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9-11-01: Against the Darkness. Words, images, music for times of great distress.
After Edward Hopper. Jerden Purmort. Slideshow with midi (2:32).
Against Sepsis in a Time of Contagion. Diebold Essen. Twelve minutes of Bach.
American Landscape Engravings. Sixteen engravings ca. 1840 by W.H. Bartlett.
Arklets. Joey Ancaster. Gently ambiguous images set to Vivaldi. Slideshow with midi (3:57).
At the Time of the Extinction of the Fire. Robert Watson. Lines for solstices.
Audio-Visual Enema. After so much satire, we clean our eyes and ears with a bit of Bach (4:55).
Bach Mod. Tweaked Bach plus tweaked paintings. Slideshow with midi (4:16).
Bars. Six bars of colored light plus New-Age-ified Chopin.
Beethoven and Barnett Newman.
Beauty Break. Escape from all these words. 7 pictures with music.
Beauty Break 101. A Chopin scherzo plus 20 images. Slideshow with midi (7:29).
Beauty by the Dozen. Our first year's most beautiful graphics.
Beauty Spot: Adam's Peak (Sri Lanka), plus music by Corelli.
Bent Notes. The wondrous midi's of Yo Kubota.
Bluebonnets: A Wildflower Speaks. Izora Firelands on the true source of American strength and creativity.
Bodies. Nine unusual photos for the epidermally inclined.
Boquillas Canyon. Thomas Traherne plus rocks plus music (In The Chiliastic Hideon).
Bricks.***
Canons & Rounds. From "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" to Pachelbel.
Captain's Corner. The staff's pix picks, with music.
Caravaggio. Diebold Essen on Peter Robb's M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio.
Caravaggio paintings in the United States.
cc: God. John Mimbres gets optically gushy about WinAmp and its visualizations.***
Chanteys.
Chinese Classical Landscape Paintings. With music.
The Chrome Series. Mixed media works by Kai Sonderling. Music by John Dowland.
CLARITY. Alkan's "Festival of Aesop" plus 70 montages. Slideshow with midi (9:05).
Clone, Sweet Clone. Architecture then and now. Twelve old buildings and their recent clones.
Clouds. Wonderful photos plus slightly tweaked Handel.
Cockleburr Kin: Notes toward an Autobiography. Douglas Milburn. With midi.
The Cocksucker Sings of Paradise. Didio Antis's 3 quatrains on the still-born millennium.
Cole paintings. Thomas Cole, with music.
Contrastingly. Artist Joey Ancaster re-thinks the yin-yang symbol.
C U B E. Summing it all, or at least a lot of it, up in one image and a midi (4:55).
Curtains. Kai Sonderling. Images for the optically challenged, with Chopin midi's.
Dadd: The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke. Joey Ancaster.
Eleven Little Words. A coupla short sentences from a really old Chinese guy.***
Eye Candy: the Sequel. More beautiful, free stuff for your computer screen.
EYEmageS. Isometrics for the retina.
Fenestration. Photo with midi (2:44).
The Fifteenth Line. Robert Lonoke's latest visionary poem.
50 Plus. Looking up at buildings of more than 50 stories in Houston. With midi.
Fleurs de Lea. Flowers from the Magellan's Log garden. Slideshow with midi.
Flöh Haz: On Inferring the Existence of Trees. Astraeu Chakar poetizes desert-wise.
F O G. Verbal paradox + a Japanese Buddha + Schubert = ?
Forgotten Masterpieces.
Four Corners. Boris Chao's lovely photos of part of the American West. Slideshow with midi (2:23).
Free Beauty & Ryan Geiss. John Mimbres on three great graphics programs.***
Galle(r)y. More staff pix, with music.
Galveston Sconces. Jason Twinhaft on islands trapped in the past (with midi).
The Gentle Tree. Handel's "Ombra ma fui" (a.k.a. the "Largo"). Slideshow with midi (2:49).
Goldberg Variations. Performed by John Sankey.
