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just a pic i took in the park the other day
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Thursday, July 31, 2008
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
aim
modern gothic (detail) from antwerp serieswhat are your aims, your goals, your desires? what do you strive for?
can you have it? can you reach it?
is it a thing?
or is it intangible? unattainable?
then why do you seek it? to better yourself?
for enlightenment?
then what?
I want to be
better, smarter, stronger, wiser
I am . . .
I am not . . .
Monday, July 28, 2008
blank?
couple of things to ponder
I looked up the Paris Reviews website to find out who they had interviewed recently.
In reading about their publications was this description:
"From “the biggest little magazine in history” comes an addictively clever anthology prescribed to fill all the blank moments of your life."
Blank moments?
I can comprehend being vague and not attentive, having a blank stare or even the saying "the lights are on but no-one is home" but other than whilst in a meditative state how can a moment in your life be blank. Seems contradictory.
also:
In an excerpt from an interview in Paris Review with Umberto Eco, the interviewer likens the DaVinci Code to Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum. Eco’s response is that he invented Dan Brown.
I don’t know whether the interview continues about this as the excerpt ends there but it does make the mind boggle about reality. What if the DaVinci Code & Dan Brown are Eco’s creations and the whole hoopla over the DaVinci code is fiction, the making of the movie, our reaction to it, all written by a man – suddenly, what is real and what isn’t? Can we tell?
du di du du (twilight zone music)...
BTW I like the Paris Reviews. They have some fantastic and not so fantastic interviews with writers.
I looked up the Paris Reviews website to find out who they had interviewed recently.
In reading about their publications was this description:
"From “the biggest little magazine in history” comes an addictively clever anthology prescribed to fill all the blank moments of your life."
Blank moments?
I can comprehend being vague and not attentive, having a blank stare or even the saying "the lights are on but no-one is home" but other than whilst in a meditative state how can a moment in your life be blank. Seems contradictory.
also:
In an excerpt from an interview in Paris Review with Umberto Eco, the interviewer likens the DaVinci Code to Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum. Eco’s response is that he invented Dan Brown.
I don’t know whether the interview continues about this as the excerpt ends there but it does make the mind boggle about reality. What if the DaVinci Code & Dan Brown are Eco’s creations and the whole hoopla over the DaVinci code is fiction, the making of the movie, our reaction to it, all written by a man – suddenly, what is real and what isn’t? Can we tell?
du di du du (twilight zone music)...
BTW I like the Paris Reviews. They have some fantastic and not so fantastic interviews with writers.
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Friday, July 25, 2008
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
choices
from antwerp series digital printconsider ponder challenge
freedom easy simple
provoke confront stimulate
I choose
where I go
Monday, July 21, 2008
the existentialist bar
disco party photographthe place I go to discuss philosophy with neither man nor woman but an entity, another being, another thought pattern
I walk up to the bar, lean on the counter and ask a question – tell me what an existentialist is? tell why am I here? but tell me in a discourse I have to strain to understand, I have to concentrate and be absorbed into the depth of the response, I have to feel it with my entirety, I have to know it. The response cannot be shallow but does it lead anywhere? what is the point of philosophy in the sense of mans desire for societal purpose and reason. Beyond the rational, logical realm.
Are these just discussions with my self and that I know the direction and the outcome because it is limited by my own knowledge or can I understand more through my own limits, recognition of my limits.
