Author: rachelvb
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It's a video kind of day: Love-ism
LOVE-ISM from Paul Sixta on Vimeo. Choreographer Mor Shani is working on “Love-ism”. Love-ism is a long term study inspired by the book “Art of Loving” by Erich Fromm. In this study Shani wishes to challenge the perception and liquidity of the agreed upon, the sublime and the condemned. He asks: “when do supreme ideas…
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The Innovation of Loneliness
The Innovation of Loneliness from Shimi Cohen on Vimeo. “What is the connection between social networks and being lonely?”
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A good girl is the solution, not the problem
I’ll always wear scars from playing with mom’s BiC razor in the bathtub. The blades stuck, almost organically, like running my fingers over ornamental wheat on her nightstand. I was never a cutter, just curious how something so precise could slice me the way divorce had or two different doorbells sounded like home, never knowing…
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Haboob
Last night, Pat and I got deals on lower level Diamonbacks tickets … basically half off WAHOO … so he took the train in and met me at the bar around the corner from work for happy hour, all the while the iPhones were alarming every 15 minutes to update applephiles about the oncoming dust…
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Errr, Monday.
I’ve been having a lot of dreams lately about shutting out the loud things in my life … in one case it was a very loud person I literally shut the door on and I think in cases where your dreams are SO obvious and take little weeding or analyzing, you have to listen to…
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The artist of my own life
I always wanted to be a work of art, a moment captured on canvas, the closing line of a poem that reached so far into a stranger’s gut, pulling it out would instantly kill them. I wanted an artist to see me on the street and know there was something kindred, something recognizable: our gift,…
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Nailed it
Well, I did it. Freaked out the entire day, built the entire thing up in my mind and then at around 5 pm on my way home, I remembered that once (for my last job) I had to go in front of an entire audience on live television with a memorized introduction of a few…
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Will I be brave?
This is happening tonight: Downtown Phoenix’s “one chance to shine” open mic is back and will be better than ever! DID YOU WRITE A NEW POEM OR JOKE OR SONG THIS SUMMER AND NOW YOU NEED SOMEWHERE TO PRACTICE? From August until April, every Monday at 8pm …just south of Roosevelt on 5th street at…
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What could have happened on the way to Starbucks
The conversation that happened: “Hi. Excuse me.” (Kinda cute, tall black man in a green polo shirt with keys around his neck) “I’m really hungry. Do you have any money on you?” “No, I’m sorry. I don’t. ($5 and a Starbucks card in my back pocket) “Oh, OK… Do you like movies?” (laugh) “Who doesn’t…