Category Archives: Art

The Coffee Shop – Augmented Future (video)

Posted on June 9, 2016 by Joy of Fishes

The Coffee Shop is an open thread-style discussion forum for human interest news of the day. From Dues Ex: Open Bionics, Eidos-Montréal and Razer are working together to bring Deus Ex inspired augmentations to life. The three companies will partner … Continue reading →

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Walking with Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass – Inscriptions – To Thee Old Cause

Posted on June 8, 2016 by Joy of Fishes

Walking with Walt Whitman A daily installment from Leaves of Grass. ~ ❦ ~ To Thee Old Cause To thee old cause! Thou peerless, passionate, good cause, Thou stern, remorseless, sweet idea, Deathless throughout the ages, races, lands, After a … Continue reading →

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Mooseogorsky’s Windchime Rhapsody

Posted on June 8, 2016 by wordcloud9

Britta Schroeder posted this video and brief explanation: Healy, Alaska – As I lay in bed this evening, I could hear my wind chime blowing up, but when I looked out the window, not even a blade of grass budged. … Continue reading →

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Notes in Emily Dickinson’s pocket – “Within my reach!” (Life, 7)

Posted on June 8, 2016 by Joy of Fishes

‌ ‌ Within my reach! I could have touched! I might have chanced that way! Soft sauntered through the village, Sauntered as soft away! So unsuspected violets Within the fields lie low, Too late for striving fingers That passed, an … Continue reading →

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The Coffee Shop – “L’illusion de Joseph” (video)

Posted on June 8, 2016 by Joy of Fishes

The Coffee Shop is an open thread-style discussion forum for human interest news of the day.

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Walking with Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass – Inscriptions – To A Historian

Posted on June 7, 2016 by Joy of Fishes

Walking with Walt Whitman A daily installment from Leaves of Grass. ~ ❦ ~ To a Historian You who celebrate bygones, Who have explored the outward, the surfaces of the races, the life that has             … Continue reading →

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Notes in Emily Dickinson’s pocket – “If I can stop one heart from breaking” (Life, 6)

Posted on June 7, 2016 by Joy of Fishes

‌ ‌ If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not … Continue reading →

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The Coffee Shop – Onbashira Matsuri (御柱祭), “Sacred Pillars Festival” (video)

Posted on June 7, 2016 by Joy of Fishes

The Coffee Shop is an open thread-style discussion forum for human interest news of the day. From OH! MATSURi, a film about Onbashira Matsuri (御柱祭), i.e., the “Sacred Pillars Festival”:  Every six years for 1,200 years, people in Japan’s Nagano Prefecture risk … Continue reading →

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Walking with Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass – Inscriptions – To Foreign Lands

Posted on June 6, 2016 by Joy of Fishes

Walking with Walt Whitman A daily installment from Leaves of Grass. ~ ❦ ~ Insriptions To Foreign Lands I heard that you ask’d for something to prove this puzzle the New World, And to define America, her athletic Democracy, Therefore … Continue reading →

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Notes in Emily Dickinson’s pocket – “Glee! the great storm is over!” (Life, 5)

Posted on June 6, 2016 by Joy of Fishes

Glee! the great storm is over! Four have recovered the land; Forty gone down together Into the boiling sand. Ring, for the scant salvation! Toll, for the bonnie souls,— Neighbor and friend and bridegroom, Spinning upon the shoals! How they … Continue reading →

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