weird

All the world is

Les stades du developpment de l'embryon, illus. J. Alessandrini

Noite

gods whims

Aegina Visited by Jupiter, 1767–69
Jean Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725–1805)
Oil on canvas; 57 7/8 x 77 1/8 in. (147 x 195.9 cm)
Gift of Harry N. Abrams and Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, Pfeiffer, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds, 1970 (1970.295)

The young woman is almost certainly Aegina, daughter of the river god Asopus, who was visited by Jupiter in the guise of fire and was later carried off by him in the form of an eagle. This unfinished picture may be an attempt by Greuze at a reception piece for the French Royal Academy. In 1767 he was barred by that organization from exhibiting in the Salon for having failed to fulfill this requirement. The same year, in a letter to Diderot, Greuze wrote that he "should very much like to paint a woman totally nude without offending modesty." It is possible that he was inspired by Rembrandt's "Danae" (State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg), then in Paris. Although incomplete and very different in nature, "Aegina" shares with Greuze's final presentation piece "Septimus Severus Reproaching Caracalla" (Musée du Louvre, Paris) its size, central nude figure of heroic proportions, and tripod copied from the antique.


Danae
Rembrandt
1636 (40 Kb); Oil on canvas; The Hermitage at St. Petersburg

new speak

- well let me say it :

Majik

ebb

her site here

ebb   [eb] Show IPA
–noun
1.
the flowing back of the tide as the water returns to the sea (opposed to flood, flow).
2.
a flowing backward or away; decline or decay: the ebb of a once great nation.
3.
a point of decline: His fortunes were at a low ebb.
–verb (used without object)
4.
to flow back or away, as the water of a tide (opposed to flow).
5.
to decline or decay; fade away: His life is gradually ebbing.
Use ebb in a Sentence
Origin:
bef. 1000; (n.) ME eb(be), OE ebba; c. OFris ebba, D eb(be), G Ebbe ebb, ON efja place where water backs up; (v.) ME ebben, OE ebbian, deriv. of the n.; akin to off

—Related forms
un·ebbed, adjective
un·ebb·ing, adjective

—Synonyms
4. subside, abate, recede, retire. 5. dwindle, diminish, decrease.

Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2010.

quick

light within his art

Japanese photographer Tokihiro Sato uses light within his art to record movement through space. Sato specializes in long exposures ranging from one to three hours taken from a large-format camera on a tripod. The photographer then moves through the targeted space with either a mirror that he holds to the sun or a flashlight that he waves about at night. The combination of the movement, the light and the long exposure results in detailed scenes that have interesting plays of light, but no image of Sato.


Artist: Tokihiro Sato
+ tonkonow.com

Oneness

Oneness
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Oneness may refer to:
Divine oneness, the belief that God is without parts
Oneness Pentecostalism, a particular belief about the Godhead
Oneness of God, the belief that only one deity exists
Oneness (mathematics), a mathematical concept
Oneness (Carlos Santana album), a 1979 rock album
GodWeenSatan: The Oneness (album)
Oneness (Jack DeJohnette album)
The Oneness Movement led by Kalki Bhagavan

the burbs

Os subúrbios asfixiam-te e esmagam-te. Os subúrbios serão um grande peso que terás de retirar de ti.

Natureza morta

Despertai

- O que faz falta é uma globalização de vontades - boas vontades, isto é.

A Contract with God

"A Contract with God, and Other Tenement Stories is a graphic novel by Will Eisner that takes the form of several stories on a theme. Published by Baronet Books (ISBN 0-89437-035-9) in October 1978[1] in simultaneous hardcover and trade paperback editions — the former limited to a signed-and-numbered print-run of 1,500 — it is often erroneously called the first graphic novel, or the first work to describe itself as such. It is nonetheless an early landmark of the form, and critically lauded in its own right.
DC Comics later acquired the rights to the book, which that publisher reissued in 2001 (ISBN 1-56389-674-5). It runs 196 pages.

