Moon River: LOVE

Soundwalking

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:34:36 GMT

`When was the last time you went somewhere just to hear the sounds?' asks Melbourne-based sound artist Anthony Magen. The sound walk is a simple exercise. It is free! It requires no additional paraphernalia other than your ears and some walking shoes. There is only one rule: no communication within the group. Talking or otherwise. This helps to allow the sounds to become the focus. Magen is the facilitator of our sound walk. A chance to walk through the streets of Sydney and experience the diverse sounds it has to offer. ..The group is one unit, and it is best to stick together through visual contact, especially at night as it can be easy to get lost or separated from the group. Whether experienced as private meditation or as collective silence, soundwalks can refresh your ears and reset your sensual awareness to where you are, live or work. " via junkforcode

African maternity figures

Fri, 08 Sep 2006 11:54:35 GMT

http://www.randafricanart.com/African_maternity_figures_various_people.html GRAVE STELE WITH MOTHER AND CHILD Musurongo group, Kongo peoples, Angola, 19th century Steatite, H. 46 1/2 in. (118.1 cm)

orbit1

Sun, 03 Sep 2006 10:26:32 GMT

visiting again the John Perkinson's orbit1 site - daily photo log

late summer sunset

Sun, 03 Sep 2006 04:36:12 GMT

Trevor Little - nyc photos

trevor little. late-summer-sunset, 18.8.06

south of France

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 14:17:09 GMT

Marc P, janvier 2005 week-end

Soldier's Things

Wed, 09 Aug 2006 22:02:59 GMT

Davenports and kettle drums
And swallow tail coats
Table cloths and patent leather shoes
Bathing suits and bowling balls
And clarinets and rings
And all this radio really
Needs is a fuse
A tinker, a tailor
A soldier's things
His rifle, his boots full of rocks
And this one is for bravery
And this one is for me
And everything's a dollar
In this box

Cuff links and hub caps
Trophies and paperbacks
It's good transportation
But the brakes aren't so hot
Neck tie and boxing gloves
This jackknife is rusted
You can pound that dent out
On the hood
A tinker, a tailor
A soldier's things
His rifle, his boots full of rocks
Oh and this one is for bravery
And this one is for me
And everything's a dollar
In this box

Artist: Tom Waits Lyrics
Song: Soldier's Things Lyrics

One Man's Journey

Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:24:32 GMT

Yuan Shun's "One Man's Journey"

Yuan Shun creates imaginary landscapes and cities out of sand and found debris, documents them, and then dismantles them again.

via atlast

chambres d'amour

Sun, 16 Jul 2006 23:15:27 GMT

Le site officiel de Bernard Faucon

http://www.bernardfaucon.net/photos/galleries/amour/index.htm

You Know What's Awesome? Me! I'm Awesome!

Tue, 11 Jul 2006 18:25:36 GMT

An Entirely Other Day - Greg Knauss

You know what today is? Today is Unjustified Self-Esteem Day!
Isn't that great? Today is the
day that you cast aside the insecurity, the
doubts, the tiny nagging voice that tells you
that you have no idea what you're doing and
soon -- any second now -- everybody is going to find
out and point and laugh and make you want to curl into a little ball
and die. Oh, no. Today is the day that you can fully embrace
whatever half-assed notion occurs to you -- Unjustified Self-Esteem Day,
for instance -- and insist against all arguments and odds that it's a great idea!
How could it be anything else? You thought of it, and you're just an incredibly
amazing person! You can do no wrong! You are a churning juggernaut of unjustified self-esteem! You are great.

Unless you're the sort of person who feels unjustified
self-esteem on a regular basis. Then it's Fully-Justified Self-Loathing Day.
Try spending some time where you belong, jackhole.

2 Hearts

Mon, 03 Jul 2006 08:09:36 GMT

Jim Dine. 2 Hearts (The Donut), 1970. Lithograph

A Bit Hazy

Wed, 14 Jun 2006 21:52:02 GMT

Dean Allen A Bit Hazy 28 FEB 2003

Gardens can be real and imaginary places.

