in love of we

2012-02-24T14:49:00.000-08:00

eternal.mixtape

&amp;amp;lt;a href="http://brownbird.bandcamp.com/track/thunder-lightning"&amp;amp;gt;Thunder &amp;amp;amp;amp; Lightning by Brown Bird&amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;gt;

2012-02-21T09:47:00.001-08:00

20 mon. 13 juggles

2012-02-20T20:18:00.001-08:00

"The cure for anything is salt water- sweat, tears, or the sea"

Isak Dinesen

(*waves)

2012-02-20T20:12:00.001-08:00

2012-02-20T17:53:00.000-08:00

eternal.mixtape

Wildbirds & Peacedrums

[ The Wave ]

Rivers
(*waves)

their Take Away Show, filmed inside a boxing gym

2012-02-20T14:24:00.003-08:00

tagteam #2

2012-02-20T14:24:00.001-08:00

tagteam #1

2012-02-20T08:12:00.000-08:00

" Poetic License "
"Robert Montgomery plasters poetry over obtrusive advertisements in urban landscapes. This illegal, experiential hijacking of the very images that disgusted Jean Baudrillard– commodifying luxury, commodifying people, commodifying beauty– is brazen, emotional, tangible. It’s like saying just because they put those messages there, it doesn’t mean I have to ingest. In fact, to hell with them, I’m going to start sustainably sourcing my food."

Kristen's back to publishing some of her latest writings on the web/
Hoorah!
its professor, and european , culture and personal

2012-02-20T07:54:00.000-08:00

Sasa Stucin
in Brighton

via jesuisperdu

new label collection waves. which shall include references to:
the sea, islands, waves, lighthouses..

2012-02-18T07:16:00.000-08:00

another missed opp. to see Nick Cave & soundsuits in action..
thankful for that one peep look at the Corocoran
..&/but cant wait to get to the
Fabric Workshop and Museum

2012-02-17T21:33:00.000-08:00

Cross Over
18x12
Mixed media on paper

s.evans via booksontape

2012-02-17T21:23:00.000-08:00

eternal.mixtape

The Lighthouse and the Whaler

live KEXP 2011

2012-02-16T07:22:00.000-08:00

" Alone, I rock my basins; I am mistress of my fleet of ships. But here, twisting the tassels of this brocaded curtain in my hostess's window, I am broken into separate pieces; I am no longer one. What then is the knowledge that Jinny has as she dances; the assurance that Susan has as, stooping quietly beneath the lamplight, she draws the white cotton through the eye of her needle? They say, Yes; they say, No; they bring their fists down with a bang on the table. But I doubt; I tramble; I see the wild thorn tree shake its shadow in the desert."
V Woolf
The Waves

2012-02-16T07:12:00.000-08:00

Bonnie Prince Billy and David Lynch are coffee roasters ...

2012-02-13T06:06:00.000-08:00

" Here am i shedding one of my life-skins, and all they will say is 'Bernard is spending ten days in Rome.' Here am I marching up and down this terrace alone, unoriented. But observe how dots and dashes are beginning, as I walk, to run themselves into continuous lines, how things are losing the bald, the separate identity that they had as they had as i walked up those steps. The great red pot is now a reddish streak in a wave of yellowish green. The world is beginning to move past me like the banks of a hedge when the train starts, like the waves of the sea when a steamer moves. I am moving too, am becoming involved in the general sequence when one thing follows another and it seems inevitable that the tree should come, then the telegraph-pole, then the break in the hedge. "
V Woolf
The Waves

2012-02-12T22:30:00.001-08:00

Earth Quarterly
Issue One: Winter Solstice
online here!

2012-02-12T22:12:00.000-08:00

eternal.mixtape

via Pitchfork :

Spencer Krug gives a new LP with Finnish band Siinai in April:

With Siinai: Heartbreaking Bravery

hear here

2012-02-11T17:39:00.000-08:00

eternal.mixtape

via rebs

2012-02-09T20:00:00.000-08:00

"Time present and time past

Are both perhaps present in time future,

And time future contained in time past.

If all time is eternally present

All time is unredeemable."

TS Eliot

As You Are, We Once Were. As We Are, So Will You Be

Louise Despont

butdoesitfloat made the artist match. Despont chosen new, based on title for today.

2012-02-09T18:55:00.000-08:00

Penn-Marydel foxhounds,
history dogs
celestial spots like Rusty's, and long floppier ears

2012-02-07T20:36:00.000-08:00

eternal.mixtape

Four Tet - Moma

: their contribution to Blonde Redhead's compilation We are The Works in Progress, a Japan relief fundraiser.

