5CT February 2017

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And so we careen into February hoping for the best, prepared for the worst. As always, there is art and music and writing to help. Meet an artist from Venice, CA and do observe his magic with magazine clippings. Who to follow on Twitter in these days of sound and fury? Who should we read? A wicked smart Seattle artist tells the creative class what it needs to know. The courageous team at the Munich Post kept at it until the end. And because we all need music more than ever, a 5CT Winter Playlist. I love you, 5CT readers.

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Jay Kelly |Venice Beach, CA

{ As One | Jay Kelly }

5CT for December 2016

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One hates to boast, but just this once. EPIC issue. Hope you enjoy as much as the 5CT team enjoyed putting it together. It’s that season, so hold your lovelies close. Especially in these perilous times. “I wish there was a treaty between your love and mine,” said Leonard Cohen, and what could anyone possibly add to that? Have a lovely, lovely season.

1. Kait Dunton and the joy of the trio

This is Kait Dunton’s world and I’m smitten. I’ve listened to this song about 150 times. My second favorite tune of hers is Real and Imagined. To find out more pop on over here —>

5CT August 2016

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To the lazy days of summer’s end, I welcome you. First, over to England for some great black and white photographs. A hot tip on a great little notebook. LARB—dish from Laos or book review website? Baa Baa Black Sheep by Wynton Marsalis is the perfect accompaniment to tour the work of a Portuguese goddess of abstract painting. “At night I would go to sleep dreaming of sea adventures.” – John Claridge

{The canal, 1966, John Claridge}

Poets and maps, power and language

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His name is Mr. Wendell Berry and we need his voice now more than ever. One startup, 57 trillion squares. This subversive intellect from Atlantic City has thought deeply about you, your country, your children, and your calling. A near perfect film about journalism and power. A beautiful writer leaves home for another language. “Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining.” – James Hillman

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Wendell Berry, the essential voice

5CT October 2015

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T his autumn edition of 5CT is dedicated to passionate humans everywhere who chase their muse, their passions and their creative obsessions to the ends of the earth. A friend and mentor writes a seriously good novel. After you read this, stone inscriptions will never be the same. What the Fuck is a fucking amazing listen. The Great Gatsby was great, but how about that cover art? An amazing woman talks about work, and, um, super chickens. “Noise is a buffer, more effective than cubicles or walls.” Margaret Heffernan

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Leaves

John simmons author and book cover for leaves (cover and author photo by Jessie Simmons)

My friend John Simmons has written a very lovely book that does what every good novel should do. It evokes a time and a place and is populated with indelible characters. The language—as you might expect—is original and beautiful. Sometimes it is startling. John started this book some years ago and fate smiled upon him in the form of London based publisher, Urbane. My friend Neil Baker loved it too…

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The River Tay, Scotland

Select fine art prints now available. Pop over here for details.

Paris, France

“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.” ~ Robert Frank

Pears, Seatte, Wa

These prints are five-by-five inches and matted on acid-free rag board.

photo of a lake on the Olympic Peninsula

Lake Ozette, Olympic Peninsula Wa

"To collect photographs is to collect the world." ~ Susan Sontag

Sailboat, Puget Sound

Space Needle, Seattle, Wa

The bass player

Cappuccino

Dream

Thomas Merton

"Now let us frankly face the fact that our culture is one which is geared in many ways to help us evade any need to face this inner, silent self. We live in a state of constant semi-attention to the sound of voices, music, traffic, or the generalized noise of what goes on around us all the time. This keeps us immersed in a flood of racket and words, a diffuse medium in which our consciousness is half diluted: we are not quite ‘thinking,’ not fully present and not entirely absent; not fully withdrawn, yet not completely available. It cannot be said that we are really participating in anything and we may, in fact, be half conscious of our alienation and resentment…We just float along in the general noise…”

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5CT February 2017

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Jay Kelly |Venice Beach, CA

5CT for December 2016

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Kait Dunton and the joy of the trio

5CT August 2016