the first thing you put forward

This wonderful talk from fellow nose-aficionado Masha Turchinsky is well-worth your next four minutes. Watch at this link for more information on the art Turchinsky discusses.

Thanks to Andrea Sparacio for sharing this link with me, and thanks to those Nosy Interviewees who have, over e-mail and in conversation, remarked on their varied relationships with their own noses, be those noses prominent, "imperious, weak, playful," beloved, or begrudgingly accepted. Your noses will always celebrated here on Nosy Girl.

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Nosy friend Christine sent me a link to this beautiful flavor network (a portion of which is screencapped above) created by Yong-Yeol Ahn. Read more about how this network was created, and explore the full-size version here. I think it's beautiful to look at. Also beautiful to look at are the three poems linked below, all from past Nosy Interviewees. April may be over, but that's no reason to stop reading a poem each day:

• Elisa Gabbert's "Semi-Aubade" on the Rumpus 

• Rebecca Hoogs'  "The Muses Narrate a Slideshow" on the Far Field

• Nancy Lili Gonzalez's "Cootie Shots" in The Broken Plate

boom bloom

[Photo by Anna Schuleit, via Colossal, by way of Charlotte]  

What an incredible installation. Wouldn't you have liked to wander through? And what might these rooms have smelled like?