Inspiration

Contemplation of the actions
of others always seems to inspire and
provoke thought.

You get Silent the Smarter you get, or so it seems...

Relics

"A rich indetermination gives them, by means of semantic rarefaction, the function of articulating a second, poetic geography on top of the geography of the literal, forbidden or permitted meaning. They insinuate other routes into the functionalist and historical order of movement. Walking follows them: “I fill this great empty space with a beautiful name.” People are put in motion by the remaining relics of meaning, and sometimes by their waste products, the inverted remainders of great ambitions. Things that amount to nothing, or almost nothing, sym-bolize and orient walkers’ steps: name that have ceased precisely to be “proper”."

Quote By
MICHAEL DE CERTEAU

'Walking In the City'

Painting By
ERIKA SOMOGYI

The Third And The Seventh

The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.

' A piece that tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view where main subjects are already-built spaces. Sometimes in an abstract way. Sometimes surreal.'

Crossing the boarders of what is real and what is unreal, a truly amazing video.

Video By
ALEX ROMAN

Eyes

'The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.'

Quote By
MARCEL PROUST

Salmon with Lemon Leek Sauce

'Easy, healthy, and good. I kind of just made this up as I went along, so I don't have very precise measurements, but I'll do the best I can.'


Ingredients:
2 fresh salmon fillets
Juice & zest of 1 lemon
about half a cup of low sodium chicken stock
1 big leek or 2 small ones, sliced
Half and half
salt and pepper to taste
olive oil

1. Season salmon with salt & pepper. Heat a tablespoon of olive oil in a pan over medium-high heat. Add salmon and cook through, about 3-5 minutes per side. Set aside on a plate and cover with foil to keep warm.
2. Heat a little more oil, if needed, in the pan. Add leeks and lemon zest and cook until softened, about 5 minutes.
3. Add stock and scrape any bits on the bottom of the pan, bring to a simmer, and reduce by about half, until it's thickened.
4. Add half and half and lemon juice, to taste, and cook until thickened a little more. Season to taste, but be careful with the salt, since the reduced stock may have added enough salt on it's own. Spoon over salmon.

Oven Baked Potato Chips
1-2 baking potatoes, sliced thinly into chips
Olive oil
Paprika
Dash of cayenne pepper
about a teaspoon of orregano
Garlic Powder

1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
2. Spray a baking sheet with cooking spray
3. Combine all ingredients in a bowl, adding enough olive oil to coat the potatoes and toss. Arrange on baking sheet in a single layer.
4. Bake for about 20 minutes, until golden and crispy. Be sure to watch for slices that cook faster than others and remove so as not to burn.
4. Serve with dipping sauce of choice. I made one with mayo, horseradish, a little mustard, salt, pepper, and some spices. Sounds weird, but it's good I promise.

For the spinach, I just sauteed it with some garlic and red pepper flakes, and added in some cannellini beans.

Enjoy!!! Yummy yum yummmm!!!

Receipe by
JESSICA VERDERAME

Beauty Mark

I've got a beauty mark
written on my skin
close to my heart
my favourite part
my beauty mark

i keep it out of sight
safe from the world outside
this old battle scar
this secret part
my beauty mark

this little death
this mark of sin
forever printed on my skin

i'll keep it for you

this hidden place
this private part
this secret door into my heart

i'll keep it for you

this precious jewel
this darling bud
this tiny resevoir of blood

my beauty mark
i'll keep it for you

Cons

Somethings never change

'Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only consistent people are dead.'

Sometimes some people just disappear

tra-vəl

Quote By
ALDOUS HUXLEY

The Vanity Of Compassion

'How can one still have ideals when there are so many blind, deaf, and mad people in the world? How can I remorsely enjoy the light another cannot see or the sound another cannot hear? I feel like a thief of light. Have we not stolen light from the blind and sound from the deaf? Isn't our very lucidity responsible for the madman's darkness? When I think about such things, I lose all courage and will, thoughts seem useless, and compassion, vain. For I do not feel mediocre enough to feel compassion for anyone. Compassion is a sign of superficiality: broken destinies and unrelenting misery either make you scream or turn you to stone. Pity is not only inefficient; it is also insulting. And besides, how can you pity another when you yourself suffer ignominiously? Compassion is as common as it is because it does not bind you to anything! 'Nobody in this world has yet died from another's suffering.' And the one who said that he died for us did not die; he was killed.'

