Friday, May 15, 2009

: The Silver Years :






"My Last Erotic Poem," Words Aloud 2007, Canada




Liesbeth (76) and Cor (70)
MARRIE BOT 


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MARRIE BOT

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

:Line of Beauty and Grace :


Jock Sturges Documentary






A documentary about Jock Sturges

SYNOPSIS:

LINE OF BEAUTY AND GRACE is a tale about photography and art, family and life, dealing with the history of man and woman, life and art. Many art historians consider Jock Sturges, born in 1947, to be one of the most important fine art photographers of our times.

As a catholic and graduated in psychology and photography, he survived the attacks of conservatives in the United States. Sturges has created a series of intensely powerful and moving photographs with an outstanding sensitivity for composition and light. Sturges's artistic work is an uncompromising search for truth and clarity. His private life is marked by his open nature and inspired by the love he shares with his wife Maia.

In LINE OF BEAUTY AND GRACE, the filmmaker and photographer Christian E. Klinger journeys into the life and work of this extraordinary man.

: Eadweard J. Muybridge : 1830 ~ 1904




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WALKING DOWN STAIRS

Eadweard J. Muybridge (April 91830 – May 81904) was an English photographer, known primarily for his early use of multiplecameras to capture motion, and his zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting motion pictures that pre-dated the celluloid film strip that is still used today. The name "Eadweard Muybridge" is pronounced /ˌɛdwərd ˈmaɪbrɪdʒ/.

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For the 1893 World's Fair Muybridge produced disks for thephenakistoscope, a parlor toy used to view short motion sequences.

Friday, May 8, 2009

Friday, May 1, 2009

:Beltane :





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PAULO  By Mikel Marton

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Beltane: The Tree of Life


 
When in the springtime of the year
When the trees are crowned with leaves
When the ash and oak, and the birch and yew
Are dressed in ribbons fair...

--Loreena McKennitt


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Beltane is one of the four "fire festivals" or "greater sabbats". Although the holiday may use features of the Gaelic Bealtaine, such as the bonfire, it bears more relation to the Germanic May Day festival, both in its significance (focusing on fertility) and its rituals (such as maypole dancing). Some Wiccans celebrate 'High Beltaine' by enacting a ritual union of the May Lord and Lady.[4]      * ( wheel of the year)