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Max'd Out

A poet’s afternoon becomes an animation of the same name.

cultureCaren MartineauJune 12, 2018Max Ritvo, poetry, afternoon, new yorker, animation, video

Walking Home

The cold, blue light of winter seems to cast every moment into a shadow of memory.

cultureCaren MartineauJune 6, 2018poetry, video, r.a. villenueva, reliquaria, film, animation

No Vacancy

In an ever-more-crowded world, where will we put our dead to rest?

cultureCaren MartineauJune 3, 2018culture, hong kong, columbaria, cremation, corpse hotels, overcrowding, solutions, interment, burial, DeathLab

Loving Sadness

Listening to the little voices inside your head.

cultureCaren MartineauMay 29, 2018film, Inside Out, Pete Docter, Pixar, animation, psychology, emotions, loss

Making Sense

A granddaughter makes visual poetry out of “the things no one else sees.”

art, artists, cultureCaren MartineauMay 23, 2018video, film, Gemma Green-Hope, Gan-Gan, grandmother, tribute, memories, legacy

Dynamics of Being

A meditation on life and learning tenderly informs his poem.

cultureCaren MartineauMay 11, 2018Jean Luis Borges, Borges, argentina, you learn, poetry