tissu léger et transparent

photographs by bolesław okoniewski, "discovered" by him on his 1960s trip to paris france.his three most inspiring art discoveries there (besides the city itself): marcel duchamp, victor hugo, and henri michaux.okoniewski is rumoured to have whispered to his newfound love there "gaze, tissu léger et transparent, de soie, de lin ou de laine, à armure complexe, à fils sinueux. étoffe, robe de gaze

There are two truths which men will not generally believe: one is not knowing anything, the other is not being anything. Add a third, that grows largely from the second: of having nothing to hope for after death. Giacomo Leopardi, from his journals(Thanks to James Walsh for finding it.)

ciaccona, the musical thought

nathan milstein playing the ciacconavarious recordings of j.s. bach's chaconnefrom sonaten und partiten für violine solo (bwv 1004)aka les sonates et partites pour violon seulsonatas and partitas for solo violinsonate e partite per violino solocompleted in cöthen, 1720- nathan milstein - angel records/emi - 1954-1956- joseph szigeti - vanguard classics - (recorded) 1955, (edited) 1962- arthur

a wavering gleam of pointed light

greene & greenefrom a new and native beauty: the art and craft of greene & greeneviewed at the huntington library, art collections, and botanical gardens

a glimmer of vivid light

greene & greene - watercolourfrom a new and native beauty: the art and craft of greene & greeneviewed at the huntington library, art collections, and botanical gardens

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:

polish reviews

bresson on artificial eye

movements of a score of leaves & of many sleepers

gemälde der organischen natur in ihrer verbreitung auf der erdehand-coloured lithograph by joseph päringerbased on original work by ferdinand august von ritgen& johann bernhard wilbrandgieson: c.g. müller, 1821several observations and considerations about the nature of cork(mimosa sensitiva, bottom detail)copperplate engraving in micrographiarobert hook, 1665tree of life - transmutation notebook

in honour of olivier messiaen's 100 birthday

colin andrew sheffield's signatures due december 10thin honour of olivier messiaen's 100th birthdayin collaboration with invisiblebirds.org, the art of memory is pleased to announce a new release by colin andrew sheffieldlimited to an edition of 60 examples,which includes a bonus 3 inch cd broken light, a booklet with abstracted photography by tarrl lightowler and text by richard inwards f.r.a.s

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

glimpse of the city through glass walls

gustave doré, view after thousands of years(london destroyed)woodcut, 1872 champs-elysées, jardin d'hiversection through the nave, showing fountainca. 1850thierry, lithograph, champs-elysées, jardin d'hiver, ca. 1850victoria regia house, berlin-schönebergengraving (built 1882, destroyed 1907)joseph paxton, engraving of interior regia houseat the great conservatory, 1849(paxton's daughter is shown

un coup de dés

photos taken by the near-unknown polish photographer bolesław okoniewski, taken in the 1950s in the great kraków conservatory of flowers,all images taken of the floor while walking through the space, making sure not to look through the viewfinder, but to be occupied by the plants and flowers instead, and to pay little or no attention to focus and exposure issues. okoniewski certainly deserves

gift of simplicity

all images from documentarythe shakers: hands to work, hearts to god, 1984 *more images here *

monochrome music

listening, new and not new - studies in abstractionnew -- aix em klemm - s/t - kranky - 2000 (via gossamer)collaboration between bobby donne of labradford and adam wiltzie of stars of the lid- asher - instability - leerraum [ ] - 2008....leaves blowing through a snowy landscape, not quite visible....- johann sebastian bach / john holloway - the sonatas and partitas for violin solo - ecm - 2006-

he was gifted with the invisible music

invisible birds research

à la recherche des oiseaux invisiblesby the 19th century french ornithologist m von toufes-moles***the beginnings of a bird section now visible on invisiblebirds.orga growing list of artists pursuing birds,specifically in painting, photography, music, literature, poetry and film,compiled by gossamer & arthur de eriomém

