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Week 4-23 - Curiosities

This Week on Hargie: Week 3-23 - Haibuno Week 4-23 - Haibuno Week 4-23 - Photos This Week Elsewhere: Media Consumption TV Doing some TV watching this week of Poker Face, and The Last of Us. Love me some quality mystery and post-apocalyptic. They are both well acted and have

Week 4-23 - Photos

23 January 23: We found our favorite crackers again! I wrote about it in this weeks Haibuno. 24 January 23: It's been cold, the dog's been cold. She is either wrapped up in a binkie or her sweater. Poor dog. 25 January 23: More gelli print monotype play. Starting to

Week 4-23 Haibuno

Would you like to receive a drawing/haiku postcard? Please send your name and snail-mail address to postcards at hargie dot com. And I’ll get one out to you tout de suite. 23 January 2023 More gelli print play edited stills for printing it’s colder this week It

Week 3-23 Haibuno

Would you like to receive a drawing/haiku postcard? Please send your name and snail-mail address to postcards at hargie dot com. And I’ll get one out to you tout de suite. 16 January 2023 Swing of things delayed everyone is floundering back on track a myth Amongst the

Week 3-23 - Curiosities

Starting today I'll post the newsletter once a week on Fridays. Have any thoughts on this? Would you rather receive Photos, Curiosities, or Haibuno? Would you rather have multiple emails per week? Different day for the one newsletter? I'm open to any/all suggestions, just leave a comment below. I

Week 3-23 - Photos

16 January 2023: Received some test prints of stills from a long animation I just finished. They turned out beautifully! More about this project at a later date! 17 January 2023: Passed 100,000' vert for the season, pretty good for once a week morning laps. Lots of soft fluffy

Week 2-23 - Curiosities

1. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/01/harvard-happiness-study-relationships/672753/     “Good relationships lead to health and happiness. The trick is that those relationships must be nurtured.”  See also: https://www.adultdevelopmentstudy.org/ 2. On a related path:  this lovely piece by Chris La Tray https://chrislatray.substack.com/p/

Week 2-23 - Haibuno

Would you like to receive a drawing/haiku postcard? Please send your name and snail-mail address to postcards at hargie dot com. And I’ll get one out to you tout de suite. 9 January 2023 “Don’t deflate the jam” tells you just how old I am but I’

Week 2-23 - Photos

9 January 2023 Full moon rise over the mountains... 10 January 2023 The winter sunsets and sunrises have been on fire this month! 11 January 2023 Travel watercolor palette is getting a heavy workout. All of these are Daniel Smith colors, which are my current favs. I especially love their

Week 1-23 - Curiosities

1. I’m trying a new web browser from The Browser Company called Arc. This post was written within the browser using Arc’s Spaces & Notes features. It might be a game changer for getting posts started, and writing/browsing on the fly. I’m not ready to commit to

Week 1-23 - Photos

January 1: Blue Corn & GF blueberry pancake stack to start out 2023. January 2: Snow incoming. January 3: morning laps, 12,598' vert with a couple mogul runs thrown in for good measure. January 4: alpenglow with almost full moon rise. January 5: When you live an entire year in

Week 1-2023 - Haibuno

Welcome to the first Haibuno of 2023! Slight change ahead for 2023, instead of photos to accompany each days Haibun, I will be posting drawings. Photos will be posted on Thursdays instead. Would you like to receive a drawing/haiku postcard? Please send your name and snail-mail address to postcards

Week 52-22 - Haibuno

26 December 2022 When playing catchup the writing is never as good as in the moment Stale, suffocated, sterile, suspended, stepped, suspicious, saline, surprised, silly, suspenseful. Shallow. 27 December 2022 Made two test movies Projected on the big screen Dazzle with color Fickle brain. Fetid stench. Fabulous mission. Behind, but

Week 51-22 - Haibuno

19 December 2022 Baking palooza begins with a coffee cake and new art supplies It’s barely begun, and already fully exhausted and ready to crawl back in the hole of holiday doldrums. Unable to come to consensus and finding ourselves at the mercy of over zealous incompetence. Thanks for

Happy New Year

2023 is here, and it's been a whirlwind already. 6 days feels like 6 months. OWW will get back to regularly scheduled posting next week. Mondays: Haibuno, daily haiku/haibun, experimenting with doing drawings for the daily haibuns instead of photos this year. Will see if it is doable, see

