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Granada, December / 2011

Soley, Bad Dream

Dirty Three Cover Arleta

or actually, her first performance of the song. Dirty Three intersect with Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds at Warren Ellis.

Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles

NY, July 2011

"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured."

Mark Twain

“The Creative Adult Is The Child Who Survived.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin

Painters suspended on cables of the the Brooklyn Bridge

"Painters suspended on cables of the the Brooklyn Bridge, on October 7, 1914. (Eugene de Salignac/Courtesy NYC Municipal Archives)".

Brooklyn Bridge painters at work high above the city, on December 3, 1915. (Courtesy NYC Municipal Archives)

More here

A supermodel in another life

Picture by LJ

Evidence, directed by Godfrey Reggio with music from Philip Glass

"Evidence looks into the eyes of children watching television – in this case Walt Disney’s “Dumbo”. Though engaged in a daily routine, they appear drugged, retarded, like the patients of a mental hospital. Evidence is about the behaviour of children watching television – an activity whose physiological aspects have been overlooked in the current controversy surrounding television."

Jacques Derrida on Photography (and the defetishization of the author)

transcript

la bande à le barb' etrange

Βίλλα / βίλλος : η λέξη αναφέρεται ηδη το β΄αιώνα μ.Χ. απο το γραμματικό Ηρωδιανό: "βίλλος το ανδρικόν αιδοίον, κοινώς βιλλίν".

πηγή: http://www.biblioasi.gr/product_info.php?products_id=101685

Tony Vromylmeaw

Kabbalah vs. Freud (or the Kabbalah without God)

"Id, ego and super-ego are the three parts of the psychic apparatus defined in Sigmund Freud's structural model of the psyche; [...] According to this model of the psyche, the id is the set of uncoordinated instinctual trends; the ego is the organized, realistic part; and the super-ego plays the critical and moralizing role." (more)

From the Kabbalah (more):

• Nefesh (נפש): the lower part, or "animal part", of the soul. It is linked to instincts and bodily cravings.
• Ruach (רוח): the middle soul, the "spirit". It contains the moral virtues and the ability to distinguish between good and evil.
• Neshamah (נשמה): the higher soul, or "super-soul". This separates man from all other life-forms. It is related to the intellect and allows man to enjoy and benefit from the afterlife. This part of the soul is provided at birth and allows one to have some awareness of the existence and presence of God.

μαϊττάππι

απο το βουλγαρικο Майтапи = αστείο, φάρσα.

κάφκα

"Σχετικά με την (πολύ αστεία) ομοηχία της κυπριακής λέξης καύκα για την ερωμένη και του συγγραφέως Φραντς Κάφκα, στο βιβλίο του επιφανούς Σλάνγκου Ν. Σαραντάκου Λέξεις που χάνονται (2011, σ.125) υπάρχει το ανέκδοτο (η ιστορική αλήθεια του οποίου δεν είναι απολύτως σίγουρη) ότι «στην δεκαετία του 1970, όταν έφτασαν από Ελλάδα στην Κύπρο αντίτυπα της Δίκης του Κάφκα, που είχε παραγγείλει ένα βιβλιοπωλείο, ο τελωνειακός υπάλληλος απαγόρευσε την εισαγωγή, διότι βλέποντας στο εξώφυλλο Κάφκα σκέφτηκε την καύκα και νόμισε ότι ήταν άσεμνο το περιεχόμενο».

Ως προς την ετυμολογία της λέξης, ο Ν.Σ. θεωρεί πιθανή την σύνδεσή της με το μεσαιωνικό καύκος= ποτήρι (βλ. το «πάλιν τον καύκον έπιας, πάλιν τον νουν απώλεσας» για τον μέθυσο αυτοκράτορα Φωκά)."

apo http://www.slang.gr/lemma/show/apanthisma_Kupriakon_limmatoudion_9270

This gives new meaning to 'reading from the belly'

"When reading something aloud, it is best to read from the belly. Reading from one's mouth, one's voice will not endure." - from Hagakure, the book of the Samurai

From Hagakure, on Mistakes

When I was young, I kept a "Dairy of Regret" and tried to record my mistakes day by day, but there was never a day when I didn't have twenty or thirty entries. As there was no end to it, I gave up. Even today, when I think about the day's affairs after going to bed, there is never a day when I do not make some blunder in speaking or in some activity. Living without mistakes is truly impossible. But this is something that people who live by cleverness have no inclination to think about.

Mr. Bungle - Chemical Marriage

Deadline music.

A picture that would have made Freud ecstatic

by f_lynx (Alex Naanou)

Semantic satiation

"Semantic satiation (also semantic saturation) is a psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who can only process the speech as repeated meaningless sounds."

The Underground Youth

Granada, December 15 / 2011

New York DSCF8750

Astronomic Club

as a score by Air to the restored version of the 1902 film, Le voyage dans la lune.

