robert bresson, the eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone, makes the eye impatient

(some books related to robert bresson):-robert bresson by rené briot, editions de cerf, 1957-bresson by jean semolue, editions universitaires, 1959-the early work of robert bresson by richard roud, found in film culture, no. 20, 1959-robert bresson by michel estève (#8 in the cinema d'aujourd'hui series), editions sehers, 1962-the films of robert bresson edited by ian cameron, praeger, 1969-the

robert bresson, ghislain cloquet, de l'autre côté du miroir

through glass, au hasard balthazar 1966though glass, mouchette (or, little fly), 1967au hasard, balthazar & mouchette, through glass.cinematography by ghislain cloquet (1924 - 1981), the belgian-born french cinematographer.cloquet studied film at école national de photographie et cinématographie, and idhec (l'institut des hautes études cinématographiques)."for au hasard, balthazar, bresson would

"a place far beneath a man's upper earth"

notecards from charles olson's 1930's master’s thesis, the growth of herman melville, prose writer and poetic thinker, completed in 1933.these cards mainly dealt with melville's reading and marginalia and the "lost five hundred" (melville's books sold to a brooklyn dealer in 1892 by his widow, pursued by olson)."as a young scholar, olson was indefatigable in his research; when he located a volume

in air clear and unseen

henwar rodakiewicz, portrait of a young man: movement 1, 1931etienne-jules marey, studies of air movements, 1901etienne-jules marey, plan incliné, angle de 60 degrés, quatrième et dernière version de la machine à fumée, équipée de 57 canaux (cinémathèque française), 1901etienne-jules marey, from scientific american, 1902etienne-jules mareyfrom notice sur les titres et travaux scientifiques du

"We were happy, all of us, but that was all."Image via Anne of White Mule Picture Frames (wmpf.blogspot.com)Thanks.

asleep in scotland

The Cotard delusion, also known as nihilistic or negation delusion, is a rare neuropsychiatric disorder in which a person holds a delusional belief that he or she is dead, does not exist, is putrefying or has lost his/her blood or internal organs.Rarely, it can include delusions of immortality.It is named after Jules Cotard (1840–1889), a French neurologist who first described the condition,

then be called ten times a donkey, and a mule, and an ass, and begone, or i’ll clear the world of thee!

classic books (number 4):moby-dick; or, the whale by herman melville, 1851(compiled with great assistance from the famed german librarian, herr t light)such dreary streets! blocks of blackness, not houses, on either hand, and here and there a candle, like a candle moving about in a tomb. at this hour of the night, of the last day of the week, that quarter of the town proved all but deserted. but

all point to that which is now

josef sudek: rembrances series, 1959 josef sudek: sunday afternoon on kolin island, 1924-26there they were, dignified, invisible,moving without pressure, over the dead leaves,in the autumn heat, through the vibrant air,and the bird called, in response tothe unheard music hidden in the shrubbery,and the unseen eyebeam crossed, for the roseshad the look of flowers that are looked at.there they were

le magasin de ventre citroën à paris

le magasin de ventre citroën à paris, 1927-29 avec léon émile bazin(détruit 1954)albert laprade: architecte, jardinier, urbaniste,dessinateur, serviteur du patrimoine,norma editions, 2007d'autres livres d'intérêt:-le jardin et la maison arabes au maroc, editions albert levy, 1926-l'exposition de paris, librairie des arts décoratif, 1937-architectures de france à travers les croquis,

where fuzzy edges and hues of color can lead one to wander...

luna-3 soviet moon images, october 7, 1959'it seemed i was observing the earth from the outside. i was in great empty space and saw the planets rolling quietly.'františek kupka*quote from four possible landscapes liner notes, steve roden'i am in the middle of a mass of thousands of very small particles that are brilliantly lit up like they are luminescent. they are bright yellowish green, about

village of corruption

akira kurosawa: yojimbo, 1961

indian melancholia & a knock on the window pane

ali akbar khan(melancholia since 01/2008)(music):-sundaram balachander: magic music of india, 1963 (indian veena player)-sundaram balachander: sounds of the veena, 1967-sundaram balachander: man from madras, 1968-pandit vishwa mohan bhatt: saltanah (with simon shaheen), 1997 (hindustani guitar player [guitar is modified with the addition of several drone strings and eight sympathetic strings and

drifting upward due to a slight increase in the magnetic field

spiraling electronfrom an atlas of typical expansion chamber photographs, 1954by wolfgang gentner, heinzmaier-leibnitz and walther bothefound in the book objectivity, 2007 by lorraine daston and peter galison

it was a scarcely human presence-rather that of a peculiar bat fluttering here in the twilight that rose over the earth

julien gracq: balcony in the forest,1958 (librarie jose corti) & 1959 (george braziller, inc.)jacket design by william and caroline harrishalf dozing already, he listened calmly to the forest growing.(page 106)there was a subtle silence in the blockhouse now, the silence of keen eyes, which weighs less than that of straining ears - it was the silence of a workroom absorbed in delicate needlework.

there is something going on in the sky like a decomposition, like a corruption of the air, which remains as still as ever

john ford: the long voyage home, 1940(dp: gregg toland)the only spot of light in the ship at night was that of the compass-lamps, lighting up the faces of the succeeding helmsmen; for the rest we were lost in the darkness, i walking the poop and the men lying about the decks. they were all so reduced by sickness that no watches could be kept. those who were able to walk remained all the time on

the sea: void, darkness, mysterious, not a sound

the bay of arcachon and lighthouse on cape ferret, 1871seascape by moonlight, 1873-76 (both images from manet and the sea, by juliet wilson-bareau and david degeneryale university press 2003)after sunset i came out on deck again to meet only a still void. the thin, featureless crust of the coast could not be distinguished. the darkness had risen around the ship like a mysterious emanation from