the series eye - intense religious emotion

i believe i suffered more than christ. i love life and i want to live, to cry but cannot - i feel such a pain in my soul - a pain which frightens me. my soul is ill. my soul, not my mind. the doctors do not understand my illness... everybody who reads these lines will suffer... my body is not ill, it is my soul that is ill. (from nijinsky's diary - published 1937)

my little girl is singing: 'ah ah ah ah.' i do not understand its meaning, but i feel what she wants to say. she wants to say that everything... is not horror, but joy (from nijinsky's diary)

the outsider's problem is to balance this against van gogh's last words: misery will never end. it is a question no longer of philosophy, but of religion. (colin wilson)

when the voice was heard in the silence i felt my body harden and the nausea vanish; suddenly it was almost unbearable to become so hard, so brilliant... i am in the music. globes of fire turn in the mirrors, encircled by rings of smoke. (from jean-paul satre's la nausée - 1938)

all quotes found in colin wilson's the outsider - 1956
drawings by nijinsky

breugel in film - you yellow dog

you yellow dog
you yellow dog
you yellow dog
you yellow dog
(etcetera)

not a great film, but can't remember the last time i laughed so hard as when watching 1 hour and 2 minutes into mark robson's the harder they fall (1956), with angry breugelian women yelling at corrupt boxer, also of interest - the presence of val avery

g675

a nostrovia to one of the finest - mr. hopper *

- rebel without a cause - 1955
- giant - 1956
- gunfight at the o.k. corral - 1957
- night tide - 1961
- cool hand luke - 1967
- hang 'em high - 1968
- easy rider - 1969
- der amerikanische freund - 1977
- apocalypse now - 1979
- rumble rish - 1983
- blue velvet - 1986
- colors - 1988
- true romance - 1993
- basquiat - 1996

(and many others)

le fleuve

jean renoir - the river - 1951
cinematography - claude renoir (technicolor)
camera operator - ramananda sen gupta
assistant director - satyajit ray (1 of 4)

"renoir had come to calcutta to scout locations for the river. (satyajit) ray walked into the hotel where renoir was staying and sought a meeting. soon ray was accompanying renoir on his trips in search of locations to outskirts of calcutta during the weekends.

seeing his enthusiasm and knowledge about cinema, renoir asked him if he was thinking of becoming a filmmaker. to his own surprise, ray said yes and gave renoir a brief outline of pather panchali, which he had recently illustrated" 1949 encounter *

lethe catastrophe point forthcoming

forthcoming invisible birds recording near completion
lethe / catastrophe point #7 & #8
letterpress printing - ben owen at middle press

a petal falls. an instant. an age. visionary and everyday

(some books for summer reading)

- carter e. forster - edward hopper - skira - 2009
exhibition catalogue for show in milano, roma, lausanne

- hiroshi sugimoto: nature of light - izu photo museum - 2010
exhibition catalogue for show at the izu photo museum in shizuoka

- john cage - zen ox-herding pictures - george braziller - 2009

- athanasius kircher - athanasius kircher's theatre of the world: the life and work of the last man to search for universal knowledge - inner tradition - 2009

- francois le lionnais - the orion book of time - the orion press - 1959/1960
title from this book - haiku by basho

- donald judd: architecture - hatje cantz - 1991/200
- donald judd: architecture in marfa, texas - birkhauser - 2007
had these around at work and never found it necessary to buy until they went op
another coming out soon on chinati buildings by marianne stockebrand

- roberto schezen (photography) - adolf loos: architecture 1903-1932 - the monacelli press - 1996/2009
(wagner - olbrich - plecnik - hoffmann - loos - wittgenstein - good architects for fine young citizens)

- yukio futagawa (photography) - wooden houses in europe - a.d.a. edita - 1978/1991

- bram stoker - dracula (1897) - everyman's library - 2010

- h.g. wells - the man that could work miracles: the supernatural tales of h.g. wells - tartarus press - 2006

- george eliot - the mill on the floss (1860) - everyman's library - 1908/1992

- j.l. carr - a month in the country (1980) - nyrb - 2000

- italo calvino - fantastic tales: visionary and everyday - random house - 1983/1997

