Things that Quicken the Heart

Circles - Mandalas - Radial Symmetry XI (Heavenly Bodies)

noreply@blogger.com (Sofie (thingsthatquickentheheart)) — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 11:55:00 +0000

behold this fool who, in the month of June,
having of certain stars and planets heard,
rose very slowly in a tight balloon
until the smallening world became absurd

E. E. Cummings

Europa

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Black & White - Beautiful Decay

noreply@blogger.com (Sofie (thingsthatquickentheheart)) — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 09:16:00 +0000

Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood,
But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.

William Butler Yeats

Keith Carter, Hummingbirds, 1989
(more Keith Carter)

Warning:
This post contains pictures of dead people and/or animals which some viewers may find disturbing

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Animals in Art - Martin Usborne

noreply@blogger.com (Sofie (thingsthatquickentheheart)) — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:13:00 +0000

the difference in mind between man and the higher animals,
great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind

Darwin

Buzz, from the series The Silence of Dogs in Cars

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Movie Moments - Derek Jarman, Marianne Faithful, 1979

noreply@blogger.com (Sofie (thingsthatquickentheheart)) — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 10:57:00 +0000

At the age of thirty-seven she realised she'd never
Ride through Paris in a sports car with the warm wind in her hair.
So she let the phone keep ringing and she sat there softly singing
Little nursery rhymes she'd memorised in her daddy's easy chair.

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skin - hair - fur - feathers II

noreply@blogger.com (Sofie (thingsthatquickentheheart)) — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 11:26:00 +0000

Natural objects, for example, must be experienced
before any theorizing about them can occur

Edmund Husserl

Vija Celmins, House #1

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Visible - Invisible V

noreply@blogger.com (Sofie (thingsthatquickentheheart)) — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 11:22:00 +0000

Art does not reproduce the visible, it makes visible

Paul Klee

Agnes Martin, Untitled #9, 2003
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Time Lapse - Karst Country

noreply@blogger.com (Sofie (thingsthatquickentheheart)) — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:00:00 +0000

Easy to know that diamonds are precious
good to learn that rubies have depth
but more to see that pebbles are miraculous

Josef Albers

I haven't posted a time lapse video for a while - until this one caught my eye.

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Animals in Art - Early Photographs

noreply@blogger.com (Sofie (thingsthatquickentheheart)) — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 14:30:00 +0000

I stumbled across this mysterious daguerreotype of a bird from 1851.
It is one of the first photographic images taken of an animal...

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Animals in Art - Yamamoto Masao

noreply@blogger.com (Sofie (thingsthatquickentheheart)) — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 03:00:00 +0000

I photograph to capture existing phenomena.
Thinking about this day by day, the mountain ceases to be a mountain,
the cloud is no cloud, things left behind are not left behind. . .
maybe I begin to see what only I can see.

Yamamoto Masao

#1315, 2005

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Black & White - Masks, Rites and Transformations III

noreply@blogger.com (Sofie (thingsthatquickentheheart)) — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 17:54:00 +0000

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another

William Shakespeare.

Elliot Erwitt, Kent, England, 1968

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Joseph Cornell - Rorschach Drawings

noreply@blogger.com (Sofie (thingsthatquickentheheart)) — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:11:00 +0000

The world is a harmless enigma made terrible by our own mad attempt
to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth

Umberto Eco

"They Say the Owl is a Baker's Daughter" Ophelia, 1971

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Movie Moments - Talking Heads, 1980

noreply@blogger.com (Sofie (thingsthatquickentheheart)) — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 10:22:00 +0000

We feel that even when all possible scientific questions have been answered,
the problems of life remain completely untouched.
Of course there are then no questions left,
and this itself is the answer.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Krzysztof Kieślowski - Talking Heads (Gadające głowy), 1980

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Black & White - Shadows

noreply@blogger.com (Sofie (thingsthatquickentheheart)) — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 23:00:00 +0000

To confront a person with his shadow is to show him his own light

C.G. Jung

Lee Friedlander, New York City, 1966

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Sunday Favorites - The Pulse of Nature

noreply@blogger.com (Sofie (thingsthatquickentheheart)) — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 12:52:00 +0000

In short I am convinced it is a most
ridiculous thing to go round the world,
when by staying quietly, the world
will go round with you

Charles Darwin

Yunfun Tan

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Animals in Art - Levi Fisher Ames

noreply@blogger.com (Sofie (thingsthatquickentheheart)) — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:52:00 +0000

Nothing is more beautiful than to know all.

