I was taken by Finding Everett Ruess, right when I saw it on Amazon's Vine newsletter.
Authors interview
Chris Mccandles and Into the wild
I am reading Night of the Republic. A review said its accessible poems but I find them untenable, even though they are of common places and everyday situations like scenes from a department store. The poet does have his style of bringing out a pattern in the endless routine arrangement of commodities, cans or shoes stacked high into the ceiling.I am looking for lines with influence like Say I starved from Ruess's 'Wilderness song'.
Net Galley Challenge
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Journals and Diaries
I picked up Alfred kazin's journals without knowing who Alfred kazin. There's something about diaries and journals that we want to read them to know life and times of yours or others.
NYT article
Slate article
Washington times article
I was dissuaded to not read Tina's Mouth - An existential comic diary after the 'high school' got drilled into my head.
NYT article
Slate article
Washington times article
I was dissuaded to not read Tina's Mouth - An existential comic diary after the 'high school' got drilled into my head.
Food and preachers
After reading The Boy in the Moon, I wanted to know if Megans secrets will show the parent of a disabled child with different learning. I realise that I picked this book from Christian section. I am a bit apprehensive if it gets too preachy. I have a similar feeling about Love, God and the art of French cooking. Its coincidental that the
Authors blog has a title picture of chips and guacamole.
Authors blog has a title picture of chips and guacamole.
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
How to bring out the artist in the photographer?
My friend while reading through the pages of Photographing Childhood - The Image and the Memory found an answer to her photographer friends question of how to get natural photos of children who begin to pose as soon as they are in front of the camera. This from the explaining subtexts accompanying the photos. Even a casual reader can learn by comparing the pictures to how they would have taken them.
Since the subject is child and 'childhood' is the most favorite phase of life for many, nostalgia cannot escape from the scrutiny of the author. The author explains her projects of photography, the inspiration, conception and execution of them. She then moves on to the timeline, history and work of photographers from the past who have captured childhood. The conversation is continued with introduction to work of contemporary photographers and the voices in their work.
There is some technical knowledge about the different terms involved in the equipment. The book has a pull-out which puts information in a matrix form as to what to expect from your child in terms of taking their photos as they add those years. The importance of light in the book will make you start imagining how different a picture might be from different sites.
I cant help thinking how robotic I have been in taking pictures all while.
Since the subject is child and 'childhood' is the most favorite phase of life for many, nostalgia cannot escape from the scrutiny of the author. The author explains her projects of photography, the inspiration, conception and execution of them. She then moves on to the timeline, history and work of photographers from the past who have captured childhood. The conversation is continued with introduction to work of contemporary photographers and the voices in their work.
There is some technical knowledge about the different terms involved in the equipment. The book has a pull-out which puts information in a matrix form as to what to expect from your child in terms of taking their photos as they add those years. The importance of light in the book will make you start imagining how different a picture might be from different sites.
I cant help thinking how robotic I have been in taking pictures all while.
Making Illusions
Who is not wowed by cinema, animation, special effects? And like at a magic show where a magician reveals all his tricks, the readers of 'Filming the Fantastic' - A Guide to Visual Effects Cinematography by Mark Sawicki will find themselves being welcomed into the 'hall of effects' with all the know-how not to just understand how its accomplished but to bring them about by yourself at an affordable price.
The book balances history of techniques, camera equipment,motion creation process, technical information of concepts involved and the most up to date technology used in the industry today. The techniques - zone method, depth of lens charts used by professionals in gauging if their pictures meet the exposure, focus requirement covered show how science has to work with art for a believable effect.
If you are a newbie to the effects, you will enjoy the book a lot. I heard of 'green screen' talk after 300 movie. The picture sequences in the book illustrate the concepts in action. The author starts with simple effects and then explains the combination of those. As you learn about how to use matte effects, dynamation, you really do enter the world of the fantastic not as an enthralled viewer but as a person exploding with ideas on 'image making'.
The book balances history of techniques, camera equipment,motion creation process, technical information of concepts involved and the most up to date technology used in the industry today. The techniques - zone method, depth of lens charts used by professionals in gauging if their pictures meet the exposure, focus requirement covered show how science has to work with art for a believable effect.
If you are a newbie to the effects, you will enjoy the book a lot. I heard of 'green screen' talk after 300 movie. The picture sequences in the book illustrate the concepts in action. The author starts with simple effects and then explains the combination of those. As you learn about how to use matte effects, dynamation, you really do enter the world of the fantastic not as an enthralled viewer but as a person exploding with ideas on 'image making'.