Week 50-22 - Haibuno

12 December 2022 Liminality woman navigates every damned does or doesn’t Maybe it is a ‘dead week’ mental block. Maybe it is too much treat, and not enough vegetable. Maybe it is exhaustion or a lack of imagination. Maybe it is just the way it is, and there isn’

Week 52-22 - Curiosities

2022 Favorites (in no particular order) Books It was a good reading year - I'm closing in on finishing my 36th book of the year. It was hard to choose just five favorites. Rereading all of Octavia Butler's books was one highlight, discovering R. A. Lafferty was another. The goal

Week 51-2022 - Photos

It's been a slow week... a lot of lounging, resting, and feasting. The anticipation is building for the start of the New Year though! (and snow is in the forecast)

Week 49-22 - Haibuno

5 December 2022 To feel anything as an ephemeral I in tranquility Keep starting, erasing, rewriting, erasing, starting over, again. Again. A perpetual motion machine that is always on the fritz, inducing madness. 6 December 2022 Tell me an ending narrow road to perilous an evanescence I will tell her

Week 51-22 - Curiosities

Happy Holidays! Switching things up this week with only five favorites from the past week! SHORT STORY Isabel Greenberg pens a super fun little graphic short about what happens when Charon falls in love and shirks his duty in The River of Lost Souls. https://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/

Week 50-22 - Photos

Week 50-22 - Curiosities

ESSAY “Why is Everything So Ugly? by N+1 Editors discuss the omnipresence of griege or whatever the heck that ubiquitous gray blah is called. It’s not modern, it’s boring. https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-44/the-intellectual-situation/why-is-everything-so-ugly/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email In “The Sweet and Sticky

Week 49-22 - Curiosities

It’s been a week! Links are a little sparser than usual. I blame it on holiday madness, even though it has nothing to do with the holiday season. ESSAYS "Essays in Idleness" 1-10 Yoshida Kenko https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/the-timeless-wisdom-of-kenko-159972347/ "On Going a Journey" by William Hazlitt https:

Week 48-22 - Haibuno

28 November 2022 hallucination I see a translucence in the end of desire A wonderful place to help dreams become real. 29 November 2022 Clouds racing to ground tumbleweeds rolling around snow falling no sound She leveled up her healing organically. Three past one past the sunburnt window in the

CAW. CAW. CAW. CAW. - Tall Tales

10,000 crows cawing in the trees. First comes the swoop then comes the claw then comes the carnage of unexpected unprotected knowledge. The sun is setting and all I can do is yawn and watch the crows cover every branch. I try to count them - only their noise

Week 48-22 - Curiosities

Music "Racine Carrée Live" Stromae - Full Concert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOZLDQm9c2E "The Sea" by HAEVN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaDGW96tl3c "Windhorse" by Of the Trees https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkTIrTkrupc "Mescaline" by Robert Francis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YleQPy34Ng8 Short

Hermes Pillar - Tall Tales

Previously - [The White Ball] II The pillar stands 14m high, a marble white obelisk, shining brilliant in the morning sun. Hermes stands beside it, half its size. Upon his head his petasos is a golden beacon relaying the news of the day, hour, or latest up to the minute

Week 47-22 - Haibuno

21 November 2022 Consolidating easing technologies bite make creative space The numbers, some say this, some say that. Some tell the truth. Some lie outright. Data sets so large it takes a supercomputer 12 days to process. Red will be red, blue will be blue, no amount of flag waving

The White Ball - Tall Tales

I Deep in the Kalypso gorge a giant turtle guides her to the white ball hovering just above ground. Even in the deep fog the ball pulsates with hypnotic chatoyance. The turtle nods gently as she feels the ball's presence invade her senses. The ball lowers its tap root to

Week 47-22 - Curiosities

SHORT STORIES "Tenth of December" by George Saunders https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/10/31/tenth-of-december "He was a father. That’s what a father does. Eases the burdens of those he loves. Saves the ones he loves from painful last images that might endure for a lifetime. “That

Week 46-22 - Curiosities

ESSAY "Total Eclipse" by Annie Dillard https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/annie-dillards-total-eclipse/536148/ "Some tasteless fate presses it upon you; it becomes part of the complex interior junk you carry with you wherever you go." "The Fourth State of Matter" by Jo Ann Beard https://www.newyorker.