- tarjei vesaas - the boat in the evening (1968) - peter owen modern classics - 2003

- leo tolstoy - the death of ivan ilyich & other stories - alfred a. knopf - 2009
includes the forged coupon, aka, l'argent

- joseph sheridan le fanu - uncle silas (1864) - penguin books - 2000
- joseph sheridan le fanu - best ghost stories of j.s. le fanu - dover publications - 1964

- the haunted looking glass: ghost stories chosen by edward gorey - new york review books - 1959/2001

- three gothic novels: the castle of otranto by horace walpole, vathek by william beckford, the vampyre by john polidori and a fragment of a novel by lord byron - dover publications - 1966

- m.r. james - count mangus and other ghost stories - penguin books - 2005
- m.r. james - the haunted dolls house and other ghost stories - penguin books - 2006

- lord dunsany - in the land of time and other fantasy tales - penguin books - 2004

- cornell woolrich - the black angel (1943) - pegasus books - 2008

- w.f. harvey - the beast with five fingers (1928) - wordsworth editions - 2009

- fredric brown - here comes a candle (1950) - millipede press - 2006

- patricia highsmith - the selected stories of patricia highsmith - norton - 2001

- heinrich von kleist - selected prose of heinrich von kleist - archipelago books - 2009

- larry mcmurtry - dead man's walk - simon & schuster - 1995/2004
- larry mcmurtry - comanche moon - simon & schuster - 1997/2003

- robert walser - the microscripts - new directions - 2010
forthcoming

- h.g. wells - the time machine, the invisible man, the war of the worlds - everyman's library - 2010
forthcoming - read the second 2 last year, truly overwhelming, esp. the war of the worlds
slept with the lights on for a month - also of interest: daphne du maurier's the birds

(thanks to the wool and elevator libraries for many of the novels)

invisible in motion photography

eadweard muybridge - sequenced image of a rotating sulky wheel with muybridge climbing steps - ca. 1887

steven pippin - laundromat - locomotion - walking without trousers - man no. l1999.322 - 1999

image one - found in helios: eadweard muybridge in a time of change - steidl - 2010
coming to the sfmoma
image two - thinking back to pippin's show at the sfmoma some years ago
(muybridge invented the washing machine?)

trains in cinema, part 7

- chantal akerman - jeanne dielman, 23 quai du commerce, 1080 bruxelles - 1975



- chantal akerman - news from home - 1977




- yong-kyun bae - why has bodhi-dharma left for the east? - 1989




- frank borzage - a farewell to arms - 1932



- clarence brown - anna karenina - 1935





- marcel carné - thérèse raquin - 1953








- noel coward & david lean - in which we serve - 1942



- terence davies - of time and the city - 2008










- john ford - the world moves on - 1934



- john ford - wee willie winkie - 1937




- henry hathaway - kiss of death - 1947




- howard hawks - i was a male war bride - 1949




- alfred hitchcock - north by northwest - 1959



- james ivory - a room with a view - 1985




- jim jarmusch - broken flowers - 2005



- phil karlson (sam fuller novel) - scandal sheet - 1952

(mirror - clické to make her big, the image/train that is)

- masaki kobayashi - the human condition - 1959-1961




- alexander mackendrick - the ladykillers - 1955





- jean-pierre melville - le cercle rouge - 1970






- michael powell & emeric pressburger - a canterbury tale - 1944






- michael powell & emeric pressburger - i know where i'm going - 1945




- karel reisz - saturday night and sunday morning - 1960




- william a. seiter - if you could only cook - 1935



- jim sheridan - the boxer - 1997



- douglas sirk (sam fuller writer) - shockproof - 1949




- vilgot sjöman - ingmar bergman makes a movie - 1963



- george stevens - giant - 1956



- andrzej wajda - katyn - 2007



- billy wilder - the major and the minor - 1942






related:

- 1 - primer
- woyzeck - being number 2
- 3
- swiezynski/fludd
- bresson/fuller/melville
- 4
- night passage
- high and low
- 5
- 6
- make way for tomorrow
- les rendez-vous d'anna
- the narrow margin