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gen.1

wood hare.1962

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Mr. Goudy's Mystery Block

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antna

Ootatoo

Large Hare Construct, Wuhan, 1932

A.T.N.T.F_8

A.T.N.T.F_7_mechanical photographer3

A.T.N.T.F_6_Mister Fairfield goes for a swim

A.T.N.T.F_5_mechanical photographer2

A.T.N.T.F_5_mechanical photographer

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The Buddha of Improbable Causes

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http://wetmatches.blogspot.com/

White House.1980

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Cinder Block.1

American circumference.1977

EXIT NYC
monday eight AM
continental trailways
ticket punching journey
around America – coffee &
bagel to go !
sitting in the middle of the
bus —— wide window view
don’t talk to me —

cherry hill n.j.

[turnpike] Lincoln Tunnel
Newark airport –
railyard – hundreds of flatcars
hundreds of miles of track
vast forest of oil refineries
smoke stink

Later old oil truck graveyard

Mt. Laurel NJ – coffee
Benjamin Franklin bridge –
Walt Whitman
—— bridge
—(seen not taken)
crossing
Delaware Memorial bridge
—“ —— river —10:33—17dg.
Del tpke

Baltimore [Maryland Welcomes You]
—— vacuum cleaners
—— scrap metal yard
—— low redbrick electric works
Susquehana River
bridges black against the gleaming
river—— ice shore

“happiness is an air force family”
Maryland plates

tenement city – rows – miles –
streets of redbrick continuous —————
doors three steps from the sidewalk

gorgeous architect feast
black city

capitol plaza – FIFTY STORES !–
Washington – D.C.
glimpses of the capitol —wash monmt.
national archives ——justice building
bus breaks down – change to
old cold creepy dioxide spewing wreck

avenue of government tombs
Jefferson Memorial —Potomac rvr vw
ice covered graceful

graveyard hill


















Virginia 2:30 —fairfax
shell of a woodframe church w/ steeple
on a trailer truck
mannassas

all elec appliances

cow farm —blue mts —behind
DRINK orange crush
a raised snowfield —distant pale mtns
th pale pale sky
the snow is abt to give out?
culpepper va. —4:05 —old time look
1950 bus station—redbrick train
station——pretty girl meets her
mother off the bus —33 dg.

shock trauma unit

kemper’s grave

charlottsville Virginia
—— —— sunset
into Virginian mts at nightfall
Appalachia

the world is pyramidic
—— n.y.
—— —— am. is “


—— Virginia

deepest shadow of
—spruce

Lynchburg roast beef sand.
coke
dress house – full length silhouette
of a woman on the door –
Roanoke VA – finally meal stop
chili dog
3rd bus change (breakdown)
sais he’ll make up time by dawn
I’m in no hurry

a boy playing a guitar
a boy reading a book —— me

_______________________


remember these twinkling townlights
seen from a plane thirty thousand feet

thru night mtns like a
—— —— shade
—— writing in the dark
Tennessee at midnight
tuesday morn 2.1.77
—Knoxville—hr stop
—3:30 am changing drivers
—— cereal bowl moon

Nashville
old opry
6:30 am— juice—apple —postcard
—— bought a paper
sunrise day 2 – Nashville
smell country music in the exhaust

delays — bus won’t start — cold
leaving Nashville eight a.m. CTL time

union railroad sta. —
morning mist
mansions along West End Av—most
now commercial ventures
Belle Mead — queen of the Tennessee
—— —— plantations
sad railroad following th
—— hiway

loveless motel —— memory gardens
—— —— —— —— (death beds)
Tennessee hills

{stops itch in minutes} — barn
sweet black Herefords
crazy old homesteads
kindling wood—— tools or broken
machines —— chickens and chicken
—— —— wire ——— strange curtains
powerlines—— frost melting
evaporating from mtn. grass
—old powder blue ford w/ red trimmings

your host

obey acts 2:38

defeated creek
wood pillared train overpass
tarred —— monolithic

“the sort of thing you see in Chinese
—— movies”

fields of earth — thicket
forest —spruce—alone
curled in among themselves
—— caterpillar
Alvin C. York bridge
in memorium
Tennessee river
sleepy & beautiful

