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

a moment later everything disappears

le grand meaulnes - 1913

through naked branches

winter tree, carte postale yes - we are.are simply hereand filled by a slow songwe knew existedthat no ear has ever heard,but that was here before roots took holdand before day emerged from its skin.text by tarjei vesaas, from ved neste skar (the next pass) in lykka for ferdesmenn (wanderer's happiness), 1949title from through naked branches - selected poems of tarjei vesaas, princeton university

transparency, invisible

new acquisitions from arthur de eriomém & gossamerbooks- max ernst collages: the invention of the surrealist universe by werner spies - abrams - 1988- caspar david friedrich: line and transparency - centre culturel du marais j. et m.c./rizzoli - 1985- gego: 1957-1988 - hatje cantz - 2006- gego: between transparency and the invisible - the museum of fine arts, houston - 2007- winslow homer:

rounds

richard serra - out-of-round VII - 1999(paintstick on hiromi paper)from richard serra: drawings, work comes out of workkunsthaus bregenz - 2008

the walls are excellent & high & upon an horizontal line

in 1795, when shirley, massachusettes, was a community of 200 shakers living on three thousand acres, an outside observer recorded, "the walls are excellent & high & upon an horizontal line, & as straight as they can be laid."inspired by visionary experiences, the gift drawings bridge the heavenly and the earthly spheres....imaging heaven as a perfectly balanced array of circles, squares, and

a bit like a music of music boxes; stemlets and flowerets

images from the making of the pré by francis pongeuniversity of missouri press - 1979translated by lee fahnestockimage 1 - from book jacketfrom three prints of grasses - buc'hozimage 2 & 3 - a bit like a music of music boxes; stemlets and flowerets - harpsichord cadenza - johann sebastian bachimage 4 - 13 july evening (night of 13 to 14) 3image 5 - first typing, 19 january 1961image 6 - like the

paris et le daguerréotype

classic books (number 5):paris et le daguerréotype - paris musées - 1989la seine, le quai des orfèvres et notre-dameanonyme - vers 1840-1843fontaine, place de la concordeanonyme - vers 1845toits de parisjean bernard leon foucault - vers 1844

an ornament of radiating petals

images from encyclopédie des formes fruitières, "les modes de conduite": un métier, un art, une passion by jacques beccaletto - écoles nationale supérieure du paysage/actes sud - 2001(that resemble the leaflets of a palm - palmette)

our house, like a solo performance, proudly resounds amongst the confusion and clamor of the disproportionate piers of the capital

melnikov and his wife next to their future house in moscow, late 1920'sfrom architecture of konstantin melnikov: 1920's-1930's, toto, 2002

bell-derived drones which resonate peacefully even as they twist and turn

tarrl lightowler: l'eau de vie (forthcoming film)beyond the horizon of visible things - little tunes amid the sound of wind or water, feelings flickering through people.(from robert musil: 5 women)new books & musicmusic:- °sone: passerelle, and/oar, 2008a site-specific sound installation / performance by yannick dauby, christophe havard & hughes germain.if i were forced to bring 10 cds with me to

robert bresson, anatomy of a crime (in the manner of a pickpocket)

(lessons in the cafe)(our hero and his accessory)(our hero pickpocketing a watch)(trainstation segment)from robert bresson's pickpocket, 1959"bresson distilled the motion picture narrative down to a particular essence. bresson's movies are looks and gestures and precisely arranged sounds" j hoberman frontispiece from the memoirs of george barrington, 1790see alsor. s. lambert, prince of

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

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

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,

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

14 words whose enunciation lasted 5 seconds

classic books (number 3):exercises de style by raymond queneau, editions gallimard 1947 (1958 translation by barbara wright)in a bus of the s-line, 10 metres long, 3 wide, 6 high, at 3 km. 600 m. from its starting point, loaded with 48 people, at 12.17 pm., a person of the masculine sex aged 27 years 3 months and 8 days, 1 m. 72 cm. tall and weight 65 kg. and wearing a hat 35 cm. in height round

angelic language has nothing in common with human language,

classic books (number 2):imagining language: an anthology, edited by jed jasula and steve mccaffery, mit press 1998includes:-richard head and francis kirkman: canting vocabulary, 1665 (compact lexicon of rogue idiolect)-robert desnos: rrose sélavy, etc., 1923-john dee and edward kelley: enochian table, 1581-1589 & the enocian call, 1581-1589-emanuel swedenborg: the angelic language, 1768 (blog

...songs are sung

some new items:-edvard munch: the complete graphic works by gerd woll (harry n. abrams 2001)-joseph cornell and the ballet by sandra leonard starr (castelli feigen corcoran 1983)-joseph cornell by diane waldman (george braziller 1977)-george de la tour by jacques thuillier and fabia claris (flammarion 1993)-anni albers: pictorial weavings (mit 1959)-austerlitz by w.g. sebald-the shadow-line: a

transcending the universe, time, etc.

spinning trees from andrei tarkovsky's ivanovo detstvo, 1962(best of 2007)music:-3/4hadbeeneliminated: theology (soleilmoon recordings)-amiina: kurr (ever records)-asher: in camera (homophoni)-asher: untitled composition (for b) (leerraum)-asher: the depths, the colors, the objects & the silence (mystery sea)-william basinski: shortwave music (2062)-william basinski: el camino real (2062)-the