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Medicines Sans Frontieres
Hope in Hell
MSF in Haiti
When Kouchner, a gastroentologist claims that he was born 'too late to stop for the Holocaust', I wonder how we would have all reacted if it happened during our times.
Albert Schweitzer's story made another doctor to choose medicine. We too learnt of him as kids. He feels that working for MSF requires him to practise his profession like McGyver.
Looking at the picture of tents next to each other, each with a tight rope tied to stakes in a line, the stakes seem like people and the tents - megaliths.
Plumpynut
Bracelet of life
After earthquakes or to solve AIDS, when people look to MSF, we just need more such organizations with different skills.
A strong message in the book - Doctors cannot cure genocide.
Logisticians role.
MSf staff have faced abduction.
MSF in Haiti
When Kouchner, a gastroentologist claims that he was born 'too late to stop for the Holocaust', I wonder how we would have all reacted if it happened during our times.
Albert Schweitzer's story made another doctor to choose medicine. We too learnt of him as kids. He feels that working for MSF requires him to practise his profession like McGyver.
Looking at the picture of tents next to each other, each with a tight rope tied to stakes in a line, the stakes seem like people and the tents - megaliths.
Plumpynut
Bracelet of life
After earthquakes or to solve AIDS, when people look to MSF, we just need more such organizations with different skills.
A strong message in the book - Doctors cannot cure genocide.
Logisticians role.
MSf staff have faced abduction.
Beauty is truth?
The truth is in the flaw.
A card reader to exit the building is on the left.
On the left door is a sign
Use
Other door
Had the reader rightly been on the right side
it wouldnt need a correction sign.
May be the right door is too close to the corner.
In flaws, is certainty.
A card reader to exit the building is on the left.
On the left door is a sign
Use
Other door
Had the reader rightly been on the right side
it wouldnt need a correction sign.
May be the right door is too close to the corner.
In flaws, is certainty.
Beneath the sands of Egypt
mummyless coffins
The pictures in the book evoke the mysteries hidden.
After the description of rediscovery of KV60, the author writes down the path to his becoming an explorer.He then explains how the different courses equipped him with skills for archaelogy - identification bones - human and animal. In 'First Impressions' he observes that 'the pyramids are no longer the smooth-sided models of geometrical virtue that they once were'. He compares his impressions of the place with that of other people.
aish baladi
yardang
Koshari like Kichdi
Lighthouse of Alexandria
ancient library of Alexandria
Gebel Musa monastery
Elephantine island
Soknopaiou Nesos
Birket Qarun Lake
In the nineteenth century, tourists could buy mummies and coffins.
A new theory about how the pyramids were built. Did you see the ropes being used? The author talks of the importance of cordage study in understanding how ropes were used to haul the stones into the pyramids. He dispels the curse related with the tombs.
Hogarth
Asyut
An article
mummyless coffins
The pictures in the book evoke the mysteries hidden.
After the description of rediscovery of KV60, the author writes down the path to his becoming an explorer.He then explains how the different courses equipped him with skills for archaelogy - identification bones - human and animal. In 'First Impressions' he observes that 'the pyramids are no longer the smooth-sided models of geometrical virtue that they once were'. He compares his impressions of the place with that of other people.
aish baladi
yardang
Koshari like Kichdi
Lighthouse of Alexandria
ancient library of Alexandria
Gebel Musa monastery
Elephantine island
Soknopaiou Nesos
Birket Qarun Lake
In the nineteenth century, tourists could buy mummies and coffins.
A new theory about how the pyramids were built. Did you see the ropes being used? The author talks of the importance of cordage study in understanding how ropes were used to haul the stones into the pyramids. He dispels the curse related with the tombs.
Hogarth
Asyut
An article
Books I like to read some day
subject to writing style appeal
Book lust
The Long Walk
Full tilt
French Revolutions: Cycling the tour de France
Miles from Nowhere: A Round thw world bicycle adventure
Where the pavement ends
Two wheels north
Ultimate High
Two wheels in the dust
Catfish and Mandala
When I came across the title Solomon's Daughter, I was interested in knowing the mythical story. I wonder if we need time to play out life or if we can guess what is inevitable. Like evil balances good, does fate balance the certain,wished way of life?
Skywater
Few days ago, I picked a book Metamaus from the library. I am reading of it again in this book.
