Vitro Nasu

Sting sings Russians for Ukraine refuges

Body Armor Ukraine – fight Russia to the last drop of Ukrainian blood

(Yevgenia Belorusets)

(From “Victories of the defeated,” a photo series from eastern Ukraine, by Yevgenia Belorusets.)

Ukraine War Book – Codastory. com

A wartime diary by Yevgenia Belorusets – Artforum

This diary will be updated daily and is copublished with Isolarii press.

This ability of the residents of Berdyansk to fight on and on, to approach the soldiers unarmed and shout the truth in their faces, even when the city has almost fallen into Putin’s hands, promises a lot. It is hope itself.

My father is a translator, he translates German poetry into Russian. Thanks to his translations of Paul Celan, I fell in love with this poet when I was still a student. For years, since the Maidan Revolution, he has published his translations almost exclusively in Ukraine.

He took part in protests back then, I remember calling him from Berlin and finding out that he was standing with the demonstrators at the parliament building. Then I heard an explosion; luckily he wasn’t hurt. Now he is in Kyiv. He feels quite weak after a long cold and cannot go to the shelter. Maybe he doesn’t want to either. Every day I see how he continues to work on his translations. Despite the rocket attacks, despite the danger, or maybe because of it.

Four Stories about Alexander Sokurov (By Victor Kossakovsky | August 16, 2019)

I dedicated my new film Aquarela to Alexander Sokurov and people have asked me why, so I thought I’d write something to explain. Everybody knows that he’s an outstanding filmmaker, a scientist of cinema who’s made an incredible contribution to cinema language with films like Russian Ark, Mother and Son and Faust. And people in Russia know he’s a real fighter – someone who’s trying to save St. Petersburg, where they’re destroying buildings to put up a 400-meter tower in the center of the city, and fighting for human rights, arguing with Putin to try to save Oleg Sentsov.

Oleg Sentsov is an Ukranian filmmaker

Putin Critic Sokurov Shuts Russian film foundation

Alexander Sokurov, an outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has shut down his film foundation after legal attacks from Russia’s culture ministry. (July 2019)

Jason Brown
(and Nathan Chen)

Jason Brown
(and Nathan Chen)

Jason Brown skates to Nina Simone here

Nathan Chen Skates to La Boheme Charles Aznavour at Olympic short program for men.

(By Kano Tsunenobu)
via
(Scroll down to see the tiger by Hokusai.)

Metropolitan Museum Exhibition (January 29, 2022 – January 17, 2023}

(Photo by Fung Lin Hall)

(それ お 送る – Send it)
(Photo by Fung Lin Hall)

(Photo by Fung Lin Hall – Dec 31,2021)

Happy birthday Haruki Murakami (Jan 12, 1949)

My Poverty Shaped like a Cheescake (A short story by Murakami translated by PeterCat)

Google celebrated Émilie du Châtelet (17 December 1706 – 10 September 1749)
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(via wiki)

Relationship with Voltaire
In the frontispiece to Voltaire’s book on Newton’s philosophy, du Châtelet appears as Voltaire’s muse, reflecting Newton’s heavenly insights down to Voltaire.

Du Châtelet may have met Voltaire in her childhood at one of her father’s salons; Voltaire himself dates their meeting to 1729, when he returned from his exile in London. However, their friendship developed from May 1733 when she re-entered society after the birth of her third child.[4]

Du Châtelet invited Voltaire to live at her country house at Cirey in Haute-Marne, northeastern France, and he became her long-time companion. There she studied physics and mathematics and published scientific articles and translations. To judge from Voltaire’s letters to friends and their commentaries on each other’s work, they lived together with great mutual liking and respect. As a literary rather than scientific person, Voltaire implicitly acknowledged her contributions to his 1738 Elements of the Philosophy of Newton, where the chapters on optics show strong similarities with her own Essai sur l’optique. She was able to contribute further to the campaign by a laudatory review in the Journal des savants.[12]

Sharing a passion for science, Voltaire and Du Châtelet collaborated scientifically. They set up a laboratory in Du Châtelet’s home. In a healthy competition, they both entered the 1738 Paris Academy prize contest on the nature of fire, since Du Châtelet disagreed with Voltaire’s essay. Although neither of them won, both essays received honourable mention and were published.[13] She thus became the first woman to have a scientific paper published by the Academy

The Moon Glows the Same

Matsuo Bashō 1687

The moon so pure
a wandering monk carries it
across the sand

Matsuo Bashō

“Even the smallest of voices need to be heard” a placard held by the young Lego artist.
(She will be 15 years old in a few days)

Occupy Wall Street was seen as a failure when it ended in 2011. But it’s helped transform the American left.

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Merrill Lynch Wall Street Waltz (Digital photo collage by Fung Lin Hall)

Wall street waltz

Looking back…

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Occupy Wall St

Wall street Anti- Captitalist Protest Picture Gallery slideshow (Guardian)

LiveStream Global Revolution

A line from Salvador Allende

Balancing between abstract
expressionism & futurism
the calm metal instrument
of my voice tweaks the once-

sacred double-helix to create
pyramids in bold colors &
textures. Exquisite tropes. The
great avenues will open again.

Mike Gravel

Mike Gravel who read Pentagon Papers into Congressional record dies at 91

Mike Gravel was on the right side of history (Jacobin)

Charlie CHAPLIN. 1952.
Buster KEATON (left) and Charlie CHAPLIN (right) during the shooting of the movie “Limelight”, starring Charlie CHAPLIN, Sidney CHAPLIN, Claire BLOOM and Buster KEATON.

Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin were close friends.
What happend when Albert Einstein met Charlie Chaplin

Tea Ceremony with Isamu Noguchi and Shirley Yamaguchi

Tea Ceremony At Eames house

November 10, 1964: Ingmar Bergman and Charlie Chaplin enjoy a long conversation about movies and other subjects in Chaplin’s room at the Stockholm Grand Hotel. Chaplin was in the Swedish capital in connection with the publication of his autobiography in Scandinavia.

(Photo by Judy Dater – via)

Maxine Hong Kingston wiki

In an interview published in American Literary History, Kingston disclosed her admiration for Walt Whitman, Virginia Woolf, and William Carlos Williams, who were inspirational influences for her work, shaping her analysis of gender studies. Kingston said of Walt Whitman’s work,
I like the rhythm of his language and the freedom and the wildness of it. It’s so American. And also his vision of a new kind of human being that was going to be formed in this country—although he never specifically said Chinese—ethnic Chinese also—I’d like to think he meant all kinds of people. And also I love that throughout Leaves of Grass he always says ‘men and women,’ ‘male and female.’ He’s so different from other writers of his time, and even of this time. Even a hundred years ago he included women and he always used [those phrases], ‘men and women,’ ‘male and female.’

Kingston named the main character of Tripmaster Monkey (1989) Wittman Ah Sing, after Walt Whitman

Similarly, Kingston’s praise of William Carlos Williams expresses her appreciation of his seemingly genderless work:

I love In the American Grain because it does the same thing. Abraham Lincoln is a ‘mother’ of our country. He talks about this wonderful woman walking through the battlefields with her beard and shawl. I find that so freeing, that we don’t have to be constrained to being just one ethnic group or one gender– both [Woolf and Williams] make me feel that I can now write as a man, I can write as a black person, as a white person; I don’t have to be restricted by time and physicality.

Blog of Awesome Women – Maxine Hong Kingston – literary Warrior