Author Archives: Steve

Composition 2

I think I have it. In Composition 2, Tunxis’ research course, we will be watching Wesch videos and simply infer subjects from there. It will give an opportunity to branch into media, politics, law, new media, futures, and space. Basically, I have generic assignments constructed whose content can be pretty much anything, but lay a grid of rules down for length, presentation, and content.

We will see heavy use of collaboration, wikis, blogs, netvibes as an organizing tool. Then we’ll see what happens.

New Mexico Years Ago

This is one of my favorite photographs, which I’ve finally found the energy to scan. Manuel Cervantes, a wonderful friend, and I (in my hunting days) in New Mexico’s Black Range in 1986 or ’87. Title is Manuel Considering the Fire. I took this photo as the day was heading into dusk. Temperature was about 40 degrees and, I think, it was the third or forth day out. It had snowed the night prior and all the tequila gone.

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Manuel, salud!

Land

This is odd, and oddly typical. Land in Hudspeth County can kill:

Driving down grown-over, washed out, rough roads that Sunset Ranches carved out of the desert, crumbling homes, half-built cinder block structures, weather beaten campers and recreational vehicles speckle the landscape.

Color Rich

This latest by Carianne is color rich and subtly dark, like something happening at night. It was worth two poems, although it was really a matter of being unable to pick between two poems that sort of tumbled out onto the canvas. It’s such a concentration that it provided opportunity to play with further compressive leaps.

On Jim Starlin

Ian Gordon on comics.

Reading Reading Comics while on the road in Australia and the USA the chapter on Starlin and his handling of Warlock jumped out at me together with the chapter on Tomb of Dracula. To be sure these two chapters took me back to the 1970s when I was in the habit of reading comic books on a very regular basis for amusement and diversion, but it was not so much a sense of nostalgia that gripped me but a sense of rediscovery and that these comics had spoken to me in ways that at the time I could not articulate.