Evidence of Desire

The meaning-effect of this image is largely created by...

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 08:42:00 -0800

The meaning-effect of this image is largely created by what’s missing. Two cups of coffee, but only one lovely human being. She looks like she’s thinking. And now we have an idea of what she’s thinking about.

annaharo:

Morning Coffee

When the obvious strikes us as a breath of fresh air, it means...

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 08:35:12 -0800

When the obvious strikes us as a breath of fresh air, it means the air we’d been breathing before is our own idiocy.

bellissimaragazzaa:

hopjumpskip:

awwsumz:

keeping it simple.

this is literally my biggest flaw.

I live by this.

Improvisation This piece (Part IIc is the track name) is the...

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 08:24:00 -0800

Improvisation

This piece (Part IIc is the track name) is the finale from Keith Jarrett’s famous solo improvisation concert in Köln, Germany. The album created from the live recording is still the best selling piano album in history.

Unlike the rest of the album, this piece was not wholly improvised in the moment it was played. The initial melody line and the chords underneath it were worked out in advance, as is KJ’s custom for encores. This information is sometimes disappointing to writers and fans who, thinking it was improvised, marvel at how this beautiful melody suddenly emerges unbidden, as if out of nowhere.

Actually, spontaneous improvisation is how the piece was created, the only difference being that it happened earlier and underwent some shaping and editing. It’s no less remarkable for that.

Then there is also the fact that improvisation is itself the product of years of preparation. You could even call it “pre-composition”. A jazz pianist of Keith Jarrett’s caliber can create music on the spot, as if out of nothing, precisely because he has already learned to play virtually everything. Every scale, pattern, progression, rhythm, etc. Music created in the moment comes from a mind and a muscle memory that have absorbed a million other such moments from the entire history of music.

All of that knowledge, practice and preparation does not eliminate the element of “magic” that occurs in improvisation, but enables it.

The artist himself feels the magic the most profoundly. It is, frankly, a bizarre and transforming feeling— to be surprised and dazzled by what you yourself are playing while you are playing it. It feels like a moment in time is playing you.

capeoptional:

Improve your day by listening to this quick-paced melodic creation by one of America’s greatest living musicians, Keith Jarrett. The piece is entirely improvised.

Taken from the album ”The Köln Concert’ by Keith Jarrett, available on Amazon, Spotify and iTunes.

versushipster: gorgeousgamergirl: Shakespeare - Insults The...

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:35:22 -0800

versushipster:

gorgeousgamergirl:

Shakespeare - Insults

The very last one truly makes me chuckle.

-everysecond: i can’t breathe tho

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:27:52 -0800

-everysecond:

i can’t breathe tho

teddio: warmsummerrain: Illuminated Christmas tree beside a...

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:05:37 -0800

teddio:

warmsummerrain:

Illuminated Christmas tree beside a creek in a snow covered forest at dusk, Cascade Mountains, Washington, USA (by joseph.vernagallo)

:)

For those who don’t know shit. For those who do.

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:43:00 -0800

For those who don’t know shit. For those who do.

I’m glad we have an atmosphere.

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:48:24 -0800

I’m glad we have an atmosphere.

There is nothing so fascinating as things that are both...

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:20:00 -0800

There is nothing so fascinating as things that are both ferocious and beautiful.

kikosexandrealestate: Bayland Farm Winter (by J.McPherson)

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:12:44 -0800

kikosexandrealestate:

Bayland Farm Winter (by J.McPherson)

unlikelywords: It really is a nice photograph, I don’t know why...

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:36:46 -0800

unlikelywords:

It really is a nice photograph, I don’t know why I would do something like this.

(by William’s Wish Wellingtons)

Because it’s handy to be able to sight in the guy in the...

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:30:00 -0800

Because it’s handy to be able to sight in the guy in the audience who’s coughing rudely during the adagio.

Mordor. OK. Maybe it’s Eyjafjallajokull. But who can spell...

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:30:00 -0800

Mordor.

OK. Maybe it’s Eyjafjallajokull.

But who can spell that, much less pronounce it?

Back yard

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:37:03 -0800

Back yard

toasted

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 15:43:53 -0800

toasted

Chopin Scherzo No. 1 in B minor. Sviatoslav Richter, piano.

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:01:20 -0800

Chopin Scherzo No. 1 in B minor. Sviatoslav Richter, piano.

“Chronic Happiness”. That word pair sounds strange,...

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:15:00 -0800

“Chronic Happiness”. That word pair sounds strange, as if they don’t belong together. Maybe the perceived mismatch is because we’re conditioned to assume that the word “chronic” only goes with bad conditions, pathologies. But “chronic” just refers to the state of persisting constantly through time. Wouldn’t it be great if it was a common modifier for the word “happiness”?

Clair de Lune by Claude Debussy Inspired by the poem of the same...

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:52:00 -0800

Clair de Lune by Claude Debussy

Inspired by the poem of the same name by Paul Verlaine

Your soul is as a moonlit landscape fair
Peopled with maskers delicate and dim
That play on lutes and dance and have an air
Of being sad in their fantastic trim
The while they celebrate in minor strain
Triumphant love, effective enterprise
They have an air of knowing all is vain
And through the quiet moonlight their songs rise
The melancholy moonlight, sweet and lone
That makes to dream the birds upon the tree
And in their polished basins of white stone
The fountains tall to sob with ecstasy

(Trans. from French)

Seal nightmares

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:15:42 -0800

Seal nightmares

I keep coming back to this one. The illusion of sharing the hall...

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:04:00 -0800

I keep coming back to this one. The illusion of sharing the hall with the fish is impressive. But then the girl shows us how impressive it truly is by the way she peeks from behind the pillar as if concerned she might get wet.