This collection of quotes is being compiled by Lo Snöfall

13 September 2014

stills from Duo Moon 2012 by Martin Thomas

12 September 2014

11 September 2014

I am not obsessed. I am compelled.


  ... Synchronicity is the coming together of inner and outer events in a way that cannot be explained by cause and effect and that is meaningful to the observer.
—And we include in our discussions Kammerer’s recognition of seriality as a form of meaningful coincidence, which, while not considered by Jung, is encountered in such events as the significant repetition of songs, numbers, and phrases...
To understand how synchronicity manifests itself, we’ll look at the three patterns in which it appears in our lives: single synchronicities; strings of synchronicities that drive home a point; and meaning-packed, multilayered synchronicity clusters...
Carl Jung drew upon Kammerer's work in his essay Synchronicity. Koestler reported that, when researching for his biography about Kammerer, he himself was subjected to "a meteor shower" of coincidences - as if Kammerer's ghost were grinning down at him saying, "I told you so!"
 ... advocated the Lamarckian theory of inheritance – the notion that organisms may pass to their offspring characteristics they have acquired in their lifetime.
 Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events as meaningfully related, where they are unlikely to be causally related. The subject sees it as a meaningful coincidence.
 

08 September 2014


true – false
real – unreal
good – bad
right – wrong
affirmable – deniable

The compound of ideas I have in mind is
true (as in comprehensible)
a mixture of real and unreal
mostly good and sometimes bad (unpleasant in some of its manifestations)
mostly right and partly wrong (as in unsuitable).
Im affirming it and rarely deny it.


04 September 2014


Last Judgment detail
http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/giotto-arena-chapel-part-1.html


Joachim and Anna at the Golden Gate

31 August 2014



“The Japanese Footbridge and the Water Lily Pool, Giverny,” 1899, by Claude Monet

23 August 2014

"Nu pendlar jag mellan ytterligare två saker som har med det ni sade om världar att göra. Dels talar ni om ett accepterande och ett fungerande inom en given världs, inom logos grundvalar och yttersta gränser, utan att ifrågasätta dem eller försöka omstörta dem… Skulle jag då kunna kalla denna aktivitet kosmografisk?...
Och dels talar ni om en aktivitet som öppnar vägen till det som jag vill kalla kosmogoniskt… Verksamheten som har som sitt mål en kvalitativt grundlig förändring av världen och tillträdet i ett rum som ligger bortom logos övermakt...
Varenda en av era termer måste finnas i hjärtat av de andra..."

http://chromatachromata.com/blanchot-promenerar/

17 July 2014

Can information lie dormant for ages awaiting suitable circumstances to awaken?
Like Lambsquarters and Lotus seeds remain viable for thousands of years:

Lotus Nelumbo nucifera

Common Lambsquarters (Chenopodium album L.) Photo by Leo Michels



10 July 2014

VELAZQUEZ

http://www.diegovelazquez.org/Infante-Felipe-Pr%C3%B3spero-c.-1660-large.html    

http://www.diegovelazquez.org/St--Anthony-Abbot-And-St--Paul-The-Hermit-large.html
http://www.diegovelazquez.org/The-White-Horse-large.html

28 June 2014

Not Quite Everything?

26 May 2014











En vilande gleshet med djupa nyanser
och en långsam rörelse framåt
förde oss från Linnéparken
till den katolska kyrkans norra sida i Kalmar.

I den korta pausen i Emmaboda
var det vi och allting som räknade med en obestämd konfrontation
på gräsplanen mellan de gamla kyrkorna,
under en undanskymd förväntan på det tidsfärgade caféet
och i den sprida doften av världslighet
som fick oss lyfta några centimeter från den fuktiga marken.

Ibland efter en tanke, ibland framför den,
fram och tillbaka,
katedraler av närvaro,
av det som tätnar.  



Vasilis Papageorgiou

05 May 2014

https://publisher.qbrick.com/Embed.aspx?mid=100DAD6D
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankta_Maria_kyrka,_Ystad


http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornvakt
Tornvakten hade till uppgift att från ett av stadens torn, vanligtvis kyrktornen, hålla uppsikt över staden dag och natt efter eventuell brand eller annan fara som hotade...Vakten skulle också meddela klockslagen under dygnets mörka timmar, följt av en besvärjelse. Han kunde till exempel ropa: Klockan är nio slagen – Gud bevare staden för eld och brand och fiendehand. Många kyrktorn i Sverige har än idag bevarade utrymmen för tornvakten.
Ett gammalt tornväktarrop från Västerås domkyrka sjunget lyder: Klockan är 12 slagen. Guds härliga, milda och mäktiga hand bevare vår stad för eld och brand. Klockan är 12 slagen.
I Sankta Maria kyrkas torn i Ystad tjänstgör fortfarande en tornvakt, som regelbundet använder ett horn för att meddela att saker och ting är i sin ordning... Också i Centraleuropa fanns tornvakter och de finns exempelvis fortfarande kvar i tjänst i Krakow i Polen.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Mary%27s_Basilica,_Krak%C3%B3w
Church of Our Lady Assumed into Heaven
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Mary%27s_Trumpet_Call
Hejnał Mariacki (Polish; pronounced "Hey-now Mahr-yahts-kee", derived from a Hungarian expression meaning "Saint Mary's dawn"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatekeeper 

07 April 2014




Conquest
The First Horseman
of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
As depicted in the Bamberg Apocalypse (1000-1020).
The first "living creature" (with halo) is seen in the upper right.



