|k| clippings: 2015-01-30 — trust dies; mistrust blossoms

WORK

“Still Morning”

It appears now that there is only one
age and it knows
nothing of age as the flying birds know
nothing of the air they are flying through
or of the day that bears them up
through themselves
and I am a child before there are words
arms are holding me up in a shadow
voices murmur in a shadow
as I watch one patch of sunlight moving
across the green carpet
in a building
gone long ago and all the voices
silent and each word they said in that time
silent now
while I go on seeing that patch of sunlight

—W.S. Merwin
—from Collected Poems: 1996–2011

WORD(S)

Tyburn blossom. noun. Juvenile criminals. Guttersnipes. Francis Grose’s poetic definition from 1811 remains best: “a young thief or pickpocket, who in time will ripen into fruit borne by the deadly never-green” (the Tyburn gallows, upon which a score or more could be hanged at once, was colloquially known as the Tyburn Tree). The famous gallows spawned other slang as well, such as the “Tyburn check,” “Tyburn string,” and “Tyburn tippet”—all terms for rope or noose—the “Tyburn jig” for a hanging itself, and the “Tyburn face” or “Tyburn collop” for the look of a condemned or otherwise exceedingly miserable person.

WEB

1. “Grammar and science prints, tees, and cards for the nerd in all of us.” → Grammatical Art

2. John Dickerson’s beautiful tribute to his English teacher → “To the Teacher Who Changed My Life: Thank You”

3. Found on The Toast → “Gleeful Mobs Of Women Murdering Men In Western Art History”

4. You know that illusion: is it two faces or a vase? The answer in real life, it turns out, is “yes!” → Introducing the Fahz

5. Today in 1969, on the roof of Apple Corps (the music label) headquarters, the Beatles perform in public for the last time. Staged as an ending piece for the film Let It Be, the concert was cut short at just 42 minutes thanks to the London police and famously ends with John Lennon’s wry comment, “I’d like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we’ve passed the audition.” Though they would record Abbey Road over the next few months, by November the band would officially break up. The Simpsons, U2, and LCD Soundsystem have paid tribute to this brief, but legendary performance. Related: listen to the Beatles’ final “official” public performance in 1966.

REPRISES/RESPONSES/REJOINDERS/RIPOSTES

• Reader A. meanders (in a good way): “Was intrigued by this [animated GIFs of colorizing photographs]. A game a like to play for links like this is to find the source, since many sites are buzzfeeding it from elsewhere. The link credits a printing company http://www.pixartprinting.es/ and it does not seem like a place for artful graphics, well except for http://www.pixartprinting.com/visual/#/land-of-ice/. ¶ I did find linked from their odd assortment of ‘About Us’ - links to PDFs, a reference to a companion blog site https://www.pixartprinting.it/blog/ ¶ I’ve not find the animated GIFs of colorized photos there (yet) but a treasure trove of other stuff, like https://www.pixartprinting.it/blog/foto-famose-esbagliate/ ¶ Thanks for the trip.” — I did manage to find the lead image’s sources at Metacolor (and there are many other great examples), but many remain mysterious as does the origin of the animations…

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