Sun, 04 Jun 2006 11:52:11 GMT

This website, which is associated with a previous British Library exhibition, looks briefly at some of the ideas associated with the garden, from the middle ages to the present day. Using the work of poets, novelists, essayists, philosophers, designers and scientists it explores the interrelationship between writers, writing and gardens.

via plep

Fragments of a garden painting. From area around Vesuvius
National Archaeological Museum Naples
Date: 20-40 A.D.

The Garden that I Love/Alfred Austin:

"tragic gardens, with dark avenues of intertwisted ilexes immeasurably old, where there might be lurking the emissary of an ambitious d’Este; gloomy labyrinths of mediaeval yew concealing the panther-spring of a vindictive Sforza or the self-handled stiletto of a fratricidal Borgia. . . ."

"Had I a garden, claustral yews Should shut out railing wind, That Poets might on sadness muse With a majestic mind."

Fragment of garden mural from House of the Golden Cupids in Pompeii

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Sun, 21 May 2006 20:05:31 GMT

"Wisdom tells me I am nothing.
Love tells me I am everything.
And between the two my life flows."
- Nisargadatta Maharaj via (whiskeyriver)

Moon Coloring

Sat, 20 May 2006 23:54:52 GMT

I haven't figured out yet, why is it that Japanese artists and art, are so concerned by the MOON, i do know, i keep finding it enjoyble, mystic and beautiful, even if i don't know all the answeres. This time i've found few Modern woodblock Japanese Prints :

Yuichi Hasegawa, Beautiful Early Evening WOODBLOCK, 2002

Yuichi Hasegawa, Moon Coloring 1, WOODBLOCK

Love, Life, memory and Vanitas

Thu, 18 May 2006 12:12:12 GMT

taken around 1996

עוד אבוא אל סיפך

Fri, 12 May 2006 06:41:02 GMT

Yossi Banai Israel's greatest troubadour passed away yesterday, he was 74 years old.
An Actor, singer, story teller, comic - his distinctive voice sounds sometimes like that of a French Chansonnier (indeed one of his best loved recordings is of Georges Brassens songs), sometimes like that of an old Jerusalemite, which he is. i loved him very much, he is the essence of what an Israeli is for me, and probably for many Israelis, he is our collective remembrance, he reminds me my childhood, he reminds me LOVE, love to the land, love to the Jerusalem neighborhood that he was born in, to people, to the beauty of moments, of a begining of an autumn evening. Even if not listening to him often, he is there, a solid ground, an eternal presence, His voice is unique and beloved, he left his body, but is with us with so many beautiful songs, writtings, playes that he made.

Listen to his recording : It is called ‘Yossi Banai Reads Tehillim’. Nineteen Psalms are read, recited, told - it is hard to find the exact word here - in Hebrew.

עוד אבוא אל סיפך / נתן אלתרמן

ביצוע: יוסי בנאי

עוד אבוא אל סיפך בשפתיים כבות

עוד אצניח אלייך ידיים.

עוד אומר לך את כל המילים הטובות

שישנן,

שישנן עדיין.

כי ביתך העני כה חשוך לעת ליל

ועצוב בו ודאי לאין סוף.

וחיי שכרעו בלי הגיע אליך

הוסגרו לחוצות ולתוף.

אך פתאום את נוגעת ביד מבהיקה,

את פולחת כזכר נישכך

הדממה שבלב בין דפיקה לדפיקה

הדממה הזאת היא שלך.

The endangered joy of serendipity

Wed, 10 May 2006 16:50:24 GMT

"There's an art to finding something when you're not looking for it."