often coupled with land, to express the idea of the whole surface of the earth

riccardo morandiconstruction photo of bridge over lake maracaibo, venezuelafrom - the concrete architecture of riccardo morandi by giorgio boaga & benito boni - praeger - 1966

not quite silence but stillness, in spite of trains (invisible birds)

classic drone series (number 3)2:00 pm (october 22, 1999)sandhill cranes gabbling high aboveinvisible in autumn's blue depthsa pair of crows shout at each otheracross the open fieldsnapping red-winged grasshoppers describea series of brief arcs, from there to theretheir smaller kin lie hiddendiscreetly hissing in the black gramathe lanky stalks tremble and sigha dozen piñon jays stir the

univers du western - the furies

anthony mann - the furies - 1950(landscape photography)cinematography by victor milner *(number 8 of 500 detailing westerns)

and then everything receded from him (invisible birds)

and the sound of the wind died away and then like the murmur of a lullaby or pealing bells rose up again from the depths of ravines and tips of fir trees and a faint reddishness climbed into the deep blue and small clouds drifted by on silver wings and all the mountain peaks, sharp and firm, glinted and gleamed far across the countryside, he would feel something tearing at his chest, he would

flowers appear (invisible birds)

unir ton système nerveaux au mien dans la nuit profonde de la connaissance, 1936the swan is very peaceful, 1920shoot the moon, 1972illustration from répétitions, paul éluard, 1922kleist, brentano, arnim:caspar david friedrich, seelandschaft mit kapuziner1972loplop, supérieur des oiseaux, 1928paramythes, 1967les diamants conjugaux, 1925quelques animaux dont un illettré, 1973l'oiseau dans la forêt,

8.8.8

to langston, one of the finest friends a fellow could have

edrnia plmnei

los angeles, time, castration, infidelity, darkness, humour, violence, poland, rabbits, prostitution, mercenaries, glistening eyes, alleys, distant melodies, death, penderecki, nonsense, trainsounds, scratching, surface sounds, evil, 47, hollywood & vine, blurring, afterimages, liminality

rounds

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

and they held out as long as they could.

he was almost forgotten, in fact, within a few years of his death

lake lugano - 1885 + two detailsfrom edward lear as a landscape draughtsman by philip hoferthe belknap press of harvard university - 1967

irretrievable & irrepeatable

What conclusion can we draw?To invite the gods ruins our relationship with thembut sets history in motion.A life in which the gods are not invited isn't worth living.It will be quieter, but there won't be any stories.And you could suppose that these dangerous invitationswere in fact contrived by the gods themselves,because the gods get bored with men who have no stories.- Roberto Calasso, The

invisible birds (mocking bird)

it is where the great magnolia shoots up its majestic trunk, crowned with evergreen leaves, and decorated with a thousand beautiful flowers, that perfume the air around; where the forests and fields are adorned with blossoms of every hue; where the golden orange ornaments with gardens and groves; where bignonias of various kinds interlace their climbing stems around the white-flowered stuartia,

univers du western - brokeback mountain

ang lee - brokeback mountain - 2005cinematography by rodrigo prieto *(21 grams, amores perros)screenplay - larry mcmurtry and diana ossanamusic - gustavo santaolalla + willie nelson - he was a friend of mine (bob dylan)with:heath ledgerjake gyllenhaalrandy quaid(number 7 of 500 detailing westerns)

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

the air in the sand

(listening to, new and old)- asher (some works)- bass communion - ghosts on magnetic tape - headphone dust - 2004- eugene carchesio & leighton craig - leaves - naturestrip - 2006 (via gossamer)- loren chasse - the air in the sand - naturestrip - 2005- jonathan coleclough (works)- yannick dauby (works)- miles davis - the miles davis quintet, 1965-68: the complete columbia studio- miles davis - the

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

le silence au fond de l’abîme

classic drone (number 2):the work of thomas köner(discography)- *untitled - die stadt - 2007(ds104, john duncan / kontakt der jünglinge / c.m. von hausswolff, includes track montreal solution 1 as kontakt der junglinge, thomas köner & asmus tietchens)- nuuk - mille plateaux - 2004 (cd+dvd)(originally released by big cat as part of driftworks in 1997)(includes roland kentrup & roland spekle -

When I die, the world is in my room.

