visu­al­iz­ing empires in decline by pedro miguel cruz

unfor­tu­nate ending

Terry Bor­der talks with owni.eu about the suc­cess of his bent objects.

CARTOGRAPHIES OF SILENCE

1.
A con­ver­sa­tion begins
with a lie. And each

speaker of the so-​called com­mon lan­guage feeds
the ice-​floe split, the drift apart

as if pow­er­less, as if up against
a force of nature

A poem can begin
with a lie. And be torn up. Con­tinue read­ing →

Dis­tant Voices, Vibrat­ing Elec­trons
… when yelling in per­son just isn’t enough …

The Dig­nity of Labor

On July 23, 1788, a parade was held in New York to honor the new con­sti­tu­tion. 76 dis­tinct groups of men (I assume they were all men, as women were not typ­i­cally rec­og­nized in orga­nized trades, regard­less of whether or not they worked in them) were given their order of march. By my count 62 of the groups were skilled labor­ers of some type, and no I’m not count­ing “Civil Engi­neers” as labor­ers. Prob­a­bly some of the men were mem­bers of the Gen­eral Soci­ety of Mechan­ics and Trades­men, which was founded in 1785 and which admit­ted me as a mem­ber in 2000.

snowy owl on michi­gan roof

SALMON, Idaho — Bird enthu­si­asts are report­ing ris­ing num­bers of snowy owls from the Arc­tic wing­ing into the lower 48 states this win­ter in a mass south­ern migra­tion that a lead­ing owl researcher called “unbelievable.”

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