HenLovelyBird

The Archive and Inspirations of StratoFyzika, Anomalous Research Group (A.R.G), and Hot Electric Noodle.

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Ballet dancers appear in a love scene from Phedre by Jean Cocteau in Paris, 1952.Photograph by Justin Locke, National Geographic Creative

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"Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to."

Jim Jarmusch

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Sen no Riyū: ichi-go ichi-e "Literally it means "one time, one meeting." A once-in-a-lifetime encounter, unprecedented and unrepeatable. Tea ceremony is a highly ritualized activity; at first glance it seems far from improvisational.  Practitioners can spend a lifetime perfecting their skills handling utensils, creating the ambience of the space, refining the very formal decorum of their interaction with participants.  The host and guest interact in a strictly prescribed sequence: you sit just so, the water is poured just so, the tea whisk is handled just so.  The guest raises the bowl slightly and then turns it to drink from the rear edge to express humility and appreciation, and both participants understand the significance that codifies.  Beginning, middle, and end are defined, and the same host and guests may enact a tea ceremony in the future.  But today's experience can never be reproduced: the call of a wild bird outside mixing with the sound of the kettle at boiling point, the conversation at different points picking up, slowing down, and lapsing into quiet, the deliberate nature of each gesture combining and blending with the unforseen environmental factors of light and sound form a permeable whole that allows for both experiences of time chronos and kairos. The result is that this meticulous ritual becomes context for the participants to deeply realize the impermanence and preciousness of their interaction just now." -Stephen Nachmanovitch

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Camera as extension of care: Rūta’s proof of care

also, Nikola Tesla was in love with a pigeon and finally, “pigeons are actually time machines”

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“I was actually able to write Neuromancer because I didn’t know anything about computers,” he says. “I knew literally nothing. What I did was deconstruct the poetics of the language of people who were already working in the field. I’d stand in the hotel bar at the Seattle science fiction convention listening to these guys who were the first computer programmers I ever saw talk about their work. I had no idea what they were talking about, but that was the first time that I ever heard the word ‘interface’ used as a verb. And I swooned. Wow, that’s a verb. Seriously, poetically that was wonderful.

William Gibson

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"It was quite clear with these pieces, for example 'In C', that the composer didn't have a picture of the finished piece in his head when he started. What the composer had was a kind of menu, a packet of seeds, you might say. And those musical seeds, once planted, turned into the piece. And they turned into a different version of that piece every time."

- Brian Eno, Composers as Gardeners

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in a pretty old edition of The Wire magazine, (back when it was really high quality), i remember flipping in the back pages (i like to read them backwards in general) and seeing something about a sound artist in nyc...i wanna say it was john zorn but i can't be sure. the guy would make flyers of events and tack them up around town but only after they already happened (maybe to make it seem like you really missed something?) The events consisted of playing (his) sound recordings in some dingy basement in the dark, with only the light of an overhead projector upon which he simply arranged various items.

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Chemists reason with their hands and brains. Their whose senses are not atrophied but work together actively with the intellect, supplying it with information that otherwise would have remained inaccessible to people who base themselves on exclusively theoretical approaches. For these reasons, chemists have a repertory of gestures and mental habits that come down to them directly from their science.

Il Centro internazionale di studi Primo Levi

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Today begins intensive rehearsals where the poetry of Dagmara Kraus with the light/ sound/body trio of @stratofyzika begin to live together in the same space! Performances : Uferstudios #1 on the 28th @ 20.30 & the 29th @ 17. #stratofyzika #hausfürpoesie #berlin #premiere #uferstudios #kummerang #heroinesofsound #dagmarakraus (at Uferstudios Für Zeitgenössischen Tanz)

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The second attention represents movement only because we are so firmly attached to our comfortable view of the world here.  But, like in the first attention, there are also degrees of the second attention.  It is represented in movement.  Think of it as an infinite grayscale.  When you move just slightly you begin to perceive differently and perceive other things of which you were not previously aware.  Move far enough, with enough energy, and you assemble a different reality altogether, although it isn't a movement of energy so much as a shift in perception, refocusing your attention.

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Rhythmic Phasing.

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Blixa Bargeld cooking risotto. It's definitely the return of risotto time.

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William Basinkski

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ΦPhi

Latest work of Berlin based collective StratoFyzika In collaboration with Lisbon based Choreographer, Daria Kaufman

@dariakaufman-blog @liquidmetalsunbeams @stratofyzika

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Cats & Breakkies - Intelligente Marionette

a video by Simon Baucks

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Ten Rules for Students and Teachers by Sister Corita Kent:

RULE ONE: Find a place you trust, and then try trusting it for a while.

RULE TWO: General duties of a student: Pull everything out of your teacher; pull everything out of your fellow students.

RULE THREE: General duties of a teacher: Pull everything out of your students.

RULE FOUR: Consider everything an experiment.

RULE FIVE: Be self-disciplined: this means finding someone wise or smart and choosing to follow them. To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self-disciplined is to follow in a better way.

RULE SIX: Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail, there’s only make.

RULE SEVEN: The only rule is work. If you work it will lead to something. It’s the people who do all of the work all of the time who eventually catch on to things.

RULE EIGHT: Don’t try to create and analyze at the same time. They’re different processes.

RULE NINE: Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It’s lighter than you think.

RULE TEN: We’re breaking all the rules. Even our own rules. And how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities.

HINTS: Always be around. Come or go to everything. Always go to classes. Read anything you can get your hands on. Look at movies carefully, often. Save everything. It might come in handy later.

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The photographer becomes a portal between aesthetics and obsession.

Nicholas Winding Refn on character representation in Neon Demon