Lexington tenn bus stop
at Fly’s Ethical Drugs

goats donkeys
—— briarpatch ?
—— everywhere

red clay earth
naked doll tied to a chair
in yard fronting old
cabin —
white ducks — Jackson
—— ancient texaco
sign in stained glass
heading for Memphis
U S Interstate 40

big cylindrical bales
of hay still in the field
—
—— hawk, crows
—— cottonfields

Memphis
swank beauty at the bar
lousy cheesburger

crossing the
Mississippi
sandbar shore
— bridge shadow
on the brown water. —bits of ice flow
into Arkansas
flatland

Little Rock I brushed
my teeth & bought
Captain America
pc to deb + terry
sunset
black ironwork bridge
across th Aransas r.

trout motel
café ahead —— this side

night bus thru black
Arkansas, starless.
blue riders give up
their souls to sad
travel thoughts
night thoughts generally
—— being sad
—ghost Arkansas. red river
spirits of landscape
—seen only at night ———

Texarkana TX
8 something
something to eat
baked ham and cheese

Dallas changing buses
lv. “ —1:20 am wed.
new passenger
yapperings —
night silent city
triangle building
spiral “
john f—kennedy
—— museum
then the underpass
[we’re on the motorcade route

—— —— grassy knoll]





















fort worth
spook cloud moon

dawn breakfast in
Big Spring —— Oil City

waitress beauty
sagebrush
statue of liberty —— export
—— —— —— version

texas lounge
westward-ho café

th desert

v of geese
flying furthur south
oil well robot pump
perpetual motion

visit ancient sea floor

brujo hawk

isit midland
ko kop lounge

Odessa texas
big tex orange juice

tumbleweed

trailmaster
cloudmaster —— —— fuel
powermaster

pyote
pecos, —coffee
swordfish cloud

pecos river
yucca plant
cactus city u.s.a.

apache mts.
cacti + palms
Guadaloupe mtns
riding w/ an Indian

muellers cafeteria
van horn lunch stop
beef steak —potatoes
vegetables ——coffee
orange juice —mtn time zone
sand——shale mtns ——mesas
—— sierra blanca
El Passo
th Rio Grande

New Mexico
blue haze mtns
of old mexico
across the rio grande

airstream by teepee picnic tables

cattle truck w/ lady driver

paso del norte hotel —— el paso

sacramento mtns —spooned rv cloud
eat — swim — sleep
mesquite
cypress, —communist

full moon
sitting w/ a cowboy

lordsburg —new mexico
dinner
nudie puzzle
in washroom

into Arizona
—— & the night
ghost illumination
draped like silk
over radioactive
closeup mountains
th light seemingly
from within ———

Tucson

again, palms

Phoenix
again, night

running w/ a
shadow train
against factory fog

drive in

California whisper

central indio

sunrise white sand
desert black bush
flecked
snow mountains
San Bernardino
orange groves
Ontario
—— California realty
—— reality

c’est un paradox

pas mal
Pasadena

L A
das evangelium
63 dg

cheeseburger all
dressed
door open
sun —— sidewalk
summer ladies

Wilshire blvd.
Dear Debby it’s
70 dg + I’m carrying
my Eskimo jelly +
leaving this evening

coffees and hanging out
postcard to D

chinese flic on Main
Street—— tv in th
—— —— station

on the 6pm bus
east—————

smell like a dog
——need a bed
——need a dime toilet and
a shave

change buses in
San Bernardino
—— — no longer
going thru Chicago
skip Vegas
bus crowd /

beautiful blond
behind
—— across the aisle
sitting w/ Navaho woman

[took a bus over
3 thousand miles
9 hrs in LA — took
another bus 3 thousand miles
back ———


Barstow Cal first
stop back

elevation 4000’
—— climbing
route over th
San Gabriel mtns by
pass
Mojave desert
slept all night

dawn friday
breakfast —Williams
Arizona
mist sleeping still
between mountains —
in trees —

observatory
Ponderosa
Flagstaff

invalid parking only

Great Meteor Crater
winslow ariz
canyons
—— painted desert
petrified forest

rte 66
gallup new mexico

th Suzuki kids
redstone {mtns}
Navaho—/ —zuni

too many cigarettes (camels)

b/w paints

Albuquergue
change buses

zia —— fina
los pinos
Amarillo tex
change buses —1:40 am saturday
non stop to Oklahoma
City—Oklahoma

earlier —Santa Rosa
N.M. dope +
jack daniels
+ a crazy hiway
game of gin

19 yr old ‘Nam vets
horror tales
+ 2 ancient 15 yr olds
running back to bus just
missing hiway patrol
smoking j and jack daniels

sterling birds for D

Oklahoma City —dawn
—— breakfast
change buses —
[ready to be home]