Athanasius Kircher

Wood carver Levi Fisher Ames (1840-1923) was originally a carpenter when he began working on his menagerie of small wooden animal figures, some of which were based on real animals, some were purely imaginary. Ames created a very personal cabinet of curiosities: several hundred fabulous creatures housed in glassfronted shadowboxes, completed with hand written labels.

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Circles - Mandalas - Radial Symmetry X

noreply@blogger.com (Sofie (thingsthatquickentheheart)) — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 12:23:00 +0000

The ideas need not be complex. Most ideas that are successful
are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the
appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable.

Sol LeWitt

John Latham, Full Stop, 1961, Acrylic on canvas

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Animals in Art - Jane Edden - Ornithomorph

noreply@blogger.com (Sofie (thingsthatquickentheheart)) — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:47:00 +0000

Jupiter announced that he intended to appoint a king over the birds and named a day on which they were to appear before his throne, when he would select the most beautiful of them all to be their ruler...

Jane Edden - Bird feathers and resin in perspex case
32 Glenny & Henderson HSF.2 Gadfly 2012

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R.I.P. Chris Marker

noreply@blogger.com (Sofie (thingsthatquickentheheart)) — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 09:05:00 +0000

I write to you from a far-off country ...

Chris Marker died on his 91st birthday (29 July 1921 – 29 July 2012)

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Movie Moments - Ten Minutes Older, 1978

noreply@blogger.com (Sofie (thingsthatquickentheheart)) — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 15:09:00 +0000

Explanation separates us from astonishment,
which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible

Eugene Ionesco

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Black & White - Transportation

noreply@blogger.com (Sofie (thingsthatquickentheheart)) — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:32:00 +0000

Don't go far off, not even for a day, because --
because -- I don't know how to say it: a day is long
and I will be waiting for you, as in an empty station
when the trains are parked off somewhere else, asleep.

Pablo Neruda

Louis Stettner, 1958

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Black & White - Doppelganger

noreply@blogger.com (Sofie (thingsthatquickentheheart)) — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:00:00 +0000

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do
is to suppose that they are like himself

John Steinbeck

Diane Arbus, Identical Twins, Roselle, N.J. 1967

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Heavenly Bodies - Robert Longo

noreply@blogger.com (Sofie (thingsthatquickentheheart)) — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 15:37:00 +0000

When I draw, I take it into me. I look at it,
it goes into every part of my body; it comes out of me.

Robert Longo

Robert Longo, Untitled (Saturn), 2007

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Animals in Art - Adam Fuss

noreply@blogger.com (Sofie (thingsthatquickentheheart)) — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 16:38:00 +0000

The aesthetic of me not being there

Adam Fuss, Untitled, From the series 'My Ghost', 2000

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Favorite Monsters - The Cat with Hands

noreply@blogger.com (Sofie (thingsthatquickentheheart)) — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:06:00 +0000

This is why poetic images are imaginings in a distinctive sense:
not mere fancies and illusions but imaginings that are visible
inclusions of the alien in the sight of the familiar.

Martin Heidegger, Poetry, Language, Thought

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Movie Moments - Solaris, 1972

noreply@blogger.com (Sofie (thingsthatquickentheheart)) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:53:00 +0000

Mankind does not move forward synchronously,
it stops and starts and goes off in different directions.
And only when scientific discoveries occur in the
course of technological development is there a
corresponding leap in man's moral development.

Andrei Tarkovsky

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Things that Quicken the Heart

Circles - Mandalas - Radial Symmetry XI (Heavenly Bodies)

behold this fool who, in the month of June, having of certain stars and planets heard, rose very slowly in a tight balloon until the smallening world became absurd

Black & White - Beautiful Decay

Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.