2012-02-05T19:27:00.000-08:00

eternal.mixtape
Audible Approaches for a Better Place
c.sides asked ten diverse artists and bands to create exclusive new works, sharing one goal: to make a humble contribution... to embark on a mission of re-exploring the notion of meaning and impact in and through music.

CD I - Total Playtime: 57:11
1. Glitterbug featuring Enas Massalha - The Sky Fell Silent (14:26)
2. Eliad Wagner – Exile (11:09)
3. Christian Löffler - Cast (12:38)
4. Khan – Shahane (8:50)
5. Gold Panda – Air (9:57)

CD II - Total Playtime: 61:24
1. Brandt Brauer Frick - Schwan (10:29)
2. John Kameel Farah - Mountain Hymn (11:16)
3. Jasmina Maschina - Romantic Rebellion (11:23)
4. Glitterbug feat. Enas Massalha - The Sky Fell Silent (Vocal Edit) (9:47)
5. Casper Clausen & Mads Brauer (of EFTERKLANG) featuring Karim Ghahwagi - The Figment Notebook (18:13)

some video here

2012-02-05T18:38:00.001-08:00

eternal.mixtape

&amp;amp;lt;a href="http://wheretheresakrilltheresaway.bandcamp.com/track/slug"&amp;amp;gt;SLUG by Krill&amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;gt;

get it Jonah!

2012-02-05T18:08:00.001-08:00

Martha Graham & The Dance

via amass

2012-02-05T17:10:00.000-08:00

via books v cigs

2012-02-05T16:13:00.001-08:00

"The body is the inscribed surface of events (traced by language and dissolved by ideas), the locus of a dissociated self (adopting the illusion of a substantial unity), and a volume in perpetual disintegration."

M. Foucault - Nietzsche, Genealogy, History

via books v cigarettes

2012-02-04T19:56:00.001-08:00

"That is why the better part of our memory exists outside ourselves, in a blatter of rain, in the smell of an unaired room or of the first crackling brushwood fire in a cold grate: wherever, in short, we happen upon what our mind, having no use for it, had rejected, the last treasure that the past has in store, the richest, that which when all our flow of tears seems to have dried at the source can make us weep again. Outside ourselves, did I say; rather within ourselves, but hidden from our eyes in an oblivion more or less prolonged."

Marcel Proust, À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, trans. Moncrieff and Kilmartin

via proustitute

2012-02-04T19:55:00.000-08:00

Wyeth country

2012-02-04T19:25:00.000-08:00

The Approval Matrix: Week of February 6, 2012
nymag

2012-02-04T19:23:00.000-08:00

" The four realms of inner life: perception, thinking, feeling, willing. The first two are more directly related to the outer world; the last two are more inward and subjective. How the inner life can be studied clarivoyantly, from outside the physical body, when the seer becomes conscious in his Ego and astral body. Ordinary experience is reversed : instead of looking out from a central point at an external world, he feels that he has become that world; he is poured out over it, as though looking from every point in space towards a central point- himself. How he now sees the physical body, shining and sounding. The life of thought as dark waves (etheric currents) in the body of light. When awareness of what corresponds to feeling is awakened, the space becomes as though filled with stars in constant movement; this is experience of the astral body. The physical body now looks different; the radiance and the waves of thought-life cease ; one's own being is perceived as personified karma, penetrating into the very construction of the muscles. It becomes evident that in life a person is led by his muscles to wherever karma requires him to go. If attention is next concentrated on what corresponds, out of the body, to the activity of will, the investigator experiences his "I" as united with the sun. If then he looks back on his physical body, he observes that spiritual powers direct its coming into being and its passing away; the bony system is their signature. He learns that in every moment of his bony system, cosmic forces are at work. The fundamental feeling engendered by these experiences as a whole: Ex Deo Nascimur...
[Out of God we are born]"
Rudolf Steiner - 9 April 1914

2012-02-02T19:48:00.000-08:00

eternal.mixtape

Sharon van Etten ft Zach Condon

[ We are Fine ]

Tramp

2012-01-29T20:58:00.001-08:00

"The truth is that I need the stimulus of other people. Alone, over my dead fire, I tend to see the thin places in my own stories. The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely, imagining. He would not integrate, as I do. He would not have this devastating sense of grey ashes in a burnt-out grate. Some blind flaps in my eyes. Everything becomes impervious. I cease to invent."
Virginia Woolf
The Waves

2012-01-29T20:43:00.001-08:00

Sunday for Monday
Great all-encompassing Spirit,
Within they forms of life shone forth sensation
When my sensation
Had yet no present being.
Thou wert.
I lift up my soul unto thee.
I was thee.
I was a part of thy sensations.
Thou didst unite thyself
Even with the Earth's Beginning,
And in my body began
The shining forth of own sensation.
Within they feelings
I felt myself.
Thou wert.
My sesnations felt thy Being in themselves,
My soul began to be within itself,
Since thou wert in me.
Thou wert.