Tulsa Okla

Missouri bleakness
Joplin

zuzul
ko ko
k —pp

how to keep 2 seats
to yrself — look up
at the intruder w/
wide mad eye
smile slyly —

ozark plateau

Cuba Missouri
meat loaf, —mashed potatoes

outside St. Louis
wheel falls off bus
hrs behind schedule

fog —/ —ice
Illinois
eastward
coldest bitter weather
seen this year ——

Indianapolis Indiana
breakfast waitress
fits dream

Columbus Ohio
chimney ice smoke

W. Virginia across the
Ohio R.
nuclear plant
coal refineries
barges
black bridges
Pittsburgh PA
Squirrel Hill Tnl.
northern Appalachia
Allegheny mtns.

Harrisburg
cheeseburgers w/
african
elder from Nairobi

Philadelphia

crossing
Benjamin Franklin bridge
so close to departure
—— trail

red moon over
black + silver hills

home sunday
—evening 11:40

optimo



Jan 31- Feb 6 1977

Portrait Block.1

Drawing executions.1972

Drawing birds.1972

Benzene 1980-85

Color Block

Reference Block.10

Fairytale

Miscellany.2

Miscellany.1

Reference Block.9

Fitzroy Harbor 1959.4

Fitzroy Harbor 1959.3

Index Poems

index poem no.29. Moon, The

Absence of air on;
Absence of heat on;
Agent in causing the tides;
Ancient discoveries respecting;
Apparent size of;
Attraction to the Earth of;
Brightness of;
Changes during the month of;
Chart of surface of;
Craters on;
Density of;
Diameter of;
Distance from the Earth of;
Eclipses of;
Landscapes on;
Life impossible on;
Motion of;
Mountains on;
Phases of;
Plane of orbit of;
Poets and artists and;
Pre-historic tides on;
Proximity to the Earth of;
Shadows of;
Weather not affected by the phases of;
Weight of;


index poem no.33

Foot of Empis.
Pollen.
Head of Empis.
Foot of Male Water-Beetle.
Trunk of Blue-bottle Fly.
Foot of Frog, showing circulation.
Petal of Geranium, showing stomata.
Pattledore Scales of Blue Butterfly.
Scale of Fritillary Butterfly.
Eye of Butterfly.
Hairs of Humble-Bee.

Chalkboard Cezanne.1976

Fitzroy Harbor 1961.2

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Fitzroy Harbor 1961.1

Collages for Tree Frog, 1977

Reference block.7

Experiments in Living.1

Dada Rump, Montreal, 1973

Index Poem 22

Backward
Close Facing Position
Diagonally To the Centre
Diagonally To the Wall
Forward
Left
Left foot
Line of Dance
Man
Measures per minute
Open Facing Position
Promenade Position
Quick (a step lasting one beat)
Right
Right foot
Slow (a step lasting two beats)
Woman

Large Hare Construct, Meudon, 1882

Fossil record.2

Fossil record.1

Installation.5.Tipis at Agra

Pg. 164-165. the gastronome

Imperative.4

Reference block.6.after Hamish Fulton

Reference block.5

Instructions

trade a fork for a moon.

[a small film featuring a sleeping man in a white room,
his face to the wall]

trade a bark for a bite.
trade a mark for a mole.
trade a winch for a wicket.

[an 8mm film, degraded, taken at the film storage facility
of the cinémathèque algérienne]

trade a walk for a wail.
trade a wake for a nod.
trade a post for a prize.
trade a pact for a pen.
trade up.

[a short film, black and white, shot in the winter of 1954,
of an arctic hare trapped in river ice.
A fox, passing like a shadow, bites off the exposed head]

trade for an excuse.

[three films, run concurrently, of the inaugural speech of
Ronald Reagan, no sound]

talk to a wrench
talk to the driver
talk to Archimedes

talk talk.