Week 46-22 - Haibuno

14 November 2022 A snow globe morning in mourning, reminiscing brewing tea leaf tears They are burgeoning toilet paper artists, masters of shredding away their afternoons in harmonious pleasure. Their antics documented for the Internet despite their lack of social ability. Adapt or die. It is far too cold to

Suicide Hill - Tall Tales

I stomp and the snow and ice crust crackles and creaks beneath my boots. Extensions of Wildebeest feet taking me down the road and ready for adventure. My friend Jenny is waiting on the corner. She is all shifting feet fidgety and ready to roll with her Dad's gloves 3

Week 45-22 - Curiosities

ESSAYS "What Hurricanes Taught Puerto Ricans About Feeding Themselves" By Moises Velasquez-Manoff https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/08/magazine/puerto-rico-farms-hurricanes.html "As practiced in Puerto Rico, agroecology often involves polyculture, or growing different crops together; composting; limiting or eschewing synthetic fertilizers and pesticides; and an emphasis on improving rural

Week 45-22 - Haibuno

7 November 2022 Fails to deliver falling back, the curse of time made up by humans The vagaries of winter dreams are an untidy hangover. We are calcified in persistent parity. We attend to one day of merry making per week. Roll your eyes. Squat daily. The outsiders are feeding

Week 44-22 - Curiosities

Making Radiance #4 - AI Generated (2022) Art Mariette van Erp - Mixed Media - Netherlands https://www.mariettevanerp.com/index.php Ousmane Sow - Figurative sculpture (Senegal) http://ousmanesow.com/mac/index.htm "Just us Three" by Brea'n Thompson "The Princess" by Bisa Butler https://www.bisabutler.com/ POETRY

Week 44-22 - Haibuno

31 October 2022 Halloween Ham help manning candy barricade wandering spirits Filing away another day reinforcing adventurous mediocrity and sublimating nouns. Climax. Pole. Glacier. Week. Bush. A level of me thinking about how I've been. I don't want to be in a rut next year. Or next week. Or next

The Winter Winds - Tall Tales

They arrive with rains and unending gray skies. Unwanted, uncalled for, hoary, hairy, and full of malaise and madness. At first it is a slow steady stream of sullen. Then a terrified surprise. The hatches are battened, rubber boots donned, and umbrellas safely tucked away or steeled against the inevitable

Week 43-22 - Curiosities

Making Radiance #3 - AI Generated (2022) On Being by Krista Tippett featuring adrienne maree brown "We Are in a Time of New Suns" https://onbeing.org/programs/adrienne-maree-brown-we-are-in-a-time-of-new-suns/ Also check out adrienne maree brown's book Emergent Strategy https://bookshop.org/a/87154/9781849352604 Only 30% of FDA Regulatory Actions

Week 43-22 - Haibuno

24 October 2022 Couch laptop haiku cold day, warm fire, toasty tea cozy season vibes Technological issues interference. Static. Buzz buzz. The stuff that drives us off the deep end. Kaboom. Reveal, unbox, our daily un-enveloping envelopes us, pass the snot bandana. What are you newly into? I'm relaxing in

Week 42-22 - Curiosities

Making Radiance #2 - AI Generated Artwork (2022) I title this "The Apocalypse Issue", you can interpret that however you wish. This is What Happens When Republicans Take Off Their Masks by Jamelle Bouie https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/04/opinion/paul-pelosi-youngkin-lake.html What if Every Moment Since Jan.

Week 42-22 - Haibuno

17 October 2022 The dogs great escape driving all over Mesa turned up back at gate All modes of living reside in one place just up the road. The ruts, bumps, and wiggles it takes to get there are worth the ride. It takes courage to take yourself off line

Week 41-22 - Curiosities

Making Radiance - AI Generated Artwork (2022) Haruki Murakami: On Where My Characters Come From - I don't choose them; they choose me. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/12/haruki-murakami-book-novelist-as-a-vocation/671845/ "I unconsciously pull information from various fragments of my brain and then weave them together" "The Things

Week 41-22 - Haibuno

10 October 2022 Monday holiday getting it all done before a visit from Mom The grief came on unexpectedly and could not be quenched. Tears upon tears, pandemic years worth of tears that were never shed. A 2 am cuddle with the cats and sleep disrupted. Red eyes, stiff neck,

Meltemi - Tall Tales

She's bathing in moonlight on a sailboat somewhere north of Crete. The stars - millions upon millions more than she's ever seen before. More emerging once the moon sets and the Milky Way arches fully overhead. No soft glow to interrupt the inky darkness. Earlier a smashed octopus under a