R Steiner

2012-01-29T20:36:00.000-08:00

eternal.mixtape

Peter Broderick's upcoming CD release. It Starts Hear

Peter Broderick - It Starts Hear from Bella Union on Vimeo.

2012-01-28T20:02:00.001-08:00

"Loneliness does not come from being alone, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important, said Carl Jung."

2012-01-28T19:52:00.001-08:00

SEED Awards for Excellence in Public Interest Design Competition Winners 2012

2012-01-26T16:16:00.000-08:00

"when i asked the little girl this morning if she had any questions about the house, she asked if we had stairs.
she´s never seen a house with stairs."
via Kw, writing from Peru

2012-01-21T18:59:00.000-08:00

gaze
on an
all-starwinter

2012-01-19T19:52:00.000-08:00

"They [Elizabeth Bishop's paint sketches ] record what it looked like in the rooms and on the streets where she happened to be living. To judge from the pleasure she found in the colors and patterns, they also record what it was like to be happy there. And yet, though the images place Bishop, they don’t seem to anchor her. They convey a sense that she has only been placed provisionally. The security in the images, to the extent that there is any, doesn’t appear to be of a permanent kind. All the lines waver; the angles of the trays, tables, and walls are askew; things float, "
"Elizabeth Bishop also had trouble with her pronouns. “But I felt: you are an I, / you are anElizabeth, / you are one of them. / Why should you be one, too?” she wrote in her poem “In the Waiting Room.”"
"Pronoun Trouble" , The Paris Review

2012-01-19T18:01:00.000-08:00

eternal.mixtape

lots of great live recordings by WatchListenTell

&amp;amp;lt;a href="http://darkdarkdark.bandcamp.com/track/something-for-myself"&amp;amp;gt;Something For Myself by Dark Dark Dark&amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;gt;

2012-01-19T16:31:00.000-08:00

trans.n.lit

"It’s impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because what you say can never be exact, you always have to leave something out, there are too many parts, sides, cross currents, nuances; too many gestures, which could mean this or that, too many shapes which can never be fully described, too many flavors, in the air or on the tongue, half-colors, too many."

— Margaret Atwood, from The Handmaid’s Tale

via growingorbits

2012-01-19T16:15:00.000-08:00

where the wild things is

Exton (?)

2012-01-19T14:32:00.000-08:00

3 crystals & associatedpotentialproperties
Blue Aventurine
assists one in making clear decisions and sticking to them, can be useful in initiating changin in unwanted habits, improves one's ability to concentrate, helps one assume one's power by taking full responsibility for one's life, can balance hormones- especially in women, opens throat chakra and third eye

Carnelian
stimulates analytical capabilities and precision, enhances perceptiveness to situations and awakens ones talents, to produce inspiration from and connected-ness with, the spiritual worlds, protects against envy, fear and rage, strengthens bond of love between parent and child

Ruby
brings optimisim and determination , improves self confidence, adventurousness, enthusiasm and willingness, helps one "get out of a rut", assist those who have suffered abuse reconnect with their bodies, encourages one to "follow bliss"
**

eternal.mixtape

&amp;amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href="http://gemclub.bandcamp.com/track/lands"&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Lands by Gem Club&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;amp;gt;

2012-01-19T14:18:00.000-08:00

eternal.mixtape

Meursault

[ What You Don't Have ]
W
All Creatures Will Make Merry

2012-01-19T13:30:00.000-08:00

IN LOVE OF HoC !!!

KTV from Cameron Ingram on Vimeo.

oh, you killed it again!

2012-01-18T19:40:00.000-08:00

"One draws a magic circle around oneself -to keep everything out that doesn’t fit one’s secret games.Each time life breaks the circle, the games become puny and ridiculous.So one draws a new circle and builds new defences."
Ingmar Bergman
“Through A Glass Darkly”
via reflejos (via distinguished-mind)

2012-01-16T20:41:00.000-08:00

"The act of writing defies all distance"

Edmond Jabes
The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion
trans. R Waldrop

via proustitute

2012-01-16T20:31:00.000-08:00

"Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street."

