Salif Keita

One of the week's best lastfm discoveries:

Budleigh

Seagulls to the left of me

 

and seagulls to the right.

Rocksteady

Further Kabloona-isms

"I pointed, we moved towards it, and there was no doubt about it: that black dot was a man. In this land of one million square miles inhabited by six thousand men, the sight of a human being is overwhelming; it creates an emotion that is like a seizure, difficult to describe."

"I am going to say to you that a human being can live without complaint in an ice-house built for seals at a temperature of fifty-five degrees below zero, and you are going to doubt my word. Yet what I say is true, for this was how Father Henry lived; and when I say 'ice-house for seals' I am not using metaphorical language. Father Henry lived in a hole dug out by the Eskimos in the side of a hill as a place in which to store seal meat in Summer."

A Portion Of Jagger Craziness

Watched Performance recently, still trying to piece together what I make of it. Think it'll take a few more viewings but for now this is one section of it that keeps resurfacing in my brain.

The thing turned towards you.

"Their word for polar bear is tara-i-tua-luk,'he who is without shadow' (though the polar bear is also

called 'the eternal vagabond'.

There is a sort of poetry of the concrete in their speech that is very moving. Thus, mi-kse, the

word for 'reality/ is literally translatable as 'the thing turned towards you.'"




- Gontran De Poncins on Inuit languages in 'Kabloona'.

Stuck in my head all week.

A Role Model

According to the caption beneath this photo from the book Home Work: Handbuilt Shelters, this young man is no more than fourteen years old. To my eye it would appear he's in the advanced stages of keeping it real, and for this reason Mickey is my role model of the week.

Found at an honesty-box stall selling a local variety of citrus called the Ponkan.

Janokuchi

From the disposable camera I used in Yakushima, southern Japan.

Tale Of Tales

I decided to revisit this animation the other day, and did not regret it.

"Tale of Tales, like Tarkovsky's Mirror, attempts to structure itself like a human memory. Memories are not recalled in neat chronological order; instead, they are recalled by the association of one thing with another, which means that any attempt to put memory on film cannot be told like a conventional narrative. The film is thus made up of a series of related sequences whose scenes are interspersed between each other. One of the primary themes involves war, with particular emphasis on the enormous losses the Soviet Union suffered on the Eastern Front during World War II. Several recurring characters and their interactions make up a large part of the film, such as the poet, the little girl and the bull, the little boy and the crows, the dancers and the soldiers, and especially the little grey wolf (Russian: се́ренький волчо́к, syeryenkiy volchok). Another symbol connecting nearly all of these different themes are green apples (which may symbolize life, hope, or potential). Yuriy Norshteyn wrote in Iskusstvo Kino magazine that the film is "about simple concepts that give you the strength to live."- Wikipedia.

Why Mexico Is A Lucky Bastard

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