Vitro Nasu

Part I – Citizenfive
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Øivind Klungseth Zahlsen – multi-media artist, engineer – world traveller.
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Øivind Klungseth Zahlsen
Citizenfive

is from 2015 head of the study center at Udayana University. Øivind is civil engineer from Norwegian University of Science and Technology with additional education in Media Sciences and Cultural Psychology.

Øivind lives and works in Bali
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Part II – Citizenfour

Snowden with Bob Greenwald (Greenwald almost blows the biggest story of his life)..

Part III The trial of
of Citizen K was not directed by Pasolini

Nabakov The Moment of truth (youtube)

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Cab Calloway and Humphrey Bogart were born on Dec 25.
Happy birthday Sissy Spacek, Louise Bourgeois and Hannah Schygulla.

Happy Holidays 2014!

Update: Arnold Schoenberg wishes you a very merry Xmas

Armin Mueller Stahl is 84 years old today.
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German actor Armin Mueller-Stahl has had careers – and success – in three different countries under three very different systems. First in communist East Germany, where he was a heartthrob and matinee idol, then in West Germany where he worked with Rainer Werner Fassbinder in films including Lola and Verona Voss, and, finally, in Hollywood, where he has worked with directors such as David Fincher, Steven Soderbergh, Ron Howard and Barry Levinson. (via Hollywood reporter)

He appeared in such films as Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Lola (1981), Veronika Voss (1982), Andrzej Wajda’s A Love in Germany (1984),
Angry Harvest (Agnieszka Holland), The Music Box, Avalon, Shine, and Eastern Promises.

Previous post -2010 (Buddenbrooks + showing off Armin’s paintings)

Eastern Promises (youtube) (love this film).

Armin directed Conversation with Beast (youtube)

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Blog Vitro Nasu is 10 years old.
See the first post – here..

Contact (2005 – fun stuff) or the Archive.

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My wild night with Brando – Cavett revealed what happend that night after the interview.

History of Dick Cavett Show here.

10 good Dick Cavett show episodes that prove good conversation makes good TV.

A Last Look at Updike and Cheever by Dick Cavett.

Alain Delon and Cavett played Jeu de mots . (youtube)

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Two videos of Ingmar Bergman on Dick Cavett Show, his first and only appearance on American TV show.

Amazing Anthony Burgess (youtube)

Jill Jonhston and Dick Cavett

Robert Altman talks about movie stuff (Youtube)

In 2008 Cavett entered an Iraq war dispute with a New York Times blog entry criticizing General David Petraeus, stating “I can’t look at Petraeus—his uniform ornamented like a Christmas tree with honors, medals, and ribbons—without thinking of the great Mort Sahl at the peak of his brilliance.” Cavett went on to recall Sahl’s expressed contempt of General Westmoreland’s display of medals, and criticized Petraeus for not speaking in plain language.

Cavett currently stars in Hellman v. McCarthy (Literary Legends Declare War!) in New York City’s Abingdon Theatre. Cavett re-enacts his show of January 25, 1980 when literary critic Mary McCarthy appeared as a guest and declared that every word playwright Lillian Hellman wrote was a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’. Hellman later sued McCarthy for libel. The suit spanned more than four years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cavett

Psychology today.. talking about his Depresson.

On the Couch… with Dick Cavett
An American icon shares wit and wisdom about living with depression.

Happy birthday Dick Cavett

Fortress Gump…Photo collage by Fung Lin Hall

Rene Burri Berlin Treptow 1959
See more photos by Rene Burri (previous post)

Roman Gladiator at Papago, Arizona

Neil Young in Desert Shot – Photo by Dennis Hopper (Repost)

Phantom of India Chemical Halloween

Kabocha – Pumpkin

Charles Ives “Hallowe’en” + Lumiere Brothers Skeleton Dance..