Virginia Woolf

The Waves

via growing-orbits

2012-01-16T20:15:00.001-08:00

eternal.mixtape

finally catching up on

Beach House's
first CD, self-titled

from '06

[ Saltwater ]

2012-01-16T17:47:00.001-08:00

eternal.mixtape

&amp;amp;lt;a href="http://pillarsandtongues.bandcamp.com/album/the-pass-and-crossings"&amp;amp;gt;The Pass and Crossings by Pillars and Tongues&amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;gt;

2012-01-15T21:08:00.001-08:00

"Elissa: I nominate Joe.

Joe: I don’t need a cigarette yet."

,

2012-01-15T20:50:00.000-08:00

Allan Kaprow

via ROLU

2012-01-15T20:34:00.000-08:00

eternal.mixtape

< lm.

The Red River

[ My Kind of Woman ]

+ their NPR Tiny Desk Concert

> lm.

Lucy Michelle and the Velvet Lapelles

[ Monsters ]

2012-01-15T19:39:00.000-08:00

"the ideas john cage spoke of about randomness and sound... they connect me to the beauty of field recordings. what is the visual equivalent of a field recording? is it looking at a thousand photos of art / design related things via tumblrs and blogs every day? and then turning the memory based residue back into something?

sometimes it seems like a sort of pseudo-appropriation, like using a quote by someone else in an essay.

i think often about something jo-ey tang said to me: "a ventriloquism of form" which leads me to "sitting as seeing" and "writing as sculpture" and "making as thinking" the critic jeff kelley writes “(allan) kaprow downplayed the significance of formal structure and social commentary in favor of direct experience … if you don't do the work, he seems to be saying, you can't reflect upon its meaning.” "
..

"she knows that the content of her thoughts consists entirely of what she's read, heard, spoken, dreamt, and thought about what she's read, heard, spoken, and dreamt. she knows that thought is not something privileged, autonomous, originative, and that the formulation "cogito ergo sum" is, to say the least, inaccurate. she knows too that her notion of "concrete experience" is an idealized, fictional site where contradictions can be resolved, "personhood" demonstrated and desire fulfilled forever. yet all the same the magical, seductive, narrative properties of "yes i was talking..." draw her with an inevitability that makes her slightly dizzy. she stands trembling between fascination and skepticism. she moves obstinately between the two." - from "looking myself in the mouth" by yvonne rainer

via ROLU

on his tRUTH IN fORM/ rEASON FOR BEING EXHIBIT POST

2012-01-14T11:39:00.000-08:00

"Oh I know I too shall cease and be as when I was not yet, only all over instead of in store, that makes me happy, often now my murmur falters and dies and I weep for happiness as I go along and for love of this old earth that has carried me so long and whose uncomplainingness will soon be mine. Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it."
Samuel Beckett
"From an Abandoned Work"
First Love and Other Stories

2012-01-14T11:15:00.000-08:00

@ Powell's Books
Staff's Top 5s of 2011

2012-01-11T20:13:00.001-08:00

Herzensliebe dringe zu Seelenliebe,
Liebewarme strahle zu Geisteslicht.
So nahen wir uns euch
Denkend mit euch Geistgedanken,
Fuhlend in euch Weltenliebe,
Geistig-wollend durch euch
Eins -Erleben seiend weben.
*
May love of hearts reach out to love of souls,
May warmth of love ray out to Spirit-light.
Even so would we draw near to you,
Thinking with you Thoughts of Spirit,
Feeling in you the Love of Worlds,
Consciously at one with you
Willing in silent Being.

Rudolf Steiner
trans. G & M Adams

Verses & Meditations

2012-01-11T20:01:00.000-08:00

"I spoke my tongues against your breathlessness.
Down there nothing but eternity and praise.
To be alive I had to praise, to praise I had to
learn to speak."