In November 1966, a day before his 72. birthday, composer, translator and wanderer Juergen von der Wense died in Goettingen, Germany, in an attic filled with 10.000 pages of writings on science, poetry, philosophy and music.Few splinters from it ever reached the public.He lived for his work, always alone, with no academic or artistic consolations, in poverty supported by a few friends and

no. 406296

il disegno del primo brevetto del ferrocementoimage from pier luigi nervi:dai primi brevetti al palazzo delle esposizioni di torino 1917-1948quart verlag - 2008

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

invisible birds (tiny feet extending)

what birds plunge through is not the intimate space in which you see all forms intensified. (out in the open, you would be denied your self, would disappear into that vastness.)space reaches from us and construes the world: to know a tree, in its true element, throw inner space around it, from that pure abundance in you. surround it with restraint. it has no limits. not till it is held in

25 great circles

images from buckminster fuller: starting with the universe -yale university press/whitney museum of american art - 2008(25 great circles & 2 geodesic drawings from the 1960s)

an interval of time

from christian norberg-schultz - intentions in architecture - mit press - 1965

la ville des anges

roseclematis (double)clematislunariathe floral stereoradiographs of albert g. richards *at the museum of jurassic technologyfound while wandering the city of angels with young gossamer

nothing in return

The fulcrum of America is the Plains, half sea half land, a high sun as metal and obdurate as the iron horizon, and a man's job to square the circle.Some men ride on such space, others have to fasten themselves like a tent stake to survive.As I see it Poe dug in and Melville mounted. They are the alternatives.In Moby-Dick, when Ishmael has said all he can say about Ahab, he admits that the larger

univers du western - there will be blood - the influence of marfa on cinema, part 2

landscape images frompaul thomas anderson - there will be blood - 2007cinematography by robert elswit(number 6 of 500 detailing westerns)

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)

trostlos

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.- Kafka, notebooks

univers du western - winchester '73

anthony mann - winchester '73 - 1950james stewart * - lin mcadammillard mitchell * - high spadedan duryea * - waco johnnie deanjay c. flippen * - sgt. wilkesjohn mcintire * - joe lamontwill geer * - wyatt earpcinematography - william h. danielscinematography by william h. daniels *editing by edward curtiss *(number 4 of 500 detailing westerns)((number 5 of 500, anthony mann's the tin star,

before the descent of complete darkness (invisible birds)

törless was still gazing out into the garden. he thought he could hear the rustling of the withered leaves being blown into drifts by the wind. then came the moment of utter stillness which always occurs a little before the descent of complete darkness. the shape of things, which had been sinking ever more deeply into the dusk, and the blurring, dissolving colours of things--for an instant it

invisible birds (the lost estate)

sometimes, for a few steps, my feet are resting on a bank of fine sand. and in the silence, i can hear a bird: i think it's a nightingale, but i must be wrong because they only sing in the evenings... this bird is relentlessly repeating the same phrase: voice of the morning, a recital in the shade, a delicious invitation to a journey between the elms. invisible and obstinate, it seems to be

invisible birds (trees as moons)

behind the quivering reeds stirs the couch of birds-the green is near to black, the silver slightly blue. the tree-trunks are like old wall-stones, the leaves about like shadows(via gossamer)

univers du western (trains in cinema) - night passage

jay c. flippendan duryeajames neilson - night passage - 1957cinematography by william h. daniels *music by dimitri tiomkin *with:james stewart *dan duryea *jay c. flippen *robert j. wilke *jack elam *olive carey *includes some beautiful technicolor photography by william h. daniels(not really a great film, but worth it for the muted, near monochromatic tones)(number 3 of 500 detailing westerns)

