It is the function of creative men to perceive the relations between thoughts, or things, or forms of expression that may seem utterly different and to be able to combine them into some new form’. William Plomer
Some inspirational snippets and recommendations for your weekend
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Something to Watch: Ā
DVD: Ā Let the Right One In
INTIMATE, DENSE, IMAGINATIVE
A  film  directed by Tomas Alfredson with a screenplay by John Ajvide Lindqvist (adapted from his book of the same name ) from 2008 starring  KÄre Hedebrant and Lina Leandersson. A  sensitive and lyrical  horror film (yes, they can be) about a  young boy Oskar  and his blossoming friendship with Eli which becomes a tale of life and death.
Why you could watch it:
For its subtlty, Ā sensitivity and lyricism. Ā It has a few vampiric moments but it’s actually an egrossing tale about friendship, love Ā and not fitting in. Ā Elements of our lives that we have all shared. And the young leads are great too.
Here’s the author, Lindquist, talking about his book:
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Something To Listen To:Ā
Gavin Bryars: Jesus’ Blood Never Left Me Yet
MESMERISING, SOULFUL, DELICATE
A piece composed from a drunken song he heard being sung by a person living rough on the streets in London. Looping the words round and round he created this:
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Something To Look At:
George Braque (1882-1963) Ā
SPLITTING, RESTORING, DEFINING
- 20thĀ century French painter and sculptor, who along with Pablo Picasso developed the art style known as Cubism
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- An Interesting Mini-Audio onĀ Georges Braque’s, Mandoline Ć la sonate
- Conor Jordan, Deputy Chairman of Christie’s autioneers discusses Mandoline a la Sonate
- http://www.christies.com/features/audio-georges-braque-mandoline-a-la-sonate-2266-4.aspx
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Something To Read:
Gertrude Stein
(1874-1946)
- EXPERIMENTING, QUESTIONING, EXCHANGING
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- Here’s an Audio Biography of Stein:
- http://www.biography.com/people/gertrude-stein-9493261
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And Excerpts from Tender Buttons (1914)
From ‘Objects’
A Long Dress
What is the current that makes machinery, that makes it crackle, what is the current that presents a long line and a necessary waist. What is this current.Ā Ā What is the wind, what is it.Ā Ā Where is the serene length, it is there and a dark place is not a dark place, only a white and red are black, only a yellow and green are blue, a pink is scarlet, a bow is every color. A line distinguishes it. A line just distinguishes it.Ā
Ā A Red Hat
Ā Ā Ā A dark grey, a very dark grey, a quite dark grey is monstrous ordinarily, it is so monstrous because there is no red in it. If red is in everything it is not necessary. Is that not an argument for any use of it and even so is there any place that is better, is there any place that has so much stretched out.Ā
For more see:
- http://www.bartleby.com/140/
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- Here’s an online version of her famous Cubist influenced novel Three Lives (1906):
- http://www.bartleby.com/74/
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Something To Think About:
FLUX, PATHS, FLUIDITY
Heraclitus (c535 BCE-c475BCE)
- A Greek Philosopher
- famous for his insistence on ever-present change in theĀ universe
Much learning does not teach understanding.
Knowing not how to listen, they do not [know]Ā how to speak
Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/h/heraclitus.html#5LqJL3LAH517voLr.99Ā
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A Reading on Heraclitus from Bertand Russell’s The History of Western Philosophy:
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Something For You:
Ā Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis; because both are ourselves. The tangerine I am eating is me. The mustard greens I am planting are me. I plant with all my heart and mind. I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath. Nothing should be treated more carefully than anything else. In mindfulness, compassion, irritation, mustard green plant, and teapot are all sacred.Ā Thich Nhat Hanh Ā Ā