Quote by

E.M. CIORAN

What Else Is There?

It was me on that road
But you couldn't see me
Too many lights out, but nowhere near here

It was me on that road
Still you couldn't see me
And then flashlights and explosions

Roads end getting nearer
We cover distance but not together

I am the storm I am the wonder
And the flashlights nightmares
And sudden explosions

I don't know what more to ask for
I was given just one wish

It's about you and the sun
A morning run
The story of my maker
What I have and what I ache for

I've got a golden ear
I cut and I spear
And what else is there

Roads and getting nearer
We cover distance still not together

If I am the storm if I am the wonder
Will I have a flashlights nightmares
And sudden explosions

There's no room where I can go and
You've got secrets too

I don't know what more to ask for
I was given just one wish

Modern Life by JEKS

POISON - IKWN / Jaakko Eino Kalevi from miikka lommi on Vimeo.

"Modern Life" by JEKS out on March 10, 2010!!!

Music by:
JAAKKO EINO KALEVI

The Color Red

Red means “Beautiful” in Russian..

Seeing the color red can make your heart beat faster.

There are at least 23 different shades of red crayons.

The color red doesn’t really make bulls angry, they’re color blind.



The word “ruby” comes from the Latin word rubens, meaning “Red”.

The red stripes on the United States flag stands for courage.

As few as 2 percent of people in the United States have red hair.

Chinese brides traditionally wear red wedding dresses for good luck.



Red symbolizes speed, sexuality, and style; it’s the color of love and romance.

It can often give conflicting messages. It’s STOP when used on a street light, but GO when worn as lipstick (unless, of course, you prefer 'au naturale').

Fashion experts always recommend at least a splash of red when dressing for a job interview or any other important meeting.



Red symbolizes power.

Red cars are popular targets for thieves.

In home design, red is rarely used as a base color but often as highlights or accents.



Red may cause restlessness and insomnia if used in a bedroom, but it is considered appropriate for exercise, play rooms, or to increase appetite.

When the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia they used a red flag as their emblem and ever since red has been considered the color of communism.

In the Ebers Papyrus, said to be the oldest complete book in existence, 1550 B.C., the color red was used for chapter headings, names of diseases, and, weights and drug dosages.



The Egyptians considered themselves the “Red” race and applied red dye for emphasis.

In India red is the symbol of the soldier. For the Hopi it represents the direction south.



In England there was a law that prevented the color red to be worn by just anyone. The color gave out information about the status of the man or woman wearing it. This was not just dictated by the wealth of the person, it also reflected their social standing. The meaning of colors during the Elizabethan era represented many aspects of their life - the social, religious, biblical and Christian symbolism was reflected in the color of their clothes.

Though, people who were allowed to wear the color red (crimson or scarlet) during the Elizabethan era, as decreed by the English Sumptuary Laws, were only worn by the highest nobility in the land.

"The Swan" (Saint-Saëns)

The theremin, originally known as the aetherphone / etherophone or termenvox / thereminvox is an early electronic musical instrument controlled without contact from the player. It is named after its Russian inventor, Professor Léon Theremin, who patented the device in 1928. The controlling section usually consists of two metal antennas which sense the position of the player's hands and control oscillators for frequency with one hand, and amplitude (volume) with the other. The electric signals from the theremin are amplified and sent to a loudspeaker.

The theremin is associated with an eerie sound, which has led to its use in movie soundtracks such as those in Spellbound, The Lost Weekend, and The Day the Earth Stood Still. Theremins are also used in art music (especially avant-garde and 20th- and 21st-century new music). Since the release of the film- Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey in 1994, the instrument has enjoyed a resurgence in interest and has become more widely used by contemporary musicians. Even though many theremin sounds can be approximated on many modern synthesizers, some musicians continue to appreciate the expressiveness, novelty and uniqueness of using an actual theremin.

