sábado, janeiro 29, 2011
sábado, janeiro 22, 2011
sexta-feira, janeiro 21, 2011
INTERVIEW: "Stephen Shore with Noah Sheldon and Roger White" (2005)[excerto]
«(...)This gets to something that may actually relate more to what we can call pre-visualization. If you go back in photographic literature past Ansel Adams and Minor White to Edward Weston, who gave them those terms, what he describes is something very similar to what in sports coaching is called imaging. And the idea behind it is: I'm a basketball player, and can spend hours a day practicing free throws, and at some point my muscles develop a kind of intelligence. They know the feel of the ball. But there's so many muscles from my feet to the 3 tips of my fingers involved in shooting a free-throw, if I tried to consciously control each of those muscles I couldn't do it. But if I'd spent hours every day practicing so that I'd developed a kind of muscular knowledge, then if I had an image in my mind of the ball going through the hoop, that image will be a coordinating factor, it will coordinate all the muscular decisions. So in photography there's a kind of visual education that's gone on for years, seeing the world and taking a picture as a result. And doing this in different situations over and over again. Your visual muscles become educated and then the mental image you have of the picture will control your formal decisions, and that will create the result.(...)»
quinta-feira, janeiro 20, 2011
Sermão do Peixe aos antónios
Hipnótico, real, convincente. Tinha uma voz cristalina, nítida, calma. A eloquência era a sua cor, e o recorte do seu discurso elucidou-nos... Do quê? Juramos todos segredo, até cumprirmos o combinado.
A espera
«O Buda disse que das diversas épocas para arar os campos o Outono é a melhor, que entre todos os tipos de combustível para as fogueiras o excremento de vaca é o melhor e que, entre todos os tipos de consciência, a consciência da impermanência e da morte é a melhor.(...)»
in:"O Caminho para a Libertação - ensinamentos essenciais do budismo tibetano"; de Sua Santidade o Dalai-Lama. Editora Temas e Debates
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