The Porcupine School of Poetry
The blog of Kevin Buist, artist, podcaster, web denizen.
Jul 02
I’m truly thrilled by this.
Jun 30
(via yacht)
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Jun 19
“ [A]ctivism and “art” (which is reflective, not proactive, in my opinion) are two different things. It’s a very, very fine distinction in my mind, but it comes back to the notion that intent is crucial and that any work that intends to change opinions about a political issue falls into the category of propaganda, which has a use, and therefore, by definition (at least within the time frame for which its use is relevant) ceases to be “art.
Jun 17
“ Dr. Russell Vreeland, one of the biologists who found the bacteria, pointed out that bacteria can survive the forces acceleration via rubble thrown into space via a meteor impact. If it is possible for a bacteria to survive being off the planet and to stay alive within a salt chunk for 250 million years, then in a sort of “reverse-exogenesis” it may be possible that earth’s own microbes are already out there. “When man goes to the stars, our microbes will be waiting for us,” Vreeland said.
(via eyeonspringfield)
