Monday, September 12, 2005

MOV03271.MPG

by James Norman Culleton



Play Movie

Untitled(the problem with poultry), 2002

Sans Titre

Sunday, September 11, 2005

Watching the Clock


watching the clock
slipping off the dial
with each tick
with each
talk
with each trick

and tracklessness

tracing off

into
infinity

Those who don't learn from history...

Four years ago today... and in the aftermath of this, the U.S. media called it the day the world changed forever. Was comedy even relevant anymore? Movies? Parties? And now, four years later to the day, the NFL season kicks off, NBC is launching its new fall lineup of sitcoms, and the only article on the front page of the paper about 9/11 was about how real estate is much cheaper in Manhattan than it was four years ago, and how in the post 9/11 world Manhattan has developed more of a nightlife.

I think when history looks back on the U.S. empire, it will view them (and us, of course) as a people so distracted by momentary diversions, by football games and sitcoms, that we ignored the fact that the world was crashing down all around us.

9/11 number two


i wonder if one day people will look at these images and see the day that world war III began...

Ragdoll

Revenge of the Kaoss Machine


180px-Asterism-cuneiform, originally uploaded by The Stranger.

Perhaps the most striking feature of chaos magic is the concept of the magical paradigm shift. the technique of arbitrarily changing one's model (or paradigm) of magic a major concept of chaos magic.

The idea is that belief is a tool that can be applied at will rather than unconsciously. Some chaos magicians think that trying unusual, and often bizarre beliefs is in itself an experience worth having and consider flexibility of belief a form of power or freedom in a cybernetic sense of the word.

The gnostic state is achieved when a person's mind is focused on only one point, thought, or goal and all other thoughts are thrust out. Users of chaos magic each develop their own ways of reaching this state. Some of the most prominent techniques are prolonged meditation, the use of mind-altering drugs, self-inflicted pain and orgasm. All such methods hinge on the belief that a simple thought or direction experienced during the gnostic state and then forgotten quickly afterwards is sent to the subconscious rather than the conscious mind where it can be enacted through means unknown to the conscious mind.

Smoking tiger


tiger, originally uploaded by The Stranger.

Almost all nations have their traditional animal. Each traditional animal reflects the characteristic of each nation. In brief, the traditional animal is a symbol of each nation. The traditional animal in Korea is the tiger. A long time ago, there were some tigers in some the mountains in Korea, so the tiger affected the ancient people strongly.


A tiger is a dangerous animal. As the largest number of the cat family, it has big and thick arms and big and sharp claws and teeth, so the ancient people in Korea were afraid of the tiger. However, we can often see the tiger in Korean history, folklore, and traditional Korean art because it is also a nice animal. It is very strong, majestic, beautiful, and brilliant, so many ancient people wanted to be strong and beautiful like the tiger.

Saturday, September 10, 2005

5 + 1

they reach
extending
their photon
voice

touching
the friends
that miss
me

Words

Friday, September 09, 2005

What one should ask

His fingers
dance
across
the piano
pleading to
God

Do not
let me die

Do not
let me die

Yet he should
have been playing

What he should
have been asking

Do not
let me love

Do not
let me love

Listen & Feel

Listen
to the music
of the one

Listen
to the melody
of me

Feel
the restless
love of us

Feel
the busy
aims of
lust

Untitled

Thursday, September 08, 2005

"We're here because
we're here because
we're here because we're here

we're here because
we're here because
we're here because we're here."

Marching song, sung by Canadian soldiers in the First World War, to the tune of "Auld Lang Syne"

Gate of Renunciation


Gate, originally uploaded by The Stranger.

Having succeeded in overcoming all sensual affections and desires, and in acquiring perfect equanimity towards everything around him, the hermit has fitted himself for the final and most exalted order, that of devotee or religious mendicant.

As such he has no further need of either mortifications or religious observances; but with the sacrificial fires reposited in his mind, he may devote the remainder of his days to meditating on the divinity. Taking up his abode at the foot of a tree in total solitude, with no companion but his own soul, clad in a coarse garment, he should carefully avoid injuring any creature or giving offence to any human being that may happen to come near him. Once a day, in the evening, when the charcoal fire is extinguished and the smoke no longer issues from the fire-places, when the pestle is at rest, when the people have taken their meals and the dishes are removed, he should go near the habitations of men, in order to beg what little food may suffice to sustain his feeble frame. Ever pure of mind he should thus bide his time, as a servant expects his wages, wishing neither for death nor for life, until at last his soul is freed from its fetters and absorbed in the eternal spirit, the impersonal self-existent.

