Thursday, April 11, 2019

Tuesday, April 2, 2019

nick brandt
























https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Brandt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXi6N_LrrmE

https://vimeo.com/181966905
































































































































































Saturday, March 23, 2019

dull gret .... brueghel's painting recently restored slash conserved ... wikipedia have a new 6000px image



















https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dull_Gret


Matsuo Bashō ... poet of the little moments

“Since the crescent moon, I have been waiting for tonight.”



























i have a lot of sympathy for basho ... my own memories seem to be like shards and fragments of  larger stories ... too large for me to re-assemble


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsuo_Bash%C5%8D


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episodic_memory


a leek grower travels from wales to japan ...
http://www.tyn-yr-helyg.com/perch/resources/misc/negi-daikon-kyuri-basho.pdf





The morning glories 
bloom, securing the gate 
in the old fence 



















later ... found a little film ... perplexing ... 
http://movingpoems.com/2013/06/from-the-travelogue-of-weather-beaten-bones-by-matsuo-basho/?fbclid=IwAR1wYC3FEYsGHbLzeTGwkbahFTM-Okrksh_ckmb73lTst_XL8YWMwSaOzzA




























and a film that looks at basho as a monk-philosopher ... 
https://youtu.be/90-2Dg2CJdw


















the above animation was introduced by this blog ... 
https://www.theschooloflife.com/thebookoflife/the-great-eastern-philosophers-matsuo-basho/


a good list of study resources ...
http://betweenwit-wonder.blogspot.com/2014/06/basho-trans-1.html


another useful introduction with some of basho's paintings...
https://www.theschooloflife.com/thebookoflife/the-great-eastern-philosophers-matsuo-basho/