History has to live with what was here,
clutching and close to fumbling all we had—
it is so dull and gruesome how we die,
unlike writing, life never finishes.
Abel was finished; death is not remote,
a flash-in-the-pan electrifies the skeptic,
his cows crowding like skulls against high-voltage wire,
his baby crying all night like a new machine.
As in our Bibles, white-faced, predatory,
the beautiful, mist-drunken hunter’s moon ascends—
a child could give it a face: two holes, two holes,
my eyes, my mouth, between them a skull’s no-nose—
O there’s a terrifying innocence in my face
drenched with the silver salvage of the mornfrost.
history
25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall
25th years ago on 9th November 1989 the Berlin Wall came down. It had been one of the icons of the Cold War, the barrier that divided the socialism of East Berlin and capitalist West Berlin for nearly 40 years!
Take a look at a collection of photographs documents the Berlin Wall and its art before and after it’s fall.
To mark the 25th anniversary of the fall the Berlin Wall, the border between East and West has been lit up by 8,000 luminous white balloons. The art project named ‘Lichtgrenze 2014’ (border of light) is created by artist Christopher Bauder and his film-maker brother Marc.
Happy birthday Emmeline Pankhurst
Emmeline Pankhurst was a leading British women’s rights activist, who led the moment to win the right for women to vote.
Inside Bankside Power Station
Bankside Power Station is a former oil-fired power station, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott. It generated electricity from 1952 to 1981. Since 2000, this amazing industrial structure has been used to house the Tate Modern art museum.
Bankside Power Station in the late 1950s.
The interior of Bankside Power Station, now Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall
Frank Paulin
Happy International Women’s Day! ♥
Lost City Shi Cheng Found Underwater In China
The ancient city Shi Cheng (Lion City) has been buried beneath Qiandao Lake (Thousand Island Lake), the man-made lake for 53 years. Shi Cheng was built more than 1300 years ago but was submerged underwater in 1959, when the new hydroelectric power station and reservoir was built. The lost city was ‘rediscovered’ in 2001 and it’s now suggested that the underwater city be opened up for tourist.