Futile Prayers

Please please please God please I promise I'll be good and stop doing all that bad stuff I've been doing and go to church more and tell everyone all about you just please please please God let the bus crash so that I don't have to go out there and plant more trees.

Laurentian Shield Clear-Cut


"Hidden in wonder and snow
or sudden with summer

this land stares at the sun in
a huge silence

endlessly repeating
something we cannot hear."

F.R. Scott-- "Laurentian Shield"

Disappearing

Wednesday, September 07, 2005

The Two I Love

Brown and green
eyes black
and blonde
hair singing
lustful words
of wisdom

The Half Glass of Milk and the Disappearing Date

George W.'s mom

on the yahoo.com news site...

Commenting on the facilities that have been set up for the evacuees - cots crammed side-by-side in a huge stadium where the lights never go out and the sound of sobbing children never completely ceases - former first lady Barbara Bush concluded that the poor people of New Orleans had lucked out.
"Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this, this is working very well for them," the president's mother told American Public Media's "Marketplace" program, before returning to her multimillion-dollar Houston home.

Victoria Stanton @ Zeke's

Katrina

Katrina
wiped
the dirty
filth
from her
beautiful
body

Sexual
positions
that we could
not handle

She was
the real
shock and
awe

Beaches of Purification

Marooned
on a beach
with every
way out
but no way
into the soul
that we never
think to look for

All One

The gates were opened
thinking
that the walls came down

Forgetting we were expelled
with the hardships
of finding our way back

Born within the sun
dying has begun
in the lover's One

Anecdotal Engagement

Tuesday, September 06, 2005


Portrait of Stan Dangerman in Montreal

Three James' 2

Three James' 1

Three Lighters

planting and pain

even the smoky tiger is not immune to the bite of the dread black fly

Dyad


The Sacred Vessel

Monday, September 05, 2005

Butterfly Super-Typhoon


nabi_tmo_31aug05, originally uploaded by The Stranger.

Holy Dinah! This typhoons name is Butterfly

Forever & Ever

Truth being the first thought thought. Justice being the first social thought thought. These are inviolable institutions in the organic concrescence of one and many things that are and ever will be. You cannot escape. You are with us. Forever and ever.

Flood

The marooned
feelings
weigh heavy
on the souls
of the flood

They rake
years of
emotion
on the gasp
and the
last escape

Never quenching
the spiritual
desolation
they do so
well

This is
the end

This is
the fire
and the
flood

CIA Mole

The moles on his face were horrendous
yet each one of them held more love
than the whole of your nation

Dance Punk!

Will you do
the flesh dance
until the very end?

The rhythm
terminable
goes and goes

Escape

I drove to the
beach

To see the
sun escape
our hatred

Hope & Desire


"But verily, frailest of all houses is surely the spider" (Koran 29:40)

Tyrannasaursus


b, originally uploaded by The Stranger.

Sunday, September 04, 2005

Hope and Desire

Wishing and longing for something that will never be yours, that will never appear is Desire.
Expecting something desired that will never be yours, that will never appear is Hope.

Murder

The Bird in Black

Cras, Cras, Tomorrow, Tomorrow

She gazes up to heaven and reaches for a crown,
The Hope of future glory, later offered by an angel.
An anchor hidden in her robes, it enters through the veil.
When the box was opened, only Hope remained.
Hope anchors our lives, in the spirit of a journey to come.
Cras, Cras, Tomorrow, Tomorrow
Cras, Cras, Tomorrow, Tomorrow
Without hope, there is only despair.

Hope is a terrible thing

Sometimes
hope
is a
terrible
thing

It leaves
you
longing
for things
that will
never be
yours

Sometimes
hope
is a
terrible
thing

It keeps
you
focussed
on matters
that will
never
appear

Sometimes
hope
is a
terrible
thing

Look at me

Look at me
beginning
all over
again

Naked
one
last
time

Look at me
beginning
all over
again

Naked
one
last
time

The Purist Pink Smoky Light


gallery-msg-1125492264-2, originally uploaded by The Stranger.

