with the gentle embrace

dom hans van der laan (dutch monastic architect)schemi per tuniche represe da abiti orientali che testimoniano l'attitudinefrom dom hans van der laan: le opere, gli scritti - electa - 2000for diane

spheres of resonance

there is an ancient indian folk story about the bird called musikar or dipak-lotus which had a beak of seven apertures. through each of these openings the bird was supposed to have been able to blow a different note, and at different seasons of the year it combined these notes into harmony to produce ragas with an "ethos" particular to the hour of the day and season of the year. an egg was

The only cure for madnessis the innocence of facts.- Jacques Riviere in a letter to Antonin Artaud

other's face reflected

train abstractions fromakira kurosawa's high and low - 1963cinematography by asakazu nakai & takao saito

later times

Fate had elected him for a special deed.But he then made sure that later times lost all memory of him.- Joseph Roth, The Radetzky March

take me to your cinema

michael powell - peeping tom - 1960cinematography by otto heller("take me to your cinema" a great influence on the young arthur de eriomém, finally revisited as a codger)

those living waves, die one after another, monotonously, but they make no foaming sound

magic-hour & darkness (plus day-for-night) inl'armée des l'ombres - jean-pierre melville - 1969cinematography by pierre lhommethe bird of passage rests on the waves, then abandons himself to their movements, full of proud grace, until the bones of his wings have recovered their accustomed strength and he can continue his aerial pilgrimage..... i want to die lulled by the waves of the stormy

falling the evening of people blurrs cats

images:cat people - val lewton & jacques tourneur - 1942&curse of the cat people - val lewton, gunther von fritsch, robert wise - 1944((for colin & holly))

enneigé - covered with snow

jean-pierre melville - l'armée des ombres - 1969cinematography - pierre lhommeactor - lino venturafirst post in a series looking at the difference betweenmagic-hour/night-time photography and day-for-nightin melville's l'armée des ombresbased on an amateur's (lover's) view-point(enneigé images - memories of winter nights in harlem, nyc by young gossamer)

berkeley - polish night music

(music found at various libraries around berkeley during a cat-sitting adventure with young gossamer, and other places)- afro cuban all-stars - a toda cuba le gusta - nonesuch - 1997- john adams - shaker loops: II. hymning slews from shaker loops light over water - new albion records - 1994- j.s. bach (philippe herreweghe) - bach: cantatas & masses - emi classics - 2004- ludwig van beethoven (

classify all risks

claude sautet - classe tous risques - 1960novel - josé giovannicinematography - ghislain cloquet