The North Pace

HEY FOLLOWERS

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 18:26:54 -0500

Follow this blog please!

It has lots of pretty landscapes and you will wish you were there.

If you follow it then I will love you forever.

I'm no longer using this tumblr and making a new one.

Mon, 03 Sep 2012 14:13:00 -0400

I want to leave some of my stupid posts from two years ago behind and start fresh. Message me if you want my new url. If someone new follows you in the next lil bit, there’s a good chance it’s me.

Photo

Mon, 03 Sep 2012 12:15:54 -0400

"Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have..."

Mon, 03 Sep 2012 11:52:04 -0400

“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (via absea)

bookspaperscissors: Cori Creed

Sun, 02 Sep 2012 13:52:24 -0400

bookspaperscissors:

Cori Creed

So good to be back in Duluth (Taken with Instagram)

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 20:03:21 -0400

So good to be back in Duluth (Taken with Instagram)

wickedwitnesswizardry: riverlife: FREE AUDIO DOWNLOAD CLICK...

Sun, 26 Aug 2012 17:23:39 -0400

wickedwitnesswizardry:

riverlife:

FREE AUDIO DOWNLOAD CLICK HERE

Basement Soul - Greg Grease

This shit sounds classic

Audrey Hepburn Look at the glasses…

Sun, 26 Aug 2012 17:20:07 -0400

Audrey Hepburn

Look at the glasses…

Be Nice This isn’t a beat, it’s just a rough outline...

Sun, 26 Aug 2012 17:06:29 -0400

Be Nice

This isn’t a beat, it’s just a rough outline at this point. I’ve been listening to Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth’s album The Main Ingredient. It was released in ‘94 and was cited by J Dilla as being very influential to his style. I couldn’t help but do a little emulation of it myself.

chevauxblonds: Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No.1 Sampling

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 16:31:54 -0400

chevauxblonds:

Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No.1

Sampling

The first leaves of autumn just fell…

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 21:06:00 -0400

The first leaves of autumn just fell…

SCOTT SHAFFER: "Hot Cheetos and Takis" and aesthetics

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 13:51:19 -0400

SCOTT SHAFFER: "Hot Cheetos and Takis" and aesthetics:

scottdshaffer:

It all started when I played Hot Cheetos and Takis for my co-workers during our morning coffee break. After Mr. Jones’s intro, one of them said something like “if I met a kid who talked to me like that, I’d smack them,” and I got mad. Let me get this straight. Kids from the poorest part of Minneapolis record a fun, smart, wholesome song about snacks in an after-school program, and you threaten them with violence? Could you be any less cool?

Then another coworker defended her, saying, “I get what she’s saying. Some art’s not for everybody. I went to the Walker once and I saw this big red canvas, and I was like, what’s the point? Why would anyone spend any money on that?” and I fuh-lipped.

“ROTHKO?!” I whisper-yelled. “You’re gonna diss ROTHKO now?!” If you stand up close to his 8’ x 4’ portrait of smoldering rage tinged with doom and tell me you don’t feel anything, then I’ll tell you with certainty that you’re a robot. It’s not that I know what it means and you don’t — I can’t interpret it for you. But if you scratched just the tiniest bit — at yourself, at the art, at the artist — and don’t feel anything, or think of anything interesting, then you’re dead. You’re hosed. You’re broken.

I figure what he’s doing is treating art as entertainment, which is a confusion of categories. There’s a difference between experiencing art and being entertained. One entertains a child. To be entertained is to be sedate and content, and maybe to drool a little bit. If you forget the plot of a TV show 4 minutes after it’s over (but wouldn’t mind putting on another episode), then you’ve been properly entertained.

I won’t be the douche who says what the difference between art and entertainment is. But the appropriate attitude for each is radically different. To be entertained, you sit back and relax. It’s passive. But a good art experience requires the viewer to do their homework, to make connections between the art and their personal life and the world, and to ask questions. Art stirs you up, instead of putting you to sleep. You have to work to figure it out, to make sense of it. Yeah, art’s weird. That’s the fucking point. When you enter a museum filled with broken pieces of ancient empires, stolen glimpses of enlightenment, and bizarre monuments to the future, and leave saying, “damn, I wish I’d just stayed home and watched an episode of HIMYM,” then it’s no one’s fault but your own.

That’s a good explanation. I often try to convey that same point to people about art and fail to be so clear.

I posted something very relevant a few months ago: http://chongwonisright.tumblr.com/post/23907914776/a-maybe-he-has-a-brochure-or-something-in-here

Sunset at Shagawa (Taken with Instagram)

Sat, 18 Aug 2012 21:52:13 -0400

Sunset at Shagawa (Taken with Instagram)

Echo Trail (Taken with Instagram)

Sat, 18 Aug 2012 20:20:24 -0400

Echo Trail (Taken with Instagram)

Goal:

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 10:15:01 -0400

Teach sailing on a lake in Minneapolis next summer.

Taken with Instagram

Sat, 11 Aug 2012 18:27:56 -0400

Taken with Instagram

The Arrows - We Have Love We may not have, a decent home to...

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 21:26:00 -0400

The Arrows - We Have Love

We may not have, a decent home to call our own

and we may not, oh no, be remembered when we gone

wickedwitnesswizardry: Recently The Gordon Parks Foundation...

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:13:27 -0400

wickedwitnesswizardry:

Recently The Gordon Parks Foundation discovered over 70 unpublished photographs by Parks at the bottom of an old storage box wrapped in paper and marked as “Segregation Series.” These never before series of images not only give us a glimpse into the everyday life of African Americans during the 50′s but are also in full color, something that is uncommon for photographs from that era.

Yesterday I was driving through Blaine and I saw a bunch of mobile homes packed together in a lot. There was a sign that said “________________’s International Community.” It seemed real fucked to me that someone had the idea of taking all the immigrants and people of color and putting them up in mobile homes in a particular area of the city. It was on a stretch of highway not especially close to anything. My friend mentioned there is this problem in urban studies (I forgot the actual nomenclature) where housing is built for low-income people to live all together, but it’s isolated from any job they could ever get. They don’t have cars so they can’t get to their job, and in a place like Blaine, there’s no city bus or other public transport to get to where you need to go. So what the fuck. The “Lots for Colored” photo above reminded me of that.

I drove by that lot on my way up North.

At this point in my life, I’ve been to some stunning...

Sat, 28 Jul 2012 17:19:18 -0400

At this point in my life, I’ve been to some stunning places in the world. However, no place has clouds quite like the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. I did my best to get some pictures of them, but it’s a hard subject to capture.

My overnight last week

Sat, 28 Jul 2012 17:02:18 -0400

My overnight last week