks tracked it with them—me included. It was pasted to the soles of my flip-flops for days. I watched it wash from between my toes and then swirl down the drain in the shower. I was sad to see that the rain that came a few days later took what what was left. I was happy for the rain, just sad about what it meant for the glitter. What hadn’t already been tracked away was washed over the lip of the sidewalk and into the gutter, then down the storm drain in thin, shimmering streams.
(I captured only 3 seconds total of video footage of this occurrence, but I managed to extend it a bit here. And I borrowed just a few seconds of Passion Pit’s song “Sleepyhead,” too. I probably shouldn’t have, but it’s so, so short and I’m not trying to sell you anything.)
September 14, 2012
alecshao:
Paige Smith - Urban Geodes (2001) - origami in...
- Urban Geodes (2001) - origami in wall
Artist’s statement:
“A parallel aspect of these ‘geodes’ in nature and in the city is they are always unexpected treasures. You might go hunting for treasures but you generally happen upon them during your adventures or casual interaction with the environment. I enjoy the fact that many people will not notice these, but some astute people will; that these will not last forever and the weather will affect them as naturally as it might in nature.”
September 13, 2012
Erika Frederickson at the Missoula Independent wrote one...
Erika Frederickson at the Missoula Independent wrote one helluvan article about CAM POST. It’s got selections from the novel, portions of an interview with me, and even illustrations. I feel very, very lucky to have had tMoCP so generously treated and positioned within the landscape of western/Montanan literature.
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Illustrations by Pumpernickel Stewart for a kick-ass CAM POST...
Illustrations by Pumpernickel Stewart for a kick-ass CAM POST article in the Missoula Independent.
September 12, 2012
September 10, 2012
The always excellent Bitch Media put tMoCP in its “Beyond...
The always excellent Bitch Media put tMoCP in its “Beyond Judy Blume.” Yes!
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The always excellent Bitch Media put tMoCP in its most...
The always excellent Bitch Media put tMoCP in its most “Beyond Judy Blume” post (along with some other excellent queer YA selections). Yes!
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August 31, 2012
THE CUPBOARD (the quarterly prose chapbook that I co-edit with...
THE CUPBOARD (the quarterly prose chapbook that I co-edit with the incomparable Dave Madden and Adam Peterson) has a brand-spankin’ new website and logo. To celebrate, we’re running a killer subscription deal. Really. Four be-yoo-tiful, fit-in-yer-pocket issues of The Cupboard mailed, over the course of one year, right to your home for only 12 bucks. Yes, $12. Wha-wha-what? It’s true, friends. Every word of it is true.
Click-the-logo to peruse the new website and to SUBSCRIBE!