The endangered joy of serendipity via greatmap.blogspot

"When you start juxtaposing things that are not usually brought together, you discover all kinds of things you never expected." (Michael Best, CaSTA, Nov. 14, 2003, UVic). Michael Best is, referring to that delightful phenomenon of serendipity that makes the joys of research worth the countless hours of solitary effort. The notion of juxtaposition--calls to mind a nexus of related ideas originating from the act of juxtaposition: besides serendipity, we have analogy, montage, coincidence, synchronicity, chance, approximation, randomness, and improvisation. All are strategies of artistic production, and counterpoint the meticulous plotting of fictional narratives and prosody, the careful rendering of visual perspective, and the detailed notation of musical transcription into scores". read more

Green Silence

Wed, 10 May 2006 11:51:08 GMT

Catherine Opie Untitled, 2000 Chromogenic color print Diptych

Catherine Opie Untitled 1 , 2003

Red - Bedroom

Fri, 05 May 2006 18:53:39 GMT

Michael Eastman: Cuba iris print
Red Bathroom

Michael Eastman: Cuba
Mercedes Bedroom

Michael Eastman: America
Velvet Curtain

lets add to that some lights...

Série Luminaires - Ana Apostolska

Ana Apostolska

Suspensions (Série Luminaires), photographies couleur

101 EXPERIENCES DE PHILOSOPHIE QUOTIDIENNE. Roger-Pol Droit

Fri, 14 Apr 2006 19:51:47 GMT

פילוסופיה בחיי היום יום-101 ניסויים. רוז'ה-פול דרואה

ללכת לקרקס
Going to the Circus

אסור לתת אמון באנשים שלא אוהבים קרקס. אין ספק שהם יותר מדי יעילים ובטוחים בעצמם - חסרי לב. כדי להבין את זה, אפילו אם זה לא במיוחד מושך אותך, עשה את הניסוי ושב קרוב לזירה. מוטב לבחור קרקס קטן, לא מהולל, די מסכן. הימנע ממדיסון סקוור גרדן ומוסדות גדולים מסוג זה. כי שם קשה יותר לקבוע מה עושה את הקרקס נוגע ללב, התערובת של עליבות וחלומות. שכן בדרך כלל יש במקומות האלה משהו בזוי. באורח מהותי והכרחי. הנסורת על המסלול, ריח הגללים, האבק של כיפת האוהל הבלויה, עובש הזיעה על יריעותיו. חשוב גם שזה יהיה מרחב סגור: מעגל הזירה, שמי הבד, המעקות. הקרקס תוחם מרחב לעצמו. עולם שאינו מתערבב בשאר היקום. במובן מסויים הקרקס מגדיר את עצמו כעולם האנושי.

Dean Allen
Circus 6 APR 2003

מדובר כאן ביצירת בועה של חלומות בחלל המוגבל הזה. באופן אלמנטרי, אפילו מטומטם מאד, או ווגרי מאד: פאייטים, זכוכיות, דברים נוצצים. מבריק דמה, כאילו כזה. פאר מזויף, מין קלות מעושה, מין שמחה מאולצת על מסד של עצבות אומללה. זה מה שעושה את הקרקס נוגע ללב, מופתי, מודל פשוט אך אנושי: לבנות חלומות מגוחכים מתוך החלאה והרפש, אבל בעקשנות...אתה צריך אפוא למצוא את הדרך לאוהל. לעמוד קצת בתור. לשלם ביוקר רב בעד אי הנוחות, הבליה, הצחנה. לשבת לא נוח הרבה זמן. אתה תתגבר בקלות על אי הנעימויות האלה. אתה תשכתנע להימלט מהמצוקה, ללכת אחרי הקלילות של הלוליינים, היכולת של הלהטוטנים. תצליח לחלום על אנושות מלאה בועות גביש, נקטעת על ידי הזרקורים, מחייכת בתרועות חצוצרה, מאושרת בצמר גפן המתוק. כמעט תחשוב שהאנשים על הבמה יפים, אמיצים ראויים, ספוגים מידות טובות, מסוגלים לחולל מעשי גבורה, גדולים מהחיים, גופם זוהר כשל אלים, וכל כך גמישים, וקלים, מהירים, אווריריים. תרחף זמן-מה בבועת הנצנצים הזאת.

