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Posted on:11/16/09 @ 03:51 am
Subject: 'The Fisherman' by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The water roared, the water swelled;
a fisherman sat beside,
gazing calmly at his fishing line,
cool to his very heart.
And as he sits there and as he listens,
the waves split
and from the turbulent water
a watery woman bursts up.

She sang to him, and spoke to him:
"Why do you lure my children
with your human wit and cunning,
up here to this deadly glow?
Ah, if you only knew how pleasant the tiny fish
find it below the surface,
you would come down, just as you are,
and you would be well for the first time.

Does not the dear sun refresh itself
and the moon as well, in the sea?
Do they not turn their faces, breathing the waves
and thus becoming doubly fair?
Aren't you tempted by the deep sky,
the moist and transfiguring blue?
Aren't you tempted by your own face
shining in the eternal dew?"

The water roared, the water swelled,
and moistened his naked foot;
and his heart filled with the longing
that he felt at the greeting of his beloved.
She spoke to him, and sang to him;
then all was done for him;
half pulled by her and half sinking himself,
he went down and was never seen again.


--English translation from here

Painting of 'The Fisherman and the Syren' by Frederic Leighton

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Posted on:11/16/09 @ 03:09 am
Subject: To sleep, perchance to dream
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'Flaming June' by Frederic Leighton - 1830-1896
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Posted on:11/15/09 @ 10:28 am
Subject: 'You're Gonna Miss Me'
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My friend Varsava introduced me to this group, and I went looking for a video. I like this one. :)



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The 13th Floor Elevators
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Posted on:11/15/09 @ 01:26 am
Subject: Noir
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Posted on:11/13/09 @ 06:47 pm
Subject: How the US army protects its trucks – by paying the Taliban
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Guardian

Insurance, security or extortion? The US is spending millions of dollars in Afghanistan to ensure its supply convoys get through – and it's the Taliban who profit
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Posted on:11/12/09 @ 06:59 pm
Subject: Your Homeland Security is the shits
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Americans, you can sleep easy at night, knowing that your FBI and military officials are totally NOT on the ball.

I do not believe in this corrupt war in Iraq and Afghanistan. I would not serve in a military who waged it, and if I found myself being deployed against my will, I would refuse to go and end up on the run or court-martialed. However, I certainly would NOT kill my fellow soldiers like Hasan allegedly has done either. But the comments coming out about his behaviour in the months leading up to the shootings tell you just how incompetent the FBI, other officials and the military are in dealing with security breaches. It defies belief.

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Warning signs were there as killer strove to leave military )
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Posted on:11/6/09 @ 05:45 pm
Subject: Building with whole trees
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Building With Whole Trees - NYTimes.com

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Posted on:11/5/09 @ 10:00 am
Subject: 'Starry Night over the Rhone'
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'For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.'
--Vincent Van Gogh



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Posted on:11/4/09 @ 01:01 am
Subject: 'Portrait of a Girl' by Mikhail Nesterov
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Study for 'Youth of St. Sergiy Radonezhsky'. 1890-91. Oil on panel. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.



Olga's Gallery

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Posted on:11/2/09 @ 06:47 pm
Subject: Alfred Hitchcock film scenes recreated in Plexiglas and paper tape
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2 Nov 09



The scene from Spellbound, made of paper tape on clear plastic - (Mark Khaisman/BNPS)

The monochrome world of Hitchcock’s Spellbound has been revisited in a new artistic medium — layers of brown parcel tape stuck on to a 4ft-high sheet of clear plastic through which light is shone.

The scene, taken from the director’s 1945 drama starring Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck, was created by Mark Khaisman, who sells his works for up to $10,000 (£6,000).

Mr Khaisman, 51, from Philadelphia, previously worked with stained glass before switching to parcel tape.

“The work is made from layer upon layer of translucent packing tape, applied to clear Plexiglas and placed in front of a light box to give shadow and depth,” said Mr Khaisman. “My art is a conversation with light.”
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