The Cruelty of Pirates

2011-11-15T21:45:00.000-08:00

Rhinozeross

2011-11-05T17:39:00.000-07:00

Wenn das Rhinozeross, das schlimme
Dich kriegen will in seinem Grimme
Dann steig auf einen Baum bei Zeiten
sonst hast Du Unannehmlichkeiten.

2011-10-09T12:11:00.001-07:00

Cribbage Hall of Fame

2011-10-05T21:28:00.000-07:00

Rit learned to play cribbage while he served his country during the Korean War. Upon joining the American Cribbage Congress in 1988, he won his first tournament in which he played….as well as his last tournament before he passed on in 2000.

Rit was a national duckpin champion and an avid crossword puzzle fan, in addition to his cribbage interests. Rit was married to Mimi in 1965, and many cribbage players will recall their trips together in their motor home enabling them to make and keep, friends across the nation.
"Rit" was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2002.

They that go down to the sea in ships

2011-10-05T21:20:00.000-07:00

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Lost at Sea

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When I am dead

2011-08-17T07:36:00.000-07:00

When I am dead, know
that many times, I
have kissed & cryed
over this. C. D.

Note by C. Darwin, left on a letter that his wife wrote to him

The France

2011-08-06T08:38:00.000-07:00

Russians have a difficult time describing just how massively big their country is. To get the right scale across, they don't use miles or kilometers, they use France. This is unofficial, but they liked to describe units of land in their Siberian regions by saying, "Twice the size of France." (http://io9.com/5827925/ten-unbelievably-strange-units-of-measurement)

so-called Bolsheviks

2011-07-30T08:30:00.000-07:00

The caption reads:
Hailar Manchuria What is left of nine so-called Bolsheviks after Semenoff and souvenir-hunters got through with them, Lt. Stewart, R R S C in background

In Siberia's wastes

2011-07-25T19:41:00.000-07:00

In Siberia's wastes

The ice-wind's breath

Woundeth, like the toothed steel.

Lost Siberia doth reveal

Only blight and death.

Blight and death alone,

No summer shines.

Night is interblent with day.

In Siberia's wastes alway

The blood blackens, the heart pines.

In Siberia's wastes

No tears are shed,

For they freeze within the brain.

Naught is felt but dullest pain.,

Pain acute, but dead.

In Siberia's wastes

Are sands and rocks.

Nothing blooms of green and soft,

But the snow-peaks rise aloft

And the gaunt ice-blocks.

- James G. Mangon.

East of Siberia, California

2011-07-14T07:56:00.000-07:00

Semblances of Siberia

2011-07-14T07:42:00.000-07:00

Ushuaia Prison, Argentina

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy

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2011-07-03T21:02:00.000-07:00

I shall not sing a May song
a May song should be gay
I wait until November
and sing most terribly

I'll wait until November
that is the time for me
I'll walk out in the dark and cold
and sing most terribly

And all the little people
will smile at me and say
that is the crazy woman
who would not sing in May.
- Gwendolyn Brooks

the sex life of a butterfly

2011-06-28T06:19:00.000-07:00

"Did you ever read The Sex Life of a Butterfly by Favre?
- Favre was a naturalist. He got himself a very rare female butterfly from Africa, worth a thousand bucks. He kept it in a glass box in a department store in Paris. But nobody had ever been able to catch the male of the species. One day he let the female out of the box and in a few hours e had ten thousand dollars worth of rare butterflies flying around the room."
"Very interesting, very interesting indeed." - from I Wake Up Screaming by H. Bruce Humberstone

Weissglut

2011-06-20T19:39:00.000-07:00

He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar he burst his hot heart's shell upon it. - Melville Moby Dick

Erich von Stroheim

2011-05-22T09:58:00.000-07:00

"Lubitsch shows you first the king on the throne, then as he is in the bedroom. I show you the king in the bedroom so you'll know just what he is when you see him on his throne." - Stroheim

Harpooned

2011-05-11T16:00:00.000-07:00

“We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale.” - John Hope

lost at sea

2011-04-20T10:26:00.001-07:00

More Than Night III

2011-04-05T16:35:00.000-07:00

From The Big Combo

Blast of Silence

2011-03-31T21:35:00.000-07:00

Heroic Acts II

2011-03-29T20:10:00.000-07:00

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Heroic Acts I

2011-03-29T20:06:00.000-07:00

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by Dragoljub Aleksic

Fear of Death

2011-03-29T19:12:00.000-07:00

He felt only as if he had lost something valuable. In fact, he had lost nothing of any value but a sliver of skin and cartilage from the back of his right hand. All that had happened to him was that he had discovered the fear of death. - Eric Ambler "Journey into Fear"

Alaska Seas

2011-03-29T08:43:00.001-07:00

Well, I don't know the name of the town or the bar he is in, but the liquor is bourbon and the girls are blond.

Western - Noir

2011-03-28T21:03:00.000-07:00

Deadly Companions by Sam Peckinpah
"You don't know me well enough to hate me that much. Hating is a subject I know a little something about. You got to be careful it don't bite you back. I know somebody who spent five years looking for a man he hated. Hating and wanting revenge was all that kept him alive. He spent all those years tracking that other man down, and when he caught up with him, it was the worst day of his life. He'd get his revenge all right, but then he'd lose the one thing he had to live for."

