Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Sunday, January 07, 2007
Moonlight Sonata
Ignacy Jan Paderewski (November 6, 1860 - June 29, 1941) OBE was a Polish pianist, composer, diplomat and politician, and the third Prime Minister of Poland.
this is a piano roll recording he made in 1914 of the first and second movements of Beethoven's Sonata Op.27 No.2: (click here)
(more such goodies here)
Saturday, January 06, 2007
resolution
to accept the cruel curse of mediocrity, and to scorn it
both as producer and as consumer, therefore, henceforth to eschew :
pictorialism in any form
the exoticism of poverty
the 'innocence' of children
the alluring 'beauty' of nature
the cuteness of pets
the otherness of animals
the celebration of the trivial
the trivialisation of the sacred
'war-torn' photojournalism - the porn of the culturally anaesthetised
the image whose only raison d'ĂȘtre is envy (that I were there rather than here)
the image whose only raison d'ĂȘtre is relief (that I'm here rather than there)
at least, until the snow comes ...
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