David M Rubin

CHRIS CORNELL EUPHORIA MOURNING And Chris looking off to the side. Ouch, miss him.

Chris Cornell

Happy birthday, Chopin! The great pianist and composer was born on this day in 1810 in Żelazowa Wola, Poland.
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George Sand drawing 1841

Woman in white like Angel hovering up above but is sitting on a bed reading in rustic brick room

Royal couple on terrace w elegant blue and yellow decorations

Person on horse racing a line of people in colorful clothes outside a palace

Rumble of people and camels moves across the desert w hills behind

Arabian Nights 1974 Pasolini

Truth lies not in one dream, but in many dreams.

Man driving motorcycle w a guy on the back w flowers

Abbas Kiarostami’s Close Up is transcendent not for its brilliant structural artistry but because it helps us to compassion for ALL others. More relevant than ever

Alt text: a most bravura bit of painting. Textured 3d hands pop out of Red/purple coat to hold book out at viewer in painting. From ~1450s

Close up of Piero’s St John hands holding book. (Frick)

Painting of two sections. Foreground right 3 men having what seems a business conversation and background left a classic interior w 3 men beating a tied up Jesus as another looks on

Successive close ups of pic 1

Flagellation. Piero della Francesca 1469 in Galleria Nazionale della Marche in Urbino. Early Renaissance or 1920s?

Man driving motorcycle w a guy on the back w flowers

Abbas Kiarostami’s Close Up is transcendent not for its brilliant structural artistry but because it helps us to compassion for ALL others. More relevant than ever

Couple strolling w light blue parasol in desert. Elaborate domed tent behind

Someone holds red parasol over the couple as people sit on the sand in red yellow & orange head wraps. Tents and rocks behind

Parasols in Pasolini’s Arabian Nights. Cups would have been of more use as very few privates went ungroped

Prince Hal in front of his friend abc sons beautiful maybe thin wispy birches Doth it now show very vilely in me to desire small beer? Chimes at midnight Welles 1965

Doth it now show very vilely in me to desire small beer?

Oh wow. Thanks. Will watch that and Koker 3

Woman in white like Angel hovering up above but is sitting on a bed reading in rustic brick room

Royal couple on terrace w elegant blue and yellow decorations

Person on horse racing a line of people in colorful clothes outside a palace

Rumble of people and camels moves across the desert w hills behind

Arabian Nights 1974 Pasolini

Truth lies not in one dream, but in many dreams.

Monk Pirate?

Man in robes w harp on shoulder ahd parrot on shoulder. B&W From Ichikawa film.

Harp and Parrot of Burma

Father worried at wheel of car in traffic; son in back seat leans forward

Yellows car heading up a mountain road. 2 way Traffic and trucks on the road below angling

Figure leaning in sand w I think a grove of olive trees and we see the brunch and first big branches splayed up to sky

Boy on rear of car reaches out and shares his coke by pouring it into a bottle

And Life Goes On 1992 Abbas Kiarostami. His films transcend normal structure & seem really real; pure magic, even in worst imaginable situations

Boy running on hard scrabble hi w book in his hand

Same boy bravely curiously peaking in a door

Where is the Friend’s House? 1987 Abbas Kiarostami

1 of my favorite films & maybe greatest child acting performances. AK = compassion

Man w glasses seen from above working a mini Brown abacus

Mori working a mini-abacus in Ichikawa’s Her Brother

Yeah it’s a mix of history and enough math to explain at a high level and then he focuses on why each equation is important.

Ok thx. I’ll look that up.

The other piece is Kiarostami filming a fiction/doc looking for these kids/actors years later during the earthquake called And Life Goes On

Boy running on hard scrabble hi w book in his hand

Same boy bravely curiously peaking in a door

Where is the Friend’s House? 1987 Abbas Kiarostami

1 of my favorite films & maybe greatest child acting performances. AK = compassion

Man in robes w harp on shoulder ahd parrot on shoulder. B&W From Ichikawa film.

Harp and Parrot of Burma

Bro & sis is under a paper umbrella

Woman running w umbrella in kimono but skies gorgeous turquoise

Kinuyo Tanaka close up in dark muted colored room

Boy in uniform w head hung down. Sis in back w another guy under cherry blossom

Her Brother 1960 Kon Ichikawa. A family drama about sibs & second mother (from one of the most unflinching anti-war directors)

Yes!

Whenever the real world overwhelms I hit up math or poetry (and Dharma too :))

The Man Who Stole Infinity | Quanta Magazine In an 1874 paper, Georg Cantor proved that there are different sizes of infinity and changed math forever. A trove of newly unearthed letters shows that it was also an act of plagiarism.

A fascinating tale of plagiarism at the heart of set theory...

www.quantamagazine.org/the-man-who-...

Wow!

A detail of a fresco of false prophet, controlled by the devil, who has gathered a crowd of followers who have laid riches at his feet

Luca Signorelli, Deeds of the Antichrist (detail), San Brizio Chapel, 1499-1504 Orvieto Cathedral

What’s everyone #reading this weekend?
#books #BookSky

The Great Equations by Crease & People’s History of Rome Parenti. A bit of non fiction after huge run of novels. Resetting.

Overlooked No More: Alice Ball, Chemist Who Created a Treatment for Leprosy (Published 2023)

Black History Month—Alice Ball developed 1st effective leprosy treatment, 1915. She earned 2 bachelor's degrees in chemistry & a master's in organic chem & cracked the chemical code of the chalmoogra plant's oil to yield a drug. She died at 24. 2 men stole her formula www.nytimes.com/2023/04/08/o...

Man w glasses seen from above working a mini Brown abacus

Mori working a mini-abacus in Ichikawa’s Her Brother