Porcupines in trees
A new addition to my series of gripping, action-packed films of porcupines in trees chewing and moving slowly about. This one’s kind of shaky (I forgot the tripod), but the view is novel — almost straight up.
Ladybugs, houseflies and porcupines
I don’t look at my video stats very often, so I had no idea until tonight that the most-watched videopoem I’ve ever made is also my longest: “Fly Away Home,” for a poem I wrote called “Harlequin Ladybird,” has been played 915 times, despite being over five minutes long. As I note on Vimeo, it’s …
Link roundup: Advice for writers, Planned Parenthood, public radio poetry, treeblogging and the King of the Porcupines
Austin Kleon: “How to Steal Like an Artist (And 9 Other Things Nobody Told Me)” I usually hate advice posts, but this one is gold. For example: There was a video going around the internet last year of Rainn Wilson, the guy who plays Dwight on The Office. He was talking about creative block, and …
Questions for the Porcupine
[audio:https://www.vianegativa.us/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/questions-for-the-porcupine.mp3] Porcupine, do the sapless twigs of winter taste any different on the tree you’ve just girdled, this waste of a pine? Its whited branches light the grove like candles, like candelsticks. But you with your poor eyesight must favor the dark: hollows & cavities, the undersides of things, unchewed bark. This pine was unwise …
Porcupine in a tree
Watch on Vimeo. This is without a doubt the Undiscovery Channel’s finest production to date, and possibly the most gripping, action-packed 6 minutes and 14 seconds of film you will ever see. Actually, all kidding aside, this is the closest I’ve ever been to a pocupine while it was feeding. Usually they’re at least thirty …
Porcupine
Despite what this porcupine seems to think, there are plenty of trees for everyone at the 13th edition of the Festival of the Trees. __________ Thanks to my friends Chris and Seung for the use of their laptop and high-speed internet to upload the above video, which I shot in Plummer’s Hollow last week. (I …
Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 42
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
Better Angels
The moss garden was full of death angels today.
Zero Sums
Driving back from the gym, I listen to a radio program where two mathematicians are talking about zero. I’m parked in front of my house, but their conversation keeps me glued to the seat. One of them says in math, whatever operation you do, you need to also be able to undo—just like with multiplication …
On the Ownership of Mountains
We have our own private mountains, but are they already too tired from waiting for us? Etel Adnan a break in the rain itself a break in the snow i take a chance on a walk on my own mountain the one i live on but also the one that lives in my head without …