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Letter from Southern France: First Impressions: Reporting &Essays: The New Yorke…
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Jul 16, 1:11pm
1 review
arts
•http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/20...
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"What does the world's oldest art say about us?"*
 "A frieze of horses and rhinos near the Chauvet cave's Megaloceros Gallery, where artists may have gathered to make charcoal for drawing. Chauvet contains the earliest known paintings, from at least thirty-two thousand years ago."
*Interesting article by Judith Thurman in the June 23rd 2008 issue of the New Yorker on the cave paintings of Southern France. Picasso is quoted there, referring to these ancient artists, as saying, "They've invented everything." Apparently, the subjects of these cave paintings were mostly of animals many that they hunted, very rarely were humans depicted. Further, it seems that these caves were apparently only stopping points for a people that were in the main nomadic. Ms. Thurman also points out that the Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens, who replaced the former, coexisted for a period of approximately 8,000 years (!) and yet there is no conclusive evidence that there was ever intermating between these species of humans, and if they did, it is possible that no offspring resulted or that possible offspring were infertile.
newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/23/080623fa_fact_thurman [newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/23/080623fa_fact_thurman]
Here is a brief excerpt:
"What those first artists invented was a language of signs for which there will never be a Rosetta stone; perspective, a technique that was not rediscovered until the Athenian Golden Age; and a bestiary of such vitality and finesse that, by the flicker of torchlight, the animals seem to surge from the walls, and move across them like figures in a magiclantern show (in that sense, the artists invented animation). They also thought up the grease lamp--a lump of fat, with a plant wick, placed in a hollow stone--to light their workplace; scaffolds to reach high places; the principles of stencilling and Pointillism; powdered colors, brushes, and stumping cloths; and, more to the point of Picasso's insight, the very concept of an image. A true artist reimagines that concept with every blank canvas--but not from a void."
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StumbleUpon - ankeas web site reviews and blog
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Jul 15, 8:07pm
96 reviews
stumblers
•http://ankea.stumbleupon.com/
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a stunner ... poetry and images to the limit ...
strikes with indelible impressions ...
erasable impressions that keep reappearing ...
sharp ...
a cool spirit haunts these pages ...
"Liquid Lady"
by Karen Rosenthal
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http://spacespin.org/images/articles/huge-black-holes-stifle-star-formation_2.jp…
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Jul 15, 5:15pm
1 review
astronomy
•http://spacespin.org/images/articles/...
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A star is not born ...
 "This artist's concept depicts a supermassive black hole at the centerof a galaxy. NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer found evidence that blackholes -- once they grow to a critical size -- stifle the formation ofnew stars in elliptical galaxies. Black holes are thought to do this byheating up and blasting away the gas that fuels star formation. The blue color here represents radiation pouring out from material veryclose to the black hole. The grayish structure surrounding the blackhole, called a torus, is made up of gas and dust. Beyond the torus,only the old red-colored stars that make up the galaxy can be seen.There are no new stars in the galaxy."
"Event Horizon"
A sneeze; a gull; an argument; a trip;
a finger bleeding from an envelope
whose clasp turned out to be sharp as a knife
so blood welling from my sudden cut
spots the page before I open it;
a leaking fountain pen; a piece of fruit
whose juice runs down my chin; the dolphin charm
on my new bracelet snagging in a lace
shawl as I turn the page. Remorseless foreground,
no one thing more real than any other.
--Reachel Hadas
theatlantic.com/doc/200808/poem-horizon [theatlantic.com/doc/200808/poem-horizon]
From the page, "Reachel Hadas's most recent collection of poems is River of Forgetfulness (2006). She teaches at Rutger's University."
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JPG Magazine: Photos: &Fairy Tales& by Wayne Bennett
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Jul 14, 6:45pm
2 reviews
photography
•http://jpgmag.com/photos/353974
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"Fairy Tales"
by Wayne Bennett
 And what a wondrous set of stories must be hidden here ...
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Shining Elegance : 1dak.com ||||
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Jul 14, 6:43pm
1 review
fine-art
•http://1dak.com/other/shining-elegance/
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"Shining Elegance"
by dak
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The Tunnel: Photo by Photographer Peter Daalder - photo.net
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Jul 14, 6:39pm
2 reviews
photography
•http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_...
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Never give up hope ...
 "The Tunnel" by Peter Dalder
Artist comments:
"Light at the end of the Tunnel 25-second interior exposure
of an abandoned historic railway tunnel..."
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Jul 14, 4:25pm
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Happy Bastille Day!
July 14, 2008
I was born and raised in New York City but today I am French!
Here is a link for the playing of, "La Marseillaise", the great National Anthem of France.
navyband.navy.mil/anthems/ANTHEMS/France.mp3 [navyband.navy.mil/anthems/ANTHEMS/France.mp3]
Here is a link for a history of this majestic music from the website of the Presidency of the Republic of France, (from the archives of President Jacques Chirac):
elysee.fr/elysee/francais/les_symboles_de_la_republique/la_marseillaise/la_... [elysee.fr/elysee/francais/les_symboles_de_la_republique/la_marseillaise/la_...]
You will find the complete lyrics to "La Marseillaise" at the above link as well.
I reproduce the first stanza and the refrain here:
"La Marseillaise"
1er couplet
Allons enfants de la Patrie,
Le jour de gloire est arrivé !
Contre nous de la tyrannie,
L'étendard sanglant est levé, (bis)
Entendez-vous dans les campagnes
Mugir ces féroces soldats ?
Ils viennent jusque dans vos bras
Egorger vos fils, vos compagnes !
Refrain :
Aux armes, citoyens,
Formez vos bataillons,
Marchons, marchons !
Qu'un sang impur
Abreuve nos sillons !
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StumbleUpon - nonkis web site reviews and blog
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Jul 13, 8:37pm
67 reviews
stumblers
•http://nonki.stumbleupon.com/
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The lilting light found
the beauty of an angel in white ...
Nonki's blog brings many pleasures to the senses ... thank you ...
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JPG Magazine: Photos: &Sleepy Peacock Hummingbird& by Chuck Koehler
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Jul 13, 11:47am
2 reviews
nature, photography
•http://jpgmag.com/photos/810907
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Sleepy Peacock Hummingbird
By Chuck Koehler
How a hummingbird's life astonishes me
From my ordinary cares sunset and sunrise
His tiny racing heart might fluster any
Script an electrocardiograph master may devise
And it's just as well for this creature
Has no use for charting its states of being
For until his work is done
He is not satisfied
And his work is never done...
Until his heart
Stops
--Dr.M
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Sakuran. by `zemotion on deviantART
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Jul 12, 7:37am
3 reviews
arts
•http://zemotion.deviantart.com/art/Sa...
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Sakuran
by zemotion
on deviantART
It is only when that moment arrives
She is at peace with the mystery of herself
It is within that moment that it becomes
Certain to her that this moment of moments
Remains always
With the clothes she may wear
With every sip of tea
With every taste sweet and bitter
With every line of poetry that she may read
With new risk and possibility in every line
With each dance step she may fashion
With every complex murmuring of her heart
With the sight of beauty in all things
With the evocation of primitive fragrances
The earth, the rain, the water, a dead friend
With the incense of her love making
With nothing in this moment strange
Beyond the limit of enchantment
With every thing her hands may touch
With utter surrender to her senses
The only gateway from her madness to live
Where she accepts the love of another and his mystery
To join in the peace and stillness of her awareness
With forgotten vulnerability
Reaching simplicity
Always here and everywhere
And has not changed
--Dr.M
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