Where are Wes and Sofia and Alfonso? Or: What Children Already Know About Art That Adults Might Want To Not Forget

"That's why the Vogels are so unique. 

Why do you have to explain art? 

You have to just look at the art very hard. 

You don't have to process that 

information through your brain. 

You can just take it to your heart, straight. 

And that's what the Vogels do."

Lucio Pozzi to Megumi Sasaki 

via 

Jenny Comita in W

If you would like to visit some fine art today, 

take a look at the work of M. B. Goffstein. 

Doesn't get any finer. 

Thank you, Brooke Goffstein. Thank you, Joan, for knowing.

When I, for one, read the novels on M. B. Goffstein's website, I wonder if Wes Anderson or Sofia Coppola or Alfonso Cuaron have called her yet. Can you see? 

Photo courtesy of 

M. B. Goffstein

Poetpaterna

The other day I wrote that someone was a poetpaterna. It sounded like the right word; in the latin dictionary, and the amercun dictionary, and so on, it didn't turn up but it sort of jibed with what I was trying to say.

So, here is the definition of poetpaterna, if it's up to me: click here or here or here or here or here.

okiedokie.

Cheers, Mr. Glass. I thinks you are up there with Mr. Eliot, Mr. Beckett, Mr. Anderson and probably a few others. Keep writing, please, taking pictures, please, and being a maker of companies, or whatever you want, please.

"Blown away by picasso at the moma...": It's how you frame it, right?

"Our ideas can enslave or liberate us.

The shift from medievalism to the modern age was

a change in ideology, not just in theory...

...the transition from one intellectual age to another can be

traumatic and protracted. Some people never do make

the transition and remain resident in the old worldview,

their ideological comfort zone.

Those who see the future and ride ahead to meet it are often

thought of as mad or heretical, or worse.

The modern worldview is dominated still

by the ideology that came to replace medievalism:

the ideology of rationalism,

objectivity and of propositional knowledge.

These ideas frame our attitudes and theories every bit as much

as myth and superstition underpinned

the painstaking calculations of the medieval astronomers.

Just as their ideology created the framework for their questions,

so does ours."

Ken Robinson

"Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative"

currently, a.b.c is blown away by the poetpaterna of twitter:

NARRATOR (CONT'D)

She and her brother Richie ran away from

home one winter and camped out

in the African Wing of the Public Archives.