There is such a feeling in me 
And since a few days
It is not really complicated
I have to say you

Yes, when we see each other again soon,
I am looking forward
until we take into our arms,
Please pass on to you.

Yes, when we see each other again soon,
I've been waiting on
until we see each other in the eye,
Please pass on to you.

All the hours you were there for me,
I owe you much,
much too rare that they say what,
from you I feel understood.

Yes, when we see each other again soon,

I am looking forward
until we take into our arms,
Please pass on to you.


Da ist so ein Gefühl in mir
Und schon seit ein paar Tagen
Es ist eigentlich nicht kompliziert
Ich muss es Dir nur sagen

Ja, wenn wir uns bald wieder sehn,
ich freue mich darauf,
bis wir uns in die Arme nehmen,
pass bitte auf Dich auf.

Ja, wenn wir uns bald wieder sehn,
ich warte schon darauf,
bis wir uns in die Augen sehn,
pass bitte auf Dich auf.

All die Stunden warst Du für mich da,
ich hab Dir Vieles zu verdanken,
viel zu selten, dass man so was sagt,
von Dir fühl ich mich verstanden.

Ja, wenn wir uns bald wieder sehn,
ich freue mich darauf,
bis wir uns in die Arme nehmen,
pass bitte auf Dich auf.

Enno Bunger 
Pass Auf Dich Auf
 
 



20 March 2014

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Fra Angelico, by J. B. Supino


The ressurection of the blessed and the dance of the angels


12 February 2014

11 February 2014

Hud’s molecule uses only two chemical letters, compared with RNA’s four, and the repeating units can easily come apart. That means it doesn’t have the informational content of RNA, an essential characteristic of life.
The molecules seem to seek one another out, reacting without a lot of chemical coaxing. Hud and others say this ease of creation is essential for reactions to have taken place in the chaotic chemical cauldron of early Earth.
Now, Hud's team have found that the presence of certain compounds can stabilise a growing strand of DNA. The compounds are known as intercalators - ... holding the structure in place with non-covalent interactions. The compounds have been termed midwife molecules by the team, since once the polymer is formed they are no longer needed.
'Our work suggests that there might be been a planar midwife molecule involved in the very beginnings of life on Earth,' Hud says. 'But it remains unidentified, and may not even still be around.'
'This study shows very nicely that a combination of nucleic acids and structurally unrelated molecules is more likely to produce a self-replicating system - and thus life - than nucleic acids alone,' 
A Approximate Jewel Heart
 The amplituhedron looks like an intricate, multifaceted jewel in higher dimensions. Encoded in its volume are the most basic features of reality that can be calculated, “scattering amplitudes,” which represent the likelihood that a certain set of particles will turn into certain other particles upon colliding.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/12/amplituhedron-jewel-quantum-physics/

10 February 2014

The hexadecimal color code #dfeff9 is a very light shade of cyan-blue. In the RGB color model #dfeff9 is comprised of 87.45% red, 93.73% green and 97.65% blue. In the HSL color space #dfeff9 has a hue of 203.08 degrees, 68.42% saturation and 92.55% lightness. This color has an approximate wavelength of 492 nm. Alcro Syre is a matching paint color.


http://www.gutenberg.org/files/33434/33434-h/33434-h.htm
"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing" is attributed to the poet Archilochus.

The Fox and the Cat is an ancient fable, with both Eastern and Western analogues involving different animals, that addresses the difference between resourceful expediency and a master strategem. In the basic story a cat and a fox discuss how many tricks and dodges they have. The fox says that he has many; the cat confesses to having only one – to climb a tree.
 Every classification throws light on something.



I try to be the Cat in that regard but

[post to be revised]

27 January 2014

Approximate Voronoi diagram of a set of points.
Notice the blended colors in the fuzzy boundary of the Voronoi cells. With epsilon=0.05 
  
 An alternative is to use approximate Voronoi diagrams, where the Voronoi cells have a fuzzy boundary, which can be approximated. 
Another alternative is when any site is a fuzzy circle and as a result the cells become fuzzy too.
Epsilon
 Gammelkyrkan restes på bara tre veckor nere vid Särnasjöns strand – exakt 40 år efter det att Särna erövrats från Norge vid kanske världshistoriens fredligast fältslag.
http://www.idresarnaforsamling.se/?page_id=2
Den byggdes av timmermän från Våmhus och Mora socknar. När väggarna och var uppsatta övergav dessa Morakarlar arbetet och Särnaborna fick själva bygga kyrkan färdigt.
Sockenmannen Israel Eriksson skänkte 1688 en altartavla – nattvarden – som idag hänger på kyrkans västra vägg.


Under senare delen av 1700-talet målades kyrkan vackert invändigt, av Erik och Nils  Wallin från Sveg.
”Väggarna vita och valvet målades med  mörkare himmelsfärger, på vilken himmel synes många skyar”.


 
 

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