The work consists of four short stories — "A Contract With God", "The Super", "The Street Singer", and "Cookalein" — all set in a Bronx tenement in the 1930s, with the last story ("Cookalein") also taking place at a summer getaway for Jews. The stories are semi-autobiographical, with Eisner drawing heavily on his own childhood experiences as well as those of his contemporaries. Utilizing his talents for expressive lettering and cartoonish figures, he links the narratives by the common setting and the common theme of immigrant and first-generation experiences, across cultures."

"An inspiration to several generations of cartoonists."
Art Spiegelman, author of Maus

olhos de gato

Mily Possoz no Museu Vieira da Silva

Saber, sabor...e vamos perder o rio Sabor

"A Educação perdeu o sabor. E é curioso constatar isso quando desvendamos pela etimologia que as palavras sabor e saber têm a mesma origem no verbo latino sapere. O conhecimento é para ser provado, degustado. É como se a cabeça (o estudar) estivesse em plena consonância com o coração (o gostar)."

"O verbo latino Sapere teve vários significados, entre eles: ter sabor, conhecer através do paladar, ter inteligência, saber.

É a origem do português saber, que, além do sentido mais popular de compreender, também é usualmente empregado em Portugal como sinônimo de "ter o gosto de" (o bacalhau sabia a palha) ou "ser saboroso" (o feijão soube muito bem)

No latin sapere originou sapore, gosto, que deu em português, sabor.

In: PIMENTA, Reinaldo. A Casa da Mãe Joana, Ed. Campus, p.194."

"Saber lembra sabor, dois conceitos etimologicamente vinculados. O ser humano que saboreia a realidade é mais sábio, é mais humano."

"...as palavras não são mais concebidas ilusoriamente como simples instrumentos, são lançadas como projeções, explosões, vibrações, maquinarias, sabores: a escritura faz do saber uma festa. (...) a escritura se encontra em toda parte onde as palavras têm sabor (saber e sabor têm, em latim, a mesma etimologia). (...) É esse gosto das palavras que faz o saber profundo, fecundo.

[Roland Barthes]"

"Pelo Buraco da Agulha"

"A obra pictórica de Rui Serra consiste na apropriação, transformação e reelaboração de imagens recolhidas do quotidiano mediático. Ao poder das imagens que elege – imagens simples, directas, impressivas e retinianas, cuja génese figurativa é re-equacionada de modo abstractizante – Rui Serra acrescenta títulos que são paráfrases de obras do nosso passado artístico-cultural. O próprio título da exposição é a citação de uma parábola bíblica."

Seascape

Elizabeth Bishop: Seascape

This celestial seascape, with white herons got up as angels,
flying high as they want and as far as they want sidewise
in tiers and tiers of immaculate reflections;
the whole region, from the highest heron
down to the weightless mangrove island
with bright green leaves edged neatly with bird-droppings
like illumination in silver,
and down to the suggestively Gothic arches of the mangrove roots
and the beautiful pea-green back-pasture
where occasionally a fish jumps, like a wildflower
in an ornamental spray of spray;
this cartoon by Raphael for a tapestry for a Pope:
it does look like heaven.
But a skeletal lighthouse standing there
in black and white clerical dress,
who lives on his nerves, thinks he knows better.
He thinks that hell rages below his iron feet,
that that is why the shallow water is so warm,
and he knows that heaven is not like this.
Heaven is not like flying or swimming,
but has something to do with blackness and a strong glare
and when it gets dark he will remember something
strongly worded to say on the subject.

Pentecostes

celebremos a ceifa (feeling down to earth, today)

Dark places

Look for dark humid places, where light comes indirectly, there you can grow, silently grow.

Verão

contigo os frutos estão sempre maduros e o ar é limpo e leve

come

come to me in silence

wise cat

visto numa parede de Lisboa

orchard in spring

Ask Me No More, 1906, Lawrence Alma-Tadema

"The lord of beauty enters the soul
as a man walks into an orchard in spring."
Rumi seen on Rumi days

being free

O telefone toca. Um génio da ciência é informado de que a sua pesquisa rendeu um prémio de 1 milhão de dólares. Calmamente, ele recusa o dinheiro, desliga o aparelho e sai para colher cogumelos.

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