Alphabet.2

History. London. 1995

Reference block.4

Gautier's Mechanical Photographer.4

…Nathan Portmanteau, a friend of Theophile Gautier from their days as students of Proximate Logic at l’université de Paris, has left letters written to his sister, apparently unsent, that speak of three Mechanical Photographers Portmanteau helped construct with Gautier and Phillipe D’Auberville toward the end of 1872 and before the fall of Paris… that the three constructs were identical in every way and were, in fact following a prototype assembly schematic that would allow for quick and uniform construction of the machines… Portmanteau does not say whether he experienced the Photographer in operation though there are photographic plates in his effects that might be examples of the Machine’s output…

…Madame Portmanteau, Nice, 1874…the Riopelle triplets, Pont-Neuf, undated…Rouen Cathedral, winter 1874…various machines and objects…

… one pneumatic tire, one spark generator, one Braille typewriter, one electric dynamo, one sewing machine, one mechanical calculator, one hydrogen fuel cell, one gyroscope, one internal combustion engine, one tin can…

…one torpedo…

…Flaubert’s opera, L’Ensemble takes place in Jiangning during the Qing dynasty (1872). It concerns the travails of a court philosopher who is given one night to produce a mechanical bird which can sing as sweetly and as varied as that which appeared in a dream of the Emperor Muzong the night before…working feverishly all night, by dawn he has created such a construct, but, being unsure of the Emperor’s response, swallows poison, leaps from his apartment and, landing in the koi pond, drowns…

History. Berlin 8. 1975

Reference block.3

Gautier's Mechanical Photographer.3.evidence

Reconstruction from drawings and notes...1954...not considered reliable.






















Patent drawing...thought to have been found in Gautier's effects...not authenticated.






















See previous entries October 29 and November 6, 2005

Reference blocks.1 + 2

Construction of Actualist Hall.Place Vendome.1942

Installation.4.Grand Canyon Cavern.glass house

Dance in the Desert 1987
set installation. Grand Canyon Cavern. 11.87

Installation.3.Great Hall.igloo

Festival Nazionale D’Arte Povera
Customs House. Trieste. 7.67

Installation.2.Louvre.cabin

Installation.1.cottage

Monuments.revise.2.Camouflage Liberty

Monuments.revise.1.Nelson's Column A

Random Paragraph Generator.1

Travels in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth by
Paul Hentzner, published at Nuremberg, 1612.

Paulus Jovius, in his description of the most remarkable towns in
England, says all are obscured by London: which, in the opinion of
many, is Caesar's city of the Trinobantes, the capital of all
Britain, famous for the commerce of many nations; its houses are
elegantly built, its churches fine, its towns strong, and its riches
and abundance surprising. The wealth of the world is wafted to it
by the Thames, swelled by the tide, and navigable to merchant ships
through a safe and deep channel for sixty miles, from its mouth to
the city: its banks are everywhere beautified with fine country
seats, woods, and farms; below is the royal palace of Greenwich;
above, that of Richmond; and between both, on the west of London,
rise the noble buildings of Westminster, most remarkable for the
courts of justice, the parliament, and St. Peter's church, enriched
with the royal tombs. At the distance of twenty miles from London
is the castle of Windsor, a most delightful retreat of the Kings of
England, as well as famous for several of their tombs, and for the
ceremonial of the Order of the Garter. This river abounds in swans,
(Fig.183) swimming in flocks: the sight of them, and their noise, are vastly
agreeable to the fleets that meet them in their course. It is
joined to the city by a bridge of stone, wonderfully built; is never
increased by any rains, rising only with the tide, and is everywhere
spread with nets for taking salmon and shad. Thus far Paulus
Jovius.

'They flew to arms, and incited to rebellion the Trinobantes and others,
who, not yet broken by servitude, had entered into a secret and treasonable
compact to resume their independence.' Tacitus

The Free Territory of Trieste 1947

raw notes in progress...
…concerning the theft of the Netherlandish painter Hans Memlinc’s Annunciation, 1480-89, taken on the night of March 26, 1947 from The International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Trieste… the accused, John Bravo, a minor poet and newspaper columnist …lived in the Trieste ghetto…heavily addicted to the prescription drug Percitup and in need of immediate cash…believed to be the accomplice of Vittorio Vidali (aka Enea Sormenti, Jacobo Hurwitz Zender, Carlos Contreras), assassin…

John Quest, a cabdriver working the late night shift in the western suburbs of Trieste, was delivering Mary Pickford, a librarian, to the bordello where she was employed as translator to the Shah of Bengazzara when the theft took place.
...Bravo had transferred the painting to his Chevy Nomad which broke down several blocks later.

