Tao Te Ching

by 10k films on December 20th, 2009

Fill your bowl to the brim
and it will spill.
Keep sharpening your knife
and it will blunt.
Chase after money and security
and your heart will never unclench.
Care about the approval of people
and you will be their prisoner.

Do your work, then step back—
The only path to serenity.

-Tao Te Ching 9

10,000 films Christmas ‘09 Links

by 10k films on December 19th, 2009

Baran Part 1 (English subtitles) –
http://www.youtube.com/v/pcMs1V9DDHE
Baran – Written and Directed by Majid Majidi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baran_%28film%29

Tokyo Olympiad – The Marathon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAOGnxzCqUo

Akira Kurosawa – Ran – Intro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiROQY3xghw

The Robert Rodriguez 10 Minute Film School
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UOa7tkByrw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLxqNwc1oYU&feature=related

SOUR ‘日々の音色 (Hibi no neiro)’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfBlUQguvyw

Tony White ~ “Hokusai – An Animated Sketchbook”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmFGtsG_EgA&feature=related

L’Argent (1928 film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L’Argent_(1928_film)

Al Pacino’s Looking for Richard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQOW98M7i1A

The Moose – Woody allen
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xmnLRVWgnXU

Baraka
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11QZiQFXTow&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7geZs4qci1M&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtiqrzmuWbw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hU-Zb1BRmw&feature=related

Trials of Buddha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTbVVbDpGzM&feature=related

Music Philip Glass’ Koyaanisqatsi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-eET3f831E&feature=related

Kinetic typography – Citizen Cope – Let The Drummer Kick (AFX)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAuQmJzt_q0

Krasnogorsk-3 super 16-mm windup camera – $895.00
http://www.k3camera.com/

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Merry Christmas

Peace on earth to men of good will

et in terra pax hominibus, bonae voluntatis

Leaving my cares forgotten among the lilies

by 10k films on December 16th, 2009

Man must be what he does not want to lose.
The sage is what he has. If you do not want to lose the fine pearl of heaven you must be it yourself.
-Angelus Silesius

If you want a glory that does not vanish, then do not glory in a glory that vanishes.
-Ahmad  Ibn ‘Ata Allah al-Iskandari

I abandoned and forgot myself,
laying my face on my Beloved;
all things ceased; I went out from myself,
leaving my cares
forgotten among the lilies.
-Saint John of the Cross

So Thou be sweet, let life run bitterly;
So Thou be pleased, let men be wroth with me;
So all things flourish between me and Thee,
Let all between me and the world in ruins be.
-Abu Firas al-Hamdani

Listening to the night rain on my roof

by 10k films on December 8th, 2009

Too lazy to be ambitious,
I let the world take care of itself.
Ten days’ worth of rice in my bag;
a bundle of twigs by the fireplace.
Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment?
Listening to the night rain on my roof,
I sit comfortably, with both legs stretched out.

Taigu Ryokan