Great Planes. Joey Ancaster. Imaginary visual and aural landscapes in which to play.
grün.***
Happy Ears. Music for the mis-begotten.
Les Heures du Mal. A book of hours for eras in distress.
Holy Halls. An old song of love and tolerance meets a much older landscape.
Homeward Bound. Photo, and midi from The Sacred Harp.
HOPE. A slideshow with some flowers and some Scott Joplin.
Jean-Marie Putnam Jonré: Recent Work 1999-2001. Latest paintings.
Josquin Desprez. Monstra de esse matrem. Midi (2:39) with slideshow.
Koi Paraga? An old question with some new images and one pretty insistent midi (2:26).
Lachrimae (with midi, 2:44). Thomas Cole plus Thomas Dowland.
The Land of Eleven Seasons. Fractal landscapes (with midi).***
Lightning Strikes 23 Times. Slideshow with midi (2:46).
Lilies.
Lines Composed on Mount Holyoke a Few Miles Above the Oxbow of the Connecticut River, 2006. Douglas Milburn.
Lines Found by Mr. Temple Duciel in the Poste Restante, Duino, Italy.
Lost Worlds. Rean Rhyne and Angus Verspeeten. 9 planets for imaginary exploring, with midi's.
Mary Jenewein: Paint on Paper. Sixteen powerful mixed media works.
The Magellan's Log Ego Altar.
Me and My Mayhaws. Douglas Milburn anthropomizes two plants [in The Chiliastic Hideon].
Meditator. 250k-animated GIF as 21st-century role model.
Messiah. Conducted by Christopher Hogwood.
The Metaphysical Stereopticon. Pedro Bofecillos. Five pairs of pictures for you Zen delight.
Meteoropticon. Chardo Blue Plains. New Age glop or deep wisdom?
Mi NASA es su NASA. Slide show of true-color photos of the earth, with midi.***
Mindfulness. Animated digital painting by Kai Sonderling, plus Handel's Sarabande. Slideshow (3:12)
Minds Like Ours. Sylvia Sikeston on trees and people.
Mnemonicae. 80 wee photos to help remember that which cannot be forgotten.
Moonlight's End. A Beethoven midi with some abstract slides.***
More Galaxies Than You Can Shake a Telescope At. Slideshow of Hubble Space Telescope photos, with midi (6:47).
Morning Becomes Ruth. An English village, a Texas spring, and a few words. Slideshow with midi (2:32).
Music of the Spheres. The best planetary portraits, with midi's.***
Mysterious Barricades. Harpsichord plus photos. Slideshow with mp3 (3:00).
Naked Jesus. Maurice Fitznuggly. Our art critic sets out to shock you.
Nekkid People. An unabashed looked at old Greeks without clothes on.
Not All Texans Are Like George W. Bush. Izora Firelands discovers a great tree in Columbus, Texas.
Oak Creek Canyon August 26, 2000. A panoramic photograph.
Old Time Religion. Hymns & pix.
One Path? Many Paths? Some nice color-shifting gradients plus a bit of Vivaldi.***
Only Connect. A little surrealism never hurt anybody. Slideshow with midi (3:12).
The Ox-herding Pictures. A bit of Zen art to whittle away the hours.
The Paintings of Jean-Marie Putnam Jonré.
p a x   v o b i s c u m. Twenty-six land- and waterscapes. Slideshow with midi (4:16).
Jean-Marie Putnam Jonré: Recent Work 1999-2001. Latest paintings.
Panoramic Photographs from the Library of Congress, with music.
Pasquinade. Louis Marie Gottschalk. A four-minute piano delight.
Pentimento. Edward Hothi. Poetry.
Petrophilia. Found stones as art- and meditation-objects.
Pixel de Light. Don Pfingston. Art on the net.
Port Arthur. A picture and some thinking or non-thinking sounds.
Quilts. Feast your eyes on handiwork that becomes art.
Quote Me This. Quotations, with pictures, and music by Josquin Desprez.