On Beauty

2011-02-27T11:22:00.001-08:00

For beauty is nothing
but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure,
and we are so awed because it serenely disdains
to annihilate us. - Rilke

More Than Night II

2011-02-18T13:34:00.000-08:00

Cry for Revenge

Narcissus on Google

2011-02-14T17:30:00.000-08:00

Another device...

2011-02-12T20:41:00.000-08:00

...for putting things into perspective

Accoustic Locator - 1933 (Japan)

"Leiden Eure Kaiserliche Hoheit sehr?" - "Es ist nichts"

2011-01-05T09:53:00.000-08:00

Falling into Grace

2011-01-05T09:31:00.000-08:00

John Alton - Painting with Light

2011-01-05T09:28:00.000-08:00

More than Night

2011-01-04T13:42:00.000-08:00

Dragoljub Aleksic

2010-11-29T21:56:00.000-08:00

The plane gives the clouds a kiss as Aleksic smiles down at the abyss.

Robert Altman on the Happy End

2010-11-21T09:16:00.000-08:00

I don't believe films have a beginning or an end. The only real end I know of is death. You can pretend something has a happy ending: the boy kisses the girl and they walk into their little cottage and that's the end of the story. Only, the next morning he wakes up and sees her kissing the milkman. He gets his shotgun and blows the milkman's head off, cuts up his wife into little pieces, and puts her in the milk bottles. That's not a happy ending at all! When something looks like a happy ending, it's really just a happy stopping point.

Device

2010-11-20T21:53:00.000-08:00

... for putting things into perspective, according to Peter Land.

Fairouz

2010-11-20T21:45:00.000-08:00

Peter Land - Survival Kit (1999)

2010-11-20T21:40:00.000-08:00

SURVIVAL KIT is a combination of objet trouvés in a box. The work exist in an edition of 10 examples. It consists of a wooden box containing a star telescope, a bottle of whiskey and a glass. On the box is printed the texts: FOR COMFORT and 'Device for putting things into perspective.'

If your spouse/lover left you and you feel down: Drink a bottle of whiskey, take a look at the stars and get things back into perspective.
If you got fired from your job and you feel down: Drink a bottle of whiskey, take a look at the stars and get things back into perspective.
If someone you loved died and you feel down: Drink a bottle of whiskey, take a look at the stars and get things back into perspective.
If your firm went bankrupt and you feel down: Drink a bottle of whiskey, take a look at the stars and get things back into perspective.
If your house is destroyed in an earthquake: Drink a bottle of whiskey, take a look at the stars and get things back into perspective.
If you get diagnosed with a terminal illness: Drink a bottle of whiskey, take a look at the stars and get things back into perspective. If you are told that you are a lousy dancer: Drink a bottle of whiskey, take a look at the stars and get things back into perspective.
If you get turned down by someone you would have liked to have sex with: Drink a bottle of whiskey, take a look at the stars and get things back into perspective.
If your dog died: Drink a bottle of whiskey, take a look at the stars and get things back into perspective.
If you've pissed your pants: Drink a bottle of whiskey, take a look at the stars and get things back into perspective.
If it's raining: Drink a bottle of whiskey, take a look at the stars and get things back into perspective.
If it's not your day: Drink a bottle of whiskey, take a look at the stars and get things back into perspective.
If it's not your month: Drink a bottle of whiskey, take a look at the stars and get things back into perspective.
If it's not your year: Drink a bottle of whiskey, take a look at the stars and get things back into perspective.

Tadeusz Kantor - The Sea Concert (1967)

2010-11-20T20:14:00.000-08:00

A conductor stands on a podium in the water with his back to the beach and conducts the expanse of the sea. The "wave symphony" is supplemented by a "motorbike fugue": at a sign from the conductor, five motorbikes tear along the beach half submerged in the water. At a further sign from his right hand a spluttering tractor approaches. The conductor fires off a shot from a signal pistol, whereupon a lifeboat with a screaming siren appears on the horizon. In the finale he throws a big bucket of dead fish in the direction of the public and takes off his tailcoat.