My people my flock my family,= I am yours

Don't worry. Take a load off. Everythings good. Everythings cool. Everythings everything. Be Mellow. Relax. Close your eyes. Breath Deeply. Feel Joy. Laugh. Forget your problems they are dust in the wind. Remember the people you love. Remember your self and how great you are. Feel Peace. Feel Tranquillity. Endulge yourself in devotion to all the things that you don't understand. Smile.

Sink deeper into your chair. Take a deep breath. Go with the florw. Let everything go up in smoke. Think about your family. Forget today. Set your soul free from it's shallow shell and fly up to rejoin the almighty void where bliss was invented and love is the law.

Love. Contemplate Love. Please understand that the beatles were right, Love is all you need. There is never any need to stress. Please forget the quarrels. Please forget the backbiting. Please forget the fussing and the fighting. Can't you see I speak the truth?
This is your movie. Nobody's going to do the work but you. The world's salvation rests on your shoulders but don't fret, you were destined to succeed.
It is not so important just to live but more important to live a good life.

There are things that are true and that are so amazing that you wouldn't beleive me if I told you. Have faith. All this is just a test that you have already passed with flying colors. You are only here to feel all the pain and joy of this movie which is your movie and yours alone. So Cry, Laugh, Speak your lines when it comes your turn to speak.

Your existence is a miracle. Sit back and really look at yourself and all of the crazy and beautifull things that you have been a witness to. Know that you ain't seen nothin yet.

  I am a warrior of fortune. I was put here to spread the gospel. I am a gladiator in the colloseum of infinite. I am the demonslayer. I am humble.

I know that the only reason I am wise is that I know that I am not wise. Only fools think that they possess wisdom. Everyone plays the fool.
Magic is real. Once you knew that but you have since forgotten. Miracles happen. You can see the future. You can control everything around you. All it takes is impeccable will. Do you see?

At the Gates of Apocalypse


Judgment, originally uploaded by The Stranger.

The Reindeer Queen of Automn and her four consorts stand before the gates of Apocalypse

Let the hate go

February 23, 2005

Let the hate go.
That phrase makes the rage rush to my head
and then I let out a sigh and I feel a little better.
I need sport in my life, I need to be exhausted.
To bed, I need to laugh in my sleep.
Am I waiting for a miracle to come?

Saturday, September 03, 2005

GHOST DANCE


Bring the light
Bring the light
Bring the light
Bring the light
Bring the light


How do you feel?

New Orleans


children
oil
chaos
death
race war
zombie

I dont want to go on in this way for too long. I think its important though that we look at this now.

New Orleans


rape murder pillage cannibalism

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Posted by: thesmokytiger.
Truly I am awed by the anarchy and destruction in the city of New Orleans. Of course no one is to blame. How many dead? What horror must be unfolding there.

Suits of Amour

Friday, September 02, 2005


New Label Exhibition Posted by Picasa

Lornevaggio

Tool Room Files


This is an example of foreshortening. Note the extended hand, reminding us of some of Caravaggio's mighty canvasses, and the brilliant use of negative space (which the shadow serves to accent) between the hand and the shielded torso.

Original Bluesman


BackAlley BluesMan, Label Gallery, August 2005, ditial print, L-Blizz

Thursday, September 01, 2005


Untitled

New National Library

Senior

Untitled Song

Ecoutez la voie de la chanteuse verte

Qui est ecoutez de maintenaint, yere, et futur

Elle est ecoutez avec ses orielles

La Mot en sainte

Lui qui marches dans les arbes ancienne

Caller la reignale

Pleurer comme la rosee

Les tartes dans ses yeux et levez de la Nord

Et le lumiere tomber, tomber renouvel

La Terre, La Terre La Terre, Retournes

Le Soire est use

Le Matin commence et lui apportes

Les Ouiseaux qui sont chanter jamais

Ne rebrousser chemin plus

Pourquoi faitez-vous?

Le plancher a l'etoile, le bord eaument

Mind's Momentous Divinity

I.
Never deny
the moment
divine

the magic
gut-essence

II.
Social reflection
is the lie
that generates
stratification

never deny
a moment's
divine

telling you
that leadership
is empathy
in resource
redistribution

not controlled
contrivance
where that is
mine and I
have rights
as that is
mind
and

you
only
relate

III.
That
is mind

Untitled(group home portrait), watercolor, 2005

Layla