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2 - Composited Presidential Faces

Ryan Nance November 7, 2012

French artist Olivier Ratsi produced these presidential digital collages – glitchy amalgams of the presidential portrait. 

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Paper Cutouts from Great Masters Having Great Times by Lorenzo Castellini
Paper Cutouts from Great Masters Having Great Times by Lorenzo Castellini
about 9 years ago
Great Mural Made of 1,700 Box Packages
Great Mural Made of 1,700 Box Packages
about 10 years ago
Film Strips Woven Together to Form Images by Seung Hoon Park
Film Strips Woven Together to Form Images by Seung Hoon Park
about 11 years ago
Little Multi-Colored Army Men in 3D Paintings by Jean-Pierre Séguin
Little Multi-Colored Army Men in 3D Paintings by Jean-Pierre Séguin
about 11 years ago
Petals Arranged to form Pictures from Fong Qi Wei
Petals Arranged to form Pictures from Fong Qi Wei
about 11 years ago

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POTD - For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry by Christopher Smart
POTD - For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry by Christopher Smart
about 6 years ago
In 5tilt Tags politics, composite photos, collage
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POTD - Waiting for the Barbarians by C.P. Cavafy

Ryan Nance November 6, 2012

Waiting for the Barbarians

BY C. P. CAVAFY

What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum?

      The barbarians are due here today.

Why isn’t anything going on in the senate?
Why are the senators sitting there without legislating?

      Because the barbarians are coming today.
      What’s the point of senators making laws now?
      Once the barbarians are here, they’ll do the legislating.

Why did our emperor get up so early,
and why is he sitting enthroned at the city’s main gate,
in state, wearing the crown?

      Because the barbarians are coming today
      and the emperor’s waiting to receive their leader.
      He’s even got a scroll to give him,
      loaded with titles, with imposing names.

Why have our two consuls and praetors come out today
wearing their embroidered, their scarlet togas?
Why have they put on bracelets with so many amethysts,
rings sparkling with magnificent emeralds?
Why are they carrying elegant canes
beautifully worked in silver and gold?

      Because the barbarians are coming today
      and things like that dazzle the barbarians.

Why don’t our distinguished orators turn up as usual
to make their speeches, say what they have to say?

      Because the barbarians are coming today
      and they’re bored by rhetoric and public speaking.

Why this sudden bewilderment, this confusion?
(How serious people’s faces have become.)
Why are the streets and squares emptying so rapidly,
everyone going home lost in thought?

      Because night has fallen and the barbarians haven't come.
      And some of our men just in from the border say
      there are no barbarians any longer.

Now what’s going to happen to us without barbarians?
Those people were a kind of solution.

TRANSLATED BY EDMUND KEELEY AND PHILIP SHERRARD

My first introduction to Cavafy was as the Poet of the City from Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet. And then fairly soon after as the poet whose"Waiting for the Barbarians" became the inspiration for the Nobel Laureate J.M. Coatzee's early standout of the same name:Waiting for the Barbarians.

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4 - Poets of Protest in the Arab World

Ryan Nance September 6, 2012

Egyptian poet Ahmed Fouad Negm is outspoken, irreverent and controversial - a living legend in the Arab world famous for not holding his tongue. In this rare, intimate portrait he seeks his place in the revolution, and the inspiration to write again.

Poetry lives where it needs to.​

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Thanks, Mahjabeen Bee Zafar
In 5tilt Tags politics, protest, poetry

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