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

darkness moves (tracing the skins of clouds)

(seth nehil & jgrzinich - stria)(plinth - music for smalls lighthouse)(belong - colorloss record)(elegi - varde)listening-music, some old, some new- asher - miniatures - sourdine - 2009- sibylle baier - colour green - orange twin records - 2006 (1970-73)- aidan baker - the sea swells a bit... - a silent place - 2006- belong - october language - carpark records - 2006- belong - colorloss record -

imagine a diamond point acting upon a blackened silver film on glass

original drawings realised with a harmonograph by joseph gooldmusical drawing:in the 19th century, sound had for the first time made a literal translation into drawing and was considered a remarkable phenomenon, though it had already been somewhat predicted by mathematicians. the physical reality of acoustic vibrations was then transformed into graphs by means of simple pendular mechanisms known

such were the images which paraded before my eyes

the realities of the world affected me as visions, and as visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of dreams became, in turn, - not the material of my every-day existence - but in very deed that existence utterly and solely in itself.edgar allan poe - berenice - a tale - 1835here began for me what i shall call the overflow of dream into real life. from this point on, everything at times

the sublunar light with its softened colours

at times octavian even imagined he could see indistinct human forms flitting among the shadows, but they dissolved the moment they passed into the moonlit parts of the street. low whispering and indefinite murmurs drifted upon the silence. the solitary visitor at first attributed them to some nervous flicker of the eye, some tingling in his ears. or perhaps they were merely a trick of the

the meaning of mystery

the great comet of 1881 - étienne léopold trouvelotcomet biela in 1846 - bilderatlas der sternenwelt - 1888comet, september 29, 1908the outline of science - a plain story simply toldedited by j. arthur thomsong.p. putnam's sons, knickerbocker press - 1922illustration of the leonids (1799)the midnight sky - edward dunkin - 1872the meaning of mystery is to be always in ambiguity, with double,

a moment later everything disappears

le grand meaulnes - 1913

nothingness

untitled (plum and dark brown) - 1964your paintings are like my films. they are about nothing... with precisionmichelangelo antonioni to mark rothko, during a visit to rothko's studio in 1962, according to motherwell and peter selzsee temps mort: rothko and antonioni by jeffrey weissfound in mark rothko published by skira - 2008for the complete story

...and every love find its beloved one.

alonso sánchez coelloretrato de las infantas isabel clara eugenia y catalina micaela de habsburgothe years of warmth are soon to be unfolded;the stranger comes and endless time beginswhen earth and sea into sweet love are molded,the queen will wake from dreamland's origins.novalis - henry von ofterdingen(for matthew)

weaving the feathers of a blackbird with breath and strings

nayoro from the solitude of ravens - 1977kanazawa from the solitude of ravens - 1977wakkanai from the solitude of ravens - 1975noboribetsu - 1979noboribetsu - 1979noboribetsu - 1979noboribetsu - 1979noboribetsu - 1979nayoro from the solitude of ravens - 1976(photographs - masahisa fukase)—at once a voice arose amongthe bleak twigs overheadin a full-hearted evensongof joy illimited;an aged thrush,

till her breath warmed his face

tarrl lightowlernew review of colin andrew sheffield's signatures by jim haynes in the wire magazine, right next to giancarlo toniutti's stunning new cd qwalsamtimutkw?italuc'ik (and now he almost did make himself into hemlock needles, it is said) sound-field for rattle-harp....there's plenty of preamble when it comes to this album from colin sheffield. this artist works reductively with

trains in cinema, part 5

- american mutoscope and biograph co - the blizzard - 1899- jon amiel - the singing detective - 1986- paul thomas anderson - there will be blood - 2007- michelangelo antonioni - l'avventura - 1960- busby berkeley - gold diggers of 1935 "lullaby of broadway" - 1935- curtis bernhardt - possessed - 1947- g.w. "billy" bitzer - interior new york subway 14th street to 42nd street - 1905- robert breer -

athanasius kircher

the interior of the earth, with subterranean lakes, rivers and poolsof fire, according to athanasius kircher - 1678

heartsnatcher

Of a distant person one can think, and of a person who is near one can catch hold - all else goes beyond human strength. Kafka - letter to MilenaImage: Hans Christian Andersen