Luke Davies
from Totem

2012-01-11T19:49:00.000-08:00

BALANCE

"The combination of gender segregation, violence against women, limited access to health care, and extreme poverty make Afghanistan the worst place on earth to be a woman."
/ARZU rugs
via the Daily GOOD

2012-01-11T19:41:00.000-08:00

Cy Twombly

Poems to the Sea, I-VI

Laura Cumming: “Writing, drawing - they are never completely decoupled. Numbers and letters are like pictograms; lines rippling across a page appear purely abstract, except they resemble waves, and what do waves resemble, Twombly delicately implies, but lines of writing? Poems to the Sea is the title of this series, and what are Twombly's paintings but hand-drawn poems?”

via some landscapes

"In 1959 Twombly executed some of the most spare works of his career, among them the 24 drawings that comprise Poems to the Sea, done on the coast of Italy at Sperlonga. What order of poems, punctuated with numerals and question marks, are these? The sea is reduced to horizon line and word, scribblings and veils of paint against the stark white of paper. A persistent compulsion is invoked in the viewer, the desire to read what is there, but not fully manifest in the artist’s scrawled script. Two words in these drawings emerge into legibility, “time”and “Sappho”, as if washed up on the beach alongside sudden, subtle gem-flashes of colour – blue, orange-yellow, pink – gleaming all the more because of their discretion. In these pages, meaning is endlessly frustrated and pursued. It settles only in the distance, figured perhaps by the horizon lines that move across the top of each of the drawings – in fact, simply grey or blue lines made with a straight edge, but suggesting seascapes at the vanishing point. The flat planes of sea and page have been collapsed. Writing comes in waves, rolling funnels of cursive script, crossed out, erased, enfoamed in satiny greyish-white paint. The signs are given as nascent forms, as gestural indications of “the hand’s becoming”, as Roland Barthes so aptly phrased it."

@ Tate

"Whiteness," said Twombly of these spare, lyrical works that elide calligraphy, poetry and painting, "can be the classic state of the intellect, or a neo-Romantic area of remembrance."

via justanothermasterpiece
**
" You can imagine the white
drawing in all your colors
all the differentiae in
your body
until you walk as a ghost,
as someone who crossed
a limit on no map."

Nathanie Tarn

2012-01-08T11:52:00.000-08:00

Im freien Menschenwesen
Fasset das Weltall sich zusammen.
Darum fasse dich mit freien Sinne
Und du findest die Welt
Und durch dich wird der Geist der Welt.
*
In the free being of Man
The Universe is gathered up.
Then in the free resolve of your heart
Take your own life in hand,
And you will find the World.
The Spirit of the World will find itself in you.

Rudolf Steiner
trans. G & M Adams

Verses & Meditations

2012-01-03T20:30:00.000-08:00

Jonathan Mess

via ii-ne-kore.

2012-01-03T18:55:00.000-08:00

eternal.mixtape

Other Lives

[ Dark Horse ]

Tamer Animals
**
KCRW Presents: Wednesdays Become Eclectic
@ npr
**
&
KCRW

2012-01-03T11:53:00.000-08:00

"Being creative is a process of challenging oneself and daring to fail."

2012-01-02T22:13:00.000-08:00

eternal.mixtape

> lm.
Shenandoah Davis
[ We; Camera ]

< lm.

Belly Boat

[ Little ]

thanks lm.

2012-01-02T19:48:00.000-08:00

eternal.mixtape

Ben Howard - The Fear - Secret Sessions

2012-01-01T16:12:00.000-08:00

Gina Adams

from mapping landscape

from scribe
via theartroomplant.blog

2012-01-01T15:28:00.000-08:00

spatial.ambition

Manspace by Alec Allinson, Beverly Allinson, and John McInnes, Thomas Nelson & Sons, Ontario, 1973

"Well---you see---everybody's in space. This book tells about the space around you, how much space you need and how it works. Sometimes you're all squashed in and sometimes you have plenty of room to turn cartwheels and play games. It's about why we get close to each other and why we sometimes keep our distance. Then there's homespace---the space we live in---and homes on the move---and public space, like streets and parks---and crowds and overcrowding and pollution---and all things that happen on our earth"

via 50watts

via stopping off place

2011-12-31T23:21:00.000-08:00

Before I die I want to live a life filled with you in it

2011-12-31T12:36:00.000-08:00

"In Arabic the word for 'land' is linked to the word for 'honour'," says prominent Egyptian psychiatrist Ahmed Okasha. " But this is being forgotten. The satelite cities basically create ghettoes for the rich away from ghettoes for the poor, and that leaves Egyptian society in a very dangerous situation."
- thinking on the Zaha-Hadid designed fringe cities developed to hold Cairo's 20million and expanding population.

Monocle mag. Issue 39
*

via designboom here

2011-12-26T15:29:00.000-08:00

trans.n.lit
"Italo Calvino sparks obsessions"
illustrations, installations, criticals texts...
via metafilter

2011-12-26T15:22:00.000-08:00

eternal.mixtape

WU LYF, Go Tell Fire to the Mountain

[ We Bros ]

3 collages from their website World Unite

.

