physis <-> dios

Birth of Japan
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053117/

Sacred Texts
http://www.sacred-texts.com/shi/index.htm
http://www.sacred-texts.com/shi/kj/index.htm

mystical genesis evolving into multitude of compositions,
arranged and re-arranged, invented and re-invented,
marked and remarked, remembered and forgotten,
understood and misunderstood, set and reset.

explanation of the world, updated.
method: intuition + experience + comparison.

nicole willis & the soul investigators

1. get a soul
2. connect with the flow
3. make your move

look at me, look at you

Edward Steichen
Martin Munkacsi
Man Ray
Brassai
Erwin Blumenfeld
Cecil Beaton
Herbert List
Edward Weston
George Hoyningen-Huene
Margaret Bourke-White

d-a-n-c-e

BATHYLLUS. 1. Of Alexandria, the freed-man and favourite of Maecenas, together with Pylades of Cilicia and Hylas the pupil of the latter, brought to perfection during the reign of Augustus the imitative dance or ballet called Pantomimus, which excited boundless enthusiasm among all classes at Rome, and formed one of the most ad mired public amusements until the downfall of the empire. Bathyllus excelled in comic, while Pylades was preeminent in tragic personifications.

PYLADES, the pantomime dancer in the reign of Augustus, is spoken of under bathyllus. He was banished on one occasion by Augustus, but afterwards restored to the city (Dion Cass. liv. 17 ; Suet. Aug. 45.).

Pylades - A companion to Orestes, Pylades is present for much of the play although he does not speak a word until the climax of the action. He is a representative of and the mouthpiece for Apollo. His only lines come at the moment when Orestes hesitates to kill Clytamnestra. Pylades reminds him of his duties to Apollo, saying that one should rather make enemies of all men than anger the gods. After saying these words, Pylades becomes silent once more.


Orestes was the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra and the brother of Electra. When his father returned from the Trojan War, he was murdered by Clytemnestra and her lover, Aegisthus. Orestes, who was quite young at the time, went into exile and swore to get revenge. After he reached adulthood, he returned home secretly and, plotting with his sister Electra, contrived the murder of both Aegisthus and Clytemnestra. As a consequence of his deed, Orestes was tormented by the Erinyes, or Furies, who followed him everywhere he went. The Erinyes only stopped hounding him when he sought judgement for his crime at the Aeropagus in Athens, and was acquitted.

mens sana in corpore sano

orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.
fortem posce animum mortis terrore carentem,
qui spatium uitae extremum inter munera ponat
naturae, qui ferre queat quoscumque labores,
nesciat irasci, cupiat nihil et potiores
Herculis aerumnas credat saeuosque labores
et uenere et cenis et pluma Sardanapalli.
monstro quod ipse tibi possis dare; semita certe
tranquillae per uirtutem patet unica uitae.
(10.356-64)

It is to be prayed that the mind be sound in a sound body.
Ask for a brave soul that lacks the fear of death,
which places the length of life last among nature’s blessings,
which is able to bear whatever kind of sufferings,
does not know anger, lusts for nothing and believes
the hardships and savage labors of Hercules better than
the satisfactions, feasts, and feather bed of an Eastern king.
I will reveal what you are able to give yourself;
For certain, the one footpath of a tranquil life lies through virtue.

("Satire X"; Juvenal)

Poe-Poe-Poe

ponderous september

August

Augustus:

No proper name, but a mere title given to Octavian, because he was head of the priesthood. In the reign of Diocle’tian the two emperors were each styled Augustus (sacred majesty), and the two viceroys Cæsar. Prior to that time Ha’drian limited the title of Cæsar to the heir presumptive. 1
Augustus. Philippe II. of France; so called because he was born in the month of August. (1165, 1180–1223.) 2
Sigismund II. of Poland. (1520, 1548–1572.)

Augustinians:

Friars or nuns of the Augustine Order, established in the eleventh century in commemoration of St. Augustine, and in imitation of the ancient order founded by him in the fourth century. 1
Those who believe, on the authority of St. Augustine, in absolute predestination and effectual grace. That is, that predestination is quite independent of man, and that grace has no reference to preceding piety and moral conduct, but is vouchsafed by God’s own absolute will. Whom He would He did predestinate, and “whom He did predestinate, them He also called” (Romans viii. 30).

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step by step

-You are.
-Am I?

-I am.
-You are?

Dalvador Sali

Fight back.