University of Missouri Residency Postcard
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My Work
Hand of Agony
parts of the same hand
but yet they still seek devour one another
What eldritch horror do you belong to?
Your joints crippled in just their very being
Frozen in eternal strain Clutching onto something
What has been taken from you?
I see your screams of agony yet
Why do I feel no sympathy for you?
but yet they still seek devour one another
What eldritch horror do you belong to?
Your joints crippled in just their very being
Frozen in eternal strain Clutching onto something
What has been taken from you?
I see your screams of agony yet
Why do I feel no sympathy for you?
The Blacksmith
His worn callous hands knew the weight of the hammer.
His skin, intimate with the bite of embers.
I was familiar with its fires before I could even fuel them.
In its white-orange heat, I found who I am.
From the rise of the sun to its setting,
like coal it consumes me.
Each day I can think of nothing but honing my craft.
The sound of the anvil growing ever growing more and more harmonious.
I couldn’t tell you what the hell I strike the iron for…
But there still is one thing I am fond of
His skin, intimate with the bite of embers.
I was familiar with its fires before I could even fuel them.
In its white-orange heat, I found who I am.
From the rise of the sun to its setting,
like coal it consumes me.
Each day I can think of nothing but honing my craft.
The sound of the anvil growing ever growing more and more harmonious.
I couldn’t tell you what the hell I strike the iron for…
But there still is one thing I am fond of
Damage Done.
After Neil Young’s The Needle and the Damage Done
Not a chance of an intermission
The needle and the damage done.
Doctor, you think you would know this?
The needle and the damage done.
Other conditions cling to this
The needle and the damage done.
I’m afraid this medication is worth its weight in gold
The needle and the damage done.
I’ve seen the needle and the damage done,
The needle and the damage done.
Not a chance of an intermission
The needle and the damage done.
Doctor, you think you would know this?
The needle and the damage done.
Other conditions cling to this
The needle and the damage done.
I’m afraid this medication is worth its weight in gold
The needle and the damage done.
I’ve seen the needle and the damage done,
The needle and the damage done.
Poetry?
Can I really call myself a poet?
We all chase it, for it cannot be caught
But that’s its purpose, isn’t it?
We all chase it, for it cannot be caught
But that’s its purpose, isn’t it?
The 4 Stages of Culture Shock as seen in Budapest
Budapest by director Walter Carvalho is a Brazilian film however it follows the life of José Costa a ghostwriter who ends up in Budapest, Hungary. The film was made in 2009, it reminds me a lot of Central Station especially with the two being films involving travel. The film argues that once you embark on a journey to another place, culture, country, etc. That it will have a permanent change and effect on who you are and your identity. In Budapest this is seen as Costa transitions between his ho
Filmic Counter Culture of the Long 1960s
In 2019 Disney’s Frozen 2 broke the record of most grossing film during thanksgiving weekend, making $123.7 million domestically and grossing roughly over 1.4 billion dollars. Although this is a great achievement, I think it represents a direction that Hollywood and the film industry have collectively moved towards. No one wants to rock the boat, break the mold, or tell new stories that haven’t been seen on the silver screen. Films of the 1960s were the antithesis of the cultural mold at the tim
A Digital Dérive
For my digital derive I decided to go to where almost all of my derives start or end up eventually. YouTube. I have been going on derives for years and have not even known it, generally, though I find myself starting with a specific goal in mind and then I end up getting distracted and following a tangent, to another tangent until instead of completing my math homework, I have spent an hour and 30 mins learning, watching, and discovering all sorts of seemingly random things.
For example, after
For example, after
The Goat of Hypermediacy
Oat the Goat is a project that was funded by the New Zealand Ministry of Education and was a project designed to be a part of their Bullying Free NZ Week in May of 2018. The New Zealand Ministry of Health describes it as “Oat the Goat is an interactive, online storybook, which aims to teach children about empathy, acceptance, and tolerance.” The “Online story book” features our protagonist Oat, who is on a quest to reach the top of the mountain. On his journey, he meets a variety of characters,
Exhilaration vs Acceleration
RACING IS A GREAT MANIA TO WHICH ONE MUST SACRIFICE EVERYTHING, WITHOUT RETICENCE, WITHOUT HESITATION.
FASTER, FASTER WE GO UNTIL THE THRILL OF SPEED OVERCOMES THE FEAR OF DEATH.
MY AMBITION CANNOT BE STOPPED.
IF ONE DAY THE SPEED KILLS ME, DO NOT CRY BECAUSE I WAS SMILING.
THOUGH IT WAS BOUND TO HAPPEN ONE DAY OR ANOTHER I WASN’T EXPECTING TO LOSE IT SO SOON.
IF YOU RIDE LIKE LIGHTNING THEN YOU ARE GOING TO CRASH LIKE THUNDER.
FASTER, FASTER WE GO UNTIL THE THRILL OF SPEED OVERCOMES THE FEAR OF DEATH.
MY AMBITION CANNOT BE STOPPED.
IF ONE DAY THE SPEED KILLS ME, DO NOT CRY BECAUSE I WAS SMILING.
THOUGH IT WAS BOUND TO HAPPEN ONE DAY OR ANOTHER I WASN’T EXPECTING TO LOSE IT SO SOON.
IF YOU RIDE LIKE LIGHTNING THEN YOU ARE GOING TO CRASH LIKE THUNDER.