from the oblique plucking of a string

opening sequence of peter jackson's heavenly creatures - 1994cinematography by alun bollinger(title from old man ponge)

Tesla

died penniless, alone with his pigeons.

the sounds of the sounds of the sounds of the sounds

twenty three recordings of reality by jean painlevé

lighting on the printless verdure (and at a great distance all appear alike)

and at a great distance all appear alike. the sea, however, is said to be blue one day and green another without any perceptible change in the atmosphere. some consider blue 'to be the colour of pure water'...lying between the heavens it partakes the colour of both...some have referred this to the reflection of the verdure; and it may be simply the result of the prevailing blue mixed with the

to the finder. remember me.

brother charles ferdinand ganebin - ca. 1935stereoview of the inside of church family school - ca. 1870charles brown - to the finder. remember me.letter - june 30, 1871brother ricardo belden - ca. 19581786 meetinghouse at hancock, massachusetts1938 (taken during its dismantling)poplar bark/populus tremuloides - chest detailmount lebanon, ny - ca. 1815ethel (left) and alice smith (right) - ca.

à la recherche de la guitare perdue - la première partie - dark was the night

- robbie basho - the seal of the blue lotus - takoma - 1965- robbie basho - the grail and the lotus - takoma - 1966- robbie basho - basho sings! - takoma - 1967- robbie basho - the falconer’s arm, volumes 1 & 2 - takoma - 1967- robbie basho - venus in cancer - blue thumb - 1969- robbie basho - song of the stallion - takoma - 1971- robbie basho - visions of the country - windham hill - 1978- the

and diamond drops turned to half-liquid pearls, and the water went to sleep

joseph goold - watered cross effect(drawing realised with a harmonograph)from harmonic vibrations and vibration figureslondon, newton & co. - 1909from every leaf and petal of these, from every branch-tip and tendril, dropped bright water. it gathered slowly at each point, but the points were so many that there was a constant musical plashing of diamond rain upon the still surface...george

floating in the air above out of which it has arisen

—oskar fischinger - wax experiments - 1923-1927—oskar fischinger - an optical poem - 1938—mary ellen bute - tarantella - 1940—annie besant & charles leadbetter - thought-forms - 1847-1933

mobile color machine

(images for young gossamer)(luxorgan - mobile color machine)image 1 - watercolor from the series mathematical abstractions - 1941image 2 - watercolor for a mobile-color composition - 1934image 3 - drawing showing wiring connections between keyboard and luxorgan lamps - ca. 1917image 4 - lamping plan for a later version of the luxorgan - 1920"from 1917 on, claude bradgon began to develop a

softened melody

from the railroad station in the distance came the sound of shunting trains, ringing and rumbling, softened almost into melody by the distance. my wife pointed out to me the brightness of the red, green, and yellow signal lights hanging in a framework against the sky. it seemed so safe and tranquil.- h.g. wells - the war of the worlds - 1898photo taken 12.19.(year undetermined) at pt reyes

Blind Pony at Observatory

PERFVGIVM is low-fi ventriloquism - of the old American man-with-guitar tradition - infused with curtains of wayward noise. The performance at Observatory will be an experiment in re-creating the shapes of sound and physical space manifested in the recordings "Perfugium" and "The Gown".

bird with the shoe-button eyes

joseph cornell - cotillion - c. 1938cinematography - larry jordan"a room in third avenue"nostalgic thoughts most of dayworking in cellar on new bird boxoctober 3, 1949—in the quince tree petals making a medieval tapestry of the lawnresolution of mean mood in cellar, approaching the sublime "early morning" of monday and tuesday - birds under the quince tree in early summer shadows sun gradually