Mountain and Cloud

Finished new artworks for Thy Veils fresh album. Mountain and Cloud.

104 Years Ago

My Great Grandfathers Bizz card

05 Sept 2009

We are travelers, we simultaneously live an infinite number of lives. Most people do not realize it during their lives, they usually are content with what they see and what they perceive as deja-vu, chimeras, mirage, dreams and die happily after living this fulfilling life.

Not only when we dream we're living an infinity of lives in other worlds and other forms, but we're 'there' and 'here' at the same 'Time'...

If 'Time' is possible that is.

This is not a memoire of Who we are or What we are. I think it is about How[O] we are. We are more different than we think, admittingly or not we are also more alike than we would like to admit.

For us dreams are at best 'interresting' but reflecting on What they are did not get us anywhere so far. How they are or come to be, either.

They just Are... All living beings have them, all living beings share them.

I believe in dreams, not necessarily in their content or ulterior connotations I give them each morning... but more than that... I truly believe they are real, real lives we live, real identities we share, not more ilusiory/real than what we perceive as 'Reality' right now.

Everything is true, everything.

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Within those lines I have just one question right now:

When/while we dream - what is there BETWEEN 2 dreams? (if one could think of them in a linear fashion) What happens while migrating from one dream to the other? How(Who) do we do that?

We are indeed Great Travelers, we are indeed interresting. We are Everywhere and at the same Time we are no-Where.

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Like Maira Kalman put it wisely: " There are 2 things I want to learn in this life... How to live and how to die."

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' One cannot prove with his mind, in an (cognitively)active state of mind, what is there between the dreams. How Big is that Space? How Long is that Time? How Alive is that Pause? How True is that Passage? Could we humans be only the carriers of the Pauses between the dreams?
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Learning how to think like this ...

Definitely, just imagining it and thinking about it is our own limitation... that we must stop, in order to Be what Is...

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" Why does something exist rather than nothing? " ( Leibnitz )

" For the being to Be, it is necessary that One is not. " ( Enneades )

HAPPY BIRTHDAY OL' FRIEND

Live long and prosper

Portrait

Photo: Daniel Dorobantu

Thanks mate!

The writing of my Greatgrandmothers friend's hand

VENICE FLEAMARKET

Who would have thought that finding the fleamarket in lovely Venice could promise such a nice booty.

I found this very nice letterpress wooden types at a very affordable price. Don't have entire families but still came pretty close in completing a nice 72pt Univers-Bold_Condensed title case ... and there are 8 other half/families among which Garamond, Times, Univers ... and some italian futurist font I didn't recognize. Owning a bit over 300 characters for now.

Can't wait to play with them.

...hopefully soon more on that topic ( searching for a press right now ) - Know anybody who owns one?

11 SEPTEMBER 2009

- Hi my name is Bob, I'm a graphic designer

- Really? Wow, man that's really interresting! Since when?

- Well, I've been in the field now from 2005, so that means I'm in my 46th year since I started my studio.

- Really man that's awesome ... And?...What's your proudest design moment? Can you recall?

-Yes. It's clearly the year 2035 when I redesigned the new 'STOP SMOKING' icon ... It was a blast man ... that was ... like ... breathtaking.

-Wooooow!! I'm actually speaking to the designer of the 'STOP SMOKING' sign ... Can I have your autograph?

-Sure man! Here ya go...

-Wow, thanks man ... one other question...

-Sure, go ahead.

- Do you have a light?


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Mountain de Gray

BRASOV TRIP

Pictures made while visiting mum in Brasov.
Love you mum.

NO PLACE LIKE HOME

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Archibald’s journal 10.08.09

0200 hours -

One week has past since I’ve been keeping the radio silence now. The tension in my bones is beginning to itch... Therefore I scratched it for the past days. Nothing happened. My body’s resistance towards the comforting scratches is/was unexpected. But it happened yesterday. I felt a reactionary impulse down my spinal cord. A reaction. I say. At last ... a sign. That did it. Must not give up. Must wake up. To hell with the radio silence.

1700 hours -

The noise is triggering new electronic impulses between neurons. I can almost feel them struggling to make contact within the boiling environment of constant discharge. No more itching. Only the thought of that gives birth. Inside. To the coiling snake within. Waiting. Patiently. To attack...Neighbors aligned themselves again in that daily-disciplinary-positioning-pattern on the front bench. That noise. The reaction. Music to my ears. Incentive for continuing. The impulses stopped. Silence. A captured silence. Noise pattern aligned itself to the rules of silence. Almost asleep. Almost aWake.

2100 hours -

Woke up- My name is Archibald - Today that other guy kept me asleep for the best part of the day. Only seeing his previous entries. It makes me aware of the thing. That one thing. The implant has worked. 2 separate entities. Sharing the same...place. The one thing that should have been the commonground for our existence is in fact the separator. Why can’t he see my journal entries? Why can we read only our own entries? The third guy said that it .... Wait! Who’s the third guy? How many are there? I am a scientist goddamn it and still all I can see in this journal are hourly entries.( 0200 – 1700 ). Is he trying to communicate with me? 02001700 ?!

2124 hours -

There! Made a new entry! Hopefully he sees .... I yhz... aaghiuw92 ... Dgajlike I said..nHSQ7...Almost aWake!

A SCA(M)N

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ON BRANDING...

'Branding' is nothing more than what it actually means:

-you have your cow

-you have your (custom-made) hot iron.

-You burn it on the cow

-The cow becomes yours

-The cow does not share your enthusiasm for proprietary ownership

-The cow still remains a cow (animal) nothing more, nothing less

- But you did your job and that is all you care for

-The rest is just a sorry excuse for existence


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P.N.:

"Brand-doctors", as they (self-indulgently) call themselves, or better "Brand Builders" are nothing more than a conglomerate of self-sufficient marketing idiots with no idea whatsoever who they really are, propagating false doctrines and a selfish excuse for their existence. God help us all.

Vienna

am in this characterful(uneasily-pervertable) city for days now. Adapting to the local pace & vibe is always a journey of self-discovery and I most warmly must admit that words are actually limiting to describe what I feel about and within this city.

No photos - sorry! ( cheers ! ;)


"GHE ZUN THAI" ( old chinese proverb)

[ A->B ] Well...

this should work (if I only knew how), but I will take it slowly and try to get to it one step at the time. First step (which is usually the generator for whatever will follow) is indeed pretty important because it definitely would not exist without the decision to actually take/make the step in the first place.

That decision (be it conscious or unconscious) now, is or could be driven by similar a-prioric experiences and actually be nothing more than a re-action based on your/our momental(at-that-particular-time)-judgment-system towards the-already-learned and lived experiences.

The momental-judgment-decision process is therefore a re-action - meaning that it is not a new place for the thought-bearer to be in- but that does not exclude other aspects regarding the improvement of the reactionary impulse through intuition.




Fortunately this isn't all that simple. But we still manage to make that step every day.

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