Описание: The extent to which remarkable things can happen on a baseball field is virtually limitless. Название: Mudville Madness: Fabulous Feats, Belligerent Behavior, and Erratic Episodes on the Diamond Various poetic forms and line-breaks highlight - or, in the words of Deion Sanders, 'deem to set a candor on' - the sophisticated, sublime, and surprising performances of language made by professional athletes. This book is a celebration of these rare and exceptional moments. Muhammad Ali offered dazzling displays of lexical wizardry, and Allen Iverson's infamous 'practice' rant shifted the post-game press conference from the banal to the absurd. The content of post-game interviews and sports chatter is so often meaningless, if not insufferable, and yet there are athletes like Metta World Peace who transcend lame clich s and rote patter, who use language in surprising ways, who can be funny and shocking and insightful and alarmingly sincere - pure poetry. Описание: Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion is a collection of found poems composed of the words of professional athletes.

At the same, this work makes clear that even conditions of alleged stability or balance can come to an abrupt end at any time. The contemporary creative Investigations featured in Erratic reveal a range of narrative qualities inherent in single images.

Or, more aptly, it triggers stories in the viewers mind that show the inevitable events that will develop out of the depicted circumstances. But upon closer examination, the work documented here tells stories. At first glance, the things depicted in the images appear to be in balance or to be symmetrical, which suggests a kind of stability. Erratic is a collection of current, often playful work by designers, photographers, and artists who are exploring the reciprocal effects between stability and instability, symmetry and asymmetry, and pressure and counter-pressure. In recent years, more and more images are being created that not only capture a moment in time, but also point to a change that can and will take place directly thereafter. Change is one of the few constants in the world. Описание: Introducing movement, tension, balance, and surprise in visual language.

Mudville Madness by Jonathan Weeks