Things I have Been Thinking of Lately

1 Alex Katz is shit for people
2 Alex Katz not doing people is one of the most moving things ive encountered
3 Alex Katz doing trees is pure formal heaven,

1a

1b

(this might not be moving, i cannot explain it, but that spring kelly green of new grass is so fucking pretty, and i have seen it so few places, irl--it was one of those things i imagined as unreproducable)

(exreme close up of lake water)
1c
(im looking for my favourite katz,called Birches painted in 2002...but its good)

Links:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/05/AR2005080501483.html

Salaman Rushdie calls for a consistent islamic reform. the writing is clean, clear, non polemical, and makes claims towards the autonomy of poetry. worth reading.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB68LI31CE.html
the world presbrytian council is refusing to support a huge number of war mongers---they have a rather large purse, so this is big.

http://www.woostercollective.com/2005/08/wooster-exclusive-banksys-travel.html
culture jammer banksy puts graffiti on the berlin wall, good and clever images that wont really change a thing.
(nethenhayu resigned from the kessent (sp) today because of the withdrawl from gaza--the wall, and then this, one step forward and two steps back...i wonder what bush and the americans think of this, knowing that the position there is that the plo and company are terrorists/comparing w. the negoations that resulted in the withdrawl.