Paul Thek

Robin Williams had to learn to play Sax and Russian language. (Moscow to Hudson by Paul Mazurksy)

Update:
Oliver Sacks:A Man Could be Anyone.. (via New Yorker)

I sometimes joined the Williamses in the summer at Lake Tahoe. I would go for long swims in the lake, with Robin paddling next to me in a kayak. We would chat about neurology and biology, literature, history, biographies—he was startlingly well informed on pretty much everything under the sun, and this was a very different Robin—thoughtful, relaxed, not onstage, not “on.”
In addition to all his gifts, Robin was the kindest and most generous of men. William James, the great nineteenth-century psychologist, was called “that adorable genius.” For me, more than anyone I have ever known, Robin, too, was that adorable genius. It is infinitely sad that this unique human being, who gave so much and so fully of himself to all of us, should have taken his own life.

Stanley Kauffman Awakening Review

He loved Tour de France..
Lans Armstrong was his best friend.
via biker

See two great videos on Robin Williams from Ron Silliman

Robin Williams salutes Robert de Niro (youtube)
(Update: happy birthday Robert de Nero- Aug 17).

Robin Williams

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Marcel Proust by Nadar (Click to see large)
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He was born 143 years ago on July 10, 1871.

On ne guérit d’une souffrance qu’à condition de l’éprouver pleinement.

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

Previous post:
Celeste, La Captive and Proust Questionnaire

Alan Bates as Proust

Alan Bates page on Proust (Janet McTeer played Celeste.)

Proust was, of course, a forceful personality. He utilized everything at his disposal to climb up the social ladder, and then to escape from it in order to hide and write. To move up in society, he had tremendous charm, effusive and extraordinary correspondence, great wit, and the psychological control that the physically weak can exert on those prone to guilt or compassion. Later in his life, when he knew he must withdraw from the vacuous life of the Fauburg St. Germaine in order to accomplish anything, he used his health to absent himself without alienating the hostesses who had brought him into it.
From his chart via Proust said that

Monty Python Proust Competition

1) Starfall camp (ABC, learn to read, stories including Greek, chinese myths etc)

Music animations – Beethoven, Chopin, Mozart, Scott Joplin, Offenbach and Tchaikovsky.

Quotations from Shakepeare – A horse! a horse! My Kingdom or a horse Starfall camp

2) O r i s i n a l (game site).
nice design, many games are soothing..
Panda Run

The Perious Voyage
(Look out for Dragon!)

Friends stick together.. (requires practices)

Frog Hydrophobia

These little pigs for 1 – 3 years old

Fresh Egg

3) Muffin films
(Fun, fun, fun)
Designed by Amy Winfrey.

4) Boowa & Kwala (from Australia in English & French)
Excellent site for kids..a must visit (many puzzles, stories.. totally delightful).

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Their first gameSamorost is here..

Amanita Design an imaginative game site by Czech team of designers.

6) Poisson Rouge amazing game site from France. One site gives language lessons. The chinese site is excellent.

7) Future Physics
Grab a planet and play with it.

By Rafael Rozendaal

David Markson Tumblr

Beattie was asked about her falling in love Wittgenstein’s Mistress, and she responded:
“I think more than just falling in love with it, or whatever, though—and I don’t mean to say this kept me removed from the book—but there was a kind of writerly awe that anybody would dare to be so uncompromising.”

Copy of picturing ( In fact, she was one of the first people to read Wittgenstein’s Mistress before it was published, as it was being rejected left and right.)

Laura Sims and Ann Beattie discussed David Markson at Strand (youtube)

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Fare Forward

In this first-ever book of letters by novelist David Markson—a quintessential “writer’s writer” whose work David Foster Wallace once lauded as “pretty much the high point of experimental fiction in this country”—readers will experience Markson at his wittiest and warmest. Poet Laura Sims shares her correspondence with him

A postcard sent to me

Letters from David Markson

Gaddis & Markson

William Gaddis painted 1987 by Julian Schnabel

On page 107 Vanishing Point by David Markson

Tardily realizing–qualms after all.
Author would undeniably be distressed at the loss of
Schnabel’s portrait of Willim Gaddis.

