Things that Quicken the Heart

Bertrand Russell - Love is wise, hatred is foolish

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A Message to Future Generations

Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) - A Message to Future Generations
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urban animals

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We are face-to-face,
in the company of significant others,
companion species to one another.

Donna J. Haraway

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Sunday Favorites - Behind the Curtains

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You can keep as quiet as you like,
but one of these days somebody is going to find you.

Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

Ernst Haas

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Animals in Art - Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt

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Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.
To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden,
where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.

Milan Kundera

© Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt, Naked Dog, Belgium, 1993

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Black & White - Angels

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 14:12:00 +0000

put out your eyes, and touch the black skin
of an angel named imagination

E. E. Cummings

Ralph Eugene Meatyard

Warning: This post contains photographs of female nudity

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Underwater (Photography)

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 10:00:00 +0000

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean

Arthur C. Clarke

Trent Parke

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R.I.P. Ruth Asawa

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 08:22:00 +0000

Art is for everybody

Ruth Asawa

Another great artist passed away this week.
Japanese american sculptor Ruth Asawa died August 6, 2013

You can browse a catalogue of her work here
I also recommend this article:
Requiem for a Badass: Ten Things You Might Not Know About the Late, Legendary Ruth Asawa

Black & White - R.I.P. Robert Häusser

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 11:36:00 +0000

Bewusst Sehen ist ein permanentes Abenteuer und erhält in uns eine Unruhe,
die uns bewegt, hinter die Dinge sehen zu wollen.

Robert Häusser

Robert Häusser, Self-portrait, 1981

Monday, August 5th, 2013 german photographer Robert Häusser
(born 1924 in Stuttgart) died at age 88 in Mannheim.

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Circles - Mandalas - Radial Symmetry XI (Heavenly Bodies)

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — 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 (Unknown) — 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 photographs of dead people and/or animals which some viewers may find disturbing

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Animals in Art - Martin Usborne

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

Art does not reproduce the visible, it makes visible

Paul Klee

Agnes Martin, Untitled #9, 2003
(more Agnes Martin)

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Time Lapse - Karst Country

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — 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 (Unknown) — 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 (Unknown) — 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

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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 (Unknown) — 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

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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 (Unknown) — 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 (Unknown) — 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 (Unknown) — 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 (Unknown) — 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 (Unknown) — 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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Things that Quicken the Heart

Bertrand Russell - Love is wise, hatred is foolish

A Message to Future Generations

urban animals

We are face-to-face, in the company of significant others, companion species to one another.

Sunday Favorites - Behind the Curtains

You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you.

Animals in Art - Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.

Black & White - Angels

put out your eyes, and touch the black skin of an angel named imagination

Underwater (Photography)

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean

R.I.P. Ruth Asawa

Art is for everybody

Black & White - R.I.P. Robert Häusser

Bewusst Sehen ist ein permanentes Abenteuer und erhält in uns eine Unruhe, die uns bewegt, hinter die Dinge sehen zu wollen.

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...

We are face-to-face,
in the company of significant others,
companion species to one another.

You can keep as quiet as you like,
but one of these days somebody is going to find you.

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.
To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden,
where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.

put out your eyes, and touch the black skin
of an angel named imagination

Bewusst Sehen ist ein permanentes Abenteuer und erhält in uns eine Unruhe,
die uns bewegt, hinter die Dinge sehen zu wollen.

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.