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another moment of regression for a city still trying to find itself.
congratulations toronto you have once again elected a fool as mayor.
i have and always will love this city, unfortunately i will have to spend the next four years shaking my head at the inanity coming out of cityhall.
i had hoped that we as a collective did not need to see more mean spirited, every motherfucker for themselves policy take control of such a diverse place, but colour me blinded by our obvious need to see that reflected back at us.
we live in a country of cowardly federal politics where a minority government has been slowly and methodically shifting us towards a caricature of the failed american empire, where the only real results will be more stupidity and international isolation, which given our strengths might not be a bad place to be in the end, but really people it would be nice if you woke the fuck up.
so i will spend the next period of time laughing, because anger and frustration will only lead to self-destruction.
i love you toronto, but wake the fuck up. so please sleep well tonight.
3 digital photos shot with a canon 30D
bracketed at 3 different exposures
merged into photomatrix 4 creating an hdr image
slightly tweaked with adobe bridge cs5 for clarity
altered using topaz labs simplify 3 plug-in for painted effect
in photoshop cs5 on a macbook pro
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John Giorno – living poet and so much more
has been an inspiration to me
as a lover and user of words
for so many years now
reading his work is one thing
but when he performs it
it come to life in a way
that seems so obvious
but that hollow voice
in your mind
will never do it justice
sixteen years between
live sets
it was worth the wait
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when is a copy, an original?
so i’m sitting here
thinking of pithy words
and i’m sitting here
and they aren’t coming
so i reach down into
the depth of my essence
and i channel
the great poet
and i realize that i am not a poet
and i realize that i am not a photographer
for i am everything
for i am nothing
duality and
non-duality combined
i am i am
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This is Not a Reading Series
October 12, 2010
at the Annex Live
book launch for Marcus Boon – In Praise of Copying
supported by John Giorno – Subduing Demons In America
* Public Enemy – Fight the Power
there seems to be as many things we cannot control
as there are moments in a lifetime
but the one thing we can always control
is how we deal with those unknowns
for one can cower in fear
of uncertain outcomes
or one can take a step
make a movement
to try, to ask, to risk
for what it is they want
i believe that this is such a moment
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there is so much energetic movement going on
that it is difficult to get perspective at times
everyone i know is currently pushing
against ideas of who they are
what this is and looks like
mountains of change
from the perspective of ants
yet if we can individually and collectively
keep our shit together (real and imagined)
the other side of this current fuzzy position
will be well worth the effort and hard work
peace and love to all
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i was born east of here
my people came from much farther east of here
we look to the east for direction and guidance
we look to the east in hope that the sun will rise again
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Everything is Nothing but Everything 