This vibe I get, an excitement at learning and discussing that makes my body shake uncontrollably and my voice quiver. addressing my desire and emanating from my core, from my basis of existence. but can I just discard all my physical attributes and acquirements to honour this or is it because of them?
is this thought pattern not me – can an individual have the duality or multiplicity to view or explain ideas with more than a singular (potentially complex) standpoint. laterally, not just it’s diametric (perceived logical) opposite
so when I shut my eyes I go to this bar to remove my thoughts from that which prevents me from sleep and seek to attain greater knowledge through osmosis in the absence of actual discourse – imaginary discourse, imaginary understanding?
it’s like going to sleep with a problem on your mind and during your sleep you realise the solution only to realise on waking that the solution you imagined is not feasible or you cannot remember the pertinent detail which completes the solution
during sleep there is a connection and causality between ideas, the separate definitions and separation of facets of philosophy and psychology and science and art and existence are no longer pertinent but a wholeness can be identified, links and combinations, permutations and commonality can be seen – like a cartoon animation where disparate objects fall through space and time joining to form other entities or forming a chain of causality then separating again and falling randomly (I think I saw it on the opening credits for a movie – letters tumbling and jumbling then melding to form words and names then falling away again)
what is the purpose of philosophy
maybe Hegel can tell me, Proust, Kant, anyone
this doesn’t help – from Hegel
“…from the History of Philosophy a proof of the futility of the science is mainly derived.”
“We must, however, consider it best when Thought does not pursue anything else, but is occupied only with itself - with what is noblest - when it has sought and found itself.”
so a purpose only unto itself
by the way – I am not an existentialist or any ist for that matter. I identify and understand some areas of study, philosophy, psychology, etc more comprehensively but who and what I am is not so much of these ideas but defined by them. we, human beings, need to breakdown all that we are into little definable sciences, quantitative facts. The only ‘ism’ I belong to is that of humankind in the present, inseparable. a cosmic organic entity independent in the physical and mental ability to stand apart from the whole
my opinion could be identical to another individual as it is based on the known, the shared knowledge and feelings expressed in current and historical literature and oral tradition. it will differ in the cultural representation as my current and acestoral qualities are dissimilar
the thing is, I never actually leave the bar, the dream does not come to any conclusion, it just dissolves as I drift into the unconscious – there is no subconscious as I sleep, I don’t remember my dreams if I have any so why do I then enter the bar on subsequent nights – begin again with the same question but different precepts or constructs or continue with the same or delve into something else
I walk up to the bar, lean on the counter and ask a question – tell me what an existentialist is? tell why am I here? but tell me in a discourse I have to strain to understand, I have to concentrate and be absorbed into the depth of the response, I have to feel it with my entirety, I have to know it. The response cannot be shallow but does it lead anywhere? what is the point of philosophy in the sense of mans desire for societal purpose and reason. Beyond the rational, logical realm.
Are these just discussions with my self and that I know the direction and the outcome because it is limited by my own knowledge or can I understand more through my own limits, recognition of my limits.
This vibe I get, an excitement at learning and discussing that makes my body shake uncontrollably and my voice quiver. addressing my desire and emanating from my core, from my basis of existence. but can I just discard all my physical attributes and acquirements to honour this or is it because of them?
is this thought pattern not me – can an individual have the duality or multiplicity to view or explain ideas with more than a singular (potentially complex) standpoint. laterally, not just it’s diametric (perceived logical) opposite
so when I shut my eyes I go to this bar to remove my thoughts from that which prevents me from sleep and seek to attain greater knowledge through osmosis in the absence of actual discourse – imaginary discourse, imaginary understanding?
it’s like going to sleep with a problem on your mind and during your sleep you realise the solution only to realise on waking that the solution you imagined is not feasible or you cannot remember the pertinent detail which completes the solution
during sleep there is a connection and causality between ideas, the separate definitions and separation of facets of philosophy and psychology and science and art and existence are no longer pertinent but a wholeness can be identified, links and combinations, permutations and commonality can be seen – like a cartoon animation where disparate objects fall through space and time joining to form other entities or forming a chain of causality then separating again and falling randomly (I think I saw it on the opening credits for a movie – letters tumbling and jumbling then melding to form words and names then falling away again)
what is the purpose of philosophy
maybe Hegel can tell me, Proust, Kant, anyone
this doesn’t help – from Hegel
“…from the History of Philosophy a proof of the futility of the science is mainly derived.”