Django + Edith

2010-10-07T21:55:00.000-07:00

Sine lege vagatur

2010-07-21T07:18:00.000-07:00

From the Letters of George Kennan

2010-07-21T07:07:00.000-07:00

... Perhaps it would interest you my dear Coz to know what a sojourner in this dismal country misses most, for what he feels the most intense longing. It is not as you might imagine the marginal comforts of life such as a comfortable house, a warm fireside, or a good dinner. These things or the being deprived of them is a mere trifle. I miss most Music and conversation. I never before realized how essential both are to life and I never knew how deeply I loved music until I heard last summer the brass band of the Russian Corvelle "Varag." We had gone on board of her in the evening and were waked most unexpectedly on the following morning by the strains of "Hail Columbia" from the powerful band of twenty pieces. We were all fairly electrified, and hardly breathed until the martial air was ended and the instruments took up the softer notes of the prison song in "Trovatore" the music dying away over the still waters of the gulf and the louder passages echoing faintly from the high bluffs of Matuga.
Never before had those bluffs sent back the airs of "Trovatore and Rigoletta" and they probably never will again. I believe last winter I would have travelled on dog sledges five hundred verst to hear the Corvettes band play the Faust March, The Anvil Chorus, and some of the beautiful airs from Martha. That day on the "Varag" will long be remembered as a white day in my dreary calendar. When we left the vessel and she steamed slowly out her band playing "Ever be happy and blest as thou art" I confess I felt a choking sensation in my throat and as the waving caps on her quarter decks could no longer be seen we all turned away with gloomy countenances and silently turned our faces toward that dismal lighthouse feeling bluer than we had for many a long month before. You who live in a land of society and music do not realize what blessings you enjoy. Travel for two months as I did last winter with a band of dirty savage Koraks over the vast snowy steppes between Ghijiga and Anadyrsk without a soul to talk with and never once hearing your own language, live for a week or ten days in a black cold smoky underground hut without books with no society save that of two or three old Korak women, and with a howling snow storm raging outside and see if you wouldn't change places with almost anyone in the world.

The condemned military amends its poorest customer

2010-02-24T21:25:00.001-08:00

Solids

2010-02-24T20:04:00.000-08:00

Why does chaos confirm the request?

2010-02-22T15:28:00.000-08:00

And You Expected A Tale

2010-01-31T11:24:00.000-08:00

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...for whom the bell tolls

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- John Donne

It is a fearful thing to love what death can touch

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The Human Condition

2009-12-24T15:02:00.000-08:00

The Duellists

2009-12-19T23:31:00.000-08:00

The Chase

2009-12-16T00:01:00.000-08:00

Damn Everything But the Circus

2009-12-02T20:18:00.000-08:00

Ballad of a Soldier

2009-11-30T20:03:00.000-08:00

the land of lost content

2009-11-12T21:42:00.001-08:00

Alfred Edward Housman

2006 - Storm in New York

2009-11-07T20:10:00.000-08:00

But nothing happens.

2009-11-04T07:22:00.000-08:00

And I am still waiting by the window; as everybody else. Watching the slow changes of the light, tapping my fingers against the glass, perhaps, throwing a shadow in apathy….

There is silence in the streets. A silence that has long become the norm. The danger can be felt, but it presents itself as mute. Everybody is waiting for it to happen, shadows against a reality that slowly, carefully enters this place, one by one, by one.

The Bad Luck Wedding Dress

2009-10-25T20:44:00.000-07:00

W. Herzog

2009-10-23T22:13:00.001-07:00

I don't want to live in a world without lions.

Morse Code

2009-10-22T19:48:00.001-07:00

.-- .... . -. / .- .-.. .-.. / . .-.. ... . / ..-. .- .. .-.. ... .-.-.- .-.-.- .-.-.-

Geburt

2009-10-20T21:04:00.000-07:00

Nach der Geburt schreien wir alle. Einige laenger als andere, und manche fuer den Rest ihres Lebens.

Roma Termini

2009-10-20T20:55:00.000-07:00

Roma Termini is Rome’s main train station located at the end of a railway network, from here trains have to turn around. It is named after the Diocletian Baths, or thermae, in the vicinity. This doesn’t change the fact that for many this place is the end. The end of their travels, the end of a love, the end of a summer…

The Cruelty of Pirates

Rhinozeross

Cribbage Hall of Fame

They that go down to the sea in ships

When I am dead

The France

so-called Bolsheviks

In Siberia's wastes

East of Siberia, California

Semblances of Siberia

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy

the sex life of a butterfly

Weissglut

Erich von Stroheim

Harpooned

lost at sea

More Than Night III

Blast of Silence

Heroic Acts II

Heroic Acts I

by Dragoljub Aleksic

Fear of Death

Alaska Seas

Western - Noir

On Beauty

For beauty is nothingbut the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure,and we are so awed because it serenely disdainsto annihilate us. - Rilke

More Than Night II

Narcissus on Google

Another device...

"Leiden Eure Kaiserliche Hoheit sehr?" - "Es ist nichts"

Falling into Grace

John Alton - Painting with Light

More than Night

Dragoljub Aleksic

Robert Altman on the Happy End

Device

Fairouz

Peter Land - Survival Kit (1999)

Tadeusz Kantor - The Sea Concert (1967)

Django + Edith

Sine lege vagatur

From the Letters of George Kennan

The condemned military amends its poorest customer

Solids

Why does chaos confirm the request?

And You Expected A Tale

...for whom the bell tolls

It is a fearful thing to love what death can touch

The Human Condition

The Duellists

The Chase

Damn Everything But the Circus

Ballad of a Soldier

the land of lost content

Alfred Edward Housman

2006 - Storm in New York

But nothing happens.

The Bad Luck Wedding Dress

W. Herzog

Morse Code

Geburt

Roma Termini

For beauty is nothing
but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure,
and we are so awed because it serenely disdains
to annihilate us. - Rilke