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POPSJack Kerouac by Dennis McNally Dennis McNally does an incredible job of capturing the life and times of Jack Kerouac in a book, CD and DVD titled "One Fast Move Or I'm Gone."
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POPS21 Impressive Bathroom Pictures A bathroom, restroom, goldfish graveyard, or whatever you call it can be a great place for a photograph, clean or dirty. Read more: http://digital-photography-school.com/bathroom-pictures#ixzz0ObBRwmQp
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POPSHow to write a modern classic in 20 days Opinions differ as to whether Kerouac really wrote in this way, or whether he did a sneaky bit of rewriting and polishing afterwards. There are also different views on the literary merit of the “spontaneous” approach. Truman Capote, for one, was famously unimpressed. Spontaneous prose was, he declared, “not writing, but typing”. On this subject too, the scroll has a tale to tell. “There are a lot of annotations,” says Kennedy. “He went back over the scroll with pencil, scored things out, and changed names and so forth. You can see these changes before your eyes, which is something that scholars would usually have to go to a library or research institute to do. It’s great that this can be on display, free of charge, to the public.”
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POPSA real jewel: The 50 greatest arts videos on YouTube Many more inside like: Vladimir Nabokov discusses Lolita, 1950s; David Lynch interviewed on Scene by Scene, 1999; Jackson Pollock drip paints outside his East Hampton home, 1951; Andy Warhol's Blow Job, 1963 Maria Callas in Zeffirelli's Tosca, 1964 and more...
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POPSMapping Kerouac: The Grammatical Artwork of Stefanie Posavec Posavec dissects every word, phrase, sentence, and subject of Kerouac's On the Road to invent new ways of looking at the familiar masterpiece. The diagrams make for beautiful art in their own right. (See source for high-res pictures.) In her structure analysis, each chapter explodes in a color-coded starburst of topical breakdowns. At a glance, you can see Kerouac's focus wander from the sketches of local life in the beginning, to depictions of work and travel in the middle, with women and the subject of love dominating the latter chapters. The comparative sentence diagrams are what really drew me in. It's fascinating to behold an entire literary work all at once on one page. What's more, Kerouac's casual prose style can be differentiated immediately from the stately, grandiose writing of Faulkner, not to mention the terse, claustrophobic style of Orwell's fiction. Literary reductionism at its most fun and beautiful.
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POPSOn Travel - Inspirational Quotes “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” - Henry Miller “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - Mark Twain “Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” - Miriam Beard “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” - Bill Bryson “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” - Robert Frost “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” - Paul Theroux “A wise traveler never despises his own country.” - Carlo Goldoni
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POPSSchizophrenia and the Beautiful Mind "Unfortunately psychiatry leans far more towards controlling schizophrenia, rather than showing understanding towards a patient's true needs and potential capabilities." "The Russian dancer Vaslav Nijinsky; Nobel prize winner in economics, John Nash (A Beautiful Mind); novelist, poet and writer, Jack Kerouac; and musicians such as Peter Green, Syd Barrett and James Beck Gordon have all either experienced, or are believed to have experienced, schizophrenia in some form." "The condition has also been linked to the families of Tennessee Williams and Albert Einstein. Psychologists believe that schizophrenia personality is also associated to the likes of Vincent Van Gogh, Emily Dickinson and Isaac Newton."
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POPSBest writing advice I've heard in a long time Artist-zenmistress Evelyn Rodriguez shares some delightful insight on the path to "real" writing (as opposed to the kind we do to sell things--not that there's anything wrong with that) via Allen Ginsberg, via Jack Kerouac.
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