Recently, a southernly snow and wind storm pushed lots of pack ice to our shores. At Paradise Beach, which is northeast of Grand Marais, the pack ice froze fast to the shore. At places the thick ice extends out over 50 yards. I found this great ice gully capturing sheet ice broken up by a slight Lake Superior swell. It was 0F when I took the photo. Brrrr.
Experimental and fun; electromagnetic and dream-like. Happiness First. Focus on What You Want. Life is a Dream. What You Focus on Becomes Real.
Friday, September 09, 2011
Ice Trapping Ice
Wednesday, September 07, 2011
Don Juan / Carlos Castaneda
"In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions."
~ Don Juan / Carlos Castaneda (Journey to Ixtlan)
Monday, September 05, 2011
Antoine de Saint Exupery
“You give birth to that on which you fix your mind.”
~ Antoine de Saint Exupery
Its all a post-hypnotic trance, ya'll.
Made in Adobe Illustrator CS5.1 and Photoshop CS5.1 using the rough_typewriter free font.
Saturday, September 03, 2011
e.e. cummings
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."
e.e. cummings, poet
Photo via: http://agooddaytodie.tumblr.com/
Friday, September 02, 2011
Eric Schmidt, Google Executive Chairman
"There is a hunger for a multi-platform, multi-vendor, highly competitive hardware platform, which is what Android essentially enables."
~ Eric Schmidt, Google Executive Chairman (at Dreamforce 2011)
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
New Santa Barbara Airport (SBA)
My glorious first view of the new Santa Barbara Airport (SBA) at dawn. It was indeed a shock to see the old building in early demolition.
Monday, August 29, 2011
2011 MTV Video Awards Show - 82711
Images of the amazing set for last night's 2011 MTV Video Awards show in LA's Nokia Theater. The set is the star now.
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Shannon Completes the 2011 Santa Barbara Sprint Triathlon
August 28, 2011
2011 Santa Barbara Sprint Triathlon
Canon EOS Rebel T2i (550d)
Kit Lens
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5
Music: We Will Rock You by Queen
Saturday, August 27, 2011
The Burning Bush of Our Home
I was impressed by the size of the fire as I prepared our BBQ of choice pork chops.
Canon EOS Rebel T2i (550d)
24fps
Canon 50mm f/1.8
Edited directly from SD Card using Adobe Premiere Pro 5.5
Music: Whats Goin On by Master Control
Thursday, August 25, 2011
The Re-emergence of the Emerging Markets - The Economist
The Re-emergence of the Emerging Markets - The Economist
T.E. Lawrence, aka Lawrence of Arabia
"Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible."
~ T.E. Lawrence
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Anthony Minghella, Filmmaker
"...You have to keep speaking about the film. So the one thing I instinctively knew was that I had to keep on announcing the film that I had in my head."
~ Anthony Minghella, Filmmaker
Sunday, August 21, 2011
John F. Kennedy
The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
~ John F. Kennedy, U.S. President
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Friday, August 19, 2011
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
William Gibson
"Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes."
~ William Gibson
Monday, August 15, 2011
Aldous Huxley
"God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment."
— Aldous Huxley (The Genius and the Goddess)
R.D. Laing, Psychiatrist, Writer
"The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation."
~ R.D. Laing, Psychiatrist, Writer
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Halloween ATC Deck
Part of our 13 Days of Halloween blog posts...
Hope it inspires...
You can always check us out at www.jackandcatcurio.blogspot.com
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Judy Garland
War Bond Drive - Judy Garland performing for civilian employees at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in 1944
Friday, August 12, 2011
Thursday, August 11, 2011
David Lynch, Filmmaker
"...the money is not the goal for me. The goal is to realize those ideas and that's the thrill; to make a new world that people can go into and that is magical. "
~ David Lynch, Filmmaker (via MovieMaker Magazine - issue 87, vol. 17)
Monday, August 08, 2011
Sergei Eisenstein, Filmmaker
"The hieroglyphic language of the cinema is capable of expressing any concept."