Dean Allen Circus 6 APR 2003

ואז, הכי חשוב, הכי נוגע ללב, משהו נדפק. כדור נופל, מתלה נשמט, נדנדה נתקעת. אתה שם לב שבבגד הגוף של נערת הגומי היפה יש חור. אתה רואה פתאום משהו מעורר רחמים. גאווה שהוש/פלה עד דכא. חלום ארצי, כלומר מוכתם, פחות או יותר פצוע. כשלון מביך. דימוי לעקשותו של האדם. תצטרך לשוב לקרקס עוד ועוד.

"פילוסופיה בחיי היומיום, 101 ניסויים", רוז'ה-פול דרואה, הוצאת חרגול, מצרפתית: דן דאור,

Dean Allen Circus 6 APR 2003

May I kiss you?

Fri, 14 Apr 2006 18:34:12 GMT

"My mind has become akin to a Venus flytrap lately and specific ideas have become trapped in it. Today the trapped idea is all about kissing . . ."

Wabi-sabi, Passover, circle of infinity and yearning for peace

Wed, 12 Apr 2006 06:49:53 GMT

Yonatan Amir. Hamasrek, Arabic House

wabi sabi is a way of life that appreciates and accepts complexity while at the same time values simplicity.

Wabi-sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.

Tonight it's the evening of Pesach(Passover).

and this photo that i *tagged* before as Wabi-Sabi, is tagged in my mind now as a reminder of some of the main icons of Passover: first this round form - that is very much like the way the Matzah (the "bread that was made according to tradition while the people of Israel were travelling in the desert for 40 years in order to get to the holy land) second the texture of the walls in this amazing photo emphasize more the Matzah special image - the one that are made by hand. Immediately upon being harvested, the grain is guarded from moisture so that it does not become leavened. (The grains are guarded from moisture at all times--even after it becomes flour)and the beauty in imperfection runs all along this post for me....

"Because the Creator of the universe is eternal, Jews often made round matzos, since a circle has no beginning and no end. so Yonatan Amir's image makes me define my Matzah perfectly."

The fact that this photo was taken from a ruins of an Arab village - ties me to the complex history of us Jewish and our Arab neighbors - both - we relate passionately almost religiously to the holy territories of Israel, shattering so much blood, while we all share the same love.

I do hope peace will come soon. (i just realize that the sound of Pesach and Peace - are very much the same)

SEA HYMN

Sat, 08 Apr 2006 19:06:40 GMT

Edward Wadsworth. Still Life circa 1926

No Escape from the Past

Fri, 07 Apr 2006 04:54:39 GMT

Roi Kuper No Escape from the Past, 2002

Walking

Thu, 06 Apr 2006 10:13:05 GMT

by Henry David Thoreau - 1862
"Give me a wildness whose glance no civilization can endure -- as if we lived on the marrow of koodoos devoured raw.'' ...

"....It is true, we are but faint hearted crusaders, even the walkers, now-a-days, who undertake no persevering never ending enterprises. Our expeditions are but tours and come round again at evening to the old hearth side from which we set out. Half the walk is but retracing our steps. We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return; prepared to send back our embalmed hearts only, as relics to our desolate kingdoms. If you are ready to leave father and mother, and brother and sister, and wife and child and friends, and never see them again; if you have paid your debts, and made your will, and settled all your affairs, and are a free man; then you are ready for a walk. .."

Walking

GooD Morning

Thu, 06 Apr 2006 04:33:38 GMT

Orbit1

Wabi-sabi

Wed, 05 Apr 2006 17:43:55 GMT

“wabi sabi is a way of life that appreciates and accepts complexity while at the same time values simplicity.”

Wabi-sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.

Yonatan Amir. Hamasrek, Arabic House

Crave

Wed, 05 Apr 2006 12:12:46 GMT

I Crave for ONE

I need ONE

They say I can even try and make One my self

How to
Some History

via plep

W I T C H S T O R I E S

Thu, 09 Mar 2006 17:29:32 GMT

I love witches, it's an on-going story~love, never knew where did came from, when did it start...maybe i was one, on an other life time. I keep loving them funny and clumsy, never dark or evil.

המכשפה מניירה. איורים: ניל מנוסי

she's not *dark*
only robotic like...