Rapunzel Redux. Angus Verspeeten is transformed by the piano-playing of Valentina Lisitsa.
Reading Readiness. Bob Odom. Poetry.***
The Regretful Visitor. Chardo Blue Plains reports again from the empyrean.
Retinal R&R. Our choices for the best eye candy programs around.
RIFT. The poet of the Rubaiyat, plus Bach, plus a computer graphic...***
Rosson's Rocks. Nine contemporary American scholar's stones.
Sacred Objects. Harriet Lobdell. A brief tribute to small, ancient tools.
Santa Fe. One photo of old Santa Fe with an even older melody.
Schubert Faves.
Searching for a House Under $40K in the Texas Outback. Kai Sonderling looks for cheap studio space. Slideshow with midi (3:05).
Serious. Photos of Houston by the well-known cinematographer, Tom Richmond.
7 x 40. Forty photos from our archives to celebrate our 7th anniversary.
A Shard of Sky. Astraeu Chakar. Poetry. Brief, but still poetry.
Shiva Dancing: The Rothko Chapel Songs. C.K. Latham.
"Slip Inside This House": 13th Floor Elevators.
S M I L E. Watch us work a little jigsaw while listening to Dowland's "If My Complaints" (1:28).
Some Thousands of Years Ago. Chardo Blue Plains's latest mystical suggestion.
Stained Glass & Music in a Time of War.
Tattoos. Skin art slide show, with music.
Tears. Photo by Douglas Huang. Music by John Dowland (4:32).
Thomas Cole: A Shared Vision. Diebold Essen on The Voyage of Life. Slideshow with midi.
Times Square in the Round. Paul Hester's 270-degree panoramic night photo.
tomseyes. Still images captured by cinematographer Tom Richmond.
Top 10 Midi's. The best music files that have appeared inTurner paintings. With music.
21 flowers. Sylvia Thodhiss. Slideshow with midi (2:04). Give the page (850K) time to load.
U N I T Y. The world's longest, slowest Internet slideshow.
An Urban Image for Jaded Eyes.
The Visitation. Pond, flowers, light, plus Bach.
Walkabout.
Water. Our graphic/musical contribution to simplification. Slideshow with midi (3:27).
What We Be. Bach + WS = Slideshow with midi (1:45).
Woodcuts. Old-timey pix with old-timey music.
YINYANGBANG. Animated gifs + music = a break from all those Internet words.
You gotta s-m-i-l-e. Watch us work a little jigsaw while listening to Dowland's "If My Complaints" (1:28).
Zen Centerfold No. 1. Never before in the history of the world...
Zen Centerfold No. 2. With midi by Angus Verspeeten.
Zen Centerfold No. 3. Another visual teaser for the metaphysically horny. With midi (4:01).
Zen Centerfold No. 4. Another picture for horny metaphysicians. Slideshow with midi (2:30).
Zen Centerfold 63. More eye candy for the metaphysically horny. Slideshow with midi(2:39).
Zen Centerfold 65. Slideshow with midi (2:26).
Zen Centerfold 67. Another image for the metaphysically prurient. With midi (4:41).***
Zen Centerfold 69. Slideshow with midi (2:06).
Zen Centerfold 71. With midi (2:23).
Zen Centerfold 72. Image with midi (1:58).
Zen Centerfold 74. Images and music for the metaphysically horny. Slideshow with midi (3:10).
Zen Centerfold 75. More images and music for the metaphysically horny. Slideshow with midi (1:36).
Zen Centerfold 77. Image and music (1:28).
Zen Centerfold 87.
Zen Centerfold 93. Slideshow with midi (1:45).
Zen Centerfold 94. Another titillating photograph for the metaphysically prurient. Slideshow with midi (1:33).
Zen Centerfold 98. Slideshow with midi (1:35).
Zen Centerfold 102. Beethoven plus some pictures. Slideshow with midi (7:07).
Zen Centerfold 104. Schubert, "The Wanderer." Slideshow with midi (5:47).
Zen Centerfold 112. Slideshow with midi (3:43).

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