2011-12-26T09:33:00.000-08:00

1/John Hunter: World Peace Game !!!!!!!!

via BEST OF TED 2011 Countdown

"In this special year-end collaboration,TED and The Huffington Post are excited to count down 18 great ideas of 2011, featuring the full TEDTalk with original blog posts that we think will shape 2012. "
+ ( World Peace and Other 4th-Grade Achievements, a film by Chris Farina )

*
8/ Brene Brown:The Power of Vulnerability
"maybe stories are just data with a soul"

2011-12-25T20:02:00.000-08:00

About: "..."When does something... become something else?" We wanted the work we produced for this project to have a theoretical basis that pointed towards language. We also wanted to think about motion. We like to use the term "sitting as seeing" to describe a philosophical ghost we are chasing. ..

These drawings contain a sense of motion and it's easy to see their visual connection to dance but, they also look like typography... like a written language we don't quite recognize. And so we ask ourselves: When does a dance become a drawing? When does a drawing become a chair? "

via Rolu

2011-12-25T19:07:00.000-08:00

Malicke Sidibe
"most certainly taken in the sixties after Mali's independence from the French. Sidibe is mostly known for his portraits of the country's youth, negotiating what it was to be young and African in the new post-colonial era. "
via sink then swim
click Malicke^ for more

2011-12-25T17:40:00.000-08:00

Gerhard Richter Painting
A New Film Captures the German Impasto Master at Work with his Squeegee

via Nowness

"The notoriously secretive creative process of reclusive German artist Gerhard Richter is exposed in filmmaker Corinna Belz’s new fly-on-the-wall documentary, Gerhard Richter Painting. Belz spent three years as an observer in Richter’s Cologne studio capturing mesmerizing footage of the artist producing his radical abstract works.

...“You get the feeling the paintings are staring at you,” says Belz"

2011-12-25T17:31:00.000-08:00

eternal.mixtape

gorilla vs. bear 's

Top 50 Songs of 2011

1/
Panda Bear
[ Alsatian Darn ]

2011-12-24T16:43:00.000-08:00

forms.for.forums

day 381 – four old postcards of scenes in japan that evoke a sense of wonder and/or intrigue

1. A pasture near Sapporo. (top left)

2. A sacred bridge in Nikko. (top right)

3. A buddhist temple in Awajishima. (bottom left)

4. A view of the cherry blossoms from the hilltop at Tsuyama Castle. (bottom right)

via four for the day / a daily collection of four things

2011-12-24T16:27:00.000-08:00

delicious got bought out?!
time to shuffle links around.
*
trans.n.lit /zines

Analogue Books

2011-12-23T13:55:00.000-08:00

“The healthy sociallife is found when in the mirror of each human soul the whole community findsits reflection, and when in the community the strength of each one is living.”
Rudolf Steiner

via Soltane Coworker Social Contract

2011-12-20T13:25:00.000-08:00

eternal.mixtape

love all the streamable,live in-studio sessions available for free on the interwebs!
TinyDesk, Daytrotter, KEXP...... .....

new one:
The Wild Honey Pie out of Brooklyn have their Honey, I'm Home sessions :

Rubik

[ Karhu Junassa ]

2011-12-20T11:10:00.000-08:00

its possible to find something you had already found
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Raqs Media Collective !
{They've done loads of provocative work. spend some time with it}

"The Raqs Media Collective enjoys playing a plurality of roles, often appearing as artists, occasionally as a curators, sometimes as philosophical agent provocateurs. They make contemporary art, have made films, curated exhibitions, edited books, staged events, collaborated with architects, computer programmers, writers and theatre directors and have founded processes that have left deep impacts on contemporary culture in India. Raqs follows its self declared imperative of 'kinetic contemplation' to produce a trajectory that is restless in terms of the forms and methods that it deploys even as it achieves a consistency of speculative procedures."