Jared von Hindman

המכשפה מניירה. איורים: ניל מנוסי

מיטה

Fri, 24 Feb 2006 17:43:53 GMT

יורם קופרמינץ ?

מיטת נשיקה

מיטה של דמים

מיטת אהבים

מיטת ילדים, בתוך בית בובות של ענקים

ו - ALICE

מצאת אותה?

מיטת המשי מסודרת

אחרי ליל פרוע של אהבים

וארבע קרנות המזבח שלה מחזיקים את השמים הנופלים

TANT D'OISEAUX

Tue, 21 Feb 2006 05:46:40 GMT

TANT D'OISEAUX

Tant d'oiseaux
Qu'on dirait de l'eau en pluie
un goutte-à -goutte d'ailes
une giboulée de plumes
une averse de griffes.
L'orage opaque éteint le ciel
et son tonnerre est de cris.
Qu'importe qu'importe
puisque ce cauchemar n'est pas un rêve
puisque ces griffes sont réelles
et que c'est réellement qu'il faudra mourir.

Alain Borne

Ami Ben Basat

Ami Ben Basat

Ami Ben Basat

ANNIE'S SONG

Sun, 12 Feb 2006 20:05:02 GMT

"You fill up my senses, like a night in the forest
Like the mountains in springtime,
Like a walk in the rain,
Like a storm on the desert,
Like a sleepy blue ocean,
You fill up my senses
Come fill me again...."

by John Denver

About Love

Sun, 12 Feb 2006 18:28:23 GMT

"The most wonderful thing in life is to be delirious and the most wonderful kind of delirium is being in love." - Yevgeny Zamyatin via Medico Musings

map to my heart

Sat, 04 Feb 2006 13:25:11 GMT

"....my words translated into a map that led me in your path
and brought you to me but it didn't bring you completely..."
via every-passing-moment

Igael Tumarkin

The way of love

Mon, 30 Jan 2006 20:26:57 GMT

The way of love is not
a subtle argument.

The door there
is devastation.

Birds make great sky-circles
of their freedom.
How do they learn it?

They fall, and falling,
they're given wings.

Rumi

Shirin-Neshat. Logic of the Birds by Shirin Neshat, 2001

Goddess

Wed, 04 Jan 2006 07:33:05 GMT

Marilyn Monroe over 1,000 images

A Woman with a Cigarette

Mon, 02 Jan 2006 20:55:45 GMT

Two Days now, with No Cigarettes!
It's not as hard as before...having my mind fixed elsewhere...

Man Ray
American, 1920

Anonymous (Catalonian photographer) - Woman Smoking in Shadow through Curtain

LOVE

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 21:12:06 GMT

,הושטת זרוע חפה, להידקר בכוונה תחילה
להתיך עורך באהבה ראשונה

אילנה ברנשטיין מתוך: מושבת האהבה: תמונה ראשונה

Marika Borlase. Two Birds 2005

More of not a Christmas Tree...

Sat, 24 Dec 2005 15:39:15 GMT

I love TREES. Christmas, is for ever for me, Green&TREES.

john pfahl

Yoram Kupermintz

Sara Verbeek, Cowboys

Gerhard Richter, 1995 Oil on canvas

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Peter Doig. Orange Sunshine 1995>

Otto Dix

David Hockney,

Not just a Christmas Tree...

Sat, 24 Dec 2005 10:56:06 GMT

I love TREES. Christmas, is for ever for me, Green&TREES.

john pfahl townsend road new jersey 1979

Nan Goldin

Yoram Kupermintz

Yoram Kupermintz, Red

Kandinsky, Riding Couple

Vincent van Gogh Wheatfield with Cypresses

Peter Doig, Ravine

Arnold Böcklin: Holtak szigete

Not just a Christmas Tree...

