Issue eight of Otoliths

Issue eight of Otoliths, the southern summer 2008 issue, has just gone live.

The issue contains, in order of appearance, work by Michele Leggott, Geof Huth, Nicholas Manning, Laurie Price, Sandy McIntosh, Reed Altemus, Alicia Dangereyes, Bill Drennan, gustave morin, Paul Hardacre, Felino Soriano, Pradip Datta, Spencer Selby, Spencer Selby & Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, David-Baptiste Chirot, Kristine Ong Muslim, Joshua A Ware, Patrick Gulke, James Sanders, Jill Chan, J. D. Nelson, Eric Burke, Philip Byron Oakes, Louie Crew, Márton Koppány, Thomas Fink & Maya Fink, Richard Kostelanetz, Paul Siegell, Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino, Sheila E. Murphy & John M. Bennett, Luigino Solamito & John M. Bennett, John M. Bennett, Jeff Harrison, John Lowther, Alexander Jorgensen, Martin Edmond, Christopher Major, Elisa Gabbert & Kathleen Rooney, Caleb Puckett, Cecelia Chapman, Guy Beining, Vernon Frazer, Bobbi Lurie, harry k stammer, Andrew Topel, Thomas Fink & Andrew Riley Clark.

frozen in a blur

then
the   world
stopped    allowing    them
to    depart    frozen
in   a
blur

9

urban playground

the neoteric coziness
of concrete
architecture


the new Bijlmer station

loes diephuis <> big fish

Big Fish, an installation by Loes Diephuis on display at metro station Wibautstraat.


When I perused her website I discovered that I photographed work from Loes last year. That work is called "Kinderspel". Anyway, my perception _*) is here.


_*) yes I live in a different realm

johnny B goode

a nice thing in Amsterdam are the street musicians, one night this guy was really swinging on his magic 5 string guitar^* with the classic Chuck Berry chords and words

Deep down Louisiana close to New Orleans
Way back up in the woods among the evergreens
There stood a log cabin made of earth and wood
Where lived a country boy named Johnny B. Goode
Who never ever learned to read or write so well
But he could play the guitar just like a ringing a bell

Go go
Go Johnny go
Go
Go Johnny go
Go
Go Johnny go

^*= a 6 string with one broken :)

if i could feel again [x.14]

particular "from another
light" source
person

poor
surface (ing)
(source) influence "breathing



The poem is een extract from "terror 114" by Harry K. Stammer.
The graffiti text is by Laser 3.14. The number 14 is todays numerical glue.

Jos den Dikken

An installation by Jos den Dikken in metro station Wibautstraat.

wheel of time

"The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose.... The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of time.
But it was a beginning."

Text by Robert Jordan

2 Z space

Diemerpark, Zeeburg, Amsterdam. This park is located on a 1980 waste dump. The waste is preserved for future generations in a plastic wrapper. The groundwater has to be treated and continuously monitored. The rabbits and the grass are doing ok.

happy newyear