Week 40-22 - Curiosities

Do you have a bookmarks graveyard? For this Curiosities post I'm mining the graveyard of my Feedly's "Read Later" to see what I considered book(re)markable, but then never managed to actually read later... until now! What surprised me was how far back these flagged posts went, so without

Week 40-22 - Haibuno

3 October 2022 Reading spooky books reverberate with prowess fear reality Just when you think it is over, it isn't. Plain and simple. The miscommunication blues are a rampant and highly medicated epidemic of weariness and loneliness. Act, react, and spontaneously combust. A dumpster fire of rotted manure. Adults don't

Water Self Down - Animation

One Minute on the Mesa No. 2 ‘Water Self Down’ Film & Music by Kiri Hargie Screenings 19 November 2022 - Open Screen @ Taos Center for the Arts

Week 39-22 - Curiosities

What I've Been Reading The Testaments by Margaret Atwood https://bookshop.org/a/87154/9780525562627 The Testaments tells the story of three women living different lives that converge fifteen years after Haidmaid's Tale. Thankfully not nearly as creepy as the first book, but no less engrossing. Margaret Atwood always pricks

Week 39-22 - Haibuno

26 September 2022 Monarchs arriving pair dancing in sunflowers queens of the Cosmos The march of fall is riotous colors moving as quickly as possible. "Just passing through" is the daily mantra as everyone flees south, except some fleeing North for their lives, a little too late. You can't outrun

Georges the Sneaker Log - Tall Tales

He was born in a verdant, cacophonous, and ever-changing green sea. The Colony's swooshes, creaks, and groans in time with the crashing waves below. Its mood in time and tune with the whim of nature. He started life so small, his friends continually throwing shade from every direction. He steadfastly

Adieu aux Tournefols - Animation

Adieu aux Tournefols 'Goodbye to Sunflowers' One Minute on the Mesa No. 1 Film by Kiri Hargie Music by Aleksey Chistilin 565 decaying sunflower heads from 'The Mesa' Screenings 19 November 2022 - Open Screen @ Taos Center for the Arts

Week 38-22 - Curiosities

What I've been Reading The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez - https://bookshop.org/books/the-gilda-stories/9780872866744?aid=87154&listref=what-i-ve-been-reading-a08f4b90-2355-48ff-98e4-09be0ce90946 A romping sensual tale of queer vampires. Pairs well with Octavia Butler's Fledgling. A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore - https://bookshop.org/books/a-dirty-job/9780060590284?aid=87154&listref=

Week 38-22 - Haibuno

19 September 2022 First zero emails long time coming, freedom from encumbrances The calm before getting it done is filled with practice without judgement. Arise oh playful one! You are hereby summoned to enact the delicious feast of mark making. Huzzah! Meanwhile fascists are cosplaying straight into spooky season, and

Metamorphosis - Tall Tales

We set our roots, and push them deeper. A sensual connection that is strange and unnerving. Fibers, tendrils, spill out and lengthen. Some boldly push out, some waver and pause, unsure of themselves. The world is blanketed in white, the edges smoothened moist and decomposing. Laughter and heartache spills through

Week 37-22 - Curiosities

Tool of the Week Fall is here, everything is going crispy fast. All those glorious sunflowers everywhere now need to come down. Loppers to the rescue. Love these things. Some of the sunflowers stalks are 2" thick. No problem i'll cut you down to a giant stalk of defoliated broccoli.

Week 37-22 - Haibuno

12 September 2022 Collecting wild seed for next years courtyard garden fun exploration Trying to make sense of nonsense in the mind before sleep when everything is slowly drifting elsewhere. Our friends are migrating south for winter and quiet slowly envelopes us. Swan songs serenade a world roiling in turmoil.

Week 36-22 - Curiosities

Currently Reading: The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu - https://amzn.to/3qzpsiv translated by Ken Liu Tool of the Week: 48" wood handled digging shovel I've been clearing some land and digging out sage brush. Save yourself a backache and get a proper long wood handled digging shovel. It's

Week 36-22 - Haibuno

5 September 2022 End of summer joy BBQ all the veggies meat sticks and sunshine The summer's waning chill brings out long pants and hoodies. When the full moon is out you can see the front moving southward as clear as day. Lightning leaves a long tail of shiver in

Week 35-22 - Curiosities

Art of the Week: Rick Barton's Sketchbooks - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/22/arts/design/rick-barton-drawings-morgan-library.html - illustrating that the most simple is the most beautiful - pen and ink observations on paper. "a workaday recluse who sought self-knowledge by way of a monastic and unquestioned creative