Fri, 23 Dec 2005 19:35:53 GMT

I love TREES. Christmas, is for ever for me, Green&TREES.

john pfahl townsend road new jersey 1979

Vincent van Gogh, MULBERRY TREE

John Pfahl Tree and Mountain Cleft, Colorado

Jim Dine "Blue", 1980. Fusain, aquarelle et pastel sur papier

Gerhard Richter, Baume 1987, Oil on canvas

Yoram Kupermintz

Vincent Van Gogh BLOSSOMING ALMOND TREE

Photo taken from Lionel's Unread Blog

Yoram Kupermintz, Red

Vincent van Gogh

Yoram Kupermintz, Brosh

David Armstrong

Paul cezanne, forest

Rodney Graham. Pine Tree Spanish Banks 2001

I love TREES. Christmas, is for ever for me, Green&TREES.

Min Byung Hun, Deep Fog

Stephen DiRado

Eleanor Miller

Roi Kuper Tree

Yoram Kupermintz

Roi Kuper, citrus

Israel Hershberg, Cypress Assembly

William Smith, "Untitled", 1998, oil on linen

Gareth Hinds

Saelon Renkes, Big Cypress Swamp, 2002

quantum cloud

A Box of Ku

Sun, 11 Dec 2005 05:25:09 GMT

Masao Yamamoto. A Box of Ku . Gelatin Silver Print

How to fall in love

Sat, 05 Nov 2005 18:55:30 GMT

Here are 12 scientifically tested tips on finding Mr or Ms Right. Megan Gressor reports.

So you're seeking a partner, whether for a lifetime or just the night. The good news is that there are scientifically proven ways of increasing your chances (yes, academics actually get paid to research interpersonal attraction, as psychologists rather drearily dub this thing called love; it's a tough job, but somebody's got to do it).

Their findings dispel many cliches beloved of romantic fiction - from opposites attracting to absence making the heart grow fonder - while confirming others.

haven't checked them all yet, but, as soon as i set my self in to getting a partner, i'm going to give it a try...

How to fall in love

via theworld

LOVE

Mon, 10 Oct 2005 20:03:46 GMT

The Gumelnita Lovers

Tue, 13 Sep 2005 18:19:46 GMT

The original of this statue was crafted of terracotta some 7,000 years ago

( found by Vl. Dumitrescu 4700 B.C.) The Gumelnita Culture, the Danubian shore,in what is now Southern Romania.

The rich valley and low plateaus along the Danube was early the locale of settled farming communities

and very early gold and copper artwork and other craft specialization.

What is now known as the Gumlenita Culture appeared suddenly by fusing elements from at least

three separate cultures and creating a fresh and distinctive new culture that endured a thousand years.

Such an event no doubt required toleration and trust between the people involved.
This image may represent a divine couple or symbolize the social importance of marriage itself.

As writing had not yet fully developed we have no way of knowing for certain.

http://www.goddess-gallery.com/neolithic.html#lau

Moon River: LOVE

Soundwalking

African maternity figures

orbit1

late summer sunset

south of France

Soldier's Things

Artist: Tom Waits LyricsSong: Soldier's Things Lyrics

One Man's Journey

chambres d'amour

You Know What's Awesome? Me! I'm Awesome!

2 Hearts

A Bit Hazy

Gardens can be real and imaginary places.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Moon Coloring

Love, Life, memory and Vanitas

עוד אבוא אל סיפך

The endangered joy of serendipity

Green Silence

Red - Bedroom

101 EXPERIENCES DE PHILOSOPHIE QUOTIDIENNE. Roger-Pol Droit

May I kiss you?

Wabi-sabi, Passover, circle of infinity and yearning for peace

SEA HYMN

No Escape from the Past

Walking

GooD Morning

Wabi-sabi

Crave

W I T C H S T O R I E S

מיטה

TANT D'OISEAUX

ANNIE'S SONG

About Love

map to my heart

The way of love

Goddess

Marilyn Monroe over 1,000 images

A Woman with a Cigarette

LOVE

More of not a Christmas Tree...

Not just a Christmas Tree...

Not just a Christmas Tree...

A Box of Ku

How to fall in love

LOVE

The Gumelnita Lovers

Artist: Tom Waits Lyrics
Song: Soldier's Things Lyrics