Saturday, 9 October 2010

More Past Than Future

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
— William Shakespeare 'Richard II'

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.
— William Shakespeare 'Henry IV Part 2'

Friday, 8 October 2010

… And Vice Versa

There's many a man has more hair than wit.
— William Shakespeare 'A Comedy of Errors'

When The Mode Of The Music Changes

The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
— William Shakespeare 'The Merchant of Venice'

Cry Baby

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools …
— William Shakespeare 'King Lear'

Tuesday, 5 October 2010

Common Ancestor: > 1 Billion Years Ago

Wings Of Desire

Happily Ever After

Hansel and Gretel are alive and well
And they're living in Berlin
She is a cocktail waitress
He had a part in a Fassbinder film
— Laurie Anderson 'The Dream Before'

Monday, 4 October 2010

Chthonic

Common Ancestor: 590 Million Years Ago

The Sleepwalkers

Existence is a stage on which we pass,
a sleepwalk trick for mind and heart
— Peter Hammill 'Childlike Faith In Childhood's End'

Sunday, 3 October 2010

Dali Painting

Velasquez Painting


Vermeer Painting

Lost In A Forest Of Pronouns

From Being To Becoming

So leave the ways that are making you be
What you really don’t want to be
Leave the ways that are making you love
What you really don’t want to love
— Nick Drake 'Time Has Told Me'

paraNormal Distribution

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
— Kurt Vonnegut

Thursday, 30 September 2010

The Metathing Is Not The Thing

The Imaginary Cinephile

I want to regard my public as infinitely intelligent, as understanding notions of the suspension of disbelief and as realising all the time that this is not a slice of life, this is openly a film.
— Peter Greenaway

Proverb

Too many proofs spoil the truth.
— Peter Greenaway

Profit-Maximising Cinema

There are, after all, approaches to be made other than the dependable routes that massage sentimental expectations and provide easy opportunities for emotional identification.
— Peter Greenaway

Angles On Experience

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher … or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
— Douglas Adams 'The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy'

Waterfall

Virtual Unreality

We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality.
— Peter Greenaway