Archive for Art, Music & Poetry

A Thought for 2009

// January 1st, 2009 // No Comments » // Art, Music & Poetry

The mystery does not get clearer by repeating the question,
nor is it bought with going to amazing places.
Until you’ve kept your eyes
and your wanting still for fifty years,
you don’t begin to cross over from confusion. 
- Rumi (مولانا جلال الدین محمد رومی)

Portraits of Stillness

// December 1st, 2008 // No Comments » // Art, Music & Poetry

Turkish photographer, Nilgun Kara, captures simple portraits of stillness in this elegant selection.

Pathétique and Peanuts

// November 27th, 2008 // No Comments » // Art, Music & Poetry

Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor- “Pathétique”
- animated in the film “Snoopy, Come Home”.

Barack seeks the Stillness

// October 13th, 2008 // No Comments » // Art, Music & Poetry, World Issues

(Obama minutes before the first Presidential debate)
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith
but the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought:
So the darkness shall be the light and the stillness, the dancing.

T.S. Eliot, East Coker, No.2 of ‘Four Quartets

It is as was Prophesied

// October 12th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Art, Music & Poetry


In the post-apocalyptic underwater society, young maidens will dance suggestively with our tiger overlords. telegraph.co.uk

Sufjan Stevens

// September 24th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Art, Music & Poetry

I just discovered Sufjan Stevens- an American folk artist whose deeply enchanting voice tempts the ear, but whose work cuts deeply through the empty gloss of the balladic singer-songwriter. He sings folk about Jesus, about serial killers, about UFOs and cancer and Chicago, about US representatives to the United Nations and allusions of some Rock River Valley. I think I’m about three years behind the indie kids on this one, but it’s way too beautiful to be too cool. Below are a couple of tracks that are at once gorgeously light and seriously heavy.

The Wolf

// August 27th, 2008 // No Comments » // Art, Music & Poetry

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Skate Beauty at 120 FPS

// August 20th, 2008 // No Comments » // Art, Music & Poetry

A~$20K RED camera captures the pretty.
Features “It’s Alright” by Barði Jóhannsson, an Icelander known as “Bang Gang”.

Get Your War On: The Watch List

// August 1st, 2008 // No Comments » // Art, Music & Poetry, World Issues

“This is it. The highly anticipated premiere of Get Your War On, the new animated series from 23/6, based on the popular comic by David Rees.”