Jared Stanley's Blog, page 7

National Portrait Gallery

Heading to our nation's capital. Not my favorite place in the world, but, the great part about going to D.C. are the museums. I'm looking forward to hitting The National Portrait Gallery, where's there's a show on called "Portraiture Now." I'm pretty interested in portraits, via Stein, but also via my friend Ann Ploeger, who's a photographic portraitist (I wrote an intro to her monograph a few years ago). http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/communi...

There's also some good shit over at the...

San Francisco Legion of Honor

I went to the Legion of Honor  in SF with my sister on Saturday. It's the museum in Hitchcock's Vertigo. I think I went there once, in the '80s, when they had an exhibit of Gary Larsen comics. Again, I was fortunate to grow up in the Bay Area. We saw some amazing paintings, including this image of Thalia, Muse of Comedy, by Jean-Luc Nattier. I don't think the image here properly describes the quality of the face's expression. Her expression is pure good humor, plus there's something quite...

Likestarlings / Siddhartha Bose

The third installment of my poetry conversation w/Siddhartha Bose is up at Likestarlings. It's been super fun and interesting to do this project with Sid, whom I've never met but is a really captivating poet. In addition to our conversation, he's got some great work up at a mag called Eclectica. I really admire the eye in the work of his I've seen, and the rhythms in his lineated work seem to owe something to Bunting, though really compacted and piled – less elegant, and rougher, in a good...

Arch, Arch, Arch.

I Heart Eileen Myles. Spent the whole evening yesterday with her Iceland book. Her style is infectious. I took turns playing with the rabbits, who were fighting over a turnip, and leafing thru this book. Her sense of poetry as vocation is so casual. What is it she said about living in New York? Something like there was language everywhere. Graffiti, advertisements – you wouldn't live in New York if you weren't OK w/advertisements. I'll put the right quote up when I get home. It's that hard...

Another Poem Questioning the Validity of Anybody Making American Children

Cowboy Song for Airport Screening



Security gives me a boner.

Now, finally, you can see it.

That's not a vasectomy scar.

I bet they can hear this cheering

all the way in Washington D.C.

Old Woman Cave

Old Woman Cave is located on the eastern side of the massive Old Woman Mountains which dominate this part of the Mojave Desert, and is about 37 miles southwest of Needles, California.

Haiti

Patricia Piccinini

Yakety Axe

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National Park Service Brochure Design

I've always been in love with the design of NPS park brochures, loving them at least as much as the writing itself. So, it's great to see that they've got a dedicated web design page, which is right HERE.