(i can feel the sea falling over my head)

a study of the sea, on the one year anniversary of young gossamer and arthur de eriomém's encounter with the sea, nearly being taken by her, yet spared with the promise to pursue her beauty.- pt anderson - there will be blood - 2007there will be blood - 2007- michelangelo antonioni - l'avventura - 1960l'avventura - 1960- the work of anna atkinsbangia fusco-purpurea - 1843-53polysiphonia violacea.

a sound of some new unknown life

why is it so unutterably beautiful? it is pure music, but for me it has so many implications, - hard to define - of course it is enigmatic, all great art has its secrets -; it has all the deep mysteries of the earth and its environs - for me, the agony of the old primitive earth stirring restlessly at the beginning of spring; something tremendous is going on in the earth, but i do not know

remnants from paradise

music - favourites of 2008- asher & ubeboet - cell memory - wind measure recordings- aidan baker - fragile movements in slow motion - universal tongue- aidan baker - book of nods - beta-lactam ring records- william basinski - the river - 2062- william basinski & richard chartier - untitled 1 - 3 - line- christopher bissonnette - in between words - kranky- james blackshaw - litany of echoes -

he lived in fear that the state of illumination with which he was blest - or with which he was afflicted - might be untimely withdrawn

one night i dreamt that i had made a pact with the devil: he was my servant, and anticipated my every wish... i found myself handing him my violin to see if he might manage some pretty tunes; but imagine my astonishment when i heard a sonata so unusual and so beautiful, performed with such mastery and intelligence, on a level i had never before conceived was possible! i was so overcome that i

Quasi una fantasia

There is music from the nineteenth century, which is so unbearably solemn that it can only be used to introduce waltzes. If it were left as it is, people listening to it would fall into a despair beside which every other musical emotion would pale. All the feeling of great tragedy would surely overwhelm them and they would have to veil their heads with gestures that have fallen out of use since

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

signatures, in the regular edition, is now available

invisible birds is deeply honoured to release the very fine disc by mr. colin andrew sheffield entitled signatures, in the regular edition.here, we have posted a nice review:seattle’s colin andrew sheffield has been quietly destroying sound since the late 1990’s. beginning with 1998’s side one/side two, on his own elevator bath imprint – also home to recordings from adam pacione and rick reed,

where love illuminates (and leaves materialism in remnants)

otar iosseliani, aprili (april), 1961lights illuminate, water pours, while footsteps amidst tables and chairs bewilder and confuse, musicians play, doors open and close, only to leave materialism in ruin, and return to one's love.

the voiceless downpour of the stars

...they eloquently proceeded with their task, took up again the lost human cause, and pleaded before the indifferent tribunal of stars, now set in a sky on which the shapes of the instruments floated like water signs or fragments of keys, unfinished lyres or swans, an imitory, thoughtless starry commentary on the margin of music.- text by bruno schulz, from spring - sanatorium under the sign of

Who has turned us round like that, that we,do as we may, are in the attitudeof going away?- rilke

thirty-fifth one flew

errol morris - vernon, florida - 1982cinematography by ned burgesslisten to that sound.hear that sound?getting in and out of trees?

of visible secret visions

study for camino real, gouache on paper(blueprint graph), 1967line involvement v, lithograph, 1964enmeshed I, lithograph, 1963... our pounding heart drives us down, deep down to the source of all.what springs from this source, whatever it may be called, dream, idea or phantasy - must be taken seriously only if it unites with the proper creative means to form a work of art.then those dreams

at sea

this invisible art of memory - magic hour number 1 - 2007by matthew swiezynskiplaying at the san francisco cinemathequesunday, december 14 at 7:30pmlocation - yerba buena center for the arts, san francisco(at sea by peter hutton also playing)701 mission street (corner of third)

(broken light) an early appearance heard in the evening

colin andrew sheffield - signatures special edition - invisible birds

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,