Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Stereophonics - "Mr Writer"

Yes, I love clowns. And love this band.
Great video, amazing colors!

Monday, November 17, 2008

Richard Wright: Black Boy (4 of 5)

One of my favorite writers of all time!!!

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

俳句



46

El intento, como
huellas de cangrejo en la
arena, mapea.

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Friday, August 15, 2008

Кино - Звезда по имени солнце

Great Russian band from the '80s.

Viktor Tsoy, you are missed!

Step Up - This Picture

This Picture's first album "Violent Impression" (1991) is one of my very favorite records. Too bad they dissapeared!

Thursday, August 7, 2008








By Denise G. Monteiro

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

On Imagination- Phillis Wheatley






On Imagination


Thy various works, imperial queen, we see,
How bright their forms! how deck'd with pomp by thee!
Thy wond'rous acts in beauteous order stand,
And all attest how potent is thine hand.

From Helicon's refulgent heights attend,
Ye sacred choir, and my attempts befriend:
To tell her glories with a faithful tongue,
Ye blooming graces, triumph in my song.

Now here, now there, the roving Fancy flies,
Till some lov'd object strikes her wand'ring eyes,
Whose silken fetters all the senses bind,
And soft captivity involves the mind.

Imagination! who can sing thy force?
Or who describe the swiftness of thy course?
Soaring through air to find the bright abode,
Th' empyreal palace of the thund'ring God,
We on thy pinions can surpass the wind,
And leave the rolling universe behind:
>From star to star the mental optics rove,
Measure the skies, and range the realms above.
There in one view we grasp the mighty whole,
Or with new worlds amaze th' unbounded soul.

Though Winter frowns to Fancy's raptur'd eyes
The fields may flourish, and gay scenes arise;
The frozen deeps may break their iron bands,
And bid their waters murmur o'er the sands.
Fair Flora may resume her fragrant reign,
And with her flow'ry riches deck the plain;
Sylvanus may diffuse his honours round,
And all the forest may with leaves be crown'd:
Show'rs may descend, and dews their gems disclose,
And nectar sparkle on the blooming rose.

Such is thy pow'r, nor are thine orders vain,
O thou the leader of the mental train:
In full perfection all thy works are wrought,
And thine the sceptre o'er the realms of thought.
Before thy throne the subject-passions bow,
Of subject-passions sov'reign ruler thou;
At thy command joy rushes on the heart,
And through the glowing veins the spirits dart.

Fancy might now her silken pinions try
To rise from earth, and sweep th' expanse on high:
>From Tithon's bed now might Aurora rise,
Her cheeks all glowing with celestial dies,
While a pure stream of light o'erflows the skies.
The monarch of the day I might behold,
And all the mountains tipt with radiant gold,
But I reluctant leave the pleasing views,
Which Fancy dresses to delight the Muse;
Winter austere forbids me to aspire,
And northern tempests damp the rising fire;
They chill the tides of Fancy's flowing sea,
Cease then, my song, cease the unequal lay.



Phillis Wheatley

Hammer Rails (Haiku #2 俳句)


Hammer Rails 

Instances of claws:
Phalanges scratching keybeds,
Poised upon lifting hips.



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By Denise G. Monteiro

Monday, August 4, 2008

Artist Journal





By Denise G. Monteiro

Miranda...





My 15 years old cat Miranda is a little sick... 

Summer Moments





Photography by Denise G. Monteiro

Sunday, August 3, 2008

"Pomar" - (Haiku #1 俳句)

POMAR

Pelvic bones aligned
To tree roots that grow to fruit
And tint cyclic grounds.







俳句



By Denise G. Monteiro

Moment of Transition - Dali

Friday, June 13, 2008

Saturday, May 3, 2008

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Thursday, April 17, 2008

La Phaze!!!!


Amazing French Rock crazy beats!!!

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

The Little Prince













“Les enfants seuls savent ce qu'ils cherchent.”

Friday, April 11, 2008




I Think Continually Of Those Who Were Truly Great

by Stephen Spender

I think continually of those who were truly great.
Who, from the womb, remembered the soul's history
Through corridors of light where the hours are suns
Endless and singing. Whose lovely ambition
Was that their lips, still touched with fire,
Should tell of the Spirit clothed from head to foot in song.
And who hoarded from the Spring branches
The desires falling across their bodies like blossoms.

What is precious is never to forget
The essential delight of the blood drawn from ageless springs
Breaking through rocks in worlds before our earth.
Never to deny its pleasure in the morning simple light
Nor its grave evening demand for love.
Never to allow gradually the traffic to smother
With noise and fog the flowering of the spirit.

Near the snow, near the sun, in the highest fields
See how these names are fŠted by the waving grass
And by the streamers of white cloud
And whispers of wind in the listening sky.
The names of those who in their lives fought for life
Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.
Born of the sun they traveled a short while towards the sun,
And left the vivid air signed with their honor.



Tuesday, April 8, 2008

JAMES - Hey Ma





Bubbles

Take an axe to your past
To your family tree
Carve a face from the wood
An effigy

Make wings from the leaves
Hide from the bark
Kindling
for the hair
Rose for his heart

Someone to draw you right
Someone to catch the light

Draw the blue from the skies
into his eyes
Carve the lines on his face
A map of the race

Juice from the root of a beet for his skin
Set the tides
of the blood
with the pulse of the drum

Someone to draw you right
Someone to catch the light
I’m alive
I’m alive

Wash the boy in the stream
So tenderly
Press his lips to your lips
Give him your breath
He awakes with the weight
of the vision he holds
Sees the rent in time
through which he must fold

Someone to draw you right
Someone to catch the light
I’m alive
I’m alive…

Stir the heart with a drum
Kiss smoke in his mouth
Show him signs of a life
That’s a whole lot better

And he calls down the rain
Tornadoes & hurricanes
There’s a world in his veins
That’s a whole lot better
I’m alive
I’m alive…

Fingers raised to the sky
A snake for a spine
He’s drunk on a life
That’s a whole lot better

Teach him songs of the bees
Double helix and honey comb
Play him wind through the leaves
That’s a whole lot better
Alive, I’m alive….




http://www.wearejames.com

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Sepia & Color





Artist journal in progress...

Monday, March 10, 2008

Cerati



Gustavo Cerati from Soda Stereo - Central Park, NYC 2006


Photography by Denise G. Monteiro

Friday, March 7, 2008

John and James



My gorgeous nephews...

Playing The Angel 2005




"My joy, the air that I breath, my joy. You move me."    "My Joy" - Depeche Mode


Peter Beard Diaries





Peter Beard






"If Michelangelo had a (film) camera or a Nikon he woulnd't be chipping rocks."  Peter Beard

www.peterbeard.com