ever post this song here? No, i haven’t been paying attention to the lyrics. I just like the music, the voice, the wining sound, the sadness of it.
I am champagne
“I feel like champagne.
I understand the idea of celebration. I see the bubbles in champagne
as something … good and beautiful.
Not part of my soul evaporating, but rising …with joy.
What I’m trying to say is:
I don’t want champagne, I am champagne.
It’s great to be alive.”
in Changing Lanes at an AA meeting.
photo here
Autumn feeling
I picture Mozart playing an old, half sunken piano just near the swamp. From time to time a bird is crying out a sharp, metallic groan. Leafs are falling slowly adding to the music of this place.
If you like the painted vinyl clock you can buy it here.pm/autumnclock.
Proximity
Don’t know how many christians you share a buss with everyday, so you may not know that they make the cross sign when passing by a church. It’s sort of a way to say hi, i guess.
I wonder what the maximum distance should be between the devoted and his place of worship so that this “salute” could still be considered valid.
Is the distance directly proportional with the size of the church or with the amount of belief?
Would you say two buss stations is an acceptable range? Or a bit out there?
A thing of beauty
Damien Hirst, The Anatomy of an Angel, 2008, carrara marble.
Damien Hirst, The Anatomy of an Angel, 2008, carrara marble. Photographed by Prudence Cuming Associates © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS 2012
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I wish i could have this in my entryway.
Would it be a sin if I would, sometimes, hang my sweater out to dry on it when I’d just got home after running in the rain?
The Vale of Rest
The Vale of Rest by John Everett Millais.
This is the most beautiful painting I have seen lately. The two nuns digging a grave, the bell in the background, the sky at dusk, the brightly colored flowers next to the coffin, the otherwise pale colors but gorgeous contrast. This is perfection. Reminds me very much of another painting i like, Isle of the Dead. The similarity is in the atmosphere surrounding the scene, it draws me inside.
It is a quiet, late September afternoon. And all you can hear besides crickets and leafs rustling is the sound of the shovel against the dirt.
Dentist
That’s where I’ve been this morning.
She asked me if i am nervous and I told her I’m not afraid of dentists. (referring to the entire idea of teeth being pulled, filed, drilled… eh, you get the point) lol
So she asked me in return what am i afraid of?
I told her I’m sometimes afraid of falling down the stairs, because it’s stupid not to pay attention and fall down MANY stairs. We laughed a bit and got down to business. :))
Now my entire left side is numb, including my ear and i keep wondering if I bit my tongue and didn’t notice.
Other than this, going to the dentist is kinda fun.
PS. when I was a kid tooth was my favorite English word.
Monteverdi – Lamento della Ninfa
Sung by Monserrat Figueras. I wonder how Callas would have sounded. The pace is perfect, but I would like more force. Maybe a “lamento” is meant to be more weepy, dunno.
Painted vinyl clocks
I have talked about them time and time again, a picture here, some music there.
This is a video of their collection of rock clocks. The details on some of them are amazing! Music and art all at the same time. Love.
I’m hoping for the blues and jazz collection pretty soon. For Romania they have free delivery :D.
More clocks on Ceasuri Muzicale here.
Ron Mueck
Australian artist Ron Mueck. How did he came up with this idea?
Is everyone looking for a niche these days or he has a god complex? :P
Its impressive in a scary way.
Claudia Rogge – individualism, reproducibility and mass
Article from here.
In the contemporary art scene, German artist Claudia Rogge is an exceptional person. She continually photographs crowds of practically identical people , all dressed in the same way and holding the same pose to create a unique mass identity. Arranged either in repetition, tessellation or in choreographed groups, her figures represent the unique little tiles that form an intricate mosaic. Man himself turns into a pattern, into an ornament. At the same time there is the question of whether the conceptual classification is justified. Are they really patterns or ornaments? Might they not simply be masses or forms? It seems, however, that we can cope best with the conceptual term of pattern.
Although Claudia Rogge shows us patterns, her works no longer shows an indistinct and homogeneous element but one made up of minuscule differences that need to be sought out carefully in each single photograph. The disposition of the persons depicted reminds spectators of their own movements and postures, which are no mere coincidences but basic dimensions of the sense of social direction. Postures and emotions correspond with each other. Analysing the body language is helpful for a better understanding of other people. Claudio Rogge plays with perception, which she carries on. She shows her wish to bring things closer together in terms of space and time. “If you pause motionless”, says photographer Robert Doisneau, “people will look at you.”
This is one of the elements which makes Claudia Rogge´s pictures so attractive. A motionlessness that repeats itself and thus appears to be movement within stillness.They can be approached in the same way one would approach a still life. With Vermeer, says philosopher Paul Virilio, the living world corresponds with a still life. With Claudia Rogge it seems the same yet with a slight difference: she has raised the living world of mere illusion to the status of an art icon. Our age, in which the mass media are left to themselves, has accomplished the step from the necessary to the superfluous. Claudia Rogge turns our gaze back to the aesthetic glossy print with its mass of people returning to us the individual within us.
Photos by Claudia Rogge | Claudia Rogge website | Sources: Marianne Hoffmann
Downside of rain
People start smelling funky when it rains. Did you sense that?
Kind of like wet dogs.
All the pretty things
I like pretty little things most people find useless or just dust gatherers. Maybe i should consider adding them to my fascinating things you don’t need list. :D
Check out more cuties here.
Geez, did I just say cute and pretty in the same post? :|
Joc real de evadare – Bucuresti
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