four forward drifting down

al reinhart - for all mankind - 1989when the sunlight shines through the blackness of space it's black, but i was in sunlight, and i was able to look at this blackness. i mean, what are you looking at? call it the universe, but it's the infinity of space and the infinity of time. i'm looking at something called space, that has no end, and at time, that has no meaning. you really can focus on

univers du western - 3 godfathers

john ford - 3 godfathers, 1948john wayne - robert marmaduke hightowerpedro armendáriz - pedro 'pete' roca fuerte (as pedro armendariz)harry carey jr. - william kearney (the abilene kid)ward bond - perley 'buck' sweetjane darwell - miss florieguy kibbee - judgeben johnson - posse man #1 (center, both stills)charles halton - oliver lathamhank worden - deputy curlyjack pennick - luke (the conductor)

univers du western - red river

howard hawks - red river, 1948john wayne - thomas dunsonmontgomery clift - matthew garthwalter brennan - 'groot' nadinejohn ireland - cherry valancenoah beery jr. - buster mcgeehank worden - simms reeveschief yowlachie - quoharry carey jr. - dan latimerharry carey - mr. melville(rain)(century trees)cinematography - russell harlan(other films shot by russell harlan)- to kill a mockingbird, 1962 (d

birds, vinyl, drone and graceful degradations

- alio die & saffron wood - corteggiando le messi - hic sunt leones, 2006 (via gossamer)have been listening to many of these alio die discs lately, with gossamer, verging of many types of music: classical, (world & new age), drone and especially the non-music (his trademark water sounds, birds and nature sounds), with elements just barely at the threshold of visibility- asher: intervals - the

paper animals

But in formulating his wish he made an allowance of which even he was barely aware, so that all would not be lost if the sign did not come again: he gave the Lord advance permission not to give a second sign, and even if he did not, that would not mean anything bad.Hugo von Hofmannsthal - Military Story

war is always

The more we get used to being killed, the better we like it.- Private Wilbur Fisk of Vermont

for Jahnn

Nur das zwecklose wird vom ewigen beruehrt.- Hans Henny Jahnn

finding pictures in search of sounds

- images from finding pictures in search of sounds, stephen vitiello, limited edition monograph from the museum 52, london exhibitionother notable works by stephen vitiello:- 17:48 from the texas gallery, texas gallery, 2001 (with pauline oliveros)- bright and dusty things, new albion records, 2001 (with pauline oliveros, david tronzo)- buffalo bass delay, hallwalls, 2005 (echoes, trains,

invisible birds (forthcoming)

eugène atgetjosef sudekhenry fox talbotrichard longas if you were the voice that moves up and down the rungs of the world, between earth and sky, never beyond, always in the infinite globe, free but inside it, over there, close at hand, where the silver branches fork, awaiting nothing, fleeing nothing, traveller whom a second's joy, for no reason at all, steals from the journey's movement and

second addendum to the essential cinema

- lindsay anderson: o lucky man!, 1973- paul thomas anderson: there will be blood, 2007- robert benton: the late show, 1977- ingmar bergman: virgin spring, 1960- claude berri: le vieil homme et l'enfant (the two of us), 1967- mary ellen bute: rhythm in light, 1934- nuri bilge ceylan: uzak (distant), 2002- coen brothers: no country for old men, 2007- joseph cornell: carousel animal opera, 1930-

hope

"Mahler is matter-of-fact even in the supreme metaphysical sense, in that he jettisoned the aesthetic illusion of meaningful totality which no longer existed, if indeed it ever did. Mahler, whose uncompromising spirituality separated him from the hedonism of his age, from Debussy and from Strauss and whose mind selflessly strove to conceive of something that goes beyond mere existence - Mahler

heads

More tears are shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.- St. Teresa of Avila Guest entry by Anne Gibbs of THE LOST SOCIETY OF COLLECTORShttp://lostsocietyofcollectors.blogspot.com/

a dream dismissed, as shapeless night, orphaned by immensity

she said, 'the moon is up; and see -how in the height the smoke-shaft gleamsand the shadow glides, uncaught beneath ! -our life resembles, not the smoke,but the shadow flying to its death.'fyodor tyutchev, versions from fyodor tyutchev, oxford university press, 1960the moon, who is caprice itself, looked in through your window as you lay asleep in your cradle, and said: 'this child pleases me.'

