On March 28th, 2007, at 3 pm, I was sitting in the Visitors’ Gallery of the House of Commons, I and forty-nine other artists from across Canada, fifty in all, and I got to thinking about stillness. To read a book, one must be still. To watch a concert, a play, a movie, to look at a painting, one must be still. Religion, too, makes use of stillness, notably with prayer and meditation. Just gazing upon a still lake, upon a quiet winter scene—doesn’t that lull us into contemplation? Life, it seems, favours moments of stillness to appear on the edges of our perception and whisper to us, “Here I am. What do you think?” Then we become busy and the stillness vanishes, yet we hardly notice because we fall so easily for the delusion of busyness, whereby what keeps us busy must be important, and the busier we are with it, the more important it must be. And so we work, work, work, rush, rush, rush. On occasion we say to ourselves, panting, “Gosh, life is racing by.” But that’s not it at all, it’s the contrary: life is still. It is we who are racing by.
March 04, 2010
March 02, 2010
Absolut test
February 24, 2010
Evolution of the mobile phone.
via blog.2modern.com
Kyle Bean is truly a master of 3D form and model making. Check out this awesome project he created showing the evolution of the mobile phone (from Zach Morris style to the iPhone!) in the style of Russian Dolls.
February 20, 2010
List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Napoleon Bonaparte, who was taller than his nickname, The Little Corporal, suggests.
Napoleon Bonaparte (pictured) was not especially short.[20] After his death in 1821, the French emperor's height was recorded as 5 feet 2 inches in French feet. This corresponds to 5 feet 6.5 inches in modern international feet, or 1.686 metres.[21] His nickname was le petit caporal (The Little Corporal). There are competing explanations for why he was called this, but few modern scholars believe it referred to his stature.
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini did not "make the trains run on time". Much of the repair work had been performed before Mussolini and the Fascists came to power in 1922. Accounts from the era also suggest that the Italian railways' legendary adherence to timetables was more myth than reality.[22]
During World War II, King Christian X of Denmark did not thwart Nazi attempts to identify Jews by wearing a yellow star himself. Jews in Denmark were never forced to wear the Star of David. The Danes did help most Jews flee the country before the end of the war.[23][24]via en.wikipedia.org
February 17, 2010
Downtown Dallas
February 10, 2010
New Band: Shea Tullos and The Mrs.s Robinsons
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February 04, 2010
February 03, 2010
January 24, 2010
I love this headline
January 17, 2010
January 16, 2010
I am Summerheaded
My memories of Shreveport summers are scattered like Kodak Instamatics from the TG&Y, full of lens flares and the Evil Knievil ghosts of America’s Bicentenial. They make my mind rev like a stolen go-cart. They bring dirt clod wars raging inside my head.
My brightest dreams come from sunny nights, brimming full of daylight savings time, mosquito trucks with their clouds of cancer, chasing kids on their 10 speeds, old folks sitting in their lawn chairs, watching it all go by, smiling and waving and wishing that we wouldn’t make so much noise.
At supper time, I smell chicken frying from our neighbor’s house. But not at mine – my momma’s on the Weight Watchers.
My eyes sting from the chlorine and my hands are sticky from the watermelon that we ate at the Elks’ Club. I lost my towel at the Pack-a-Sack playing Joust. It looks like a giant roll of Lifesavers. But it doesn’t matter. My swim suit is dry now.
Watch your snow cone. Don’t spill it in the car. When we get home you need to get that room picked up. Come on inside and help your daddy shell these purple hull peas.
Round 2 winner Will Clarke wins the @LitDeathMatch!! #LateNights
Round 2 winner Will Clarke wins the @LitDeathMatch!! #LateNights, originally uploaded by Dallas Museum of Art.
That's me protecting Dallas' literary honor.
December 03, 2009
At Griffins Poboys in Houma
November 21, 2009
Integer's Holiday Campaign for AT&T is in stores
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November 19, 2009
Holiday Cool
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November 03, 2009
November 01, 2009
All our loot from the Texas Book Festival
One of the highlights of this year's festival was reading Bill Scheft's EVERYTHING HURTS and then getting to interview him. Hilarious book and great guy.
October 03, 2009
August 03, 2009
Haynesville, The Movie
July 27, 2009
July 21, 2009
July 16, 2009
July 14, 2009
July 07, 2009
My dad is on the big oil rig in the sky now. Harris G Clarke, Jr. 11/14/33 to 7/4/09
Growing up, my dad was all Beech-Nut chewing tobacco and cuss words. He was tomato vines, red-clay top-soil and a hoe. He was sunburn and picking squash. My dad was the man who promised me that if you had curly hair that he would buy you an Icee from the Pack-A-Sack. I was the only one of his four sons with curly hair. My dad was shooting squirrels with a BB gun and dressing them for dinner. My dad was Pabst Blue Ribbon and fried fish. My dad was the smell of an oil rig and tall pine trees. My dad was cutting firewood on Sundays. He was a Baby Ruth and a Coca-Cola bought at a country store. My dad was the breath-taking fire from blowing a gas well at night. My dad was Dee Clarke.
June 28, 2009
June 27, 2009
What I'm Slinging
John McNally & Owen King: Who Can Save Us Now?: Brand-New Superheroes and Their Amazing (Short) Stories
My story "The Pentecostal Home for Flying Children" is in this anthology.John McNally, Will Clarke and Others: When I Was A Loser
Cumberland, RI parents called this the "pornographic" retelling of my high school loserdom. Trust me, I was there, my high school days were nothing like a porno.Will Clarke: The Worthy: A Ghost's Story
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREWill Clarke: Lord Vishnu's Love Handles : A Spy Novel (Sort Of)
Paperback June 2006Don't Abuse the Muse: The MiddleFingerPress Mixed Tape of Fiction, Poetry & Reality
Proceeds Benefit Parkinson's Disease Research
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