你說 不如穿汗衣在北極凍死
六人五犬的花蓮冒險
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El Sueño
I came upon these photos by Walter Schels during a recent conversation with O, who had actually seen Schels' exhibit at Wellcome Collection in 2008.
German photographer, Walter Schels and his partner and journalist Beate Lakotta asked to accompany 24 terminally ill people during their last period of life. From each person came two photos: one before and another after death. The effect is really haunting, yet also one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen.
Mortal death, needless to say, is a certainty -- yet what happens in the moments of death or thereafter remain a mystery that hits many people at the very core of their being. How many millions strain each day in preparation of the unknown? I think these photos are able to reveal a little bit of what awaits one in corporal death. I don't think it's a concrete kind of answer - but more like an abstract feeling. Their faces seem to tell a sort of story... One often looks at a person and immediately begins to imagine what they are like, how they speak, what they do.... These black and white photos that frame each face seem to invite one into a the most personal and vulnerable of places. Perhaps it allows us to know a little more about them? Or maybe they rest so soundly, knowing more than we do....
"Abruptly her fear returns. The familiar sense of worthlessness. The sadness. Barbora Grone is overwhelmed by these feelings. "All my efforts were in vain," she says. "It is as though I am being rejected by life itself."
"Death is nothing," says Frau Cao. "I embrace death. It is not eternal. Afterwards, when we meet God, we become beautiful. We are only called back to earth if we are still attached to another human being in the final seconds." She prepares for this moment each day. She wants to achieve a sense of total detachment at the moment of death.
A bit of text also accompanies each set of photos, telling a bit of their story. A PDF booklet is available from the Wellcome Collection website.
Via Guardian.co.uk
German photographer, Walter Schels and his partner and journalist Beate Lakotta asked to accompany 24 terminally ill people during their last period of life. From each person came two photos: one before and another after death. The effect is really haunting, yet also one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen.
Mortal death, needless to say, is a certainty -- yet what happens in the moments of death or thereafter remain a mystery that hits many people at the very core of their being. How many millions strain each day in preparation of the unknown? I think these photos are able to reveal a little bit of what awaits one in corporal death. I don't think it's a concrete kind of answer - but more like an abstract feeling. Their faces seem to tell a sort of story... One often looks at a person and immediately begins to imagine what they are like, how they speak, what they do.... These black and white photos that frame each face seem to invite one into a the most personal and vulnerable of places. Perhaps it allows us to know a little more about them? Or maybe they rest so soundly, knowing more than we do....
"Abruptly her fear returns. The familiar sense of worthlessness. The sadness. Barbora Grone is overwhelmed by these feelings. "All my efforts were in vain," she says. "It is as though I am being rejected by life itself."
"Death is nothing," says Frau Cao. "I embrace death. It is not eternal. Afterwards, when we meet God, we become beautiful. We are only called back to earth if we are still attached to another human being in the final seconds." She prepares for this moment each day. She wants to achieve a sense of total detachment at the moment of death.
A bit of text also accompanies each set of photos, telling a bit of their story. A PDF booklet is available from the Wellcome Collection website.
Via Guardian.co.uk
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這個抑鬱的星期天
-- a lovely track by My Little Airport, titled "Scandinavia is our death terminal"
The lyrics tell a story about two people discussing how to die together... but it's actually a very sweet story more about life than death. Although not explicitly described in the very short lyrics, these two characters are really resolving to believe in a sort of love for life and each other.
思念是...
Museo Civico di Castelvecchio, Verona, Italy
This building renovation (1970's) by Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa will always remain one of the singularly most inspiring spaces. His use of light and shadow is just incredible... I wish I had more photos to share (if only I could find those rolls of film drifting about, suspended in unprocessed limbo). It seems that much of the time, modern architecture only holds up so far as a photographic image taken from precise angles and artificial computer enhancements. But Scarpa's work is so finely detailed to every last corner and crevice... it's always a journey of physical and mental sensations to be present within his works. The light that comes into the spaces of the Castelvecchio are never glaring or harsh - but at the same time, the light that enters the space is just enough to see the pieces clearly. Many modern galleries are often about washing everything in a tone of white. But Scarpa's diffused lighting and embrace of shadows overlayed on carefully selected palette of materials and colours creates a much more sensual understanding of the pieces on display, tying the audience to a certain dynamic narrative.