Week 35-22 - Haibuno

29 August 2022 Another Boom Boom pierces the afternoon haze with something to say Ahead of schedule for the first time feeling good. Some things are locked, some are open. Some are just around the corner lingering creepily. Mixing images to form new meanings. Playing in digital sandboxes is the

Week 34-22 - Curiosities

Currently Reading: I'm on my last novel (Fledgling) and Collected stories in my OEB (re)reading marathon. Such an incredible artist and thinker. Tool of the Week: Zebra Sarasa Clip 0.5 (Vintage Colors) Gloriously smooth and the vintage colors are understated and lovely to use. This is my wallet

Week 34-22 - Haibuno

22 August 2022 Sticking to schedule pulling words out of my brain cement snag persist Resonant frequencies are humming serenades to the “awareness of awareness” from which our creative restlessness springs. Losing sleep over losing creativity. The awareness of space and place lost to the oddities of house projects. Exhausted

Week 33-22 - Curiosities

Solanum rostratum (Buffalo Bur) - a noxious Nightshade, highly toxic and pokey - plucked and bagged for disposal. They can distribute vast quantities of seed. APP of the Week iNaturalist - https://www.inaturalist.org/ Since we've been getting a deluge of rain this monsoon season (love it!) we have

Week 33-22 - Haibuno

15 August 2022 Starting new project maddening bureaucracy one doc at a time Stuck in a rut of 'no ideas' but refusing to pay the piper or solicit dreams from strangers. I'll sit here and scroll and wait for the divine spark that has no divine within it. The spark

Week 32-22 - Curiosities

The Rise of the Worker Productivity Score is a fascinating and disturbing read: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/08/14/business/worker-productivity-tracking.html Which brings me to thinking about...Choosing what to do with your life? Because being tracked by your workplace is grotesque. Aquinas suggests If we want

Week 32-22 - Haibuno

8 August 2022 Mountains bathed in clouds sonorous thunder echoes can't hide forever Riding an arc overnight. Arriving at a destination unannounced. Sunflowers dance, bunnies hop, lizards scurry, one man coughs. We are not quite past the 'is he contagious' phase. As things get more extreme, we are all at

Week 31-22 - Haibuno

1. August 2022 Black clouds to the West signal cooler and wetter a welcome reprieve Creativity wavers between capturing and synthesizing. A horn blows on the horizon and a lightning bolt fires from the sky. It is no finger from God instead a magnificent physicality. Virga to rain. Ashes to

ABCSCI Coloring Book II - Coloring Books

ABCSCI Coloring Book Volume 2 is a 12 page printable coloring book with science facts about geological processes, biological critters, and commonly found trees. These are black and white images for you to color in and learn from based on original posts on my ABCSCI project on Instagram (@ABCSCI).

ABCSCI Coloring Book I- Coloring Book

ABCSCI Coloring Book Volume 1 is a 12 page printable coloring book with science facts about geological processes, biological critters, and commonly found trees. These are black and white images for you to color in and learn from based on original posts on my ABCSCI project on Instagram (@ABCSCI).

Pack It Out - Zine

Pack It Out is a mini-zine with helpful reminders about removing or burying human and pet waste when recreating outdoors. The goal is to always leave the places we love in nature cleaner than we found them! I've created a printable mini-zine as a handy little guide that you can

The Ten Essentials System - Zine

'The Ten Essentials' is a system approach to helping people be prepared for emergency situations in the outdoors. The system was originally a list created in the 1930s by The Mountaineers, a Seattle-based organization for climbers and outdoors adventurers. I've created a printable mini-zine illustrating the ten essentials and some

10950 - Animation

10,950 (2012-) Jack London says “You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.” 10,950 follows the paradigm that to have success in any field you must practice a specific task for around 10,000 hours. I will be drawing 30 – 3″

The Places Left in Passing - Animation

The Places Left in Passing an experimental animated short by Kiri Hargie The Places Left in Passing is a 2:23 minute experimental animation that mixes video, animation, and sound design. The film creates an illusory space as negative spaces of past places are animated, encouraging and nagging voices bite

The Lunatics - Installation

SYNOPSIS The Lunatics is a 6.5 minute truly interactive, animated fairytale exploring the modern day tug of war between consumption and creation. The Lunatics is presented using a ground breaking, new form of participatory theater, which combines projected animation, sound design and physical participation to redefine the roles of