Hubble

As the Hubble Space Telescope achieves the major milestone of two decades on orbit, NASA released a stunning new picture.



This brand new Hubble photo is of a small portion of one of the largest known star-birth regions in the galaxy, the Carina Nebula. Towers of cool hydrogen laced with dust rise from the wall of the nebula. The image captures the top of a three-light-year-tall pillar of gas and dust that is being eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby bright stars.
(from Nasa.gov)

the time that remains

Les philosophes

Le monde n'a pas d'âge. L'humanité se déplace, simplement. Vous êtes en Occident, mais libre d'habiter dans votre Orient, quelque ancien qu'il vous faille, - et d'y habiter bien. Ne soyez pas un vaincu.

(in "une saison en enfer", Jean-Arthur Rimbaud)

manual de zoologia

A grafiaranha maior

A Grafiaranha vive nos poços de agua limpa rodeada de espelhos diamantíferos que se transformam em pássaros quando são descobertos.


(Mário Cesariny - Manual de prestidigitação)

fête de la danse

Program available here !

material: time

Some people have a life project. This is it: take something immaterial and lock it in an Euclidean space. Repeat the process every day until it makes sense. Repeat it until infinity becomes bidimensional and you can frame it in your own frame of inhibitions. Repeat it until you're obssessed with the process itself and infinity is just a means and not the goal. It is the process that matters. This is the project. This is the project and it's absurd.

("today series", On Kawara)
("1965/1–∞", Roman Opalka)

la entrañable transparencia

(casa particular en La Habana, picture by O Coxo, 2006)

Cully Jazz

Alquimia dos aglomerados urbanos

(texto de: O Coxo, original 2008)

Numa cidade tem que haver granito. Tem que haver esse rumor quase imperceptível da pedra ancestral. Tem que haver homens que caminhem descalços sobre matéria inerte. Tem que haver comunhão da carne com o elemento como na transmutação dos corpos.

(na alquimia se urdem as mais intricadas aspirações de um citadino).

E no entanto tudo é tão simples de explicar como o restolhar das águas numa manhã fria de Outono à beira rio.

Numa cidade tem que haver pontes. Tem que haver uma árvore que contenha uma inscrição enigmática sobre o amor. Tem que haver jornais abertos sobre um banco de jardim.

E no entanto no café matinal só se lêem as letras gordas.

Uma cidade tem corpos diáfanos que desfilam na rua em trajectórias quase paralelas, que roçam as paredes numa sensualidade geológica. Corpos rudemente lapidados.

E no entanto uma cidade de pedra é feita de amores sedimentares.

The world as it is

cartoon by Martin Rowson, The Guardian

decomposition

Damn it ! it's monday again ! we've been counting the hours but in the meanwhile years have gone by and truth remained unbeaten in its territory. There are doubts: sure! There are hesitations. But inevitability dug trenches ahead of us: we are walking in spiral to something monstrous. We search comfort on centrifugal forces.

We want an end: answers, a centre, transcendence, metaphysics, all those absurd things which are no more than electric pulses on a no-less-absurd brain. We perpetuate ourselves and perpetuate the questions. Then come the philosophers and question the questions. Then come the sociologists and politicians and those that have learned from history and apply their lessons to experimentalism. And then experimentalism becomes history itself and we all learn from it.

Humanity in War

The most recent photo exhibition of the International Red Cross museum. From 3 March until July. More details here.