IE.
Strikes at Time /“Strikes at Time” is a lucid dream, readings from an occasional anonymous journal, and a long walk at the edge of the city of the night./

"In that no man’s land annexed by the awakening mind from the fatigue of the labouring day, the work weaves together a disquisition on time in the form of a discreet annotation on the philosopher Jacques Rancière’s “The Nights of Labour”, together with renditions of the found text of a worker’s diary by the CyberMohalla Ensemble, a group of unorthodox proletarian urbanists that Raqs has been in dialogue with over a decade. "

The founders Jeebesh Bagchi,Monica Narula & Shuddhabrata Sengupta
also cofounded Sarai , "for contemporary media and urban constellations"

2011-12-19T12:49:00.000-08:00

eternal.mixtape

always accepting musical suggestions!*

here's just a variety of recently heard

Akron/Family, S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT

[ Another Sky ]

First Aid Kit, The Big Black and the Blue

[ Hard Believer ]

[ Josefin ]
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You Won't
[ Who Knew ]
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Said the Gramophone Music blog has a Best Songs from 2011

trans.n.lit

2011-12-17T16:29:00.000-08:00

2/ Modern Translation Magazine

current issue: "The Dialect of the Tribe"

"A people’s self-identity springs in large measure from its language. For that reason when one people or nation annexes another, or wishes to homogenize itself, it will control or even seek to exterminate the languages within its frontiers by which difference and variety are signalled and asserted. Stop the language of a people, stop their voice. Without a voice, they are at your mercy.

In this issue of MPT more than 30 ‘dialects’ or minority languages are represented or discussed, some widespread, some very local, all vitally interesting in their poetic speech."

and the MTM resources page

2011-12-17T16:10:00.000-08:00

new LABEL !

trans.n.lit

: which will serve more as a collection of links to hit up if your curious about translation theory musings, and the creative process - writing.

The Iowa Review Forum on Literature and Translation

2011-12-16T19:56:00.000-08:00

"Translation: always takes the register and level of naturally written prose up a notch or two; is the guardian and, to a surprising degree, the creator of the standard forms of language; sometimes (in the case of the Bible) enriches the target language, while corrupting the original text; is the opposite of empire; in addition to pointing to an original text, also generates a genuinely new thing; is meaning; preserves the information and general force of the original; is a portrait in oils; is an appropriation of the source; is another name for the human condition. "

David Bellos, who runs Princeton's Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication
Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything

via Words Without Borders

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2011-12-16T08:05:00.000-08:00

eternal.mixtape

playlist outofa KMc playlist

dance yourself clean.

LCD Soundsystem , Dance Yrself Clean

Ratatat, Shempi

Gorillaz, On Melancholy Hill

give it all away.

2011-12-16T07:58:00.000-08:00

"I crouched down behind a big chair in a corner away from the fire. Then I remembered I'd left the gun in the kitchen. My feet were sore and bare. The room was full of orange light and blackened shadows, moving. The wind whooped and the house creaked like steps do. I was alone with all that could happen. I began to wonder if the Pedersens had a dog, if the Pedersen kid had a dog ro cat maybe and where it was if they did and if I'd known its name and whether it'd come if I called. I tried to think of its name as if it was something I'd forgot. I knew I was all muddled up and scared and crazy and I tried to think god damn over and over or what the hell or jesus christ, instead, but it didn't work. All that could happen was alone with me and I was alone with it."

William Gass

"The Pedersen Kid"

In the Heart of the Heart of the Country

2011-12-14T12:50:00.001-08:00

eternal.mixtape

&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href="http://mybrightestdiamond.bandcamp.com/track/be-brave"&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Be Brave by My Brightest Diamond&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;

stream My Brightest Diamond, All Things Will Unwind
@ their bandcamp
via cSaal

2011-12-11T19:13:00.000-08:00

Annie Lapin

The Frozen Aftervisions of Virtue 2011

@ Honor Fraser

via http://booksvscigarettes.tumblr.com/

4 JaW

2011-12-10T23:16:00.000-08:00

* * * Lis Timpone * * *

You will always grow

Maybe life is a fairytale

2011-12-10T22:44:00.001-08:00

Franck Andre Jamme

Tantra Song: Tantric Painting from Rajasthan

"While they invoke the highly symbolic cosmology of Hindu Tantra, these contemporary, anonymous drawings from Rajasthan are unlike the more familiar strands of Tantric art. The progeny of hand-written, illustrated religious treatises from the 17th century, copied across many generations, these drawings have evolved into a distinct visual lexicon used to awaken heightened states of consciousness."

This painting represents the three gunas or conditions of existence, says Jamme. (In medieval Europe, he notes, black white and red were the three fundamental colors in alchemy.) "Here, in the form of small candles, each has its own capacity to illuminate."

Jamme says this is a "meditation on the possible and necessary balance of things."

The last plate in the book ends with this summation from Jamme: "The purer the consciousness, the bluer and clearer the sky."

via text , images

2011-12-10T20:38:00.000-08:00

eternal.mixtape

Tiger Saw at the Communications Museum, Charleston

on TUESDAY, 13 Dec.

