i am a deeply religious nonbeliever

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever.

This is somewhat new kind of religion. I have never imputed to Nature a purpose or a goal, or anything that could be understood as anthropomorphic.What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility.

My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the betterment and ennoblement of life does not need the idea of a law-giver. Especially a law-giver who works on the basis of reward and punishment.

To assume the existence of an unperceivable being… does not facilitate understanding the orderliness we find in the perceivable world. I don`t try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.






text : Albert Einstein
images : Kazuo Ohno

Wed, Feb 10, 2010  Permanent link
Categories: quote collage

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geo & graphia

To me, it seems a
dreadful
indignity
to
have
a soul 
controlled
by
geography.










text : George Santayana
image & music : Piers Faccini, Tribe, from the album My Wilderness, 2011.

Thu, May 10, 2012  Permanent link

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-i-m-a-g-e-

The image .... always has the last word.



But I never looked like that! - How do you know? What is the ‘you’ you might or might not look like? Where do you find it - by which morphological or expressive calibration? Where is your authentic body? You are the only one who can never see yourself except as an image; you never see your eyes unless they are dulled by the gaze they rest upon the mirror or the lens (I am interested in seeing my eyes only when they look at you): even and especially for your own body, you are condemned to the repertoire of its images.









text : Roland Barthes, Barthes by Barthes, 1977.
image+video : Sigalit Landau, DeadSee, 2005.

Sat, May 5, 2012  Permanent link

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mind land (E) scape

O, what a world of unseen visions and heard silences, this insubstantial country of the mind! What ineffable essences, these touchless rememberings and unshowable reveries! And the privacy of it all! A secret theater of speechless monologue and prevenient counsel, an invisible mansion of all moods, musings, and mysteries, an infinite resort of disappointments and discoveries. A whole kingdom where each of us reigns reclusively alone, questioning what we will, commanding what we can. A hidden hermitage where we may study out the troubled book of what we have done and yet may do. An introcosm that is more myself than anything I can find in a mirror. This consciousness that is myself of selves, that is everything, and yet is nothing at all - what is it? 
And where did it come from? 
And why?














text : Julian Jaynes, from the Introduction to his book:
"The Origin of Consciousness in the Break-down of the Bicameral Mind".
image : Tabaimo
video : Tabaimo's Teleco-Soup, La Biennale di Venezia, 2011.
a multimedia installation composed of surreal animation, drawing hands and architectural objects.
more videos of her work : Furo (with Batsheve Dance Company), Kitchen, Japanese Bath house.

Sat, Mar 31, 2012  Permanent link

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T'is weird, being a Human.

Q: Do you think your films are weird?

A: I think 2b alive is weird.
2 have hands, 2 have fingers - is weird.
You don't realize is weird? ....
2 have a prick, balls, asshole, 2 eat and 2 shit - is weird, so weird.
2 go inside that (body) .....
Inside that, I am not that.
Inside that I have no nationality.
Inside that, I have no age. I have no name.
I am not a man. And I am not a human being.
Inside, i am other things, I don't know what I am but I am not that (touches his own body).
t'is weird .... t'is ... weird.
If that is weird, so 2 make pictures is weird.







quote : Alejandro Jodorowsky
image : Syncopath, Mannequin shop in TLV.
video : an interview in BBC Collective
+ a short excerpt from his 1973 cult film The Holy Mountain.

Wed, Mar 28, 2012  Permanent link

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kōmōidía & tragōidia

a tragedy consists of the same elements as a comedy -
that is,
the twenty-four letters of the alphabet.











text : Aristotle, Metaphysics.
video clip : Tom Waits, Satisfied, Bad as Me, 2011.
Tom Waits about this song in an interview:
"It's just a shout out. I was just caught up in the moment. And then making it kind of an answer to "Satisfaction": "Can't get no satisfaction... my ass, you can't get no satisfaction!" So that was just being refuckulous. It's an evangelical litany of life affirmations."

Fri, Mar 16, 2012  Permanent link

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Nothing 2say about Love

I have nothing to say about love.















quote : Jacques Derrida
image : "In the Mood for Love", Kar Wai Wong, 2000.
video : from "Derrida" documentary, 2002.

Sat, Mar 3, 2012  Permanent link

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Doors of Perception
Project: The Total Library

If the doors of perception were cleansed
Every thing would appear to man as it is,
infinite.












text : William Blake
from: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1793)
photo : Syncopath, Bela Bartok House Museum, Budapest.
video clip : The Legend of 1900 (last scene dialogue, where the pianist tells his friend
how the finite 88 keys of the piano served him as a source for infinite making music ....)

Mon, Feb 27, 2012  Permanent link

Sent to project: The Total Library

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KNOW HOPE

This
suspense
is
terrible.

I
hope
it
will
last.












quote : Oscar Wilde (from "The Importance of Being Earnest").
images : Know Hope (a renowned international street artist, based in Tel-Aviv)

Tue, Feb 21, 2012  Permanent link

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Onkalo 's Waltz

Hiding places there are innumerable,
escape is only one,
but possibilities for escape,
again,
are as many as hiding places.











text : Franz Kafka
image+video from "Into Eternity" by Michael Madsen (Denmark, 2010)
clip editing : syncopath.

remark : Onkalo (Finnish; hiding place) is a place 2 Remember 2 Forget.

Sat, Feb 11, 2012  Permanent link

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