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October 2011
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The Fierce Imagination of Haruki Murakami →
patrickjoust:
If you want to find a magical situation, magical things, you have to go deep inside yourself. So that is what I do. People say it’s magic realism — but in the depths of my soul, it’s just realism. Not magical. While I’m writing, it’s very natural, very logical, very realistic and reasonable.
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- Haruki Murakami
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September 2011
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Diane Selwyn
Mulholland Drive remains one of my favorite movies. Yesterday while browsing around on Netflix I inadvertently found two interesting bits of trivia surrounding one of the personaes played by Naomi Watts.
Watts plays Betty Elms and Diane Selwyn. They are alter egos of one another but also reflections and dreams of one another. Both are actresses. On Netflix I saw a cover for a movie that had, in...
July 2011
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First lines of Murakami's 1Q84 →
AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com →
An organic artwork.
June 2011
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“We could not have known and have only just learned–perhaps mostly from children...”
– Polaroid’s SX-70: The Art and Science of the Nearly Impossible
Edwin Land in The SX-70 Experience
WatchListening to “Borders Of Dub” by c60crew on Mixcloud.com
April 2011
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March 2011
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WatchNagra SN (by tim prebble)
Hypnotic. A beautiful little machine.
SWISS MADE
See Tim’s post here at Music of Sound.
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February 2011
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The Knacker's Yard | a photo story by Piotr... →
Had to add the link to the photo gallery related to the earlier video. This story has everything for me: economics, man and animal relationship, photojournalism.
WatchPiotr Malecki’s amazing video about abandoned horses in Ireland.
Man and animals, man.
The Knacker’s Yard (by panos pictures)
Hmm. They don’t allow embeds but you can go through the process on Vimeo to make one. Just click and go to Vimeo to see it.
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Flaying, Photography
We are now flaying our friends and submitting to be flayed ourselves,
every few years or months or days, by the aid of the trenchant sunbeam
which performed the process for Marsyas. All the world has to submit to
it,– kings and queens with the rest. The monuments of Art and the face
of Nature herself are treated in the same way. We lift an impalpable
scale from the surface of the...
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“1Q84: That’s the new Haruki Murakami book, due out in the U.S. in late...”
– Marginal Revolution
Now I’m very excited.
January 2011
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Synsepalum dulcificum at Smart Energy →
Uncanny!
November 2010
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“Deren died in 1961, at the age of 44, from a brain hemorrhage brought on by...”
– Do check out her films sometime. Visually interesting, confusing, fun. Available streaming on Netflix.
Maya Deren - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Potter painted animals, mainly farm animals. In his short life (he died of...”
– Potter, Paulus: The Wolfhound (1650) - Great Works, Art - The Independent
October 2010
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Like a wart, a life wart
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I make cracks during the viewing of movies (not within theaters, however) and I feel no regret in expressing my displeasure with any work produced by man or woman. I have opinions and will let them be known. There’s no harm in it. I have prickly taste, perhaps. If you ask my wife, she will say that I am a snob.
And I will say that my wife has had the great fortune of never...
August 2010
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Walk right up
I’ve been listening to The Books tonight.
My reaction at this time:
Fantastic.
“Now put on some undergarments and go deeper and deeper and deeper.”
I listened to their album “Lost and Safe” when it came out approx. twice. It didn’t connect with me at the time.
Why should this be?
I’m fascinated by different things being appealing and inviting at...
Starfox McQuade
“Duchamp, who is the youngest of this family of Norman artists, is, in my...”
– Apollinaire, in Paris-Journal of May 19, 1914.
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“DFW: …I hope they don’t just start being in big-budget action movies and...”
– That sage bit, referring to Matt Damon and Ben Affleck from an interview with David Foster Wallace conducted by Gus Van Sant.
They discuss the math problems in Good Will Hunting; Blood Meridian and Cormac McCarthy; and there are multiple references to DFW’s dogs making noise in the...
I hear a scene in the Thundercats movie as...
WatchLissie covers Lady Gaga
bobulate:
“To live in the world of creation — to get into it and stay in it — to frequent it and haunt it — to think intensely and fruitfully — to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation — this is the only thing.” — Henry James via Wallace Stevens via Rob Greco. cf. “If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and...
“They were often viewed as Satanic on the grounds that they worshipped both...”
– The Process Church of The Final Judgment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Further changes in both name and focus followed, and the organization eventually...”
– The Process Church of The Final Judgment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is one Wikipedia article that really needs good sources to enable the greatest enjoyment.
edit: On second thought - the lack of citations and references perhaps adds the appropriate level of mystery.
“The leader had a beard and was wearing a caftan that looked like it had been...”
– The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood.
July 2010
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“And then there is Kinkade’s proclivity for ‘ritual territory...”
– Dark Portrait of a `Painter of Light’ - Los Angeles Times
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A time to expand your horizons
In my very first semester of college, on the peace-loving Quaker campus of Guilford college, I had a wonderful conversation between myself, my friend Eric Parisi(at the time a Junior) and his assigned roommate for the year - a massive, spindly, red-headed freshmen, a young man less than discrete about his opinion of the modern folly of regular grooming.
I will call him Rolig as I forget his name.
ERIC: *(speaking to Aaron)* That's what I said to him – he was Catholic and I was certain he would appreciate the…
ROLIG: Urrrhh, Catholic. I can't support organized religion.
AARON: Well, this is a Quaker school.
ERIC: It's a kind of self-organization at the very least.
ROLIG: Urrrgh, yeah self-organization. But anything else. *(flips a pair of drumsticks onto his pillow)*
ERIC: You've thought about this!
ROLIG: I'm a nihilist. (*smile*)
ERIC and AARON: You…
ROLIG: I believe in nothing. *(looks down, wiggles his toes)*
ERIC: But that's the thing, Rolig, you've already lost it. Now you believe in something. You're not even a nihilist anymore.
ROLIG: Urrfgh *(scratches beard)* but then, if I'm not a nihilist anymore then I really don't believe anything.
AARON: You've done it! You are a super-nihilist. You don't believe even in nihilism.
ERIC: Then how do you live your life? You must have some kind of principles - Come on, you're not a nihilist…or a super-nihilist.
ROLIG: *(fingertips to eyelids)* Uuurgh, I just think that their should be no laws deciding how we should live.
ERIC: Oh, you mean you're an anarchist?
ROLIG: That too. I decided I was a nihilist in high school.
ERIC: Wow, you believe in nothing!
AARON: The chaos of high school!
ROLIG: *(stretching to touch the ceiling)* I don't eat anything with a limbic system.