Each year a different country, different mountain.
I could nominate a NZ mountain or two.
My first book was called Under Mount Egmont and Other Poems.
Which dates it, because Egmont is now Taranaki.
Harder to climb than some, but there is a lodge half way up which would do.
Max
Quoting andrew burke <[log in to unmask]>:
> I'd love to attend, but impossible. The secular angels of Rafael Alberti
> have always been favourites of mine - maybe a new spectrum of angels will be
> created by Vincent and Barbour ...
>
> Maybe this meeting is the seed of a poetryetc festival, to be held at Uluru
> or some more exotic (and cheaper!) venue.
>
> Andrew
>
> 2009/8/11 Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > Bowering's Diamond Angels are fine - if they are not already out for hire!
> > I am sure Shelia will up the ante with some serious Monglolian jade, lapis
> > lazuli and flint for fire. At the sight of each angel, Alison promises to
> > chant 'awesome'.
> > I think I am down to carrying the rations.
> > Who knows who else might show up - even just to roar as we may.
> >
> > --- On Mon, 8/10/09, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > From: Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> > Subject: Re: Photography, affects and cybernetics
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Date: Monday, August 10, 2009, 1:42 PM
> >
> > No, no, it's Bowering's Rilke, so to speak, with baseball players playing
> > for the Angels; otherwise, I expect to roar...
> >
> > Doug
> >
> > Quoting "Stephen Vincent" <[log in to unmask]>:
> >
> > > Chris - I am talking off the top of my head - but you may looking into
> > early Ansel Adams in the 30's when he was a correspondent with Stieglitz -
> > who may have also given him a show and, some now say, a serious artist,
> > rather than the falling off in his later work. This period is discussed in
> > a new catalog from the O'Keefe Museum for a traveling show based on the
> > period in the 30's in which Adams was in New Mexico with O'Keefe making
> > photographs, many of the same sites that she painted.
> > >
> > > Stephen, who is soon off to the upper-zones of Mt. Whitney for that
> > meeting with Doug Barbour. Great to hear, Doug, that you plan to give the
> > group a read from Rilke. What could be more pure? Rilke at 14,000 feet. If
> > Angels appear I will have my butterfly catching net on the ready, and an
> > Angel Delivery box in my pack. I hear that the stronger angels can give us
> > an aerial lift back down to the parking lot. In that case, I will give up
> > the box.
> > >
> > > --- On Mon, 8/10/09, Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >
> > > From: Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]>
> > > Subject: Photography, affects and cybernetics
> > > To: [log in to unmask]
> > > Date: Monday, August 10, 2009, 3:41 AM
> > >
> > > I have become fascinated by a connection the Zone System of Ansel Adams,
> > > Minor White and the f64 group of photographers have as an aesthetics
> > > what could be termed cybernetic culture. This also connects with Silvan
> > > Tomkins 8 innate affects as the innate 8 zones of the f64 photographers.
> > > By cybernetic culture I can also connect this to the PhDs that came out
> > > of the Cybernetic and Culture Research Unit at Warwick in the 90s. The
> > > dates also fit in, given Ansel Adams, The Negative, was published first
> > > in 1948.
> > >
> > > I should perhaps write fully more on this? Anyways, others here may be
> > > interested, best Chris Jones.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > Douglas Barbour
> > 11655 - 72 Avenue NW
> > Edmonton Alberta T6G 0B9
> >
> > That’s not a cross look it’s a sign of life
> >
> > Frank O’Hara
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Andrew
> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
>
------------------------------------------------------------
This email was sent from Netspace Webmail: http://www.netspace.net.au
|