trains in cinema, part 4

- woody allen: zelig, 1983- pt anderson: there will be blood, 2007- wes anderson: darjeeling limited, 2007- james benning: rr (railroad), 2007 *- claude berri: le vieil homme et l'enfant (the two of us), 1967- robert bresson: un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou le vent souffle où il veut (man escaped), 1956- robert bresson: pickpocket, 1959- frank capra: mr. smith goes to washington, 1939- frank

friendship

"Friendship cannot be separated from reality any more than the beautiful. It is a miracle, like the beautiful. And the miracle consists simply in the fact that it exists.""The essence of created things is to be intermediaries. They are intermediaries leading from one to the other, and there is no end to this.""…It is necessary to be dead in order to see things in their nakedness."Simone Weil,

marfa, and the west texas landscape in american cinema

images from the coen brother's no country for old men, 2007cinematography by roger deakinsnew series of posts on marfa's influence on american cinemafound here

What seems paradoxical about everything that is justly called beautiful is the fact that it appears.- Benjamin, Schriften I, 349

saints

Josephine's road, however, must go downhill. The time will soon come when her last notes sound and die into silence. She is a small episode in the eternal history of our people, and the people will get over the loss of her. Not that it will be easy for us; how can our gatherings take place in utter silence? Still, were they not silent even when Josephine was present? Was her actual piping notably

blurred layers of sound

classic drone (number 1):colin andrew sheffield, first thus, elevator bath, 2005first thus: the first edition published in the present form. often used to denote a book that was published previously by a different publisher.i'm not sure how i ever let this one escape me the past couple of years. i've always enjoyed colin's previous projects, which are also available on his own fine label,

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

between transparency and the invisible - shapes floating weightless upon a grainy surface

untitled, gertrude goldschmidt, 1970untitled, gertrude goldschmidt, 1963untitled, gertrude goldschmidt, 1970untitled, gertrude goldschmidt, 1970untitled, gertrude goldschmidt, 1963untitled, gertrude goldschmidt, 1961untitled, gertrude goldschmidt, 1961Untitled (Tamarind 961), gertrude goldschmidt, 1963untitled, gertrude goldschmidt, 1970untitled, gertrude goldschmidt, 1963untitled, gertrude

darkness moves

(detail)(detail)m swiezynski - drawings 2006 (mont blanc chopin + water colour)(front & back + 2 details)

les arbres en tout ce ciel part - the trees in all this sky leaves - les arbres dans tout ce ciel laisse - trees in all that heaven allows

douglas sirk: all that heaven allows, 1955

ponies

The midnight, the morning, or the middle of day, Is the same to the miner who labors away. Where the demons of death often come by surprise,One fall of the slate and you're buried alive.Merle Travis - Dark as a dungeon (additional stanza, rarely performed...)

closing doors

Eilidh, Eilidh, Eilidh, heart of me, dear and sweetIn dreams I am hearing the whisper, the sound of your running feetthat like the sea-hoofs beat a music by day and night, Eilidh,On the sands of my heart, my sweet.O sands, of my heart, what wind moans low along thy shadowy shore?Is that the deep seaheart I hear with the dying sob at its core?Each dim lost wave that lapses is like a closing door:'

"...and love, though in a sense it may be admitted to be stronger than death, is by no means so universal and so sure. In fact, love is rare - the love of men. of things, of ideas, the love of perfected skill. For love is the enemy of haste; it takes count of passing days, of men who pass away, of fine art matured slowly in the course of years and doomed in a short time to pass away, too, and be

edvard munch, the flaming sky, like blood

red images from:peter watkins: edvard munch, 1974 (long version)cinematography by odd-geir sætheri saw the flaming skylike blood, like a sword over the fjord and the town (image 35)also, see earlier entry on munch, ending with:i felt as if there were invisible threads between us,i felt as if invisible threads from her hair still twisted themselves around me,and when she completely disappeared

