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

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