univers du western - brokeback mountain

ang lee - brokeback mountain - 2005

cinematography by rodrigo prieto *
(21 grams, amores perros)

screenplay - larry mcmurtry and diana ossana
music - gustavo santaolalla + willie nelson - he was a friend of mine (bob dylan)

with:
heath ledger
jake gyllenhaal
randy quaid

(number 7 of 500 detailing westerns)

the walls are excellent & high & upon an horizontal line

in 1795, when shirley, massachusettes, was a community of 200 shakers living on three thousand acres, an outside observer recorded, "the walls are excellent & high & upon an horizontal line, & as straight as they can be laid."

inspired by visionary experiences, the gift drawings bridge the heavenly and the earthly spheres.
...imaging heaven as a perfectly balanced array of circles, squares, and rectangles that signified walls, architectural structures, and roads (cat. 38). others depicted delicately rendered trees, fruits, flowers, and other natural forms, as well as shaker meeting houses, chairs, tables, clocks, chains, necklaces, and other human-made structures and objects, rendered more decorative than those common in daily life on earth. other gift drawings are replete with esoteric symbols, including masonic symbols such as the all-seeing eye and checkerboard patterns. gift drawings are also typically distinguished by their precise graphic quality, which links words elegantly written in upright, noble scripts with their delicately rendered visual counterparts as unified elements of thoroughly structured designs. portraying heaven as an idealized image of the earth, the gift drawings exemplified the shakers' view of their community...

images & text from shaker gift drawings and gift songs, the drawing center, ucla hammer, & university of minnesota press, 2001

view titles of images here ***

another fine book to consider:
shaker design, whitney norton - whitney museum of american art, 1986

fuck

(listening to, new and old)

- asher (some works)
- bass communion - ghosts on magnetic tape - headphone dust - 2004
- eugene carchesio & leighton craig - leaves - naturestrip - 2006
- loren chasse - the air in the sand - naturestrip - 2005
- jonathan coleclough (works)
- yannick dauby (works)
- miles davis - the miles davis quintet, 1965-68: the complete columbia studio
- miles davis - the complete on the corner sessions - especially rated x
- miles davis - the complete in a silent way sessions
- stuart dempster - underground overlays from the cistern chapel - new albion - 1995
- lawrence english - kiri no oto - touch - 2008
- fennesz - transition - touch - 2008
- fennesz – jeck – matthews - amoroso - touch - 2008
- jim haynes - eraldus / eravaldus - elevator bath - 2008
- koen holtkamp - make haste/free birds - a room forever - 2008
- arsenije jovanović - galiola, works for radio 1967-2000 - fo a rm projects / and/oar records / alluvial recordings - 2008
- jason kahn - plurabelle - cut - 2001
- thomas köner (works)
- machinefabriek & matt davies - onkruid - a room forever - 2008
- machinefabriek - marijn - lampse - 2006
- miya masaoka - for birds, planes and cellos - solitary b - 2005
- stephan mathieu - radioland - die schachtel - 2008
- oh, birds! (some works)
- moljebka pvlse - sadalsuud - some place else - 2007
- ernst reijseger (some works)
- claudio rocchetti - another piece of teenage wildlife - die schachtel - 2008
- rick reed - dreamz / blue polz - elevator bath - 2008
- steve roden - sunrise - 2008
- steve roden - archival footage 1993-1998 - anomalous records - 1999
- colin andrew sheffield - in between - elevator bath - 2001
- colin andrew sheffield - side one / side two - elevator bath - 1998
- colin andrew sheffield - spring (time) / the bridge - elevator bath
- colin andrew sheffield/rippie - variations - elevator bath - 2001
- john tilbury & eddie prévost - discrete moments - matchless - 2004
- chris watson - oceanus pacificus - touch - 2007
- spire live - fundamentalis - touch - 2008 (jeck, matthews, davidson, nilsen, fennesz)

(photos - the mysteries of the invisible birds, by one m. swiezynski)

a bit like a music of music boxes; stemlets and flowerets

images from the making of the pré by francis ponge
university of missouri press - 1979
translated by lee fahnestock

image 1 - from book jacket
from three prints of grasses - buc'hoz
image 2 & 3 - a bit like a music of music boxes; stemlets and flowerets - harpsichord cadenza - johann sebastian bach
image 4 - 13 july evening (night of 13 to 14) 3
image 5 - first typing, 19 january 1961
image 6 - like the neck of the beauty with the necklace - "the hunt of the unicorn"

the making of the pré may best be described as a poetic manuscript in which francis ponge develops his poem le pré (the meadow).
- from the jacket

