tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post113708346042462572..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: All About Meme: The Eternal Vacation at the Edge of the KnownGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1137120201052989702006-01-12T18:43:00.000-08:002006-01-12T18:43:00.000-08:00Khantheroad:"Is there any large scale miracle..?"I...Khantheroad:<BR/>"Is there any large scale miracle..?"<BR/><BR/>Imagine what Mel Brooks would do with that.<BR/><BR/><I> "Dammit Lot, hold on! I gotta get a picture of this..."</I><BR/><BR/>JWMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1137120076920667162006-01-12T18:41:00.000-08:002006-01-12T18:41:00.000-08:00I disagreed with Mike about this very thing last n...I disagreed with Mike about this very thing last night; taking a camera with me on a trip always opened up more aesthetic doors for me, as Bob said, in terms of creating something new and thinking <I>compositionally</I> as opposed to documentarily. Similarly, I love the random street sounds of the city like Messaien revelled in the chirping birds. It's something we can't control that forces us to look again at the systems we use to organize things aesthetically. ("Man, those tone clusters and harmonics coming from that jackhammer are so fucking <I>hip</I>.")<BR/><BR/>I also think again of Jarmusch's Mystery Train, and the Japanese tourist who photographs the forgettable odds and ends in Memphis because, according to his reasoning, he'll remember the important things.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1137116953450479012006-01-12T17:49:00.000-08:002006-01-12T17:49:00.000-08:00Funny, I sometimes I see a camera as an obstacle t...Funny, I sometimes I see a camera as an obstacle to a full experience. On my last road trip I didn't bring one, and found that I took in and experienced more as a result. <BR/><BR/>This really hit me at the Grand Canyon, where, at sunset, everyone would run around, trying to position their tripods for the next lightning flash, wives would curse at husbands for screwing up a shadow angle...even those without cameras responded to one of nature's most magnificent daily displays of beauty by sulking that they didn't have their cameras.<BR/><BR/>Meanwhile, I sat there and just took it all in...<BR/><BR/>This was actually the moment I realized that it was silly to expect to ever 'find' or 'see' God. After all, what more could he possibly do than schedule a nightly vaudeville routine of nature's beauty? <BR/><BR/>Is there any large scale miracle he could perform that wouldn't prompt most people to dive for their Nikons rather than their souls?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1137112587939971422006-01-12T16:36:00.000-08:002006-01-12T16:36:00.000-08:00I took a cue from this post and went hiking in the...I took a cue from this post and went hiking in the hills today. Somewhere along the trail a sprouting weed caught the sun in a perfect mandala of translucent green lizard wings. A pyracantha (sp?) berry lay newly fallen, like a tiny vermillion pupil in the exact center of this glowing green iris of leaves. It was so pretty that it looked staged.<BR/><BR/>Of course, my camera was safe at home.<BR/><BR/>JWMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1137107874600480732006-01-12T15:17:00.000-08:002006-01-12T15:17:00.000-08:00I love JCB....isn't that the cutest? I think that ...I love JCB....isn't that the cutest? I think that song knocked almost everyone off the charts in the UK! I love the part when the little boy stands up and spins around in the end!LiquidLifeHackerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01949269503629475002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1137101248423092552006-01-12T13:27:00.000-08:002006-01-12T13:27:00.000-08:00In line with liquidlifehacker, a less elegant movi...In line with liquidlifehacker, a less elegant movie of fathers and sons. <BR/>http://www.jcbsong.co.uk/jcbvideo.asp<BR/><BR/>Bless them all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1137095445215408082006-01-12T11:50:00.000-08:002006-01-12T11:50:00.000-08:00BTW HERE is a little something for you guys out t...BTW <A HREF="http://www.withoutgravity.net/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=36" REL="nofollow">HERE</A> is a little something for you guys out there with those precious beautiful sons! It's a nice little video by Without Gravity.LiquidLifeHackerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01949269503629475002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1137094494142323232006-01-12T11:34:00.000-08:002006-01-12T11:34:00.000-08:00I always get enlightened when I read your blog Bob...I always get enlightened when I read your blog Bob, but today, it brought tears to my eyes...<BR/><BR/>Today, I had just gotten some news about a friend that had lost his only son in a car accident and when I read what you said about vacations and about your own son, "He has become my new guru. We take walks together (actually, I do the walking, he's in the front pack), and I watch him watching the world" I couldn't help think how we all go through our lives coveting grand escapes from the mundane while the most important beauty is at always right at home. <BR/><BR/>It's like when we think a new and bigger house is going to make us happy and yet it's not a house that makes a home...its the people inside it! <BR/><BR/>Thanks for helping us keep the important things in focus Bob!LiquidLifeHackerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01949269503629475002noreply@blogger.com