July 2009
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Jul 31st
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Jul 31st
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“All joy has come from people giving to others. All misery has come from people...”
Jul 25th
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Jul 24th
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Jul 24th
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Jul 24th
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Perspective
“Pleasure need not be less keen because there will be centuries of springs to come, their blossom unseen by human eyes, the walls will crumble, the trees die and rot, the gardens revert to weeds and grass, because all beauty will outlive the human intelligence which records, enjoys and celebrates it.” The Children of Men by P.D. James emphasis and source Tyler Knott : :...
Jul 22nd
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“Obviously, you can’t say something is beautiful if you’re not...”
– As Susan Sontag points out in her essay An Argument About Beauty - beauty has come to be equated to haughtiness.  Caring about aesthetics is essentially out of vogue and something to deride.  Contemporary consumer architecture and aesthetics is the definitive statement that the vast majority of...
Jul 21st
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Jul 17th
Sonic Youth the Meme
A day ago I posted a picture of Gerhard Richter’s painting Zwei Candles (see previous post).  I re-familiarized myself with his work at the new Modern wing of the Chicago Art Institute and was struck by his light-diffused photorealism.  To my surprise the post turned out to be very popular - much more so than the other portrait entered on the same day, Richter’s beautiful Lesende. ...
Jul 16th
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Jul 14th
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Jul 14th
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Jul 12th
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Rain
Last weekend I was mowing the lawn on my parent’s farm with my father. He was on a small tractor pulling a rear finish mower. I was using a push mower. The clouds rolled in gradually, almost unknowingly. The sky in the hilly river valley along the Illinois river is not that large, so troublesome clouds in the distance are often obscured. My sweat was washed away by drops of water from...
Jul 9th
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“Black-noise phenomena govern natural and unnatural catastrophes like floods,...”
– Manfred Schroeder Fractals, Chaos, Power Laws For those wondering about coincidence and serendipity….
Jul 5th
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WatchWatch
Puddles of water drift by like rain clouds as drops of water fall and create rings in the atmosphere. [Cellphone video] [Bach’s Fugue in B Flat Minor from the Well-Tempered Clavier Book 2.  Performed by Sviatoslav Richter]
Jul 3rd
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Jul 3rd