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:
DVD: PERSONA
A film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman from 1966 starring Liv Ullman and Bibi Andersson. One of Bergman’s most influential films charting the startling merging of two women’s personalities and identities
Why you could watch it:
For the sheer innovation of the cinematography and camera angles, and for the intensity of the female leads and the morphing face frame which is incredibly powerful
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Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.
Ingmar Bergman
Read more at:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/i/ingmar_bergman.html#K8VAzzsscTTU023B.99
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Here’s the first part of an interview with Bergman .
Here are the other 5 links to the other parts of the interview:
Part 2: http://youtu.be/51WUgKcIXBw
Part 3: http://youtu.be/YRS6Uu9-OPk
Part 4: http://youtu.be/ROQZLJZ6aSs
Part 5: http://youtu.be/xt6UwqHPp54
Part 6: http://youtu.be/90CCPSAF4Zw
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CINEMA
Here’s another great film review of Life Of Pi by the tale of bengwy:
http://bengwy.wordpress.com/2012/12/23/life-of-pi-gonna-need-a-bigger-boat/
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Something To Listen To:
(1910-1979)
an English actress, comedienne, monologist and singer-songwriter
Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.
Joyce Grenfell
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Read more at:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/joyce_grenfell.html#4jClv7ijypO1ZoWX.99
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One of Grenfell’s comic monologues animated….
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Something To Look At:
(1898 – 1972)
‘known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints. These feature impossible constructions,explorations of infinity, architecture, and tessellations’. See link, left.
Official Website: http://www.mcescher.com/
‘He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.’
Read more at:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/m_c_escher.html#ijyRMKx9KTmI3CWQ.99
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We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
Read more at:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/m_c_escher.html#ijyRMKx9KTmI3CWQ.99
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My work is a game, a very serious game.
Read more at:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/m_c_escher.html#ijyRMKx9KTmI3CWQ.99
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Escher Inspired Animation:
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Something To Read:
Margaret Attwood
‘Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It’s like the tide going out, revealing whatever’s been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.” ― Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye
Cat’s Eyes is one of my favourite books of Atwoods; it made a real impression on me when I was younger, it helped…..
http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3472.Margaret_Atwood
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In the Secular Night
by Margaret Atwood
In the secular night you wander around
alone in your house. It’s two-thirty.
Everyone has deserted you,
or this is your story;
you remember it from being sixteen,
when the others were out somewhere, having a good time,
or so you suspected,
and you had to baby-sit.
You took a large scoop of vanilla ice-cream
and filled up the glass with grapejuice
and ginger ale, and put on Glenn Miller
with his big-band sound,
and lit a cigarette and blew the smoke up the chimney,
and cried for a while because you were not dancing,
and then danced, by yourself, your mouth circled with purple.
Now, forty years later, things have changed,
and it’s baby lima beans.
It’s necessary to reserve a secret vice.
This is what comes from forgetting to eat
at the stated mealtimes. You simmer them carefully,
drain, add cream and pepper,
and amble up and down the stairs,
scooping them up with your fingers right out of the bowl,
talking to yourself out loud.
You’d be surprised if you got an answer,
but that part will come later.
There is so much silence between the words,
you say. You say, The sensed absence
of God and the sensed presence
amount to much the same thing,
only in reverse.
You say, I have too much white clothing.
You start to hum.
Several hundred years ago
this could have been mysticism
or heresy. It isn’t now.
Outside there are sirens.
Someone’s been run over.
The century grinds on.
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/in-the-secular-night/
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Something To Think About:
(1912-2007)
American writer and feminist
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From Silences (1962) ….Literary history and the present are dark with silences: some the silences for years by our acknowledged great; some silences hidden; some the ceasing to publish after one work appears; some the never coming to book form at all. What is it that happens with the creator, to the creative process, in that time? What are creation’s needs for full functioning? Without intention of or pretension to literary scholarship, I have had special need to learn all I could of this over the years, myself so nearly remaining mute and having to let writing die over and over again in me. These are not natural silences….
For more go to:
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/m_r/olsen/silences.htm
Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used.
Read more at:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/tillie_olsen.html#XIZOYRGU8mItrKtT.99
I know that I haven’t powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.
Tillie Olsen
Read more at:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/tillie_olsen.html#62K8b2okBR34aBvK.99
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Something For You:
…Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. Viktor Frankl, from Man’s Search For Meaning
