From Wesley – the captured beauty of a palm tree and a particularly nicely shaded sky. This is the nonverbal counterpart to his upcoming poem, “Motives in Motion.”

Gearing up for the new Tracing the Seams site, here is the photographic companion to Wesley’s poem, “It Came to Last.”

On the Web site development front, I’ve been working a lot on a new site called Tracing the Seams which should be up later this month. Here’s a photograph from a poem-image combo by my brother Wesley that’ll be featured on it:

My brother Wesley and I are hard at work this week, hoping to accomplish major progress on a few different projects, including a second video based on a Robyn Miller composition, although this time, drawing from the original Myst soundtrack, rather than Riven, as in Persistent Disparate Interchange. Aside from that, we are finishing up work on the Tracing the Seams Web site, which is a repository of Wesley’s writings and photography. Alongside those two projects, we are both heavily involved in the An Umbrella project, and have been doing a great deal of work in preparation for upcoming content, as an expansion of the current animation/composition, Average Life of a Modern Lemming. Meanwhile, Erik Brown is nearly finished with work on another new song, making for two new musical works since the tour, which the rest of the band will hopefully be writing to shortly. We expect that at least one of these projects will reach completion next week.

Screenshot from Average Life of a Modern Lemming.

The thought of being totally distraught about a pet dying usually seemed a bit comical to me, until, of course, it actually happened to me. The parakeet (known as The Wretch or Mac) who had been with me since around age eleven died early this morning in the palm of my hand. I believe that part of the reason for my horrible reaction to this might be that he was the only living creature that was consistently with me through all of the moving and project changes – Van Meter, Grimes, Ames, Las Vegas, Earlham and many trips between those locations. You can hear him in the very earliest Cardboard Canary recordings, and in some of the recent An Umbrella demos. It was extremely sad and heartbreaking to watch his tiny body stop breathing. The spritely, oddly kind-spirited little fellow lived for about eleven and a half years. Strange as it may seem, I will miss him dearly. Watch a video of his head-bobbing antics here.

The wretch perches atop one of his favorite objects: a black-clad microphone stand.

Linkmonger has now posted a link to Persistent Disparate Interchange, and Uru Obsession has a great deal of interesting reactions to it.

Screenshot from Persistent Disparate Interchange.

Oh, the tension is building! The image here is from “Social Aggrandizement” – a poem to be unleashed on an upcoming poetry-art-collage-photography/animal-dementia-assistance Web site.

Wesley’s got another image to share, this one from the poem “It’s About Time”, to be published on his upcoming Web site.