~ Sergei Eisenstein
Sunday, August 07, 2011
Friday, August 05, 2011
Thursday, August 04, 2011
Wednesday, August 03, 2011
Astonishment - Christian Senger
An old-fashioned wooden intercom, staring at visitors of Seodaemun Prison's torture cells. The prison was built by the Japanese occupying forces to arrest Korean freedom fighters.
The Chinese characters on the right say "Take more exercise, bear up under affliction", thanks to zealotmat for the translation.
Tuesday, August 02, 2011
Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo (2009)
"Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo" (2009): A genius film about the amazing Japanese and their centuries-old love of nature and specifically insects. Jessica Oreck, Producer/Writer/Director.
Saturday, July 30, 2011
2013 Porsche Cayman Caught Testing - Video
2013 Porsche Cayman Caught Testing - Video
Video of the 2013 Porsche Cayman spied out in the open while testing in Germany.
July 20, 2011
via Road & Track
Friday, July 29, 2011
Wim Wenders, Filmmaking
"As soon as you start making your film you really have to fight, eh? ... and to even hurt. And even if I do have renown of being gentle, I know that I hurt a lot of people shooting the American films. So, directors are ... well, they're very close to the mafia. I mean they kill people as well. Samuel Fuller, for instance ... killed 2 or 3 stuntmen during the shooting of his films."
~ Wim Wenders, Filmmaking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYaCzMmjryw
Sidney Lumet, Filmmaker
"For whatever reason, producers and studio executives sit in the back row. I'm convinced it's because they hate movies and want to be as far away from the screen as possible."
~ Sidney Lumet, Filmmaker
Thursday, July 28, 2011
David Lynch, Filmmaker
"All my movies are about strange worlds that you can't go into unless you build them and film them. That's what's so important about film to me. I just like going into strange worlds."
~ David Lynch, Filmmaker
Alexander Olch, Filmmaker
"What I’d learned through documentary was that if you can stay away from the lights and the actors and the sets, if you could find a way to tell the story with just the camera, then you can do it inexpensively."
~ Alexander Olch, Filmmaker
http://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-alexander-olch/
Jean-Luc Godard, Filmmaker
"The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn’t."
Jean-Luc Godard
Quoted in Richard Roud, Godard, introduction (1970).
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Tarsem Singh, Filmmaker
“I told my father I wanted to study film and he said there was no way he was gonna let me do that. I made my way to Los Angeles, and made a film that won a scholarship to the Art Center College of Design. My father thought I was headed for Harvard. I called him and said, ‘I want to study film,’ and he said, ‘You don’t exist anymore’.”
Tarsem Singh, Filmmaker
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0802248/bio#quotes
Monday, July 25, 2011
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Last Year at Marienbad" (1961)
Watched the perplexing and sometimes indulgent "Last Year at Marienbad" (1961) directed by Alain Resnais on Blu-Ray.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Monday, July 18, 2011
Dog Day Afternoon
Al Pacino gives one of the all-time great performances in this Sidney Lumet directed 1975 film.
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Monday, July 11, 2011
Sunday, July 10, 2011
James Broughton - Filmmaker, Writer, Poet
"The secret name of cinema is transformation"
Cinema is “both a mirror and ever-expanding eye. It creates what it sees and destroys what it does not see...[it] is a lie which makes us see the truth"
~ James Broughton - Filmmaker, Writer, Poet
Friday, July 08, 2011
Sunday, July 03, 2011
Boy and Dog in a Johnypump - Jean-Michel Basquiat
“Boy and Dog in a Johnnypump is a monumental work dating from 1982, when Basquiat reached the zenith of his talent. As is usual in Basquiat, the composition is simple, but the whole painting is a neo-expressionist ‘tour-de-force’ in which the usually pleasant scene of a boy playing with his dog is painted with the rabid energy of a primitive work of Art.”
Text by G. Fernández, http://www.theartwolf.com
Saturday, July 02, 2011
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