Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Posted with Blogsyseven billion canadians--two hundred canadas
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seven billion people
devided by thirty five million,
equals two hundred population groups with the same population as canada.
vitruvius razor
that maxim which usually goes by the title of occams razor. this variation found in the fourth chapter of a book on architecture attributed to a roman military engineer, marcus vitruvius. he reworks the maxim to explain why though there are many designs of capitals the number of names for them are kept to three, to avoid multiplying categories.
" there are, however, other kinds of capitals built on top of the same columns ( doric, ionic and corinthean) and described with various terms, but we cannot identify their particular modular systems or their columns as though they were another order, instead we can see that their technical vocabulary is taken over, and adapted from the corinthean, the pulvinate ( ionic) and the doric, of which the modular systems have been transferred to match the delicate forms of the new architectural sculpture. "
vitruvius, on architecture-book 4; made in to english by richard schofield.
Monday, November 28, 2016
Sunday, November 27, 2016
palladio--goethe--rotunda
"today i went to see a magnificent house called the rotunda. it stands on a gentle elevation half an hour out of town. it is a square block, enclosing a round hall lit from above. on each of the four sides a broad flight of steps lead up to a portico of six corinthean columns. architecture has never, perhaps, achieved a greater degree of luxury."
"far more space has been lavished on the stairs and porticos than on the house itself, in order to give each side the impressive appearance of a temple. the house itself is a habitation rather than a home. the hall and the rooms are beautifully proportioned, but, as a summer residence, they would hardly satisfy the needs of a noble family."
"but from whatever direction one approaches it, the rotonda is a fine sight. if one walks round it, the variety of visual effect created by the square block and the projecting columns is quite extraordinary. the owners ambition, to leave his heirs an enormous fideicommissum and a tangible memorial to his wealth, is perfectly realized."
"the inscription on the four gables, which together form a whole sentence, deserve to be recorded. MARCUS CAPRA GABRIELIS FILIUS QUI AEDES HAS, ARCTISSIMO PRIMOGENITURAE GRADUI SUBJECIT UNA CUM OMNIBUS, CENSIBUS AGRIS VALLIBUS ET COLLIBUS CITRA VIAM MAGNUM, MEMORIAE PERPETUAE MANDANS HAEC DUM SUSTINET AC ABSTINET."
"the last line is very odd; a man who had so much wealth at his disposal and could do what he liked with it still feels that he ought to sustain and abstain. that lesson, surely, could of been learned at less expense."
johann wolfgang von goethe, italian journey. (made into english by w.h.auden and elizabeth mayer)
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compost garden
carry on composting, that blog or web site devoted to compost, the living layer of ground. found it during a google image search for compost piles. the photo, of an out of control compost heap, led to the section of the website comparing neat and tidy piles with mere heaps. the writer at the blog thought better of piles than heaps.
i've always thought the heap school of composting more attractive than the well kempt pile. and an out of control compost heap with things growing from it looks like it can barely contain its fertile energies. if a gardener is not short on compost a heap can be a decorative element rather than practical need in the garden.
Saturday, November 26, 2016
rock garden--devonian garden
Friday, November 25, 2016
wastebook--acanthusbook
“for when once you fix your wrist in a firm position, the carpus bones, or seven bones of the wrist, will act as a pair of compasses, and one
of the bones, properly named the os. lunare, you perceive acts on an apex, between the two bones of the arm, viz., 1} the ulna and c the radius; for instance, you rest your arm on c, and through the elasticity of the tendons, sinews, and muscles, you are almost able to strike the annexed diagram, fig. 1, without moving the arm. You will perceive the principle by fig. 2 ; here I have placed an anatomical hand, holding a crayon, which shews by commencing at or about d, continuing your segment until you arrive at the diagonal line, e ; from the point a you strike an arc of sixty degrees, and by extending your fingers from that point, you immediately form a concave line adjoining, or more technically termed a cyma recta or an ogee for mouldings. I allude in this manner that your freedom of hand is obtained on this principle by prac”
Excerpt From: Page, James, designer. “Guide for drawing the acanthus, and every description of ornamental foliage;.” London, B. Quaritch, 1886. iBooks.
