Andre Bagoo's Blog, page 49
March 21, 2012
Diffusion Spectrum Imaging, A new imaging technique, developed...
Diffusion Spectrum Imaging, A new imaging technique, developed at Massachusetts General Hospital, makes it possible to see in detail how neural fibers criss-cross the brain and connect its regions. Read more
//via wanderlustmind
March 20, 2012
Film clip for the Gotye song 'Somebody That I Used To...
Film clip for the Gotye song 'Somebody That I Used To Know', featuring Kimbra from the album Making Mirrors
March 19, 2012
March 18, 2012
"Fame came to him at an age
when already long begun
was his way of moving off."
when already long begun
was his way of moving off."
- Vahni Capildeo, Undraining Sea
Writer Barbara Jenkins reads 'How to Put a Cat into a...
Writer Barbara Jenkins reads 'How to Put a Cat into a Hypnotic Trance', a poem from Trick Vessels, at a special gathering celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Paper Based Bookshop at the Hotel Normandie, Trinidad, on March 3.
Of 'How to Put a Cat into a Hypnotic Trance', a person in the audience can be heard whispering "we tried that once" near the start of the recording.
March 17, 2012
Love & impossible objects
"A trick vessel is a type of mechanical puzzle. It is an impossible object; a magical trick that seems to do something it should not; that should not, logically, be possible. I was fascinated by this idea and how it is a metaphor for so many processes: for art, for the imagination, for love, for memory; for history; for politics and for power. I hope the book deals with these things and that readers will find many secrets…"
Read more from an interview about my book Trick Vessels at tongues of the ocean here.
March 16, 2012
March 15, 2012
'And they flew'
Apollinaire said:
Come to the edge.
We might fall.
Come to the edge.
It's too high.
Come to the edge!
And they came
And he pushed them
And they flew
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Christopher Logue, 'Come to the Edge'
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Reading a poem like this just makes you stop. Stop whatever you are doing and read it. Read it again. Study it, admire it, love it. The purity of its lines, the attention to structure in the progression of thought, the danger of its ambiguous ending. The edge, but the edge of what? A poem like this stops the world.
