Fogged Clarity

New Work from Michael Fragstein

Ryan — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:51:15 +0000

Our friend Michael Fragstein recently finished a new animation for the song Hat by Max and Laura Braun, a duo from London. Check it out! Fragstein’s works, A Wet Day and Forget were featured in our July 2009 issue.

February 2010

Ryan — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:40:11 +0000

It has been one year since the clarity went live, and I am more excited about the journal then I’ve ever been. I am proud of the catalogue of work and interviews we have assembled and am honored to be able to work with brilliant, creative people everyday. I would like to extend [...]

Joseph Scott

Ben — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:40:11 +0000

The Clarity Sessions The White Pines musician plays in studio. Joseph Scott is a musician born in Michigan. He has played with the bands Canada, That’s Him! That’s The Guy!, and Saturday Looks Good to Me. Scott plays under the name White Pines.

Mexico City

Ben — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:40:11 +0000

Perle Besserman The doctors in Mexico City learned early not to cry. Sergio, a visiting surgery fellow in our Roosevelt Hospital residency training program, would describe the operations he’d performed in cemeteries without so much as a catch in his voice; and his eyes were dry when he talked about his fiancé being gunned down by [...]

Douglas Jenkins

Ben — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:40:10 +0000

The Fogged Clarity Interview The musician discusses his city, The Thao and Justin Power Sessions, and the inspiration behind his Portland Cello Project. Douglas Jenkins is the founder of The Portland Cello Project.

Puppet

Ben — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:39:48 +0000

Diana Adams Her clothing comes from beyond. Meaning I don’t know where or how only that sewing can be extra-terrestrial at times. Stitches are both random and pattern, like perfume or illusion’s shoes, silver bead slippers. Due to her fear of nature birds bring grapes, fish, balls of mesh. Love occurs, under stale star light my marionette freckles. Diana Adams is [...]

Hello Ice

Ben — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:39:48 +0000

Diana Adams Xylophone tones roll up the river, each note a mirrored dust, a goalpost, as daughters bounce off summer’s shoulders, the idea of mars never quite landing & a WWII navigator remembers his windless map of stars. Something hidden comes out readied for a moment in the middle of us: the family station wagon’s wooded sides riding Swan [...]

Pariah

Ben — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:39:48 +0000

Peter Schwartz I am the secret good men don’t want to keep I shoot marbles in the dark and grow little bent flowers of nothingness then peddle them then sink them in sea grass Peter Schwartz has had his poetry featured in The Columbia Review, Diagram, and Opium Magazine. He is the art editor of the lit zine [...]

Modern Maturity

Ben — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:39:48 +0000

James Cihlar The appeal of the slightly rancid smell of loose meat and onions, the Pony Burger at Bronco’s Drive In. My attempt to eke out a living in an indifferent locale. There must be a world beyond the world, a door at the intersection of Saddle Creek and Leavenworth that I haven’t tried yet. Baker’s Supermarket [...]

Sockdolager

Ben — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:39:48 +0000

David Kowalczyk THIS WORD SMELLS OF AGGRESSION. Drunk and blind, it dreams of marrying a princess. Its voice is a desert wind. Its father is Jim Morrison. Its heart is a grassy knoll. Its mother is an inflatable doll. It smiles like a melting shadow. David Kowalczyk is a writer living in Oakfield, New York. His poetry and fiction have appeared in seven [...]

Dave Kinsey

Ryan — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:39:47 +0000

Recent Works “Kinsey’s work captures the universal essence of the human condition mainly through an energetic portrayal of urban figures. Working spontaneously, and utilizing a range of mediums, he constructs multi-layered, textured environments easily likened to the complexities of contemporary life. His images depict beings who are both triumphant in their defiant stance to their surroundings, [...]

Anthony Kurtz

Ryan — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:39:47 +0000

The World of Tomorrow I recently read The Road by Cormac McCarthy and while immersed in the story of post apocalyptic America, I ran across the photography of Anthony Kurtz. When I looked through this series, I couldn’t believe the similarity to the images that McCarthy was conjuring in my head. Serendipitous that while [...]

Anthony Kurtz

Ryan — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:39:47 +0000

Nightscapes Anthony Kurtz examines darkness in nature and displays his skill with this series of long exposures. More from Kurtz: The World of Tomorrow Anthony Kurtz photography on Fogged Clarity Anthony Kurtz attended the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, where he studied New Media and Graphic Design. [...]

Alyssa Monks

Ryan — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:39:47 +0000

Oil and Water The first time my eyes fell upon an Alyssa Monks painting, I thought I was looking at a photograph. Monks’ skill with the brush is clearly evident in this series of beautifully rendered flesh, steam, water and glass. “Monks’ work explores narrative figuration. Currently she is playing with the tension between [...]

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