Book lust
The Long Walk
Full tilt
French Revolutions: Cycling the tour de France
Miles from Nowhere: A Round thw world bicycle adventure
Where the pavement ends
Two wheels north
Ultimate High
Two wheels in the dust
Catfish and Mandala
When I came across the title Solomon's Daughter, I was interested in knowing the mythical story. I wonder if we need time to play out life or if we can guess what is inevitable. Like evil balances good, does fate balance the certain,wished way of life?
Skywater
Few days ago, I picked a book Metamaus from the library. I am reading of it again in this book.
Sunday, November 13, 2011
A different Zen book
Zen in the art of writing by Ray Bradbury
His writing does come across as something that results from the way he wakes up with a thought explosion in his head each morning.
Reading about how he wrote many of his stories shows how he learnt his skill and how he enjoyed doing that. His way of writing doesnt associate with isolation or tiredness or block. In this sense its a different Zen.
He writes down all the situations that he found inspiring and leaves the reader there to start off writing.
11.17.2006
His writing does come across as something that results from the way he wakes up with a thought explosion in his head each morning.
Reading about how he wrote many of his stories shows how he learnt his skill and how he enjoyed doing that. His way of writing doesnt associate with isolation or tiredness or block. In this sense its a different Zen.
He writes down all the situations that he found inspiring and leaves the reader there to start off writing.
11.17.2006
Excellent choice of words
The Life of skies by Jonathan Rosen
Right from the word go i.e the title, every word adds meaning to the experience had by Jonathan Rosen as a bird watcher. This is the first prologue that I didnt look for to end, as it already seemed like the book.
The book is divided into two parts :
PartI - Backyard Birds
PartII- Birds of Paradise.
Through the experiences of Audubon with his pet parrot and the killer monkey, Whitman's with mocking birds and the resultant poetry, Roosevelt's contribution to preservation of wildlife and his own from a decade of birdwatching, the author tries to get to the core of what this act means to him.
Looking at the evolution of his answers, looks like he will find many more spokes out of it other than the ones hes already meditated on. One tough nut is the instinct of hunting Vs conservation of birds. Theres a bit of history of land as it relates to migration, borders from his experience birdwatching in Palestine.
He blends fictional stories like 'The Bear' by Faulkner with non fictional acounts of bird sightings to bring across his point to the reader. Solomon stories, conference of birds, DH Lawrence, Thomas Hardy - everyone's welcome to the bounty.
The first essay 'the Ghost Bird' is about the history of Ivory Bill's extinction or man's desperate attempt at falsifying it by spotting one. This concern carries into other chapters and winds up the book too.
Illustrations make the book even more interesting.
p232. Stork with spear is very touching
Initially the book leaned more towards extinct birds
like passenger pigeons(it took me a while to imagine their number when present and believe that they are none now), carolina parakeets, eventually it did rake up my interest in putting the bird guide book to use.
If you decide to go birdwatching and its the first time, its better to go on a guided bird walk.
Whats bioblitz? Be open to know lots of such new things...
5/5. 5.9.2009
Right from the word go i.e the title, every word adds meaning to the experience had by Jonathan Rosen as a bird watcher. This is the first prologue that I didnt look for to end, as it already seemed like the book.
The book is divided into two parts :
PartI - Backyard Birds
PartII- Birds of Paradise.
Through the experiences of Audubon with his pet parrot and the killer monkey, Whitman's with mocking birds and the resultant poetry, Roosevelt's contribution to preservation of wildlife and his own from a decade of birdwatching, the author tries to get to the core of what this act means to him.
Looking at the evolution of his answers, looks like he will find many more spokes out of it other than the ones hes already meditated on. One tough nut is the instinct of hunting Vs conservation of birds. Theres a bit of history of land as it relates to migration, borders from his experience birdwatching in Palestine.
He blends fictional stories like 'The Bear' by Faulkner with non fictional acounts of bird sightings to bring across his point to the reader. Solomon stories, conference of birds, DH Lawrence, Thomas Hardy - everyone's welcome to the bounty.
The first essay 'the Ghost Bird' is about the history of Ivory Bill's extinction or man's desperate attempt at falsifying it by spotting one. This concern carries into other chapters and winds up the book too.
Illustrations make the book even more interesting.
p232. Stork with spear is very touching
Initially the book leaned more towards extinct birds
like passenger pigeons(it took me a while to imagine their number when present and believe that they are none now), carolina parakeets, eventually it did rake up my interest in putting the bird guide book to use.
If you decide to go birdwatching and its the first time, its better to go on a guided bird walk.
Whats bioblitz? Be open to know lots of such new things...
5/5. 5.9.2009
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