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the entire text of james pages book on drafting the acanthus is available free at the archive.org for reading online or downloading.
Wednesday, November 23, 2016
paul bowles--white slavery
(a quote from paul bowles collection of prose-titled points in time. one finds these references to the slave trade in euroese peoples here and there in literary works, they add up to something, but what?)
"the sultan writes to the kings in europe: he deplores the slave traffic, marrakech lies at a considerable distance from sla, he is unable to do away with the lawlessness there, notwithstanding the great effort he is putting forth in his attempt to abolish piracy.
he does not tell them that he collects one guirch for every ten realized by the trade.
in fez it is said that the moslems spend most of their money on weddings, jews on pesagh, and christians on lawsuits. but what the people of fez call lawsuits are the frantic attempts by europeans to secure the audience of local dignitaries willing to help them arrange the payment of ransom for their relatives and countrymen being held hostages."
paul bowles; points in time. ecco press edition.
werner blazer--cultural appropriation?
web site of artisnal furniture company which manufactures some or all the furniture designs of the swiss born euroese designer werner blaser. the page devoted to blaser has an interesting quote on his skill in interpreting and incorporating various japanese construction techniques and methods into his own designs, something in todays moralia that might be mistaken for appropriation of another cultures unique manner of solving the universal elements of design.
Tuesday, November 22, 2016
chris hyndman--death of a sleepwalker(6)
i found this anonymous review of a new book by pius nesapius about the death of chris hyndman in a recent issue of the arkham readers post. it is more a collection of reading notes held together with excerpts from the book than a review. having read and reviewed some of nesapius works in the past i found it interesting to read another's persons thoughts on a topic and author i have a familiarity with. not having read this book i can't say how fair some of the comments made by the anonymous reviewer are.
i can say nesapius is no stranger when it comes to the topic of mysterious deaths, in his 2005 study of the events surrounding the 1995 suicide of ex csis agent tony iachetti he concluded iachetti did not suicide, but was executed by nato special forces for allegedly selling csis case files to organized crime and or rogue gladio operatives for use in gangstalking, extortion, and the creation of a strategy of tension. that strange tale raised more questions than any it answered, as does his newest book which describes the death of canadian television celebrity chris hyndman.
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death of a sleepwalker, the conspiracy to occult the murder of chris hyndman. pius nesapius, landbaybooks. $63.00 (dollars canadian).
nesapius thinks their description sounds like the phenomena of exotic technology and pauses his narrative to give a brief explanation of this exotic technology. this is said to classified equipment in use by a branch of some of the worlds military and would allow things that sound like science fiction.
it was now august the sixth and he went on to torontos main gay village at church and wellsley, he was interested to hear first hand what was being said compared to the rumours on the internet.
" ... by mid august i had exhausted the queen-davenport neighborhood of information and began trolling the bars, sex theatres, cafes and boutiques of church street. as i expected it was much the same material that was to be found on the internet, ... chris was a csis special honeybottom agent who had seen better days, been retired but couldn't live without that part of his life so he suicided. chris was sacrificed to the great whore babylon by his female-illuminati handler jeanne becker, chris faked his death with the help of the breakaway civilization and was taken to mars to work as an interior decorator. they must be short of decorators or something on mars base. chris was a closet nazi and spy for the underground nazi international, was discovered and taken out by nato special forces to create tension and trauma in the lgbt community and too many others to list all of them here. it sounded a little as if some of them had been reading my books. ..."
nesapius found much the same information in the church wellesley queer as he read on the internet,
" ... however among all the depraved gossip one person who claimed to have known hyndman brought up a genuine incident and connected it to hyndmans suicide. this person claimed that she had often talked with hyndman during 2014, he had been very upset at the time about the suicide of a teenaged male, it was claimed this youth had schizophrenia though many of his symptoms and his suicide could be put down as the effects and collateral damage of counterintelligence stalking. ... the person went on to say she thought hyndman was so troubled by it he suicided. for a while there he was alway talking of it and once he seemed really really bothered by it and suicide in general, like you wouldn't believe it eh, being world famous in canada and all that, but he thought about suicide really really alot. ... "
this part of his investigation not likely to reveal anything more than the internet had he decided it was time to check with his deepthroats at the toronto police. he was sitting at a cafe table deciding which of his police sources to call first when a stranger approached the table.
