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Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:13:49 +0100

the flicker fusion factor

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:26:14 +0000

“… consider the northern goshawk, which lives in deep forests and earns its living by chasing down other birds.

without benefit of road markings, warning signs, traffic lights and speed limits, the goshawk zooms around its wild neighborhood in relative safety. as it hotly pursues a ruffed grouse or wood duck, the goshawk may fly just above the ground at 40 miles an hour, mirroring the unpredictable twists and turns of its prey. although the goshawk’s wingspan approaches four feet, superb vision and instant reflexes help it avoid collisions with countless branches.”

..begged them for an invitation.

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:18:00 +0000

..begged them for an invitation.

slipway raw gentle dream slip away

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 21:35:00 +0000

slipway

raw gentle dream

slip away

tempest prognosticator

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:33:00 +0000

tempest prognosticator:

“when they become agitated by an approaching storm they attempt to climb out of the bottles and trigger a small hammer which strikes a bell.”

mainly i just like the name of it.

terns kjartan trana says: “… The picture is taken...

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:28:00 +0000

terns

kjartan trana says: “… The picture is taken in the Namsenfjord outside Namsos in the middel of Norway. Its taken on the darkes time of day, at 01:00. We almost got midnigth sun in june. It was a beautyfull summernigth when my familly went to sleep in our cabin, I took my camera and the boat out in the fjord. Could not wast this nigth with sleep:) … I think the shuttertime is 1/13 sec, f 2.8, iso 200. … Not much work done in Photshop, just some adjusting brigthnes/contrast. Its the same old stiory; about beeing at the rigth place at the rigth time!”

something happened

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:50:00 +0000

http://www.bluemoment.com/moitessier.html

Photo

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:09:18 +0000

Photo

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:01:34 +0000

watersky and iceblink

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:52:00 +0000

watersky and iceblink:

..and iceblink luck

black swan theory

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:50:54 +0000

“a black swan is a large-impact, hard-to-predict, and rare event beyond the realm of normal expectations. taleb nassim regards many scientific discoveries as black swans—”undirected” and unpredicted. he gives the september 11, 2001 attacks as an example of a black swan event.

the term black swan comes from the ancient western conception that all swans were white. in that context, a black swan was a metaphor for something that could not exist. the 17th century discovery of black swans, cygnus atratus in australia metamorphosed the term to connote that the perceived impossibility actually came to pass.

Dead Doe

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:11:00 +0000

by Brigit Pegeen Kelly

The doe lay dead on her back in a field of asters: no.

The doe lay dead on her back beside the school bus stop: yes.

Where we waited.
Her belly white as a cut pear. Where we waited: no: off

from where we waited: yes

at a distance: making a distance
we kept,
as we kept her dead run in sight, that we might see if she chose
to go skyward;
that we might run, too, turn tail
if she came near
and troubled our fear with presence: with ghostly blossoming: with
the fountain’s
unstoppable blossoming
and the black stain the algae makes when the water
stays near.

We can take the gilt-edged strolling of the clouds: yes.
But the risen from the dead: no!

The haloey trouble-shooting of the goldfinches in the bush:
yes: but in season:

kept within bounds,

not in the pirated rows of corn,
not above winter’s pittance of river.

The doe lay dead: she lent
her deadness to the morning, that the morning might have weight, that
our waiting might matter: be upheld by significance: by light
on the rhododendron, by the ribbons the sucked mint
loosed on the air,

by the treasonous gold-leaved passage of season, and you

from me/child/from me/

from … not mother: no:
but the weather that would hold you: yes:

hothouse you to fattest blooms: keep you in mild unceasing rain, and
the fixed
stations of heat: like a pedaled note: or the held
breath sucked in, and stay: yes:
stay

but: no: not done: can’t be:

the doe lay dead: she could
do nothing:

the dead can mother nothing … nothing
but our sight: they mother that, whether they will or no:

they mother our looking, the gap the tongue prods when the tooth is
missing, when
fancy seeks the space.

The doe lay dead: yes: and at a distance, with her legs up and frozen,
she tricked
our vision: at a distance she was
for a moment no deer
at all

but two swans: we saw two swans
and they were fighting
or they were coupling
or they were stabbing the ground for some prize
worth nothing, but fought over, so worth that, worth
the fought-over glossiness: the morning’s fragile-tubed glory.

And this is the soul: like it or not. Yes: the soul comes down: yes: comes
into the deer: yes: who dies: yes: and in her death twins herself into swans:
fools us with mist and accident into believing her newfound finery

and we are not afraid
though we should be

and we are not afraid as we watch her soul fly on: paired
as the soul always is: with itself:
with others.
Two swans….

Child. We are done for
in the most remarkable ways.

this child’s name is chheng and she lives in phnom...

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:36:00 +0000

this child’s name is chheng and she lives in phnom penh’s municipal dump. the empty white background is smoke from burning rubbish.

"i come down here and the sound of the water and seeing the birds are broader signs of life that are..."

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:56:00 +0000

“i come down here and the sound of the water and seeing the birds are broader signs of life that are immediately settling. watching birds tending to their existence brings me peace and ties me into the solstice season in a more meaningful way.”

- lyanda lynn haupt

philip plait, “badastronomyblog”: “i’m...

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:51:00 +0000

philip plait, “badastronomyblog”: “i’m sometimes asked what my favorite object in the sky is. i have lots actually, but when i’m out with my telescope under the night sky, i have a secret favorite i always take a look at when it’s up. it’s not some distant galaxy or a bright nebula as you might expect. it’s actually just a star. well, it’s really two stars, which is one of the reasons i like it. the star’s name is albireo, and it’s the head of the swan constellation of cygnus, visible from the northern hemisphere in the summer through early winter. albireo is the loveliest double in the sky”

cygnus olor

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:47:00 +0000

cygnus olor

"When you’re not dominated by feelings of separateness from what you’re working on, then..."

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:41:00 +0000

““When you’re not dominated by feelings of separateness from what you’re working on, then you can be said to ‘care’ about what you’re doing. That is what caring really is: ‘a feeling of identification with what one’s doing.’ When one has this feeling then you also see the inverse side of caring, quality itself.”
- robert m. pirsig”

- robert m. pirsig

Do Easy

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:04:00 +0000

Do Easy:

essay by William S. Burroughs explaining a concept of his invention known as ‘the discipline of Do Easy’, much of it matches the concepts of mindfulness and flow. the major example he uses is about tidying up one’s dwelling place fluently and efficiently.

the conet project - numbers stations

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:36:00 +0000

the conet project - numbers stations:

static. faint voices. seven slow, monotonous tones. a pause. suddenly, you hear music—one of those wind-up songs played by a child’s toy. The melody repeats three times. a pause. suddenly, you hear a female voice counting off the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0 in german. a pause. she repeats the numbers. a pause. the children’s toy melody returns. the conet project

“we are like the spider. we weave our life and then move...

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:57:00 +0000

“we are like the spider. we weave our life and then move along in it. we are like the dreamer who dreams and then lives in the dream. this is true for the entire universe.”- david lynch, presenting screenings of his digital work sometimes offers a clue in the form of a quotation from the aitareya upanishad