Philip Glass - In The Upper Room: Dance IX

London DSCF3679

Μια Γκοστ Ραιντερ!

(WE) Hide U, Suicide!

00:00 ~ 00:10

Instant Pop-Collemata

DSCF1656 Paris

Kierkegaard and subjective time

In the ethical stage, repetition assumes the form of the universal norms of conduct: instead of chasing the elusive moments of esthetical pleasure, we rely upon the certitude of repetition. Repetition is a sign of maturity when the subject has learned to avoid the twin traps of impatient hope in the New and of nostalgic memory of the Old: we find satisfaction in the return of the Same, like the happy marital couple who has overcome the yearning for exotic adventures, yet is still able to avoid melancholic remembrance of past passions.

The deadlock which pushes Kierkegaard toward the next (religious) stage is of course the experience of how, at this stage too, repetition is impossible: the ideal point at which we overcome the futile yearning for the New without falling into a nostalgic backward-directed attitude, is never present as such. The structure of subjective time is such that, from hopeful expectations, from "too early," we are thrown all of a sudden into melancholic remembrance into "too late." In other words, the self-referential paradox consists in the fact that the ideal point between hope and memory is present precisely and only in the mode of hope or memory: in youthful zeal we hope to find peace in a beloved spouse one never gets tired of; in old age we remember the happy time fulfilled with the reliable rhythm of repetition.

from Zizek's Enjoy Your Symptom

a gentleman is

"A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't."
― Mark Twain

by Nicos Economopoulos

"It can truly be said: Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls." Schopenhauer

DSCF1140 Paris

NY 20110705

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Flirted with you all my life.

On December 25, 2009, Vic Chesnutt died from an overdose of muscle relaxants that had left him in a coma in an Athens hospital. In the 2009 interview with Terry Gross, while discussing the song "Flirted with You All My Life", he said, "You know, I've attempted suicide three or four times. It didn't take."

Just as was told - Lift to Experience

London 20111104

NY 20110820

Isao Tomita - Peer Gynt, Suite No.2: Solveig's Song

NY, August 2011

Hyperfocal & Depth of Field Calculator for Fujifilm Finepix X100 (Android)

Check it out here.

Notable immortal species include the Turritopsis nutricula, a jellyfish which after becoming a sexually mature adult, can transform itself back into a polyp using the cell conversion process of transdifferentiation.

Turritopsis nutricula repeats this cycle, meaning that it may have an indefinite lifespan.

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William Klein

"A picture is taken at 125th of a second. [...] The life of a photographer, even of a great photographer as they say: 2 seconds"

Martin Parr - The Magic Moment

"I believe it is the increasing wealth of the western world, which is fundamentally my main subject, is in the end the thing which will do as all in. I ‘m no exception; i live in a beautiful house, I have lots of things, I buy everything I want, I’m a big hypocrite. I’m not going to sacrifice my wealth for the sake of the planet as indeed anyone wealthy is not prepared to do. [...] The greed of you, me and the viewers of this program."

(The Magic Moment/2003, by Hank Onrust for VPRO, Netherlands)

O ΑΓΙΟC ΙΩΑΝΗC ΚOΛΤΡEΙN

The African Orthodox Church canonized John Coltrane in 1982 (wpedia)

Revisiting Fox Bat Strategy

Almost an Angel

Lost on Cahuenga

Dead Man

- "Wanted: William Blake."

- Huh?
"In the amount of $ . "
Shit.
Hell, ain't we about more fucked than a whore at closin' time, huh?

transcript here.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Every involuntary repulsion that arises in your mind, give heed unto. It is the surface of a central truth."

UFOs landing in NYC

Twist in my Sobriety - Tanita Tikaram

one of those songs that I always forget the title

(la cinématographie est magnifique)

Wings of Desire / Pyramid Song

and, the song of childhood.

U.F.O.'s Over Vampire City

Reflections, on the object petite a

Garry Winogrand ~ Class Time with Garry

You have a lifetime to learn technique, he seemed to be saying, but I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.

http://www.americansuburbx.com/2011/07/garry-winogrand-class-time-with-garry.html

Take It With Me

Tom Waits ~ Take it with me

the gaze of the Other

Jean Paul Sartre saw the gaze as the battleground for the self to define and redefine itself; we become aware of our self as subject only when confronted with the gaze of the Other and become aware of our self as object. The gaze of the Other is outside our immediate control and the way the gaze objectifies us robs us of our freedom as a subject: "insofar as I am the object of values which come to qualify me without my being able to act on this qualification or even to know it, I am enslaved. (more)

Kodachrome Slides are here

To loose the memory of the take

Winogrand almost never developed his film immediately. He said he deliberately waited a year or two in order to lose the memory of the take.

Micah Hinson @ South Bank, Nov. 11 2010

Nagorny Karabach

Song & Picture.