...The Nomad came with either a Stove-bolt six or Chevy's new V-8. The 235.5 ci six produced 123 hp with manual or overdrive transmission, and 136 hp with the Powerglide automatic. The new V-8 was 265 ci and came in 162 hp, 170 hp, or the 180 hp Power-Pak version with the four-barrel carb. Options included power steering, power brakes, power seats, power windows, AC, electric windshield wipers, electric clock, whitewall, wire wheels, and a choice of manual, pushbutton and signal-seeking radios.

…Bravo took the painting, wrapped in his London Fog trench coat and flagged the cab – driven by Quest…Pickford, a British Agent under deep cover, recognized Bravo from a series of cable-access poetry slams he had participated in and decided to follow…

…On May 1, 1945 the Yugoslav army entered Trieste one day before before the New Zealand army, in a race to decide who would control the city. The German Army surrendered to the New Zealand army on May 2. International pressure made the Yugoslavs leave the city on June 12. In 1947 Trieste became the capital of the Free Territory of Trieste. When that state was de facto dissolved in 1954, the city of Trieste reverted back to Italy, while the southern part of the territory went to Yugoslavia.

Bravo instructed Quest to drive to the recently shuttered Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste …

Le origini dell'Osservatorio Astronomico risalgono al 1753, quando l'imperatrice d'Austria Maria Theresia istituì la Scuola Nautica di Trieste. Per alcuni decenni essa fu ospitata presso il locale Collegio dei gesuiti vicino alla chiesa di S. Maria Maggiore. Nella scuola veniva insegnata l'astronomia quale disciplina curricolare per la formazione dei capitani marittimi. Bombardato nel settembre 1944, l'Osservatorio fu ristrutturato e messo nuovamente in condizioni operative tra il 1947 e il 1952.

…it is presumed that at this time Bravo made Quest aware of the Memlinc painting and secured his agreement to participate in the scheme to spirit it out of Italy and into London to be discretely offered in the underground art market...the painting was hidden in the darkened observatory for at least three months…

…it is known that Pickford had a long term relationship with the sister of John Quest and was responsible for the printing of several monographs by the sister, Mary Stuart, on Forgery, Ego and Exaggeration…

(first post...to be continued)

Imperative.3.new year

Fred Rogers 1882-1955: a remembrance

It was always a beautiful day in his neighborhood.

Crossword.2

Down

1 A bridge.
5 A goal.
9 An oar.
14 A ring.
15 A shot.
16 A shadow.
17 A bruise.
20 A mouth.
21 A phase.
22 A shroud.
26 An incident.
30 A voice.
34 An understanding.
37 A desire.
39 A motive.
40 A bark.
43 A meaning.
44 A passage.
45 An assumption.
46 A light.
48 A fear.
50 A weight.
52 A thought.
53 A dream.
56 A sacrifice.
59 A decision.
61 A threat.
63 A tree.
66 An ally.
67 A note.
68 A mistake.
69 A death.
70 A secret.
71 A .

Nature study.

night shakes.

a fox coughs.

ancient caribou
consults a map.

coffee freezes
vapor caught in the air
like a lace filigree delicate
and fragile
and disturbed,
crumbles.

the fox bites off the
head of a hare
trapped between layers
of river ice.

a photograph of three grubs
on a table
a pencil stub
an ink stain in the likeness of
stalin’s profile.

a contagious cough.

winter wounds

let the lamp represent the
caribou.

infest

bright markings on
an exotic beetle.

Professor Yasumasa Kanada calculates 1/pi to 1.000.000 digits, a preview.

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1/pi to 30.000.000 digits at
http://www.cecm.sfu.ca/projects/ISC/I_d.html

Pg.240-241

Bellows.9.1974

Bellows.8.1974

haus, 1981

Knots, L-M, 1974

Protective Coloration.1

Missing Papers, 1632

Between April and November, 1632, 18 books were published throughout Europe, all missing pages 523 through 530…

