The Porcupine School of Poetry

Robert Smithson

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:21:18 -0500

"An internet search for the town now brings up a series of home, job and dating listings for people..."

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:04:52 -0500

“An internet search for the town now brings up a series of home, job and dating listings for people and places “in Argleton”, as well as websites which help people find its nearest chiropractor and even plan jogging or hiking routes through it. The businesses, people and services listed are real, but are actually based elsewhere in the same postcode area.
Google and the company that supplies its mapping data are unable to explain the presence of the phantom town and are investigating.”

- Mystery of Argleton, the ‘Google’ town that only exists online - Telegraph

Awkward Internet Family Photoshops - Urlesque

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:53:16 -0500

Awkward Internet Family Photoshops - Urlesque

via: comicallyvintage

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:06:44 -0500

via: comicallyvintage

Friday afternoon slow-down? Kick it up with We Have Band’s...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:07:49 -0500

Friday afternoon slow-down? Kick it up with We Have Band’s You Came Out. Dance party, anyone?

(via WeHaveBand)

I’ve seen this guy’s paintings pop up on a few blogs...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:32:23 -0500

I’ve seen this guy’s paintings pop up on a few blogs and I’m really starting to like them.

Tyson Anthony Roberts

Do yourself a favor and explore the Great Salt Lake on Google...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:47:53 -0500

Do yourself a favor and explore the Great Salt Lake on Google Maps satellite view.

Do it now.

41° 26′ 16″ N, 112° 40′ 8″ W

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:49:45 -0500

41° 26′ 16″ N, 112° 40′ 8″ W

My friend Joey Ruiter just designed this amazing bike. I saw...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:03:22 -0500

My friend Joey Ruiter just designed this amazing bike. I saw someone else had reblogged this photo on their tumblr, but there was no credit or link to his site. I followed the trail of reblogs for a while, and still no credit or link. Grrrrr.

Anyway, to reiterate:

This bike is awesome.

It was designed by Joey Ruiter.

His website is here: www.jruiter.com

Spiral Jetty via

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:43:38 -0500

Spiral Jetty

via

Clark Goolsby I’m digging this.

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:40:34 -0500

Clark Goolsby

I’m digging this.

Who can name all three of these museum Halloween costumes? via

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:15:49 -0500

Who can name all three of these museum Halloween costumes?

via

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:08:32 -0500

via

"There are different species of laziness: Eastern and Western. The Eastern style is like the one..."

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:00:00 -0400

““There are different species of laziness: Eastern and Western. The Eastern style is like the one practised in India. It consists of hanging out all day in the sun, doing nothing, avoiding any kind of work or useful activity, drinking cups of tea, listening to Hindi film music blaring on the radio, and gossiping with friends. Western laziness is quite different. It consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so there is no time at all to confront the real issues. This form of laziness lies in our failure to choose worthwhile applications for our energy.””

- Sogyal Rinpiche (via swissmiss) (via ninakix)

Reblogging cool quotes on Tumblr and Facebook is a pretty good example of Western laziness. Pointing irony counts, too.

I would add that this is exactly what makes science so...

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:37:21 -0400

I would add that this is exactly what makes science so valuable.

uncertaintimes:the music of sound

"The werewolf was not always regarded as evil. A notable case in Jürgensburg in Livonia in 1692,..."

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:02:26 -0400

“The werewolf was not always regarded as evil. A notable case in Jürgensburg in Livonia in 1692, follows a similar pattern, but did not end in a death sentence: the eighty year old Theiss confessed to be a werewolf who, with other werewolves, regularly went to hell three times a year to fight the witches and wizards of Satan to ensure a good harvest.”

- Werewolf witch trials - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Werewovles, fighting the good fight.

I didn’t think it was possible, but it just got better!...

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:06:30 -0400

I didn’t think it was possible, but it just got better! Animated GIF FTW!

kevin:

Created in response to this video.

I really don’t know why this is so satisfying.

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:23:17 -0400

I really don’t know why this is so satisfying.

"images generally contain such a wonderful ability to confuse things inside of us - acting as..."

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:58:02 -0400

“images generally contain such a wonderful ability to confuse things inside of us - acting as triggers of potential, towards self awareness and at the same time, creating a confused and unresolved situation that one can only really come to terms with through a kind of letting go of rational thinking - to see these things as double sided, one as it is in the world, and the other as it feels inside of us and how it plays upon our memory and mind. this convoluted flux is proof that parts of our insides are continually at work, even though we are seldom allowed to access their secrets.”

- airform archives: when the mind’s eye and the eye’s eye play with memory…

Wow. This reminds me why I still want to make images.

I see things like this and I remember that my job is...

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:13:37 -0400

I see things like this and I remember that my job is awesome.

via: elspethjane