e. e. cummings

Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14th, 1894 - September 3rd, 1962), populary known as e. e. cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, and playwright. His body of work encompasses more than 900 poems, several plays and essays, numerous drawings, sketches, and paintings, as well as two novels. He is remembered as a preeminent voice of 20th century poetry, as well as one of the most enduringly popular.

Since Feeling Is First

since feeling is first

who pays any attention

to the syntax of things

will never wholly kiss you;

wholly to be a fool

while Spring is in the world

my blood approves,

and kisses are a far better fate 

than wisdom

lady i swear by all flowers. Don't dry

--the best gesture of my brain is less than

your eyelids' flutter which says

we are for eachother: then

laugh, leaning back in my arms

for life's not a paragraph

And death i think is no parenthesis

If Strangers Meet

if strangers meet

life begins-

not poor not rich

(only aware)

kind neither

nor cruel

(only complete)

i not not you

not possible;

only truthful

-truthfully,once

if strangers(who

deep our most are

selves)touch:

forever

(and so to dark)

Somewhere I Have Never Travelled

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond

any experience, your eyes have their silence:

in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,

or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me

though i have closed myself as fingers,

you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens

(touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose

or if your wish be to close me, i and

my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly, 

as when the heart of this flower imagines

the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals

the power of your intense fragility: whose texture

compels me with the color of its countries,

rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes

and opens; only something in me understands 

the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)

nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands

William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 - March 4, 19630) was an American poet closely associated with modernism and imagism. He was also a pediatrician and general practitioner of medicine, a line of work that no doubt influenced the subjet matter of his poetry.

This Is Just To Say

I have eaten

the plums

that were in

the icebox

and which

you were probably

saving

for breakfast

Forgive me

they were delicious

so sweet

and so cold

Alex Budovsky for The Real Tuesday Weld

Alex Budovsky, a Russian animator, made the video for the song "(Return I Will to Old) Brazil" sung by The Real Tuesday Weld. He also did the video for their song, "Bath Time in Clerkenwell."

Sylvain Chomet

Sylvain Chomet (born 1963) is a French animator and film director. Born in Maisons-Lafitte, near Paris, he studied art at high school until he graduated in 1982. In 1986 he published his first comic, Secrets of the Dragonfly. Chomet moved to London in 1988 to work as an animator at the Richard Purdum Studio. In September of that year, he established a freelance practice, workiong on commercials for clients such as Principality, Renault, Sinton, and Swiss Air. In 1991, Chomet started work on his first animated film La Vieille Dame et les Pigeons, with backgrounds designed by Nicolas de Crecy.... Skipping head, his first feature-length animated film, Les Triplettes de Belleville, was also nominated for two Oscars in 2003, and introduced Chomet's name to a much wider audience.

Nicolas de Crecy

Nicolas de Crecy (ne le 29 septembre 1966 a Lyon en France) est dessinateur et scenariste de bande dessinee et illustrateur. Apres un baccalaureat Arts Appliques en 1984 a Marseille, Nicolas de Crecy fait partie de la premiere promotion de la classe de bande dessinee des Beaux-Arts d'Angouleme, dont il sort diplome en 1987. Il travaille notamment comme dessinateur pour les studios Disney de Montreuil, mais choisit bientot de se consacrer a la bande dessinee et publie en 1991 son premier livre, Foligatto, immediatement salue par la critique.

Alfred Kubin

Alfred Leopold Isidor Kubin (April 10, 1877 - August 20, 1959) was an Austrian Expressionist, Illustrator and occasional writer. Kubin was of Czech ancestry, and was born in Bohemia in the town of Litomerice, which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. From 1898 to 1901, Kubin studied at the Art School Schmitt Reutte and at the Munich Academy. He produced a small number of oil paintings in the years between 1902 and 1910, but thereafter his output consisted of pen and ink drawings, watercolors, and lithographs.