i once heard the old ken russell smirking because a young television executive had dismissed his work as "not filmic enough"

you could start by watching the debussy fillum, if only for the music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsdAIYmSHAg

via lucy in ponty ... face to face with humanity in the land of my fathers

the manics ...    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwwtOd3pMlk

so ... vincent, ( and don ... )

if you were to make your way to the musee d'orsay nowadays, you could hardly see this picture for the moving throng of international visitors

but they are not pilgrims

they pause for a few seconds to take a quick picture

hundreds in turn will stand besides the painting with two fingers raised besides their ears

not many encounter the painting itself, or know, or care ...

and so i wept, but only for a few seconds

http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let777/letter.html#n-9

etc, etc ...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Gogh%2C_Vincent_van_-_Irises_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

and here's a letter to vincent from paul gauguin ...

http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let675/letter.html

official update ... second grandson is being named "NOA"

hooray ! hooray ! hooray ! she's had another boy !

A second grandson arrived yesterday afternoon, 17th July 2013 @ 1820.

A brother for Alvi.

No name yet.

Weight 7lbs 8 ozs.  Mother and child doing well.

I am happier than ever.

when we got home from paris, there were quite a few birthday cards waiting for her on the mat ...

in the market at bastille on sunday morning, bastille day

and a list of parisian foodmarkets from an expert ...

http://frenchmarketmaven.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/marches-of-paris-by-days-of-week-short.html

if you like food the way that real men love football, then you need never leave paris

134 Rue Mouffetard

http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/merimee_fr?ACTION=CHERCHER&FIELD_98=AUTR&VALUE_98=ADIGHERI%20&DOM=Tous&REL_SPECIFIC=3

gay paree ...

http://www.aubonheurdujour.net/Passion_et_Subversion.html#Presentation

in anticipation of an excursion to paris ... a little light reading !

the hills are alive etc ... hi-res jungfrau webcam

http://panocam.skiline.cc/lauberhorn

the only way is up ...

Keep It Simple, Stoopid ! lo-tech cavity floor via a favourite design site ...

http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2013/06/30/mozilla-japans-new-open-source-office/

http://nosigner.com/case/mozilla-factory

hurrah for a proper human being !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Mujica

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whFm75ORPbE

travellin' light ...

"Marooned three years agone," he continued, "and lived on goats since then, and berries, and oysters. Wherever a man is, says I, a man can do for himself. But, mate, my heart is sore for Christian diet. You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted, mostly--and woke up again, and here I were."

wholesale AND retail !

... if only i had my own business ... i could buy all my wigs wholesale !

last sunset of the month of june

too hot to spend much time outdoors ... a good day to write letters or postcards

c'st magnifique ... mais ce n'est pas la guerre ... part-time genius dave okonski sends his passengers to certain doom ... mmm ! well i may have exaggerated slightly !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_NAMON4S52Y

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montparnasse_derailment

http://cnum.cnam.fr/CGI/fpage.cgi?4KY28.45/373/100/556/0/0