Markson also wrote on the same page,

Georg Trakl was a pharmacist.
E.T. A Hoffman was a lawyer.
Kate Smith could not read music.

On page 106 Vanishing Point..

E.E.Cummings died after chopping firewood

Ann Beattie – author of Chilly Scenes of Winter (youtube)

R.I.P Eli Wallach

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Photo by Fung Lin Hall

R.I.P Charles Barsotti

Charles Barsotti, New Yorker artist was master cartoonist a true original and a nice guy to boot.

Photo by Fung Lin Hall

After Reading Tu Fu, I Go Outside to the Dwarf Orchard

East of me, west of me, full summer.
How deeper than elsewhere the dusk is in your own yard.
Birds fly back and forth across the lawn
looking for home
As night drifts up like a little boat.

Day after day, I become of less use to myself.
Like this mockingbird,
I flit from one thing to the next.
What do I have to look forward to at fifty-four?
Tomorrow is dark.
Day-after-tomorrow is darker still.

The sky dogs are whimpering.
Fireflies are dragging the hush of evening
up from the damp grass.
Into the world’s tumult, into the chaos of every day,
Go quietly, quietly.

Charles Wright

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Charles Wright named American Poet Laureate..

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Nature abhors a vacuum.
Half the world does not know how the other half lives. – Francois Rabelais
Read more here.

François Rabelais, writer, doctor, humanist

Rabelais’ use of his native tongue was astoundingly original, lively, and creative. He introduced dozens of Greek, Latin, and Italian loan-words and direct translations of Greek and Latin compound words and idioms into French. He also used many dialectal forms and invented new words and metaphors, some of which have become part of the standard language and are still used today. Rabelais is arguably one of the authors who has enriched the French language in the most significant way.
His works are also known for being filled with sexual double-entendres, dirty jokes and bawdy songs that may shock even modern readers.

And one more Rabelais on (youtube) with Medieval/Renaissance music

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In his novel Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne quotes extensively from Rabelais.

Alfred Jarry performed from memory, hymns of Rabelais at Symbolist Rachilde’s Tuesday salons, and worked for years on an unfinished translation of Gargantua and Pantagruel.

Anatole France lectured on him in Argentina. John Cowper Powys, D. B. Wyndham-Lewis, and Lucien Febvre (one of the founders of the French historical school Annales) wrote books about him. Mikhail Bakhtin, a Russian philosopher and critic, derived his celebrated concept of the carnivalesque and grotesque body from the world of Rabelais.

Hilaire Belloc was a great admirer of Rabelais. He praised him as “at the summit” of authors of fantastic books.[14] He also wrote a short story entitled “On the Return of the Dead” in which Rabelais descended from heaven to earth in 1902 to give a lecture in praise of wine at the London School of Economics, but was instead arrested.

Mikhail Bakhtin wrote Rabelais and His World, praising the author for understanding and unbridled embrace of the carnival grotesque. In the book he analyzes Rabelais’s use of the carnival grotesque throughout his writings and laments the death of the purely communal spirit and regenerating laughter of the carnival in modern culture.

George Orwell was not an admirer of Rabelais. Writing in 1940, he called him “an exceptionally perverse, morbid writer, a case for psychoanalysis”.

Milan Kundera, in a 2007 article in The New Yorker, wrote: “(Rabelais) is, along with Cervantes, the founder of an entire art, the art of the novel.” (page 31). He speaks in the highest terms of Rabelais, calling him “the best”, along with Flaubert.

Rabelais was a major reference point for a few main characters (Boozing wayward monks, University Professors, and Assistants) in Robertson Davies’s novel The Rebel Angels, part of the The Cornish Trilogy. One of the main characters in the novel, Maria Theotoky, writes her PhD on the works of Rabelais, while a murder plot unfolds around a scholarly unscathed manuscript. Rabelais was also mentioned in Davies’s books The Lyre of Orpheus, and Tempest-Tost.[citation needed]

Rabelais is highlighted as a pivotal figure in Kenzaburō Ōe’s acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1994