Self-love deceives. Self-loathing is nothing if not honest.
Tag: music
BrainSparks #all the madmen
I was very young when I first heard this song. Quite probably I would not have known of it at all if I had not been introduced to David Bowie by my uncle/brother Spencer who, in later years, came to know him professionally as well as socially. The story it tells applied to me at the […]
Art: David Jones
New work: series of four – mixed media: the accepted, manipulated. What you think you see is not as it seems. Blackstar: David Bowie https://rivenrod.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/blackstar-flv.mp3 © Rivenrod 2015
Pants on fire
This video contains images of flashing thighs, goofy grins and weird steppy dancing. I was brought up to believe that it’s OK to lie so long as it makes someone feel better or it’s funny. My grandad was the biggest liar I’ve known. So who is the biggest liar in modern times? Bernie Madoff, Richard […]
Arcadia
Sheer genius . . . © Rivenrod 2015 Music: Nibiru Original mix DC Breaks feat. Bassnectar Far Too Loud, Drop the bomb
Swell: inspiration#2
“Rivenrod is a master storyteller. His words are punctures of light made intensely riveting by shining in the sombre spaces of our minds. They inspire us to blissfully defend what is improbable” ~ Yoran Lanchenko © Rivenrod 2015 Image by Kishin Shinoyama
Tentacular papercuts
Book sculpture: Art or vandalism? © Rivenrod 2015 Top: Flutter 2007 / Devotion series by Jacqueline Rush Lea Bottom: Lotisaul / Las Defensas de Las Plantas by Barbara Wildenboer
Swell: inspiration
“From his words grows a kind of music that envelopes the spirit and tugs at everything we think we know about the world, worrying away at us until eventually, we perceive things differently” ~ Tatiana Kassesinova © Rivenrod 2015 Music by Bartosz Dziadosz
Torres: Sprinter
New skin by Torres https://rivenrod.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/new-skin.mp3 “I am a tired woman. In January I will just be Twenty three. In Kansas City I was undressed and bested by an airtight floor then it said, “By the power in me vested” and wrapped me in this new skin I’m dyin for” Mackenzie Scott is Torres and her […]
J D McPherson: Let the good times roll
Precious ~ J D McPherson https://rivenrod.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/precious.mp3 “Twilight fades, it’s a precious thing eventide under lock and key. It’s so heavenly, heavenly right now “A Letter to Elise” playing on repeat, playing songs of the minor key was my policy, policy but now… What does it mean when your heart vibrates?” Here comes the Tulsa Bomber, […]
