AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

Lost in a circle of feminine...
Dripping spit to shaking my head like a cartoon character...
Fast like my face doesn't exist...
Did I do that!?
Did I just say that?

Sitting in a classroom filled with energy that escapes my integritty...

I just want to taste the cream on the cake... but.

thoughts settle in into what I live...

I cannot taste...
the thoughts must be enough...

The feelings won't vanish...

The sites don't cease.

The intelligence splashes my imagination fills...

My poor imagination cannot take the overkill.

I sit up and focus.

I inhale and exhale.

I let my mind zoom into what I should be focused on...

I realize I am lost in a sea of beauty curling... like waves at the ocean in the morning before they arrive.

Sitting and relaxing, while thinking I may miss someone or something…
unsettles me…
But was I settled before I thought I was going to miss out?
What caused the feelings of missing out?

Shifting to focus on what I have, with the time to think about what I do not.
The time to feel I am missing someone or something, but…
I am not.
I miss myself.

I sit and breath and believe I am enough.
I relax and let what isn’t pass by.
I remember who sits and breaths in this air.
I am all I need to remember right now.

The time fades by with every molecule of something.
The moment shifts with every atom of all.
The feeling of missing is no longer here…
But the thought runs still like a lake untouched by wind.
The thought of what was won’t leave my presence.

my "Spontaneous Prose" response to a friend, and anyone else at large...

I saw this posted in the latest e-newsletter from Art4Development (find out more about them at http://www.art4development.net)

Change the Picture - exhibition and advocacy campaign
Exhibition: 14th July, Baltic Restaurant, 74 Blackfriars Road, London, SE1 8HA

PhotoVoice has embarked on its first postcard advocacy campaign using images and stories taken by sex workers and vulnerable women in the East End of London. Drawing attention to the hopes, dreams and realities of their life, the campaign will culminate in an exhibition bringing together policy makers, representatives from the justice department and service providers. For more information or to view postcards please go to http://www.changethepicture.org.uk
Or email April Coetzee: april@photovoice.org

Listen, get inspired, submit your art and/or produce your own episode: http://www.nedpr.org/2008/ladypr

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Welcome to the premiere of LadyPR! This episode, entitled S F G I S F, is brought to you, along with the good will of Nedcaster, by Lacy Maria Telles, her talented friends, and even a few strangers (well, they started out as strangers, anyway). In store ::::

Letters to God: A project that started with two people has expanded. Listen to four best friends discuss their experience and read excerpts from their letters.

Interview with Jeffrey Finger: A musician, a teacher, a man that believes. Followed by his rendition of the song, Your Love is Extravagant.

I had an exhibition one month ago.I would like to share some phots of my exhibition with you. I enjoyed. and I hope you enjoy it too.

Join us for this week's salon of art and fashion. Last week's award for crazy commute goes to Kirk Wilson. Starting in San Miguel de Allende, he took a van to Leon, then flew to Tijuana, only to board a bus to Los Angeles (switching buses at the border.) Who will pass out on the mah-jong this week? The coffee will be on.

Mr.Mrs.
4634 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90027

Visit this week's salon's website:
http://MrMrs.pingg.com/May18-2008

See Mr. and Mrs. in action last week at the Santa Monica Festival, featured in Kanani Fong's blog, "Get Lost With Easywriter:"
http://tinyurl.com/4ybuj7

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• A conversation with Erin Shea about her episode NedPeRin (http://www.nedpr.org/2008/nedperin)
• William Faulkner’s Acceptance Speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature
• Background sound from Jimbob Peltaire
• A Special episode of Morning Becomes Epileptic w/Ned Hardcore has Nick Carpenter interviewing AKRON/FAMILY w/their songs East Coast and I’ll Be On The Water -
• Visit: http://www.myspace.com/akak
• Coming soon website: http://www.akronfamily.com/
• More from Molly Benson’s AIDS Marathon journey -

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Picking up where I left off last time...

After the best show of the tour and a late Sunday night at Struik in Amsterdam we woke up early Monday morning for English Breakfast Radio - an 8:30 AM radio show for English speaking beings. Mark, the host, was great. A funny guy who kinda reminds me of Simon Pegg. More handsome of course, Mark. We did a couple of live songs with just acoustic guitar (no piano carrying in the morning), joked around, took an on-air quiz and drank coffee and tea in tiny paper cups. Thank you Kim, Sarah, Mark and the rest of the crew. The rest of the day was spent being reacquainted with Amsterdam, on foot.