" ... by this time the police had closed the investigation, the conclusion was death by accident, the sleepwalking theory, which seemed a cover for their polite way of not mentioning suicide, which itself seemed a way of drawing attention away from the evidence for a murder. to the possibility they were using it as a cover for something else ... it was time to contact my sources in the police department, enough time had passed for any unusual pattern to the investigation to have sunk in and come back to the surface where they would of wondered about it ... "
... "i was sitting at an outdoor cafe going over my secret list of sources in the police department deciding who i should call first when a person approached and asked if the newspaper on the table was mine i motioned no and that he was welcome to it, he put down a book on top of one of the papers and looked at another for perhaps half a minute thanked me and lifted his book turned and began walking away when i noticed he left behind an envelope that must of been under his book, i was about to call him back when my eyes were caught by my name written on the envelope in a hand i recognized ... i opened the envelope it contained a photo copy of the report made by the officers attending to the scene of hyndmans death." ...
nesapius informants in the police department were ahead of him the envelope delivered by a mysterious courier contained the report made the night of hyndmans death but with one difference that was not mentioned by the press.
..." the media never mentioned the clothing, the published police report doesn't mention the clothing in truth it seems to avoid mention of what the body was dressed in, but the one dropped in my lap states," the body was found near the entrance of the lane way ... a white leather jacket with full length fringe was worn on the upper body of the deceased, no other items of clothing were present, on or near the body." ...
... "a white leather jacket with full length fringe was worn on the upper body of the deceased, no other items of clothing were present, on or near the body. ... i did a google search and found a number of jackets that fit the description, they are termed bonjovi specials, and though i could not find photos of hyndman wearing a jacket that fit the description there is on the internet one photo of him looking at white clothes in 2007, around the time my contact claims he saw hyndman wearing a white leather bonjovi special." ...
i also looked this up and there on the website nesapius names is for all to see a photo of hyndman and his familiar sabados picking out white clothing at what seems to be a store in torontos eaton centre. this retail store is one of the many clothing stores which nesapius claims, in an other book, have some sort of deal with cisis as a supplier of clothing for gang stalking and crisis actor assignments.
photography by tyler anderson.
Monday, November 21, 2016
stop toronto gangstalking
this is a public service warning for clients of the toronto reference library. some or all of the afroese who frequent the library are thought by some people to work for the canadian intelligence service and torontos police state as informants and harasseurs. they can sometime be seen outside the library talking with their csis handlers and receiving instructions on who to gangstalk.
Sunday, November 20, 2016
Saturday, November 19, 2016
Friday, November 18, 2016
sculpture garden
that time they demolished a building on yonge street at alexander. someone took some of the concrete and brick rubble and was making sculptures on the sidewalk. several days later the blocks thit had used were stored behind the remains of an iron fence that wasn't demolished.
stalking the wild asparagus
that time in the early nineteen eighties i found a single asparagus plant growing wild on a north slope of the red deer river valley, it was near a path by the mall. i had read about harvesting weeds for salads and specifically about the wild asparagus in euell gibbons book on foraging.
there were enough stems to make a single meal for one person. i pulled the thin stems from the soil and headed back to the house. i boiled some water lowered the asparagus in and after a few minutes tried one, they were wild so a little tough. a few more minutes and i drained the water added some butter and ate the tips of each stem. my first wild asparagus and my last wild asparagus.
Thursday, November 17, 2016
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
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