&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href="http://burstandbloom.bandcamp.com/track/well-always-have-the-night"&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;We'll Always Have the Night by Tiger Saw&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;

&amp;amp;amp;lt;a href="http://burstandbloom.bandcamp.com/track/japan"&amp;amp;amp;gt;Japan by Tiger Saw&amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;gt;

2011-12-10T17:09:00.000-08:00

Occupy Our Homes

"The Occupy Our Homes movement, according to its website, is meant to take on the tragic irony of "people without homes and homes without people" while also calling attention to one of the root causes of the financial crisis: bankers and speculators "gambling with our most valuable asset, our homes—betting against us and destroying trillions of dollars of our wealth."

Nathan Schneider

via yes! magazine

2011-12-10T11:15:00.000-08:00

Persian Rug Motifs for Needlepoint

2011-12-09T17:43:00.000-08:00

eternal.mixtape

&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href="http://peterwolfcrier.bandcamp.com/track/settling-it-off"&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Settling It Off by Peter Wolf Crier&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;

&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href="http://peterwolfcrier.bandcamp.com/track/untitled-101"&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Untitled 101 by Peter Wolf Crier&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;

or live, NPR TinyDesk

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2011-12-09T16:55:00.000-08:00

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Our relation to the language we belong to is our essential contribution to the unfolding of a world shaped and reinvented by ideas.

"Language is thirsty for the absolute, straining to become new and thus to survive.

"To found a community of language means to found a fatherland of mind and heart, where the foreigner automatically has his place, the place of honor. For taking down barriers means going to meet him.

"Thereafter, he will relate to others through language , to discover, along with his foreignness, the deep sense of his commitment.

"Loving, respecting a language means loving, respecting those who speak and write it.

...

"Never will the sun reign over all the night.

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"What comes from elsewhere, from so far away it has to be dazzling, what has been expected in vain for so long that no one expects it anymore, what name can I give it except the one I had hoped to bear and never will, the name that designates me by its silence, by its absence of name?

Here language loses all authority.

Edmond Jabes, trans from French by Rosemarie Waldrop

A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of his Arm a Tiny Book

2011-12-09T11:41:00.000-08:00

"These wires offend me. Three trees were maimed on their account, and now these wires deface the sky. They cross like a fence in front of me, enclosing the crows with the clouds. I can't reach in, but like a stick, I throw my feelings over. What is it that offends me? I am on my stump, I've built a platform there and the wires, all the beyond birds therefore anger me. When I've wormed through a fence to reach a meadow, do I ever feel the same about the field?"

William Gass

In the Heart of the Heart of the Country

2011-12-09T11:16:00.001-08:00

"each idea [has] a certain shape, [and when] I found the word morphe it was to me just the right word for that, unlike "shape" in English which falls a bit short, morphe in Greek means the plastic contours that an idea has inside all your senses when you grasp it for the first time, the first moment, and it always seemed to me that a work should play out that same contour in its form…[2] I can't start writing something down until I get a sense of that morphe, and then it unfolds — I wouldn't say naturally — but it unfolds, by keeping only to the contours of that form." (radio excerpt)

"That is, Nox is not only about reading. It's about the way meaning unfolds in investigating the origins of remembrances and the definitions of the words that frame the experience, in associating the speculative with the definitive. [Anne] Carson creates meaning through layers of curated intersections — text-text, text-graphic, graphic-graphic ...

In the text itself, however, one way Carson builds the complex of this remembrance is by linking the Latin definition to the content on the right side. ... Her inventions most often introduce 'night' into the scope of the Latin word, creating a sotto voce thread, a low-murmuring voice that carries the title's theme (nox is Latin for night). For example, with interea (in the meantime, meanwhile), she adds "against the law yet only at night.” With et (and what is more, too, also), she adds "and do you still doubt that consciousness vanishes at night?" With mutam (inarticulate or making no sound): "there was a better reason for not writing."

Lorraine Martinuik's review of

Anne Carson

Nox

via Jacket2

2011-12-08T21:10:00.000-08:00

"Conceived in 1996 by Austrian artist Friedemann Derschmidt Permanent Breakfast is part game, part reality show and part gastronomical event. Its rules are very simple: one person invites other persons to breakfast in a public space. The guests commit themselves to organize another public breakfast with different persons in a different place as soon as possible, and so on and so forth. Following the snowball principle, there would be 1.6 mio. people publicly breakfasting no later than on the tenth day." via