a mystery drone soundscape journey along the shores of an unfathomable glistening sea....
yui onodera: suiseimoljebka pvlse: driftsondchristopher willits + ryuichi sakamoto: ocean firesigur rós: heima steinbrüchel: basisnew music:-yui onodera: suiseiand/oar, 2007so far, one of my favourite discs of 2007, simply beautiful and delicate, produced and designed by dale lloyd, one of his (and/oar) best yet.(suisei is a work composed from field recordings and pump organ. with suisei, each
magic hour two, images of heaven
images of heaven, 2007magic hour number two by m swiezynski (starring mouse and midnight [les chats],the lightowlers, langston and arthur de eriomém)shot using a nd filter, drone techniques, 6 actors, the setting sun,and shooting methods devised for shooting such actresses as greta garbo and marlene dietrichall titles from francis a yates' the art of memorydedicated to the late friend and actor
Marc Vaughn Moore 1.22.69 - 11.26.04
Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts usto the next world.- Jean Paul
not from this world
Karl Erb was the illegitimate son of an assembly line worker. His childhood and adolescence were sad and poverty-stricken. He was misanthropic, introverted and tended to inordinatethrift and self-sufficiency. He was an autodidact and had analmost fanatical love for his mother. He was the greatestEvangelist (in Bach's "St. Matthews Passion") and the mostspiritual, angelic lied and oratorio
( as defined dreams of moments sometimes )
antonella de messina: the annunciation, 1476determined moments from recent dreamsokreślane momenty od niedawnych snówsince a short time defined moments dreamszaczynając od (od czasu; od tego czasu, jak) krótki czas określał sny momentówfrom beginning ( since; from this time, as defined dreams of moments ) short time (sometimes)od rozpoczęcia ( zaczynając od (od czasu; od tego czasu, jak); od tego
To a Little GirlSleep on, little oneAll is well.Better to die thusThan go to Hell.Life is cold and hardDeath is sweetMany the traps are setFor wandering feet.Would I could die as thouHast done this dayIn childish faith and loveBe ta'en away.Rest, my little oneFlowers on your breastSafe in the cold earth's armsEver at rest.Katherine Mansfield, written at the age of 15- thank you, Antonia
rue de vaugirard, 1909 at yale
m swiezynski: rue de vaugirard, 1909, 1998recent screening at yale university school of art (november 5, 2007) of an older video by the unrecognized polish film-maker.this video was originally shot on 16mm, then transferred to video, then back to film and finally to video again (under the spell of lucier's i am sitting in a room). slowmotion techniques were used for visual accuracy, and a contact
the most beautiful man alive
"His dress and appearance were those suggesting a released convict...He wore, habitually, a rusty black coat with a crumpled black silk stock, his throat destitute of collar, a costume which his muscular frame and immense chest made singularly and incongruously hideous, above it a countenance the most sinister I have ever seen, dark, cruel, treacherous with eyes like a wild beast's. He reminded
Christ's body, in the instance of the eucharist, is the most delicate and precious morsel that ever existed in the world. But some say it was Cleopatra who ate that morsel when she swallowed a pearl worth more than two hundred fifty thousand écus with a sip of vinegar. Others say it was that greedy emperor who ate the phoenix, or who was made to believe that he had eaten it for his dinner.
było ciemno, gdy noc w cieniach (pogrążona), it was dark as night in shadows
joseph cornell: box with bird's nest and oak gallscornell study centerfrom joseph cornell navigating the imaginationdirty skylight window (or rainy day effect dim light)-then very conscious of mechanics of light coming thruor by a table very bright...stained hands with black ink not minding(page 15)-also a sequence of being on a couch and looking outas though over a river at night & up at the
(Thoreau's essay Cape Cod :)"...You should read the first few pages particularly, about starting a walking tour along a beach after a shipwreck, with people pulling out bodies and packing them in coffins.After describing the scene he saysOn the whole it was not so impressive a scene as I might have expected. If I had found one body cast upon the beach in some lonely place, it would have affected
From these random slips, it would seem, that Pierre is quite conscious of much that is so anomalously hard and bitter in his lot, of much that is so black and terrific in his soul. Yet that knowing his fatal condition does not one whit enable him to change or better his condition. Conclusive proof that he has no power over his condition. For in tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning
certain (of) the good humour of the duck
duck hunter falls out of boat; drowns , goop joe's poultry pages by joseph cornell (made for his family) on view at the sfmomahumour and the sublime. the noise was quite rambunctious at the cornell show, so i put on my headphones and i persuaded my ipod to act randomly by blindly pushing the buttons, and she chose to play akira rabelais/harold budd's as long as i can hold my breath, which i was
navigating the berlin alexanderplatz
the first image from rainer werner fassbinder's berlin alexanderplatz, 1980joseph cornell: navigating the imagination by lynda roscoe hartiganthis week (and last), i was able to aquire two of the greatest items imaginable, (and to see the joseph cornell exhibition at the sfmoma).both this film and cornell's work have been guiding lights for me over the last 15 years or so (berlin alexanderplatz
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