Until The Light Takes Us

Until The Light Takes Us
A Film Directed By AARON AITES and AUDREY EWELL



Until The Light Takes Us tells the story of black metal.
Part music scene and part cultural uprising, black metal rose to worldwide notoriety in the mid-nineties when a rash of suicides, murders, and church burnings accompanied the explosive artistic growth and output of a music scene that would forever redefine what heavy metal is and what it stands for to other musicians, artists and music fans world-wide. Until The Light Takes Us goes behind the highly sensationalized media reports of "Satanists running amok in Europe" to examine the complex and largely misunderstood principles and beliefs that led to this rebellion against both Christianity and modern culture.

To capture this on film, directors Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell moved to Norway and lived with the musicians for several years, building relationships that allowed them to create a surprisingly intimate portrait of this violent, but ultimately misunderstood, movement. The result is a poignant, moving story that’s as much about the idea that reality is composed of whatever the most people believe, regardless of what’s actually true, as it is about a music scene that blazed a path of murder and arson across the northern sky.

Marble House

Each note threw my every cell........

I cut your nails and comb your hair
I carry you down the stairs
I wanted to see right through from the other side
I wanted to walk a trail with no end in sight

The moment we believe that we have never met
Another kind of love it's easy to forget
When we are all alone then we do both agree
We have a thing in common this was meant to be

You close my eyes and soothe my ears
You heal my wounds and dry my tears
On the inside of this marble house I grow
And the seeds I sow will grow up prisoners too

The moment we believe that we have never met
Another kind of love it's easy to forget
When we are all alone then we do both agree
We have a thing in common this was meant to be

Now where's your shoulder
What is it's name
What's your scent
Say it again
If it goes faster can you still follow me
It must be safe when it's on TV

I raise my hands to heaven of curiosity
I don't know what to ask for
What has it got for me?
The others say we're hiding
It's as forward as can be
Some things I do for money
Some things I do for free

Dream of Wild Horses

Failure

"Failure is not falling, just refusing to get up."

Chinese proverb.

"Falling August" by Michael Zavros

Black

"Black is modest but arrogant at the same time."

" Black is lazy and easy - but mysterious. It means that many things go together , yet it takes different aspects in many fabrics. You need to have black to have a silhouette. Black can swallow light, or make things look sharp. But above all black says this - 'I don´t bother you - don´t bother me'."

BLACK

Quote By YOHJI YAMAMOTO


Black is the colour of objects that do not emit or reflect light in any part of the visible spectrum; they absorb all such frequencies of light. Although black is sometimes described as an "achromatic", or hueless, color, in practice it can be considered a color.

Darkness, secrecy, and mystery; death, rebellion, elegance, silence and concealment, non-conformity, individuality.

Are you thinking?

"Thinking is more interesting than knowing,
but less interesting than looking"

GOETHE

THINK for Fuck's Sake

Thorne Birds

"There's a story... a legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life. From the moment it leaves its nest, it searches for a thorn tree... and never rests until it's found one. And then it sings... more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. And singing, it impales itself on the longest, sharpest thorn. But, as it dies, it rises above its own agony, to outsing the lark and the nightingale. The thorn bird pays its life for just one song, but the whole world stills to listen, and God in his heaven smiles."

1983

Quote From THE THORNE BIRDS

Simplicity

There is something about how simplistic and tranquil Olaf Otto Becker's photographs are, they evoke that feeling of peace that everyone strives to see or be surrounded by in their lives. The Greenland light (where the majority of his photos are taken) is the ideal setting for this minimal heartfelt feeling, helping Olaf to capture every slight movement and crevice that the rugged landscape offered up to him. No doubt as Becker floated around in his rubber dingy, as this was the safest way to navigate the drift ice, felt this feeling of being at 'one' with the ever-changing ice and rock landsape.

Everytime I look at his images I cannot help but wish that I could one day see such marvels of the natural world, before they disappear; if experts on the subject are to be believed. I would cherish the solidarity every second, moving from place to place without seeing a single person for days and living in the 23hr sunlight admiring what is soon to be nonexistent.



"I always ask myself what I essentially see, right there, right then. I try to understand what I see. I look for something that speaks by itself without captions. I try to let the landscape speak. I am not interested in things I have already seen. I try to look at something as though my eyes had opened for the first time and I try to understand what I see."



Quote And Photographs By OLAF OTTO BECKER