(discovered in the library of the printer and book designer jack stauffacher)
((more to come as i spend more time with this book))

le silence au fond de l’abîme

classic drone (number 2):

the work of thomas köner

(discography)

- *untitled - die stadt - 2007
(ds104, john duncan / kontakt der jünglinge / c.m. von hausswolff, includes track montreal solution 1 as kontakt der junglinge, thomas köner & asmus tietchens)

- nuuk - mille plateaux - 2004 (cd+dvd)
(originally released by big cat as part of driftworks in 1997)
(includes roland kentrup & roland spekle - gongs)

- *untitled - die stadt - 2004
(ds75, z'ev / thomas köner & ulrich krieger, inludes track zerfall_gebiete by köner)

- *frühruin - die stadt - 2004
(ds69, as kontakt der junglinge, a box to hold all four parts of the series 1, 0, -1, n plus a mini cd featuring studio material by köner and tietchens)

- *kontakt der junglinge plays the hafler trio - die stadt - 2003
(ds59, first 200 copies of the hafler trio / ditterich von euler-donnersperg »untitled« 7 inch included bonus 7 inch, a reworking of the h3o water (episode 2) track by thomas köner and one by asmus tietchens)

- e - die stadt - 2004
(as kontakt der junglinge, thomas köner & asmus tietchens)

- n: amsterdam stedelijk museum 18.5.2002 - die stadt - 2003
(as kontakt der junglinge, thomas köner & asmus tietchens)

- zyklop - mille plateaux - 2003

- untitled - die stadt - 2003
(includes track intro / col de vence by köner)

- -1: bremen , lagerhaus 28.4.2001 - die stadt - 2003
(as kontakt der junglinge, thomas köner & asmus tietchens)

- daikan - mille plateaux - 2002

- unerforschtes gebiet - die stadt - 2002 (lp)
(cd released 2003)

- 0: rostock, ms ,,stubnitz 10.2.2001 - die stadt - 2002
(as kontakt der junglinge, thomas köner & asmus tietchens)

- *untitled - die stadt - 2002
(includes track zud by köner)

- 1: bremen, lagerhaus 17.12.1999 - die stadt - 2001
(as kontakt der junglinge, thomas köner & asmus tietchens)

- kaamos - mille plateaux - 1998

- the köner experiment - space age - 1997
(released as experimental audio research, including sonic boom, eddie prevost, kevin shields, thomas köner and others)

- aubrite - barooni - 1996

- night passage demixed - dorobo - 1996
(includes kyros - alan lamb remix)

- permafrost - barooni - 1994

- teimo - barooni - 1993

- nunatuk gongamur - barooni - 1992


* have not heard
images by thomas köner

no. 406296

il disegno del primo brevetto del ferrocemento
image from pier luigi nervi:
dai primi brevetti al palazzo delle esposizioni di torino 1917-1948
quart verlag - 2008

paris et le daguerréotype

classic books (number 5):

paris et le daguerréotype - paris musées - 1989

la seine, le quai des orfèvres et notre-dame
anonyme - vers 1840-1843

fontaine, place de la concorde
anonyme - vers 1845

toits de paris
jean bernard leon foucault - vers 1844

invisible birds (tiny feet extending)

what birds plunge through is not the intimate space in which you see all forms intensified. (out in the open, you would be denied your self, would disappear into that vastness.)
space reaches from us and construes the world: to know a tree, in its true element, throw inner space around it, from that pure abundance in you. surround it with restraint. it has no limits. not till it is held in your renouncing is it truly there.

rainer maria rilke - uncollected poems, 1922-1926 - translated by stephen mitchell
page 173

25 great circles

images from buckminster fuller: starting with the universe -
yale university press/whitney museum of american art - 2008
(25 great circles & 2 geodesic drawings from the 1960s)

an interval of time

from christian norberg-schultz - intentions in architecture - mit press - 1965

univers du western - there will be blood - the influence of marfa on cinema, part 2

landscape images from
paul thomas anderson - there will be blood - 2007
cinematography by robert elswit

(number 6 of 500 detailing westerns)

an ornament of radiating petals

images from encyclopédie des formes fruitières, "les modes de conduite": un métier, un art, une passion by jacques beccaletto - écoles nationale supérieure du paysage/actes sud - 2001

(that resemble the leaflets of a palm - palmette)