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12 August 2019

Maker.

J.R.R. Tolkien: A Study Of The Maker Of Middle-Earth ...

30 April 2019

Happy Birthday, Thompson

Thompson, Map of British North America, 1814

David Thompson was born on this date in 1770.

David Thompson’s experiences as an explorer and surveyor have earned him the reputation as a pioneer geographer in North America. Thompson mapped almost half of North America between the Great Lakes and the Pacific coast.

Uncharted Territory: David Thompson on the Columbia Plateau ...

Shadows of David Thompson, HERE.

28 March 2019

Imagine.

You can't imagine what it's like. There was the green, this grass, that just went on forever, and the clay, the infield, the dirt of the infield, so brown, and the bases were so white and the scoreboard with all of that news, you know, Ballantine beer, and what was happening in Detroit, all the news, it was this big gigantic place ...

There was a great deal of respect in that building, for the past, and for the game.

Billy Crystal

I was hit the same way when I walked up the steps to our seats in old Tiger Stadium and saw the lush green of the grass and the glaring white of the Tigers' uniforms the day my Dad took me to see my first game, May 15, 1976. I saw Mark Fidrych pitch.

24 March 2019

Treasures.

Andrew Graham-Dixon's BBC documentary, Treasures of Heaven ...

15 April 2018

Happy birthday, Leonardo.

Leonardo, Leaf of Sage, Codex Atlanticus, 1499

Leonardo da Vinci was born on this day in 1452.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

Leonardo da Vinci

The BBC's, Leonardo da Vinci: The Man Who Wanted to Know Everything ...

08 March 2018

Myths and Moundbuilders

From the PBS series, Odyssey ...

29 November 2017

Happy birthday, Lewis.

C.S. Lewis was born on this day in 1898.

In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life. Smewgy taught us Latin and Greek, but everything else came in incidentally. The books I liked best under his teaching were Horace’s Odes, Aeneid IV, and Euripides’ Bacchae. I had always in one sense "liked" my classical work, but hitherto this had been the pleasure that everyone feels in mastering a craft. Now I tasted the classics as poetry.

C.S. Lewis

Surprised by Joy ...

03 October 2017

Journey: Behind the Music (Director´s Cut)

SPOILER ALERT: Nothing good happens after 1980 (I blame him).

22 September 2017

Flies.

The 1963 movie adaptation of Sir William Golding's novel, Lord of the Flies ...

Time Flies, a documentary of the 1996 reunion of the Lord of the Flies cast and crew ...

19 September 2017

Happy birthday, Lanois.

The Medicine Man, Daniel Lanois, was born on this day in 1951.

"The Maker"

Then ...

Now ...

Here Is What Is ...

30 August 2017

Happy birthday, David.

David, Alphonse Leroy, 1783

Jaques-Louis David was born on this day in 1748.

The David episode of Simon Schama's Power of Art ...

01 August 2017

Courageous.

Courageous: Ted Turner & the 1977 America´s Cup ...

13 July 2017

Wrenched.

CONNECT

07 June 2017

Wind.

Neil’s like a force of nature, he’s like having the wind in your band. He’s like adding nitroglycerin to the mix. He’s pretty powerful.

David Crosby

He can't sing. He can't play. He's great.

Tom Earls

Don't Be Denied ...

10 May 2017

Transcontinental.

On this day in 1869, a golden spike was driven at Promontory, Utah, marking the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States.

The BBC's presentation of The Line ...

25 April 2017

Legend.

Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent explores the remarkable life of Jeremiah Tower, one of the most controversial and influential figures in the history of American gastronomy. Tower began his career at the renowned Chez Panisse in Berkeley in 1972, becoming a pioneering figure in the emerging California cuisine movement. After leaving Chez Panisse, due in part to a famously contentious relationship with founder Alice Waters, Tower went on to launch his own legendary Stars Restaurant in San Francisco. Stars was an overnight sensation and soon became one of America’s top-grossing U.S. restaurants. After several years, Tower mysteriously walked away from Stars and then disappeared from the scene for nearly two decades, only to resurface in the most unlikely of places: New York City’s fabled but troubled Tavern on the Green. There, he launched a journey of self-discovery familiar to anyone who has ever imagined themselves to be an artist. Featuring interviews by Mario Batali, Anthony Bourdain, Ruth Reichl and Martha Stewart, this delicious documentary tells the story of the rise and fall of America’s first celebrity chef, whose brash personality and culinary genius has made him a living legend.