…found within the uncut pages of l’Encyclopédie des Etoile d’Arabie, vol xii, published in 1632 in Ankara by Kutsuki Mototsuna, printer to the exiled royal house of the Belgium Congo, sometime herbalist and Buddhist pornographer; a book that had been removed and placed in a sub-basement archive of the main branch of the Leipzig Imperial Library and People’s Foundry, a document purporting to be the true story of the plot to assassinate the American screen actor Fatty Arbuckle and infiltrate the blacklisted Hundred Thousand Leaves by the notorious Tonkin Brigade led by one time corporate penny stock enthusiast and convicted biographer Tobias Smollett, an anemic narcissist with six fingers on each hand and a mole in the shape of a trolling lure on his left breast…by a child lost in the backrooms of the vast public library, wandering for three weeks within the lower, closed levels of the archive, fed on book paste and water from leaking steam pipes…

…the child, Richard Speck, not listed as missing and, in point of fact, not missed, informed the authorities that he had been told by voices hidden behind him, always unseen and spoken in an archaic Cantonese dialect the boy seemed able to understand, that he must keep looking thru the sealed boxes until he should find the volume indicated on the retrieval request slip that he had entered the building with three weeks earlier. He did not know how he came to possess the slip or how he had managed to remain undetected by library staff for such a long period of time. It is worth noting that he has no knowledge of where he came from or what he intended to do when he found the noted volume…

…no one has come to claim the child, or the retrieved book…

…in 1632, seven different books were published with the title Pseudosophisla. Though sited in a number of references works in the following century, none of these volumes is extant today and their content cannot be studied or compared.

…architectural plans of the Imperial Library at Leipzig were stolen in December 1872 and returned the following month. It was immediately apparent that the returned documents were forgeries. It has never been established what, if anything has been altered in the drawings.

…in his study 'Sidereus Nuncius’, 1632, Jackson Pollack writes that “what I have seen, no man has seen. What never was, will be again.”

Pedigree.2.unfinished

Pedigree.1

Imperative.2

Imperative.1

Crossword.1

Across

1 She starts over.
5 He begins again.
9 She has certain convictions.
14 He was never convicted.
15 She will not look at her reflection.
16 He is afraid of his own shadow.
17 She walks away.
20 He bruises easily.
21 She has no one.
22 He is frightened by laughter.
26 She has reached her limit.
30 He speaks several dead languages.
34 She is not supposed to know.
37 He questions her desire.
39 She questions his motives.
40 He barks.
43 She has lost her voice.
44 He is given a choice.
45 She holds back.
46 He signs the document with an assumed name.
48 She did not come home last night.
50 He lost five pounds.
52 She blacks out.
53 He is not an extremist.
56 She is considered beautiful.
59 He makes an important decision.
61 She is not considered beautiful.
63 He is crying.
66 She will try again.
67 He tries too hard.
68 She loves another.
69 He has no way of knowing.
70 She stops breathing.
71 He may or may not.

Knots, E-F, 1974

plywood with cutouts.
244 cm. x 152.5 cm

Pg.238-239

Gautier’s Mechanical Photographer, 1874, cont’d

“they have not yet experienced, what it is they have experienced.”
Alfred Doblin

…evidence exists that the Prefecture de Police were aware of Thèophile Gautier’s Mechanical Photographer and considered it to be a nuisance and potentially a threat to the political safety of the government, ascribing a leftist ideology to the very notion of the existence of such a machine. Inspectors Ernst and Eluard of the Metropolitan Police had been assigned to patrol the neighborhood and keep an eye on Gautier’s workshop, and in fact were the officers that first responded to the distress call from Rue Mouffetard and discovered the incinerated body of the inventor…

a recently published letter from an anonymous Freemason, thought to be an associate of Gautier, indicates that there was at least one working Mechanical Photographer and possibly more at the time of his death, though a police spokesman insisted that no such machine was found...

writing in Libération on 1er septembre, 1887, Blaise Cendrars says he “had known Theophile Gautier for many many years, as an exceptional poet as well as thinker and inventor and that the final years of his life were a tragedy that few understood". The work on the Mechanical Photographer was largely done in secret and few of Gautier’s aquaintances even knew of it’s existence…

in an unpublished letter to his brother, Jean-Paul, Theophile writes “the machine begins to obsesses me. I do not sleep…at least very little, and I am ashamed to say I drink more than I should. You would not know me these days. I constantly revise and reject. The toasters are not right and must be replaced. The diode board is faulty and never performs to capacity. Even the gas turbine I was so proud of last December no longer functions as it should. I cannot even get the steam kettle to boil water for tea, never mind function in the array. My depression seems more pronounced every day. I have been told by Madame Benoit, my landlady, that the police have been to the house more than once, though why they question my landlady and not me I cannot say…

though up until now considered fiction, Jules Verne in his L’Ile mystérieuse, hints more than once about a facility assembled to mass-produce a final version of the Mechanical Photographer*…

a series of independent tests administered in Lausanne by Laboratoire Suisse d’ Analyse de Photographie, many years after the death of Gautier, have successfully managed to create working models based on sketches from the Red Notebook, 1872…the results have yet to be published or the analysis made available to critical study…

