Aesthetics of the Invisible World

Feb 13

Great ideas can happen once they are no longer within you. ~ü [Image: Charles DARWIN. Tree of Life / A reproduction of the first-known sketch of an evolutionary tree describing the relationships among groups of organisms. © Syndics of Cambridge University Library] (Thank you, chromaticities)

Great ideas can happen once they are no longer within you.

~ü

[Image: Charles DARWIN. Tree of Life / A reproduction of the first-known sketch of an evolutionary tree describing the relationships among groups of organisms. © Syndics of Cambridge University Library]

(Thank you, chromaticities)

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Feb 11

discoverynews: Enormous Antarctic Crack NASA’s Terra Earth-observing satellite captured this image of Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica on Nov. 13, 2011, after a research team discovered a huge 19-mile (30-km) -long crack running across it.Members of the Operation IceBridge mission spotted the crack during a DC-8 flight over Pine Island Glacier (PIG) on Oct. 14, 2011. It’s estimated to be up to 260 feet (80 meters) wide and 195 feet (60 meters) deep. keep reading The fragile Earth.~ü

discoverynews:

Enormous Antarctic Crack

NASA’s Terra Earth-observing satellite captured this image of Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica on Nov. 13, 2011, after a research team discovered a huge 19-mile (30-km) -long crack running across it.

Members of the Operation IceBridge mission spotted the crack during a DC-8 flight over Pine Island Glacier (PIG) on Oct. 14, 2011. It’s estimated to be up to 260 feet (80 meters) wide and 195 feet (60 meters) deep.

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The fragile Earth.

~ü

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Feb 08

“It seems to me that art has to be ritually separated from life in order to be art, so to talk about it as anything more than a mirror seems problematic.” — ~ Mike Kelley

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The Artist’s Dilemma:

Everyone gets in their own way in some form or another.  Clarity comes from removing your own obstructions, your own views on how things should be and are.  Things never are.  Things change.

In one meeting yesterday, my creative convictions were trumped by what was financially possible.  A practical “work with the tools you have.”  In another, what was financially possible was absolutely dependent on the creative engine that produces a compelling product.  A sort of “if you build it, they will come” approach.  The topic at hand was the same: getting films made.  I had to work with both approaches and ended up having a little difficulty switching gears.  

The artist in me is usually trumped by the person that has to pay rent.  Looking good and making something beautiful isn’t usually practical, but it turns out that it’s always necessary.  Even as an artist, I forget that.  Paying rent gets in the way.

Taking that time to experience something beautiful is what makes life worth living.  As it turns out, those things that obscure it are usually just tools that facilitate new approaches.  We just don’t see them yet.

~ü

Feb 06

The Power of Money:  It is an unusual prerogative to me - being motivated by the accumulation of money and the things it purchases.  I sometimes think about the freedom and comfort it can provide.  Then the better person within myself realizes that that type of freedom can easily become a cage. Steve Jobs, a man who made a lot of money, suggested this to Walter Isaacson: and I saw these people who were really nice, simple people turn into these bizarro people. And I made a promise to myself. I said: “I’m not going to let this money ruin my life.” But Jobs in no saint, as many have attested.  A man who aided Mr. Jobs early in his career, Chuck Peddle, talks frankly about Jobs’ true shortcomings in a 2006 interview: There is nothing nice about Steve Jobs and nothing evil about Bill Gates.  Gates is a good man. Of course, Jobs is quoted as saying that Gates is “fundamentally odd” and “weirdly flawed as a human being.”  Perhaps this is because Jobs was trapped and never fully understood the value of money.  He only saw the problems.  Philanthropy was never a strong suite of Steve Jobs.  It is of Bill Gates.   In the end, this is indeed the only true power of money - having the ability to give it away.  Anything that you cannot part with possesses you.  It is a difficult practice to work with but one that I’m trying to wrap my head around.  Once you part with everything, you can see what you really have. ~ü

The Power of Money: 

It is an unusual prerogative to me - being motivated by the accumulation of money and the things it purchases.  I sometimes think about the freedom and comfort it can provide.  Then the better person within myself realizes that that type of freedom can easily become a cage.

Steve Jobs, a man who made a lot of money, suggested this to Walter Isaacson:

and I saw these people who were really nice, simple people turn into these bizarro people. And I made a promise to myself. I said: “I’m not going to let this money ruin my life.”

But Jobs in no saint, as many have attested.  A man who aided Mr. Jobs early in his career, Chuck Peddle, talks frankly about Jobs’ true shortcomings in a 2006 interview:

There is nothing nice about Steve Jobs and nothing evil about Bill Gates.  Gates is a good man.

Of course, Jobs is quoted as saying that Gates is “fundamentally odd” and “weirdly flawed as a human being.”  Perhaps this is because Jobs was trapped and never fully understood the value of money.  He only saw the problems.  Philanthropy was never a strong suite of Steve Jobs.  It is of Bill Gates.  

In the end, this is indeed the only true power of money - having the ability to give it away.  Anything that you cannot part with possesses you.  It is a difficult practice to work with but one that I’m trying to wrap my head around.  Once you part with everything, you can see what you really have.

~ü

Feb 04

During November 1970, forty people were photographed at the instant exactly after the photographer said, “You have a beautiful face.” By Douglas Heubler.

During November 1970, forty people were photographed at the instant exactly after the photographer said, “You have a beautiful face.” By Douglas Heubler.

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Feb 03

Reality is often more spectacular than our imagination.  Sometimes I see the fierce beauty of the natural world around us and vainly think to myself I wish I made that. ~ü

Reality is often more spectacular than our imagination.  Sometimes I see the fierce beauty of the natural world around us and vainly think to myself I wish I made that.

~ü

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Body language says more than just what the eyes see.  It is more powerful, and disconcerting, when the body says something different that what the spoken word means.  We see the body.  We hear the words.  We sense the invisible disconnect in-between.  This is the intersection of language (an idea) and experience (a tangible thought) and it comes from within.   ~ü [Image: Miyako Ishiuchi]

Body language says more than just what the eyes see.  It is more powerful, and disconcerting, when the body says something different that what the spoken word means.  We see the body.  We hear the words.  We sense the invisible disconnect in-between.  This is the intersection of language (an idea) and experience (a tangible thought) and it comes from within.  

~ü

[Image: Miyako Ishiuchi]

Feb 02

I feel a strong desire to leave.  It’s the only way to come back with the eyes of a child. ~ü [Image: Helen Korpak on Flickr]

I feel a strong desire to leave.  It’s the only way to come back with the eyes of a child.

~ü

[Image: Helen Korpak on Flickr]

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