CONNECT

15 April 2017

Happy birthday, Leonardo.

Leonardo (attr.), Portrait of a Man in Red Chalk, 1513

Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.

Leonardo

The Man Who Wanted to Know Everything ...

13 April 2017

Happy birthday, Jefferson.

Scully, Jefferson (detail), 1821

Thomas Jefferson was born on this day in 1743.

I have sworn upon the altar of god, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Thomas Jefferson

Ken Burns' outstanding Thomas Jefferson ...

29 March 2017

Obata.

Thanks, Jess.

21 March 2017

Happy birthday, Bach.

Haussmann, Bach, 1748

Johann Sebastian Bach was born on this day in 1685.

What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.

Johann Sebastian Bach

Pablo Casals performs one of the greatest pieces of music ever written, Bach's Cello Suite No.1 in G major, BWV 1007 (the Sarabande is at 8:09) ...

Bach: A Passionate Life ...

BARRY HINES

"That's why it makes me mad when I take her out and I'll hear somebody say, 'Look, there's Billy Casper there wi' his pet hawk. I could shout at 'em; it's not a pet, Sir, hawks are not pets. Or when folks stop me and say, 'Is it tame?' Is it heck tame, it's trained that's all. It's fierce, and it's wild, an' it's not bothered about anybody, not even about me, right. And that's why it's great.Look, there's Billy Casper there wi' his pet hawk.' I could shout at 'em. It's not a pet, Sir. Hawks are not pets. Or when folks stop me and say, 'Is it tame?' Is it heck tame, it's trained, that's all. It's fierce, and it's wild, an' it's not bothered about anybody, not even about me right. And that's why it's great." (A Kestrel for a Knave)

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

"When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone and of good cheer – say travelling in a carriage or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep – it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence, and how, they come I know not ; nor can I force them. Those ideas that please me I retain in memory and am accustomed, as I have been told, to hum them to myself. If I continue in this way, it soon occurs to me how I may turn this dainty morsel to account, so as to make a good dish of it. That is to say, agreeable to the rules of counterpoint, to the peculiarities of various instruments etc. All this fires my soul, and, provided I am not disturbed, my subject enlarges itself, becomes methodised, and defined, and the whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind, so that I can survey it like a fine picture or a beautiful statue at a glance. Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them, as it were, all at once. What a delight this is, I cannot tell."

WALT WHITMAN

The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering. I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. The last scud of day holds back for me, It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadow’d wilds, It coaxes me to the vapor and the dusk. I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun, I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags. I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles. You will hardly know who I am or what I mean, But I shall be good health to you nevertheless, And filter and fibre your blood. Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, Missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you.

MARCUS AURELIUS

"Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?' neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility."

VINCENT van GOGH

"What am I in the eyes of most people? A nonentity or an oddity or a disagreeable person — someone who has and will have no position in society, in short a little lower than the lowest. Very well — assuming that everything is indeed like that, then through my work I’d like to show what there is in the heart of such an oddity, such a nobody. This is my ambition, which is based less on resentment than on love in spite of everything, based more on a feeling of serenity than on passion. Even though I’m often in a mess, inside me there’s still a calm, pure harmony and music. In the poorest little house, in the filthiest corner, I see paintings or drawings. And my mind turns in that direction as if with an irresistible urge. As time passes, other things are increasingly excluded, and the more they are the faster my eyes see the picturesque. Art demands persistent work, work in spite of everything, and unceasing observation."

DAN CAMPBELL