*designated Pmv3 in the Red Notebook, 31 Aout 1872

Portrait of Pyrrho of Elis

scale.1

Paint With Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, 1861

Today’s Project: Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld

Materials:
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot® Brushes:
3" Brush
2" Brush
#6 Fan Brush
Liner Brush
Large Painting Knife
WagnerTM Quicktouch Power Roller Pro
Gas Blowtorch
La campagne de Corot (Mémoire de l'art) — Jean Leymarie

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot® Landscape Paints:
Alizarin Crimson
19th Century Red
Cadmium Yellow
Phthalo1 Blue
Impressionist2 Mixture
Leaf Green
Titanium White
Van Dyke3 Brown
NeverDriTM White

Other Materials:
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot® Odorless Thinner
18x24 Canvas

Canvas Preparation:
Start by using the 3" brush to cover the entire canvas with a thin, even coat of NeverDri White. With long horizontal and vertical strokes, work back and forth to ensure an even distribution of paint on the canvas. Do NOT allow the NeverDri White to dry before you begin.

1. Use the Power Roller Pro with Phthalo Blue and paint the sky with even vertical strokes - add the water with horizontal strokes…
2. With a small roll of Impressionist Mixture on the knife, shape just the top edge of the background trees. Remove the excess paint.
3. Use the 1" brush to 'pull' the paint down to the base of the foliage, completing the entire tree shape.
4. With a small roll of Titanium White on the long edge of the knife, highlight the right sides of the foliage…

Let’s wait until tomorrow to see how easy it is to paint the figures of Orpheus and Eurydice…

1Turquois (Phthalo)
Pigment Classification: Mixture
Chemical Description: Copper Phthalocynine / Chlorinated Copper Phthalocynine Heavy Body:
Opacity/Transparency: 3
Lightfastness Rating: I
Permanency: Excellent
Colour Index Name: PB 15:4 / PG 7
Colour Index Number: 74160 / 74260
Munsell Notation Listing:
Hue: 5.0 BG
Value: 1.25
Chroma: 2.6
Pantone Matching System: 539
Spectrophotometer Readings: N/A
Viscosity Range: 16000-20000 CPS
PH Range: 8.7-9.0
Gloss Average: 93.44
CIE L*a*b* Values: L*25.76 a*-1.64 b*-8.12
Tint Strength: 74.57

2“Impressionism was a 19th century art movement, that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists who began publicly exhibiting their art in the 1860s. The name of the movement is derived from Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant). Critic Louis Leroy inadvertently coined the term in a satiric review published in Le Charivari.” Wikipedia

3http://www.reelclassics.com/Actors/DVD/dvd.htm

Brief encounters…November 3, 2005

…Jayne Mansfield and her new hubby, Robert Frost, were seen at the Third Street playground with their adopted Italian son, Bobo. I tried not to be too obvious and goofy, staring…

…Johnny Cash and Benjamin Britten were at David’s party last night. I almost died. They seemed so friendly and natural. A really nice couple. I couldn’t think of anything to say to them…

…Janis saw Moe Howard with Chiang Kai-shek and Patty Duke at the Embassy Diner last night. I said “You had your cell camera, why didn’t you take a picture?” I’m sure she thought that would be too uncool. Of course The Post had Andy Warhol, their Scene reporter there and there were great shots in the paper the next morning…

…Hugh and I saw You Know Who at Zabar’s, shopping just like all of us need to shop. She dropped her receipt on the way out, so, of course, it went right into my notebook…

…Mrs. Best says Natalie Wood moved into the empty apartment next door, but I’m not sure. I’ve planted myself by the window and won’t move until I see something…

