Vitro Nasu

Fay Ryu’s Blog is all about Neko and Meow C Tong
(Sean alias Meow C Tong is the son of my sister Fung Ching Kelling and Fay is his girlfriend)

Comic by Fay Ryu

Birds by Fay Ryu

(Birds eating the Face of Hitchcook)

Bye bye birdie – audio clip The Mexican Jay calling

Digital image by Fung Lin Hall

Also see this video – Pigeons deliver drugs to Brazilian inmates.

Bye bye George Carlin!

What is your greatest fear?
To lose the power of speech.

What do you most value in your friends?
Their ability to exchange overcoats while running at full speed.

(read more from Vanity Fair – Proust Questionnaire on George Carlin)

Wake up the hamster, from Carlin’s homepage.

His last interview: on Arthur Koestler (Psychology Today)

The jester makes jokes, he’s funny, he makes fun, he ridicules. But if his ridicules are based on sound ideas and thinking, then he can proceed to the second panel, which is the thinker—he called it the philosopher. The jester becomes the philosopher, and if he does these things with dazzling language that we marvel at, then he becomes a poet too. Then the jester can be a thinking jester who thinks poetically.

More Carlin quotes

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, “Where’s the self-help section?” She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. – George Carlin (via)

Photo by Paul Kodama
Japan in June– Paul Kodama’s bike and hike in Japan. (Email notice via Hal Lum)
One Life Japan and blog here with neat photos of mountain vegetables.
Kevin’s Kaikonikki – A blog documenting the life of Kevin’s silk-worms.

Ya ya ya yama yo – yama wa ikiteru (Mountains are alive)

The Taste of Tea – Mountain Song

A few weeks ago I saw Katsuhito Ishii’s 2005 Japanese cult classic The Taste of Tea, starring Tadanobu Asano and 2007 Oscar Nominee (for Babel) Rinko Kikuchi. A quirky film about the Japanese living in a countryside.

June 20 is the first day of Summer.
Summer Solstice in color.

Multimedia Tonight Sky – highlights of the June sky. (This is a delightful site, very soothing, makes you forget the staggering price of gas and food – almost)

Finger Print Landscape
1950 (Via)

She met the artist Saul Steinberg in 1958. When she went to his home to make a portrait, Steinberg came to the door wearing a mask that he had fashioned from a paper bag. Over a period of several years they collaborated on a series of portraits, inviting individuals and groups of people to pose for Morath wearing Steinberg’s masks. (via)

Saul Steinberg wearing one of his masks, c. 1961. Photo by Inge Morath.

June 15 is the birthday of Saul Steinberg and Erik Erikson.

The Erikson life-stage virtues, in the order of the stages in which they may be acquired, are:

Gandhi’s Truth On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence by Erik H. Erikson –

Previous post on Father and Son – Oe Kenzaburo, Arthur Miller and Gandhi

For reference, in 1973 Barry was a big 6th grader and I was just a little 3rd grader.

Here is the picture I found (I blurred out the other non-public figures) apparently taken at a pencil chewers convention (Barton’s Blog)

Obama in 1973
Via)

What is an Aloha spirit?

Cotton Kamehameha

This is a remarkable print on cotton by Kamehameha. I love the depth and use of color. I stole this shirt on ebay last summer for $25. (Vintage Hawaiian shirt net)

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Some Velázquez Paintings were missing at EL Prado that particular day.

Yesterday I went to the Prado with my friend Maria. We saw some amazing paintings. The people in them are all dead now. It was not possible to take pictures and for this I made a long list. I also found this room from which they moved some masterpieces to another room and I took photos of the marks of time. When they saw me they told me to stop.(Christodoulos from Limassol, Cyprus)

Now I know two people from Limassol, Christodoulos and Marcos Baghdadis thanks to google Velázquez alert.

El bufon don Sebastian de Morra
Diego Velázquez

Obama and Clinton met privately, they wrote. We’re not there to know if they’re were there to meet. (My tribute to Obama’s mom and her son and Gifs for Gaffe for Bosnia animation)

Meanwhile we were there to catch two google logos recently.
Google Balloon Day Everest Day

Speaking of “Not quite there” read this review for Todd Haynes I’m Not There.

Todd Haynes has always struck me as less filmmaker than conceptual artist — a man with grand ideas whose mind works faster than 24 frames per second, the screen never quite able to contain the weight of his brain.

(Photo of Ed Rucha by Gianfranco Gorgoni)

EdRuscha (via) Gelatin silver print 1999

Fire 1967
“Universal Studio, Universal City” by (Click to enlarge)

Fire 2008
(via)

“We have duplicates of everything,” said Ron Meyer, NBC Universal president and chief operating officer. “Nothing is lost forever.” (via)

Workers using a blowtorch on the roof of a movie set building facade at Universal Studios accidentally set a huge fire that swept through the back lot, fire officials said Monday. (via)