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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
G. K. Chesterton
by 10k films on November 23rd, 2009
When The Times invited several eminent authors to write essays on the theme “What’s Wrong with the World?” Chesterton’s contribution took the form of a letter:
Dear Sirs,
I am.
Sincerely yours,
G. K. Chesterton
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“It was not Napoleon
Who founded the Ashmolean
He hardly had a chance
living mostly in France”
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“The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.”
“Great joy does not gather the rosebuds while it may; its eyes are fixed on the immortal rose which Dante saw.”
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Read more on Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936)
Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton full text
Dancing Birds
by 10k films on November 5th, 2009
Dancing Birds by Mustafa Davis
Huston Smith on Life and Death
by 10k films on October 30th, 2009
Our revels now are ended
by 10k films on October 25th, 2009
Prospero:
Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp’d tow’rs, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
The Tempest Act 4, scene 1, 148–158
The Signature – Jacob Boehme
by 10k films on June 4th, 2009
“All whatever is spoken, written, or taught of God, without the knowledge of the signature is dumb and void of understanding; for it proceeds only from an historical conjecture, from the mouth of another, wherein the spirit without knowledge is dumb; but if the spirit opens to him the signature, then he understands the speech of another…
For though I see one to speak, teach, preach, and write of God, and though I hear and read the same, yet this is not sufficient for me to understand him; but if his sound and spirit out of his signature and similitude enter into my own similitude, and imprint his similitude into mine, then I may understand him really and fundamentally, be it either spoken or written, if he has the hammer that can strike my bell.
By this we know, that all human properties proceed from one; that they all have but one only root and mother; otherwise one man could not understand another.
Man has indeed all the forms of all the three worlds lying in him; for he is a complete image of God, or of the Being of all beings.”
Jacob Boehme
Abdel Baset Abdel Samad – Qur’an Recitation – Ad-Duha
by 10k films on June 4th, 2009
Dream of the Yellow Millet
by 10k films on June 4th, 2009
The legend has it that one night when Lü Yan (Dongbin) was in Chang’an or Handan (邯鄲 Hándān), he dozed off as his yellow millet was cooking in a hotel. He dreamed that he took the imperial exam and excelled, and thus was awarded a prestigious office and soon promoted to the position of vice minister (侍郎). He then married the daughter of a prosperous household and had a son and a daughter. He was promoted again and again, and finally became the prime minister. However, his success and luck attracted jealousy of others, so he was accused of crimes that caused him to lose his office. His wife then betrayed him, his children were killed by bandits, and he lost all his wealth. As he was dying on the street in the dream, he woke up.
Although in the dream, eighteen years had passed, the whole dream actually happened in the time it took his millet to cook. The characters from his dream were actually played by Zhongli Quan in order to make him realize that one should not put too much importance on transient glory and success. As a result, Lü went with Zhongli to discover and cultivate the Dao/Tao. This dream is known as “Dream of the Yellow Millet” (黃粱夢 Húang Líang Mèng) and is described in a writing compiled by Ma Zhiyuan (馬致遠 Mă Zhìyǔan) in Yuan Dynasty.
The Pavilion of Ancestor Lu Dongin
by 10k films on June 4th, 2009
The sign hanging from the roof of the pavilion says:
The Pavilion of Ancestor Lu Dongin
The cave opens to transmit the Dao for 10,000 generations,
one thousand years,
The mountain remains blue, the water green;
From the four seas and the five continents
guests come and students learn,
The bamboo remains green, the lotus red.