…I think old Mr. Disraeli has moved away…

…Lassie died…

A French Alphabet

Abelard
Balzac
Cocteau
Diderot
Eiffel
Fauré
Gide
Haussmann
Indy
Jaures
Kock
Léger
Montaigne
Nanteuil
Offenbach
Pascal
Quesnay
Rimbaud
Sade
Tanguy
Utrillo
Varese
Watteau
X
Yourcenar
Zola

From a letter to Pieter De Hoogh,1679

Fifth October 1679

Dear Mr. De Hoogh:

The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp is in the process of obtaining copyright clearance from artists represented in our collection or from their estates. We are proud to own the following work(s) by you:

Landscape with Artificial Christmas Tree
Black chalk, gray wash, watercolored in brown, yellow, and green, partly brushed with gum Arabic on tar felt; 18.7 x 30.8 cm
Kasper Fund, 1677 (77.282.14)

Portrait of Madame Aghast and Spaniel
Oil on board with neon and industrial metal sheeting; 18 x 16 in. (45.7 x 40.6 cm)
Cherches Collection, Gift of Peter Paul Cherches, 1674 (74.15.21)

Two Rights and Reproductions forms are enclosed for each of the works. Would you be so kind as to complete and return one copy of each, indicating whether you wish to sign over copyright to the Royal Museum or to retain it yourself. Should you choose the latter, the Museum will pay you royalties as recommended by the Delft Artists Representation.

Thank you in advance for your attention to this request, and we look forward to hearing from you soon.

Yours sincerely,

Didi St. Lambert
Assistant to the Registrar

Index Poems, compiled by J.Boswell, 1791

index poem no.1

Savart’s toothed wheel.
Cagniard de la Tour’s siren.
Duhamel’s vibroscope.
Leon Scott’s phonautograph.
Perronet Thompson’s weighted monochord.

Lissajous’ method.
Helmholtz’s vibration microscope.
Koenig’s manometric flames.
McLeod and Clarke’s cycloscope.

Meyer’s electrical tonometer.
Lord Rayleigh’s pendulum experiment.

Scheibler’s Tonmesser with tuning-fork.
Appunn’’s tonometer with free reeds.




index poem no.2

Diana.
Melancholy.
Susannah.
Contemplation..
A handsome English Lady.
Distress.
One of the muses.
Canute the Great, reproving his courtiers for their impious flattery.
Mrs. Yates in Medea.
Bachus, Ceres, and Cupid.
Mr. Henderson, in the character of Comus.
A Mad Woman.
The surrender of Calais to King Edward the Third.
Mr. Smith of Baltimore.
Mrs. Smith of do.
A beautiful Grecian Lady, large as life.
George the Second.
Admiral Kepple.
Three beautiful young ladies of Philadelphia.
Fanny, in the Maid of the Mill.
Potona and Vertumnus.
A Roman matron, sacrificing to Jupiter.
Vandyke, a celebrated painter.
Aurora, Nymphs dancing, etc.
Time clipping Cupid’s wings.




index poem no.6

selection of views in casting shadows
shadow of circular disc when parallel to the
coordinate plan on which the shadows fall
shade and shadow of sphere
shade on sphere short method
shade lines on a cylinder

shade on a torus.




index poem no.16

London 1315

for every weight of cheese, unguent, tallow and butter
for a wey of lead
for every hundred of wax
for every hundred of almonds and rice
for every hundred of grain
for a hundred of copper, brass, tin
for a hundred of glass
for a thousand of grey-work
for a thousand of red-work
for a thousand of rosekyn
for a hundred of coney-skins
for a timber of wolf-skins
for a timber of fox-skins
for a hundred lamb and goat skins
for a dozen leather
for a dozen of bazin
for a quart of woad
for a cask of honey
for a cask of wine
for two quarters of wheat, barley and beans
for four seams of oats
for two quarters of grout and malt
for every horse of less value
for every ox and cow
for six pigs
for ten sheep
for five porkers for sale.

Minimalist paintings by Caravaggio, a review, 1604

At V------, 61 via Katerina, until January 4, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio is presenting an exhibition which can be seen as what it looks like, namely five quite effective minimalist “relief paintings” on plywood — e.g. diagonal bands of black and white convict stripes separated by areas of bare plywood; or four peanut shaped oblong holes bordered by the same stripes, also in bare plywood.
Or it can be seen as Caravaggio describes it himself, as “aimed to make paintings that depicted the truth” (Caravaggio’s plan was to spend 120 consecutive hours in the gallery doing the five works, one a day.)
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