Animals in Art - Martin Usborne

the difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind

Movie Moments - Derek Jarman, Marianne Faithful, 1979

At the age of thirty-seven she realised she'd never Ride through Paris in a sports car with the warm wind in her hair. So she let the phone keep ringing and she sat there softly singing Little nursery rhymes she'd memorised in her daddy's easy chair.

skin - hair - fur - feathers II

Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur

Visible - Invisible V

Art does not reproduce the visible, it makes visible

Time Lapse - Karst Country

Easy to know that diamonds are precious good to learn that rubies have depth but more to see that pebbles are miraculous

Animals in Art - Early Photographs

Animals in Art - Yamamoto Masao

I photograph to capture existing phenomena. Thinking about this day by day, the mountain ceases to be a mountain, the cloud is no cloud, things left behind are not left behind. . . maybe I begin to see what only I can see.

Black & White - Masks, Rites and Transformations III

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another

Joseph Cornell - Rorschach Drawings

The world is a harmless enigma made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth

Movie Moments - Talking Heads, 1980

We feel that even when all possible scientific questions have been answered, the problems of life remain completely untouched. Of course there are then no questions left, and this itself is the answer.

Krzysztof Kieślowski - Talking Heads (Gadające głowy), 1980

Black & White - Shadows

To confront a person with his shadow is to show him his own light

Sunday Favorites - The Pulse of Nature

In short I am convinced it is a most ridiculous thing to go round the world, when by staying quietly, the world will go round with you

Animals in Art - Levi Fisher Ames

Nothing is more beautiful than to know all.

Circles - Mandalas - Radial Symmetry X

The ideas need not be complex. Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable.

Animals in Art - Jane Edden - Ornithomorph

Jupiter announced that he intended to appoint a king over the birds and named a day on which they were to appear before his throne, when he would select the most beautiful of them all to be their ruler...

R.I.P. Chris Marker

I write to you from a far-off country ...

Movie Moments - Ten Minutes Older, 1978

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible

Black & White - Transportation

Don't go far off, not even for a day, because -- because -- I don't know how to say it: a day is long and I will be waiting for you, as in an empty station when the trains are parked off somewhere else, asleep.

Black & White - Doppelganger

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself

Heavenly Bodies - Robert Longo

When I draw, I take it into me. I look at it, it goes into every part of my body; it comes out of me.

Animals in Art - Adam Fuss

The aesthetic of me not being there

Favorite Monsters - The Cat with Hands

This is why poetic images are imaginings in a distinctive sense: not mere fancies and illusions but imaginings that are visible inclusions of the alien in the sight of the familiar.

Movie Moments - Solaris, 1972

Mankind does not move forward synchronously, it stops and starts and goes off in different directions. And only when scientific discoveries occur in the course of technological development is there a corresponding leap in man's moral development.

behold this fool who, in the month of June,
having of certain stars and planets heard,
rose very slowly in a tight balloon
until the smallening world became absurd

Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood,
But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.

the difference in mind between man and the higher animals,
great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind

At the age of thirty-seven she realised she'd never
Ride through Paris in a sports car with the warm wind in her hair.
So she let the phone keep ringing and she sat there softly singing
Little nursery rhymes she'd memorised in her daddy's easy chair.

Natural objects, for example, must be experienced
before any theorizing about them can occur

Easy to know that diamonds are precious
good to learn that rubies have depth
but more to see that pebbles are miraculous

I photograph to capture existing phenomena.
Thinking about this day by day, the mountain ceases to be a mountain,
the cloud is no cloud, things left behind are not left behind. . .
maybe I begin to see what only I can see.

The world is a harmless enigma made terrible by our own mad attempt
to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth

We feel that even when all possible scientific questions have been answered,
the problems of life remain completely untouched.
Of course there are then no questions left,
and this itself is the answer.

In short I am convinced it is a most
ridiculous thing to go round the world,
when by staying quietly, the world
will go round with you

The ideas need not be complex. Most ideas that are successful
are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the
appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable.

Explanation separates us from astonishment,
which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible

Don't go far off, not even for a day, because --
because -- I don't know how to say it: a day is long
and I will be waiting for you, as in an empty station
when the trains are parked off somewhere else, asleep.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do
is to suppose that they are like himself

When I draw, I take it into me. I look at it,
it goes into every part of my body; it comes out of me.

This is why poetic images are imaginings in a distinctive sense:
not mere fancies and illusions but imaginings that are visible
inclusions of the alien in the sight of the familiar.

Mankind does not move forward synchronously,
it stops and starts and goes off in different directions.
And only when scientific discoveries occur in the
course of technological development is there a
corresponding leap in man's moral development.