Saturday, July 18, 2009
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near
your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose
or if your wish be to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully ,suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility:whose texture
compels me with the color of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing
(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands
- somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond, E.E Cummings
Maybe I'm just girly; but this is my favorite poem ever.
Monday, July 13, 2009
Spirits
"These photographs of 'spirits' are taken from an album of photographs unearthed in a Lancashire second-hand and antiquarian bookshop by one of the Museum's curators. They were taken by a controversial medium called William Hope (1863-1933)...He went on to found the Crewe Circle – a group of six spirit photographers led by Hope. When Archbishop Thomas Colley joined the group they began to publicise their work...By 1922 Hope had moved to London where he became a professional medium. The work of the Crew Circle was investigated on various occasions.
The most famous of these took place in 1922, when the Society for Psychical Research sent Harry Price to investigate the group.
Price collected evidence that Hope was substituting glass plates bearing ghostly images in order to produce his spirit photographs.
Later the same year Price published his findings, exposing Hope as a fraudster. However, many of Hope’s most ardent supporters spoke out on his behalf, the most famous being Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Hope continued to practice, despite his exposure. He died in London on 7 March 1933."
-Image and text from the National Media Museum
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
The Wandering Libido and the Hysterical Body
'The images show Bellmer’s assemblage, made of wood, flax fiber, plaster, and glue, under construction in his studio or arrayed on a bare mattress or lacy cloth. Seductive props sometimes accompany the doll-a black veil, eyelet undergarments, an artificial rose. Naked or, in one case, wearing only a cotton undershirt, the armless doll is variously presented as a skeletal automaton, a coy adolescent, or an abject pile of discombobulated parts.'
'Bellmer depicted the body as an amalgamation of the organic and inorganic, transgressing its normative limits to incorporate aspects of its environment. He fantasized the body as a series of shifting, interchangeable erogenous zones, subject to the forces of psychic repression in what he termed “the physical unconscious”.'
1. Semen Song for James Bidgood - Matmos
2. What Your Soul Sings - Massive Attack
3. An Echo, A Stain - Björk
4. The Very Last Resort - Trentemøller
'This image of male sexual curiosity and domination is in a sense emblematic of Bellmer’s entire oeuvre: the hapless female body, deprived of head and limbs, is scrutinized and manipulated, and its inner workings exposed in a cut-away view.'
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
After the ending
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