tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post3800391863515255505..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: IconoclasmUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-75931196264067723422011-07-19T18:47:59.030-07:002011-07-19T18:47:59.030-07:00The Maine woods...ah, the very thought... paradise...The Maine woods...ah, the very thought... paradise.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-6732782412473736942011-07-19T04:33:03.593-07:002011-07-19T04:33:03.593-07:00Thank you for the link to Theresa Goell's stor...Thank you for the link to Theresa Goell's story. I didn't know about this and will pursue further next week. A couple of weeks ago I read about a camera that's been developed in Silicon Valley that essentially allows you to point-and-shoot at will, whatever the lighting or state of commotion at the scene (including your own commotion, camera jiggling, etc.), and to "fix" the image in multitudes of ways later. I think the Heads probably receive the masses of information in this way and sort it out up the road. Speaking of which, our first and second set of flights were canceled, and because it seemed likely that a proposed third destination would also be axed by Continental, we DID drive to Maine yesterday (10 hours), just as Caroline originally recommended. Once we were on our way, things seemed to get better and it is extremely beautiful here in Owl's Head, where we'll be attending a wedding. I spent time here a long time ago, but I had forgotten quite how nice the Maine coast and woods are in the summer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-19798955543857667452011-07-18T06:17:47.728-07:002011-07-18T06:17:47.728-07:00tough being old & Iconoclastic... in this con...tough being old & Iconoclastic... in this condition<br />all is in ruin(s) and I can get anything to work.. hardly !<br /><br />try again as I do believe this film is one of the earliest .. in B & W<br />http://www.adiyamanli.org/nemrut.mpg<br /><br />you must've left the "g" off the url &, you know that word (and it s meaning : august ?<br /><br />I just found out/realized from whence it came...<br /><br />it has to do with another stone/rock edifice Aphrodite / the Acropolis & that Ultimate Stone / Rock ... the moon<br /><br />et ceteraEd Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-70908810828092695282011-07-18T05:53:33.290-07:002011-07-18T05:53:33.290-07:00Curtis,
It's a revelation to learn that many ...Curtis,<br /><br />It's a revelation to learn that many extremely significant world events in the realm of natural history cannot be detected from space. For instance those Great Plastic Trash Gyres that spin in ever widening circles in the oceans. The plastics degrade down to small chunks that congregate into great masses yet are too small to be viewed by the eye in the sky.<br /><br />I imagine the Heads as looking on impassively, forming dim conceptions every few hundred years or so, as the centuries go by.<br /><br />However the limestone is crumbling and will be mere dust (or at least for their sake I hope so) long before all those floating polymers have finally flooded the planet.<br /><br />Between now and then I shall imagine the Heads as presiding contemplatively over your hopefully tranquil lawns in Maine. It might be their first experience of shade.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-8624725740409551182011-07-18T05:52:04.533-07:002011-07-18T05:52:04.533-07:00Ed,
I couldn't get that gizmo to operate on t...Ed,<br /><br />I couldn't get that gizmo to operate on the fnutinrod.<br /><br />There is mucho footage out there, though.<br /><br />A curious fact:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJiSBcPdVQY&feature=related" rel="nofollow">The Heads</a> were actually dug up in 1947 by a middle-aged Jewish mother from Brooklyn.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-1111327230372047552011-07-18T05:51:24.226-07:002011-07-18T05:51:24.226-07:00Steve,
I imagined the sadness of the emperor in h...Steve,<br /><br />I imagined the sadness of the emperor in having his title and legend forgot -- he probably knew the Heads were not very good at names, and perhaps went out each morning, in the cool hours before the ascent of the cruel baking sun, to repeat it to them again -- and from their distance, they might have wondered what it was he was trying to tell them -- each word dimly reminiscent that the words<br /><br />which preceded it, likewise<br />had been copied twiceTChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-91966102989961942382011-07-18T04:15:06.314-07:002011-07-18T04:15:06.314-07:00From my current traveler vantage-point of an airpo...From my current traveler vantage-point of an airport hotel in Newark (the challenges of getting here yesterday were steep and the scars will stay with me forever, I believe), I identify with this scene and wonder whether any faint outlines of my own existence can tentatively be identified from space? I know someone who traveled in this area and will send this on to him. I would love to live with those two statue heads and wish I could collect them and bring them with me to Maine, but the airline would confiscate both of them and my head also and charge us for their efforts and my heirs for the shipping costs of the collected remains home in a plain brown non-hierothesion box. Next time we'll drive. She was right about that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-888016999589980022011-07-17T08:51:54.822-07:002011-07-17T08:51:54.822-07:00here a short video re: Mount Nemrut:
http:...here a short video re: Mount Nemrut:<br /> <br />http://www.adiyamanli.org/nemrut.mpg<br /><br />isn't Turkish spoken language pure ..... <br /> music rather than our musak !<br /><br />when living in Lindos on a clear day<br /> which most days were except when they weren t<br /><br />you can climb to the hill above The Bay of Saint Paul<br />& <br />across that blue sea see the coast of Turkey<br /><br />that first photo? a similar landscape ( is )<br /><br />The Valley of MexicoEd Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-22198789015155738952011-07-17T06:45:09.745-07:002011-07-17T06:45:09.745-07:00Tom,
"The land had not yet risen into view&q...Tom,<br /><br />"The land had not yet risen into view" (nor ridge here either, fogbound) -- no "limestone figures" up there, no "emperor whose name is now lost". . . .<br /><br />7.17<br /><br />light coming into fog against invisible<br />plane of ridge, bird beginning to chirp<br />in foreground, wave sounding in channel<br /><br /> which preceded it, likewise<br /> had been copied twice<br /><br /> “what calls on us to think”<br /> but, thus, is a sound<br /><br />grey white fog against invisible ridge,<br />circular green pine on tip of sandspitSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.com