Garry Winogrand vs. Moss (It Crowd)

Promise [...] set your house of fire

Hector Zazou / Katie Jane garside. Apostrophe

The guy who didn't move in Istanbul

Confirmed by sampling at regular intervals throughout the day. The results are statistically significant.

Shooting cats from behind

Amir, near Starbucks in Istanbul:


Vavas, in Cy:

this one's about to take a crap

Triggered by the bird roll post on leica diaries, I remembered these pictures I had taken in Camden.

Now that August is gone

Go Savoullis

Mingus on Academia?

"Making the simple complicated*¹ is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple**², that's creativity." ~ Charles Mingus

Recipe for:

*1 Publishing scientific papers

**2 Being a good teacher

Why my desktop is never tidy

"My problem with classifications is that they don’t last; hardly have I finished putting things into an order before that order is obsolete. Like everyone else, I presume, I am sometimes seized by a mania for arranging things. The sheer number of the things needing to be arranged and the near-impossibility of distributing them according to any truly satisfactory criteria means that I never finally manage it, that the arrangements I end up with are temporary and vague, and hardly any more effective that the original anarchy"

- George Perec, How I Classify

Vavas is Waiting for the Mayan Mothership

Tindersticks @ Bush Empire, March 2010

you can get the 'official bootleg' here

Woven Hand @ Block33, Thessaloniki (Nov. 2009)

Σώτη Τριανταφύλλου στο Orient Express

Download

It works this way as well

"What makes me sad is my creeping awareness that, sooner or later - sooner that I am ready to admit - I will integrate myself into a new community, forgetting and forgotten by the place that now means so much to me. In short , what makes me sad is the awareness that I will lose my desire for (what is now) my home."
-SZ

What makes me sad is my creeping awareness that, sooner or later - sooner that I am ready to admit - I will integrate myself into a new relationship, forgetting and forgotten by the woman that has ment so much to me. In short, what makes me sad is the awareness that I will lose my desire for (whom is now) my woman.

Between

Sex between a man and a woman can be wonderful, provided you can get between the right man and the right woman
- Woody Allen

There is no direct, unmediated relation between the male and female sexual position, because the Other of language stands between them as a third party
- Jacques Lacan

Playing the Building (by David Byrne) @ Roundhouse, 31 August 2009

White rim with Warsaw theme (beamer ~ latex)

Problem:

Notice the white rim appearing on the left. A quick (but not the most elegant) solution to this is to edit the theme file used by Warsaw.

Open the tex\latex\beamer\themes\outer directory and (after backing up), edit:

beamerouterthemeshadow.sty

In the

\defbeamertemplate*{frametitle}{shadow theme}

block, find the following line:

\hskip-\Gm@lmargin\hbox{%

and add an hskip, for me -0.05ex worked:

\hskip-\Gm@lmargin\hskip-0.05ex\hbox{%

Well, it's a long, long time

From May to December.

But the days grow short,
When you reach September

And the days dwindle down

To a precious few
September, November..

Πρωινή Ισυμμετρία (Ισφισπούριον)

Philip Glass @ BBC Proms (8/2009)

http://rapidshare.com/files/268039581/BBC_Proms_2009_Prom_37_Philip_Glass_-_Copy.part1.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/268043149/BBC_Proms_2009_Prom_37_Philip_Glass_-_Copy.part2.rar


Philip Glass
* Violin Concerto (23 mins)
* Symphony No.7 'A Toltec Symphony' (UK premiere) (36 mins)

* Gidon Kremer violin

* BBC Symphony Chorus
* BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
* Dennis Russell Davies conductor

An Ocean of Volcanos

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Clint Mansell and The Sonus Quartet @ Union Chapel, London (July 2009)

"The live line-up is a nine-piece band featuring the Sonus Quartet from Los Angeles and also piano, guitars ,bass and drums. We will play music from Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain and The Wrestler as well as some new material, yet to be released."




From The Fountain:



From Requiem:

Sixteen Summers, Fifteen Falls

The Townes Van Zandt version:


from For the Sake of the Song

and the Staples (Tindersticks) cover:

Latex tables made a lot easier

Convert Excel spreadsheets to LaTeX tables

excel2latex

Evangelical (A)theism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_God_Go

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_God_Go_XII

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6591231.ece

http://lucidsawndream.blogspot.com/2009/06/atheist-summer-camp.html


"On the one hand we have this so called rise of fundamentalism and so on, but something very interesting started to happen in the last years. Did you notice how a certain very vulgar direct materialism, attacking religion as stupidity, immoral laws, is gaining also at the same time extreme popularity. The three big stars even for, of course us, are originally Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and now also Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris. Its kind of an extremely vulgur reductionist materialism claiming religion is basically stupid, ethically hurtfull and so on. I think more and more that these are in a way two sides of the same coin, that we don't have to choose between these two." - SZ

Improvisations With Marc Ribot, Evan Parker and Han Bennink