10's, Week 4

10 "Verbal Photographs:"

• A metal conveyor belt buzzing, carrying orange plated containers of sushi past each table.
  
• A red and black "All Sales Final" sign on the metal detector in the entrance of a pawn shop.
  
• Floor to ceiling knick knacks and novelty items for sale.
  
• A glass case of golden, diamond rings on display. The boxes holding rings from $49-$149.
  
• A brick wall and full parking lot from a tall, narrow window.
  
• Four twenty-something-year-old men standing in front of a 46' Samsung 1080p tv, strapped with plastic guitars, microphones, and drums, Rock Banding.
  
• An ocean of empty brown and green glass bottles on a white granite counter top.
  
• A "No Parking" sign, graffitied over with "Parking for J. Poodle Only."
  
• A railroad track covered in fresh snow, untouched, like it was put there for someone.
  
• Two twenty-something-year-olds racing around an apartment shooting Nerf darts at one another with their Nerf Maverick Rev. 6's.
  

10 "Treasures:"

• "Just for the record, the weather today is partly suspicious with a chance of betrayal." --Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
  
• "Always do what's next." --George Carlin
  
• "There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past." --George Carlin
  
• "So it is not the awareness of words following one after the other that is its primary constructive principle, but perception of their togetherness." --Max Bense, Concrete Poetry [from "Visual Poetics" reading]
  
• "People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love." --Chuck Palahniuk
  
• "The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly." --Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
  
• "Deliver me from Swedish furniture. Deliver me from clever art. May I never be complete..may I never be content..may I never be, perfect." --Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
  
• "Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?" --Andy Warhol
  
• "Concrete poetry does not entertain. It holds the possibility of fascination, and fascination is a form of concentration, that is of concentration which includes perception of the material as well as apperception of its meaning." --Max Bense, Concrete Poetry [from "Visual Poetics" reading]
  
• "The world is only to be justified as an aesthetic phenomenon; and if there is such a thing as an aesthetic conception, it is an artistic one." --Max Bense, Concrete Poetry [from "Visual Poetics" reading]