This building made me want to become an architect... almost. Good one, Scarpa. Very nearly fell for it.
20091221
錯覺
Teatro Farnese, Parma, Italy
An amazing all wood theatre first built in the 1600's (later rebuilt from its rubbles in the 1960's)... The proscenium is really wild. I don't think it comes out quite clearly in the photos (the camera prefers a different bias than human eyes) -- but it's a play on perception of depth with a foreshortened vanishing point. The audience looking towards the stage observes a very deep frame - but in reality, the very shallow length of wood detailing is slanted towards a fictional vanishing point. The effect is a sort of trick on the eyes, in which even the players on stage appear to be at a different scale.
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Hedi Slimane x VMan
Beautiful video by Hedi Slimane for VMan, featuring 16-year-old Oscar Nilsson of the Royal Danish Ballet Theatre.
The video superimposes Slimane's photographic style onto the dynamic and fluid movements of the dancer. Much like his photographs, Slimane pulls all the right lighting tricks to reveal a sort of hyper-realism -- created by the starkness of the black and white palette, use of negative space to outline forms. What I love most about this video is the use of negative space that almost entirely hides the dancer's legs from the hip to the knees... drawing focus to the gestures and darting muscles of the torso, and the twisting and turning of the strong but delicate feet.
Via VMan
Altro
This was taken somewhere near Palazzo della Pilotta in Parma, Italy.
Always something fascinating about passageways... pockets of shadows.... the walk through is like a sort of cleansing. The air blanketing your body subtly changes, your eyes readjust, your steps slow..
What's the other?
20091216
Io e lei
This was a very old antiques shop filled with these beautiful dusty treasures (albeit too large for the return home) in Sabbioneta, in the Northern part of Italy. The town of Sabbioneta seemed quite empty that day - perhaps as it is most every other day? But fascinating, nonetheless.
這間小小的古董店使人感到一種很特別的感覺
就像進入了一個神秘的黑暗世界
心跳加速,眼睛不停左右看
每個轉角都藏著意想不到的東西
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Joon&Jung Designteller
These sweet tears are just so darling. They would make every cup of coffee or tea all that much more delicious.
"It’s for your every cup of coffee that is bitter likes our lives. It’s a tear of sweet consolation in these short precious moments."
A really cool rocking chair for the urban dweller... made from scrap, cold materials, the designers Joon&Jung have transformed the tubes by utilizing the rocking motion and twisting pathways into a whispering melody of the beaches.. Perhaps cooing you into gentle slumber? Sounds very romantic.
Clouds don't always have to rain on you. Clouds can love and protect too!Check out : JoonJung.com
20091204
Mary Beyer
How lovely would it be to snuggle your hands into a pair of Mary Beyer's this winter?
Via TheCoolHunter
Check out : MaryBeyer.com
20091203
LHC
Never let it be said that L doesnt post on lebe. The Large Hadron Collider - the giant particle accelerator located miles below Geneva, Switerland. Remember when people thought it was going to cause the end of the world? I didn't doubt it at the time.
Well its confirmed that it is now the largest machine, contains emptiest space in the solar system (10x less internal pressure than the moon!)and also contains the hottest and coldest temperatures in the galaxy. Did i mention that its also the most complex and powerful supercomputer on earth?
Yikes.
Night Hotel
NIGHT HOTEL from Bell Soto on Vimeo.
A lot of fashion videos always seem to tread a fine line to the realm of absurdity (the bad kind)... employing cinematic techniques and archetypal settings, playing a game to trigger the most dramatic audience reaction. But the end product can come off quite flat, somehow lacking a great deal of the climatic storytelling its visuals seem to promise.
I think this video steers close to being just that. Still -- I like it.
Maybe it's the stop motion animation that I always find to be a revitalizing view of the everyday... maybe the chilling, soothing lull of the piano... the hallucinogenic narrative....?
And oh yes, the handsome boys.
(the clothes are ok)
Check out : bellsoto.com
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