The Printers’ Ball is an annual celebration of print literature in Chicago,hosted by Poetry, the Museum of Contemporary Art, and Newcity. Over onehundred arts and literary organizations gather under one roof to present adiverse showcase of print publications including free magazines, journals,books, weeklies, posters, music, video, performance, and more.http://www.poetryfoundation.org/programs/events.htmlwww.printersball.org
One of the worlds last, uncontacted tribes was recently photographed in the dense rainforest of the Brazilian - Peruvian border. It is believed that there are around 100 groups of people scattered around the world who have no knowledge of our world. Illegal logging in Peru is driving some of these tribes over the Brazilian border, which could lead to conflict with the estimated five hundred uncontacted Indians already living on the Brazilian side.
‘We did the overflight to show their houses, to show they are there, to show they exist,’ said Brazilian uncontacted tribes expert José Carlos dos Reis Meirelles Junior. ‘This is very important because there are some who doubt their existence.’
Meirelles, who despite once being shot in the shoulder by an arrow fired by another tribe campaigns to protect these peoples, believes this group’s numbers are increasing, and pointed out how strong and healthy the people seemed.
Old man Billings has been turning out more than fiddles & the occasional silkscreen over at Miracles, our neighborhood studio and magazine storage/shipping facility. Latest production: wind turbines, from prototypes to full-scale. See for yourself below.
They recently found a 4 million year old whale in the Tuscan region of Italy. It seems that up until 1.5 million years ago, the entire country was underneath the Mediterranean. The skeleton was completely in tact except for the lower jaw. They even found the remains of the creatures that fed off of its decaying body for decades.
Once, when I was a child in Tennessee, we lived in a condominium built in the shadows of the Carnton Mansion, a plantation which, like many of these slave-owning southern farms, was converted into a hospital during the Civil War. They say that after an amputation, the surgeons had a habit of throwing the limbs out of the window, resulting in a pile of stumps two stories high when the Battle of Franklin finally ended. Convinced that there were bones beneath my yellow vinyl siding home, I began a solo excavation of the dirt-floored crawl space. All that I uncovered was an empty can of Budweiser and a puddle of cat piss. Digging in the dark can get lonely, especially with a snow shovel. And field hollers only work if you have someone to holler back.
In the fall you could see the re-enactments from my bedroom window. All of these weekend soldiers knew that they had but one death in this play, so they gave it all they had. Grabbing their chests and spinning in circles. Rolling down hills, arms a-wailin, canteens a -flyin, screamin rebel yells. They died a couple of miles from the places they were born. Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound.
The Reelfoot Library of Music and Sound’s new release (a continuously beautiful mix of songs for dethawing) Fare You Well can be heard here: reelfootbooks.com
Made in the Italian Alps, or more precisely, the Dolomites, close to the Venetian border. Jens Haas is best known for his photography in large cities, such as Berlin or New York. In “The Mountain Project,” Jens Haas brings the same perspective which shapes his urban photography to the stony and deserted landscape of the Dolomites. The photographs are taken at an altitude where the Alps look like another planet. Haas’ images show the fascinating beauty of the mountains, and the strangeness of a landscape that only the more adventurous hikers ever see. This new book is a must have for anyone with a love for the beauty of nature, and for classical black-and-white photography with an entirely modern feel.