“We must, however, consider it best when Thought does not pursue anything else, but is occupied only with itself - with what is noblest - when it has sought and found itself.”
so a purpose only unto itself
by the way – I am not an existentialist or any ist for that matter. I identify and understand some areas of study, philosophy, psychology, etc more comprehensively but who and what I am is not so much of these ideas but defined by them. we, human beings, need to breakdown all that we are into little definable sciences, quantitative facts. The only ‘ism’ I belong to is that of humankind in the present, inseparable. a cosmic organic entity independent in the physical and mental ability to stand apart from the whole
my opinion could be identical to another individual as it is based on the known, the shared knowledge and feelings expressed in current and historical literature and oral tradition. it will differ in the cultural representation as my current and acestoral qualities are dissimilar
the thing is, I never actually leave the bar, the dream does not come to any conclusion, it just dissolves as I drift into the unconscious – there is no subconscious as I sleep, I don’t remember my dreams if I have any so why do I then enter the bar on subsequent nights – begin again with the same question but different precepts or constructs or continue with the same or delve into something else
Sunday, July 20, 2008
red wine & dark chocolate
crazy box kids
i hope you can't hear me laughing
and it doesn't take too long to download (30MB)
do I ever run out of stuff to post - nup!
always got plenty of stuff to share
all the images are my own
all the info down the right hand side is inspirational stuff (except for my profile)
but you need to know - red wine and dark chocolate are divine together
tell me what ya think
Saturday, July 19, 2008
alter ego
edge of reality digital printdramatic ominous solitary dream
desire aspire longing belief
vast universal cosmic
express sensual intense
serious deep dark
ulterior obscure covert ambiguous
desire aspire longing belief
vast universal cosmic
express sensual intense
serious deep dark
ulterior obscure covert ambiguous
Friday, July 18, 2008
human nature
from linkeroever series digital printthat last post must have bored you to tears – ha ha – but the image is cool (unbiased of course!)
this blog is nothing more than my views and sharing information that form those views maybe even inspiring you to seek more information about your surroundings and understanding yourself – truth – human nature – the way you do what you do when do what your doing –how you perceive yourself doing and how you perceive others perceiving you – do you care – you should – question everything, learn always, seek more – work, love, live – eat chocolate - go for a swim – keep fit, keep healthy – and as Baz says “wear sunscreen”
this blog is nothing more than my views and sharing information that form those views maybe even inspiring you to seek more information about your surroundings and understanding yourself – truth – human nature – the way you do what you do when do what your doing –how you perceive yourself doing and how you perceive others perceiving you – do you care – you should – question everything, learn always, seek more – work, love, live – eat chocolate - go for a swim – keep fit, keep healthy – and as Baz says “wear sunscreen”
scientific, non-scientific, spiritual, material, physical, moral, mortal, purpose, sensory experience, genetics, environment, reason, logic, rationality, imagination, enjoyment
i love words – they afford the opportunity to baffle with pretentious contrived language to say a lot about nothing in an authoritative guise of knowledge when the only discernable knowledge is that of a wide and obscure vocabulary
use words to express yourself, learn to say hello, please and thank you in as many languages as you encounter
move forward and only look back long enough to know you should look forward and don’t take anyone there with you
the past happened you can’t change it, the present is a gift and the future will happen
You are here now.
i love words – they afford the opportunity to baffle with pretentious contrived language to say a lot about nothing in an authoritative guise of knowledge when the only discernable knowledge is that of a wide and obscure vocabulary
use words to express yourself, learn to say hello, please and thank you in as many languages as you encounter
move forward and only look back long enough to know you should look forward and don’t take anyone there with you
the past happened you can’t change it, the present is a gift and the future will happen
You are here now.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
sunday afternoon
high contrast low detail
momentary ephemeral
snap shot your life
memory by photograph
we went to the park
We ate
We balanced on trees
We had ice-cream
We saw ducks
We crossed a bridge
We saw a fountain
We went out the gate
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