For a long time I’ve been meaning to write something about Bergman’s Fanny and Alexander, but I never did. Perhaps people remember F&A best for its scenes of turn of the century family life. My memories are a bit different, I’m interested most in the storyline towards the end, concerning Isak Jacobi and Ismail Redzinsky. [...]
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ischa
August 4, 2008 – 8:38 pm
Ischa Meijer z.l. interviews jazz singer and psychologist Soesja Citroen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXW6G7yzYts
rage
August 3, 2008 – 10:44 pm
I’m in a long, protracted celebration of the yahrzeit of my loss of visual things. First of all photography. A loss of sensory perception, never mind compensating or “playing by ear”. It feels like the loss of a precious gift. It is now slipping away from me. I don’t know if I care, I probably [...]
polder
August 3, 2008 – 5:11 pm
Having been invited to a meeting at “Aardzee“, which can be found right in the middle of what used to be “Oostelijk Flevoland”, I also had an opportunity to visit G., who is the recumbent/advanced cycle guru of the Netherlands and beyond. He holds court in Dronten, so it was a real scenic detour. I [...]
startled
July 30, 2008 – 7:34 pm
A discussion at flickr’s “utata” startled me. It was about photographing in hospital waiting rooms and such, and I remembered how I shot everything, frantically, obsessively when I was in hospital in 2006/7. That resulted in a pretty large archive of files, which I’ve carefully archived and stored, but I show those photographs to no [...]
daft
July 4, 2008 – 8:32 pm
From Daft Punk’s “electroma” (part 2 is here)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUJZhJFQSY0
birdsong
July 2, 2008 – 8:02 am
Sometimes I’m on skype with a friend, and - because the sound quality is pretty good - I can hear the most fantastic birdsong in the background. Formerly, I relied on written communication more: it was almost always easier to reach me by email than by phone. Now, I’ve started using my voice more, so, [...]
visual
June 24, 2008 – 8:48 pm
The other day I was in a conversation about how the language I use for “perception” seems to be changing. I hadn’t noticed it myself but apparently it was very noticeable. It’s true, I’ve been noticing changes, but I wasn’t sure if what I was registering would really constitute “a change”. I must say, I [...]
trial
June 23, 2008 – 6:53 am
I’m in drug-trial territory now, and I’m starting one tomorrow. I have information sheets which carry dire warnings about touching even the outside of capsules. That’s how toxic the stuff really is. But it can be taken by mouth, no IV necessary, so at least I’ll be in my own home. This is not always [...]
salt
June 22, 2008 – 9:44 pm
Traveling, pilgrimage, our longing for places far away all have their roots in our pastoralist origins. Moving cattle from summer pastures to winter pastures (trans humance, such as is still practiced in Spain, France and in the Alps). The landscapes we instinctively like and the way we lay out our gardens are all related to [...]
