Category: wandering mind
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Top 25! yeah, buddy!
I’m in the top 25 for the Flash Mob! hells yeah! There’s a bunch of anonymous excerpts on this page, but I don’t want to keep mine anonymous, so I’m going to tell you it’s THE FIRST ONE! yay!! Happy Fridizzle! Flash Mob 2013 Top 25 here
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Flash Fiction Mob 2013!
I’d tell you to go check out my work at the Flash Fiction Mob 2013, but it had to be a blog post to enter, so I ALREADY POSTED IT HERE and you’ve probably already read it =) But all the work is up there right now and it’s a pretty cool competition Claire told…
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Coin Purse – video poem
Coin Purse from Rachel Van Blankenship on Vimeo. My latest video poem. It’s still in the works, I think, but I’ll figure out this whole movie making thing eventually… Enjoy!
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Half Journalist: half superhero
Every once and a while we get tours through our building: wild-eyed kids clinging to their backpacks; parents smiling over them; everyone glancing up at the popcorn ceiling, the band of wall clocks for various time-zones covered, the hut-like cubicles, the newspapers from Great Falls, Reno, Palm Springs, Phoenix strewn about in mail slots and…
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Don't belly flop the art
When I was in NYC, my friend Elyse and I went to the MoMA in hopes of seeing the Rain Room. If you haven’t heard about the Rain Room, it’s, I suppose, a traveling box from London where inside, duh, it’s raining, but all along the floor are sensors so whoever is walking around in…
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Good Art Day!
New video poem and a photo published. Check it out here Everyone gets free gum courtesy of moi! I’m leaving today for a wedding in Pennsylvania. We’ve been looking forward to this wedding since we left Pennsylvania, so needless to say I’m pretty excited. We’ll be gone the whole week. WHEEEEEEEE! (whenever I do that…
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"Love Story" Video Poem
Love Story from Rachel Van Blankenship on Vimeo. This is my first attempt at a video poem sans Claire. So hopefully as I do more, I’ll get better and HOPEFULLY I’ll get a real camera someday instead of having to use my phone, but this’ll do. I’m finding myself taking random little videos for no…
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Bastards
I had a dream last night a poet said “I know just what to do with your writing…” and that’s where the memory fades. Mysteries are never easy Dreams are never answers, but seeds. Too often I wake from sleep’s marathon unsure of the miles I’ve tracked my back aches, my knees, my heart Why…
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Tumblr
I’m trying out a new tumblr blog/site. Here I’m going to see if this is easier to post with via my phone, Facebook, all that good social media crap *I mean amazing technology stuff* Let me know if you hate it. It seems harder to comment on stuff. is it? I sort of have no…