Tumblr (3.0; @chrisgilpin)http://www.chrisgilpin.com/““Poetry is made in bed like love,” André Breton wrote in one of his surrealist poems. I was a...http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/17562166473http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/17562166473Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:47:03 -0500xs<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz17ldzGvr1qmaoalo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://reuters.tumblr.com/post/17214194022/this-reuters-graphic-shows-there-have-been-6-519">reuters</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>This Reuters graphic shows there have been 6,519 men, 190 women and 465 children killed in violence in Syria as of Feb. 5, 2012. </strong>The most fatalities in a single day since April of last year happened on Feb. 4, 2012 with 400 deaths reported.</p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.reuters.com/news/world">The latest on Syria</a> | <a href="http://tumblr.com/follow/reuters">Follow Reuters on Tumblr</a></strong></p> <p>[Graphic: REUTERS | Sources: UNITAR-UNOSAT, Syria Violence Document Center, syrianshuhada.com, syriamap.wordpress.com, news reports]</p> </blockquote>http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/17309266830http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/17309266830Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:23:44 -0500<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxfz1qIStL1qk7d2oo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Marcello Mastroianni, brooding and vulnerable, the Italian James Dean.</p>http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/15909118976http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/15909118976Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:35:42 -0500xlfilmphoto<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwnlje7Lac1qb155to1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://pafurada.tumblr.com/post/15463581562/the-toy-atlas-rainbow-an-installation-of-2-500">pafurada</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>“The Toy Atlas Rainbow” - An installation of 2,500 old toys cars by the UK artist <strong><a href="http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2011/12/rainbow-toy-car-installation-made-from-2500-cars/">David T.Waller</a></strong>.</p> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://julienfoulatier.tumblr.com/post/14665594452/the-toy-atlas-rainbow-an-installation-of-2-500">julienfoulatier</a></p> </blockquote>http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/15641949859http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/15641949859Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:58:47 -0500xl<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx2qfvxlBB1qe0r71o1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://apoetreflects.tumblr.com/post/15083244725/for-last-years-words-belong-to-last-years">apoetreflects</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>For last year’s words belong to last year’s language<br/> And next year’s words await another voice,</p> <p><strong>—T. S. Eliot, </strong>Section II of Quartet no. 4 “Little Gidding,” lines 118-119, from <em>Four Quartets </em>(Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1943)</p> </blockquote>http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/15246621736http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/15246621736Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:50:00 -0500xs<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwse1kPsQt1qbejcco1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>My stylish poet friend, Shayne Avec I Grec.</p> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://shaynanigans.tumblr.com/post/14787700835/a-very-earth-tone-christmas">shaynanigans</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>a very earth tone christmas…</p> </blockquote>http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/14798003410http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/14798003410Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:11:49 -0500““CHRISTMAS: Celebrating an unmarried teenage mom giving birth in a stable, to a baby...http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/14783856697http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/14783856697Sun, 25 Dec 2011 18:37:00 -0500xs<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwjgptAA4M1qafu4to1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://banksystreetart.tumblr.com/post/14550704357/no-stopping">banksystreetart</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.banksy.co.uk/outdoors/nostopping2.html">No stopping</a></p> </blockquote>http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/14554426644http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/14554426644Wed, 21 Dec 2011 02:25:35 -0500Chemical names, bird names, names of fireand flight and snow, baby names, paint names,delicate names...http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/14434162915http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/14434162915Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:00:00 -0500PoemsILikepoetry““Mark Twain tried to swallow an entire planet’s imperialistic, selfish greed,...http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/14277840413http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/14277840413Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:09:00 -0500xs<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/30617037" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>Beautiful video shot on old school video with one of the best bass lines ever.</p>http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/13914456593http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/13914456593Thu, 08 Dec 2011 03:06:00 -0500<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lt1d1dAmi41qbycdbo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/13700849256http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/13700849256Sat, 03 Dec 2011 18:46:34 -0500<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/E4N-CuPpsLY?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Kid Koala + Wolfmother’s rhythm section = The Slew</p> <p>Is this spoken word? There’s certainly a lot of words spoken, albeit in sampled quotes.</p>http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/13598892779http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/13598892779Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:02:53 -0500<a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/owss-beef-wall-street-isnt-winning-its-cheating-20111025#ixzz1c8I08H75">Excellent common sense explanation of the causes of OWS by Taibbi. </a>http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/13115598237http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/13115598237Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:21:00 -0500xs<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/O6Y87txBQsU?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>“Beware of the ManBaby” by Chris Gilpin, performed as Professor Thesbian</p>http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/12954404230http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/12954404230Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:29:27 -0500<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/HvOVMxOTwqw?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Saw TMBG last night. It was everything I hoped for, plus performance art and puppets.</p>http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/12571511350http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/12571511350Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:34:00 -0500xs<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lu0d0mp5TI1qhhw8bo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Students, this question will be on the provincial WTF examinations at the end of the year.</p>http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/12224483583http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/12224483583Tue, 01 Nov 2011 22:12:37 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrzfeb2kFb1qkcrcio1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/11576567133http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/11576567133Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:05:26 -0400<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/22591307" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p><a href="http://emlvee.tumblr.com/post/10509650547/hip-hop-genius">emlvee</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>I sometimes get frustrated trying to explain Hip Hop’s depths and how important it is to people who don’t seem to get it.  How it’s that, but it’s also THIS.  Though THIS can be that cause THAT came from this and that’s not bad.  ”Not bad meaning bad but bad meaning good” and Jay-Z vs. Nas etc. etc. etc.</p> <p>And then I get upset when somebody explains the jist of it quite simply and easily.  ”Because NOOOOOO! That’s not IT!”  But how can you hate on this?</p> <p>Well done.</p> </blockquote>http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/11043266407http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/11043266407Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:14:53 -0400Hip Hop GeniuseducationremixingGod Calls Press Conference: “I don’t care how holy somebody claims to be,” God...http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/10166885117http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/10166885117Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:39:00 -0400xs