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

the perfect mediocrity, no better, no worse

stanley kubrick, the killing, 1956cinematography by lucien ballardwith kola kwariani and sterling hayden

overcome

Nothing, for us, can fill the place of undiminished brightness except the unconscious dark, nothing that of what once we might have been, except the dream that we had never been born.- Adorno, Minima Moralia

m swiezynski - films 2007

new dvd availablerecent films of m swiezynski(includes)1. which he distorted by decorating with images2. intended to be used for making inscriptions in memory3. this invisible art of memory - magic hour number 14. the secret of shadows5. an occult memory systemmusic by a broken consort6. mysterious and invisible - magic hour part 2music by asher7. fludd's memory system8. images of heaven - magic

When we are no longer children, we are already dead. -Brancusi

substitutes

At first sight I really believed that the only reminders in the Piana graveyard of the nature which, we have always hoped, will endure long after our own end, were the artificial purple, mauve, and pink flowers, obviously pressed upon their customers by French undertakers, made of silk or nylon chiffon, of brightly painted porcelain, wire, and metal appearing not so much a sign of enduring

today is my birthday!hp

masks

"We have art that we may not perish of the truth."- Friedrich Nietzsche

The cuckoo

The cuckoo is a merry bird, she sings as she flies,She brings us good tidings and tells us no lies;She sucks the sweet flowers to make her sing clear,And she never sings "cuckoo" till summer is near.O meeting is a pleasure, but parting a grief,An inconstant lover is worse than a thief;For a thief will but rob you and swear to be true,And the very next moment they'll bring you to the grave.The

toys

"All children talk to their toys. The toys become actors in the great drama of life, reduced in size by the camera obscura of their little brains. The child twists and turns his toy, scratches it, shakes it, bumps it against the walls, throws it on the ground. From time to time he makes it restart its mechanical motions, sometimes in the opposite direction. Its marvelous life comes to a stop. The

robert bresson, olivier messiaen, i listen to my films as i make them

the composer olivier messiaen comes to mind as the closest parallel to bresson in the other arts. a devout catholic, the organist of the trinité in paris, messiaen has always been a radical modernist and a seminal figure in the evolution of modern music (in addition to his compositions, he deserves the credit of teaching stockhausen and boulez). nevertheless, the material of messiaen's art,

robert bresson, murder sequence from l'argent

robert bresson, l'argent, 1983cinematography by pasqualino de santis and emmanuel machuelediting by jean-françois naudonfirst and last frame of each shot from bresson's murder sequence.shot 1.1.16.28 - 1.16.58shot 21.16.59 - 1.17.14shot 31.17.15 - 1.17.25shot 41.17.26 - 1.17.36shot 51.17.37 - 1.17.43shot 61.17.44 - 1.17.45shot 71.17.46 - 1.17.47shot 81.17.48 - 1.17.49shot 91.17.49 - 1.17.56shot

robert bresson, given by the eyes of john cage

radically suppress intentions in your models.*not to use two violins when one is enough.*no intellectual or cerebral mechanism. simply a mechanism.*hide the ideas, but so that people find them. the most importantwill be the most hidden.*all those effects you can get from repitition (of an image, of a sound).*practice the precept: find without seeking.*to translate the invisible wind by the

robert bresson, ingmar bergman, free from all impurities

coffee in mouchettei felt a strong affinity with bernanos' and bresson's mouchette. it's a film i would have liked to have made myself, but which i didn't understand. in mouchette the motif is expressed clearly and explicitly, free from all impurities. the girl in mouchette and the girl in the devil's wanton are sisters, sisters in two similar worlds.but while the devil's wanton is full of