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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_03F1faeV_g[/youtube]

Gare du Nord.

Fabulous short fiction film, in two parts, by the legendary filmmaker Jean Rouch, well-worth reposting.

(The 16 minute short was shown as part of Paris vu par… Others included Rohmer, Chabrol, Godard et al.)

(Gracias Benji Z.)

we will be back shortly.

and pretty again.

– David Wagoner

“The linking and relinking of objects by the Brain is actually a language, but not a language like ours (since it is addressing itself and not someone or something outside itself). We should be able to hear this information, or rather narrative, as a neutral voice inside us. But something has gone wrong. All creation is a language and nothing but a language, which for some inexplicable reason we can’t read outside and can’t hear inside. So I say, we have become idiots. Something has happened to our intelligence. My reasoning is this: arrangement of parts of the Brain is language. We are parts of the Brain; therefore we are language. Why, then, do we not know this? We do not even know what we are, let alone what the outer reality is of which we are parts. The origin of the word ‘idiot’ is the word ‘private.’ Each of us has become private, and no longer shares the common thought of the Brain, except at a subliminal level. Thus our real life and purpose are conducted below our threshold of consciousness.”

—Philip K. Dick, Valis

(v @dustfruit)

One of my most happily intoxicating moments every year is when I get to meet the new batch of fellow TED Fellows.

I met Lucy this past February at TED Long Beach, while she was pacing the hotel corridors, nervous about her talk–which, as you will see, she had nothing to worry about. On the contrary. And only later did it finally dawn on me that my dear Sophie Krier (amazing designer, ex Fabricante, living in Holland) had already told me about Lucy and her work, since they are friends and collaborators.

And now, then, bring forth: a body constructed like a whole city unto itself.

Yale University just published a list of the 16 World Fellows chosen for 2012, and I am  happy to say I am one of them.

Its an amazing program with a postgraduate standing that basically puts all Yale resources (and then some) at our disposal… so off to Yale and its classes and libraries and campus conversations from August to December. Ajá. Intoxicating world indeed.

(Gracias Yale.)

“If only you could see what I have seen with your eyes.”

- Blade Runner

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You don’t need to leave your room.
Remain sitting at your table and listen.
Don’t even listen, simply wait.
Don’t even wait.
Just be quiet, solitary and still:
The world will freely offer itself to you
To become unmasked, it has no choice,
It will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

-F. Kafka

Back in Mexico City after a week of great films and impossibly blue oceans.

“The Man Who Lived in a Shoe”, our feature-length doc was in competition.

Had a ball, and a very fun screening–full house and a moving Q&A that lasted almost an hour.

This, here, is an article in Mexican press that recounts that night in Playa del Carmen.

earth how often have

the

doting

fingers of

prurient philosophers pinched

and

poked

thee

, has the naughty thumb

of science prodded

thy

beauty, how

often have religions taken

thee upon their scraggy knees

squeezing and

buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive

gods

(but

true

to the incomparable

couch of death thy

rhythmic

lover

thou answerest

them only with

spring)

-ee cummings

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