Wednesday, 18 March 2009

Alfons Jasinski RSW


Alfons Jasinski RSW, Evening Skye Duirinish, acrylic on canvas board, 25.4 x 30.5 cm, 10 x 12 ins

Contemporary Scottish Colourist Alfons Jasinski RSW (born Falkirk 1945) demonstrates in this work a close affinity to the Fauvist work of Henri Matisse (1869-1954), produced in the early 1900s when Matisse moved to The French Riviera, to work, with Andre Derain, at Collioure and later at Nice

Regent Gallery UK: GALLERY ARTISTS, 3 -25 April 2009, GALLERY ARTISTS CONTINUED 15 May - 1 June 2009

Copyright: Regent Gallery & Alfons Jasinski 2009

Enquiries: www.regentgallery.co.uk

An August Seat of Learning




James Priddey, King's College, Aberdeen, artist's proof print, embossed Warwick Galleries, 21.5 x 30.3, estate of George Scroggie Esq MA

copyright Regent Gallery 2009

enquiries www.regentgallery.co.uk

Tuesday, 17 March 2009

On Espying Sam Taylor-Wood, Escape Artist (Multicoloured), 2008, c-print

The Narro-Orifice School

by The Ekphrastik Poet smartart

I’m a lady poet

I’ve a boyfriend and a bed

I break

Lines and scan erratically

It’s all

In what is said.

I catalogue my toilette

And how he looks

Out flat

And dirt in crevices

That re-appears

Just like that.

I write of food

That drips and dribbles

Bits of me

He strokes and nibbles

As befits a poetess;

Goddess living

The Tracy-dream

And Emin-ating mess.

17.3.09

copyright: Smartart 2009


Notes: Sam Taylor-Wood is one of the Emin School

Select Bibliography:

www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=29652

Monday, 16 March 2009

A Presage of the End of Time

We must listen, hear and halt the folly....time no longer infinite....

Beyond the shore lark and whooper swans is heard the cry of the whale, the winds of desolation resonating from the mists of eons, a vast chasm of voidness. An anguished cry presaging the end of time returning to windswept wasteland. Take guard archangeli 'The Time is Now'

Oraculum/a/O



further reading:
BEES, BIRDS AND MANKIND
Destroying nature by “electrosmog”
Ulrich Warnke
extracts:
a. Introduction
3
Electromagnetic fields as prerequisite and
hazard to life
Author’s introduction to this paper
The question of causal effects and
biological relevance of electrical and
magnetic parameters is generally
posed without simultaneous
reference to their relevance to life’s
organisation. These questions cannot,
however, be considered in
isolation of each other. What role
have the electrical and magnetic
fields played in the evolution of life on
earth? What role are they playing in the
individual development and
physiological capacities of an
organism? Whoever investigates these
questions must sooner or later
conclude: Not only did the electrical
and magnetic fields of our planet
exist before all life, but they have had
a decisive hand in the evolution of
the species – in water, on land and in
the near-earth atmosphere. Living
creatures adapted to it in the
development of their kind.
Biological experience teaches us that
life will use the energy pool in which
it finds itself to its best advantage.
Advantageous not only because the
absorbed energy is a carrier of
information, useful for orientation in
the environment (see glossary;
hereinafter GL). But advantageous
also because the organism developed
to make use of gravitational and
electromagnetic interactions, creating
decisive functionalities of life. The
biological system expresses itself just
as the environment does and unity
and coordination with its environment
is its guiding principle.
But if bees and other insects
disappear, if birds are no longer
present in their traditional territories
and humans suffer from inexplicable
functional deficiencies, then each on
its own may appear puzzling at first.
The apparently unrelated and puzzling
phenomena actually have a common
trigger, however. Man-made
technology created magnetic,
electrical and electromagnetic
transmitters which fundamentally
changed the natural electromagnetic
energies and forces on earth’s
surface – radically changing millionyear-
old pivotal controlling factors in
biological evolution.
This destruction of the foundations of
life has already wiped out many
species for ever. Since this extinction
of species mostly affected ecological
niches and hardly ever own life, most
of us were not interested. But now,
the endangerment of animals is also
threatening the survival of man in a
new and unexpected way.
Animals that depend on the natural
electrical, magnetic and electromagnetic
fields for their orientation and
navigation through earth’s atmosphere
are confused by the much stronger
and constantly changing artificial fields
created by technology and fail to
navigate back to their home
environments. Most people would
probably shrug this off, but it affects
among other one of the most
important insect species: the
honeybee.
Because the bee happens to be the
indispensable prerequisite for
fructification: without bees, the fruit,
vegetable and agricultural crops will
fall short.
We are, however, not only affected by
the economic consequences of our
actions. It can also be proven that the
mechanisms evidently affecting birds
and bees are also affecting the human
organism. An all-round unnatural
radiation with an unprecedented
power density (GL) is also harming
human health in a novel way.
But, unless mankind reminds itself of
the basics of its existence and unless
the politicians in charge put a stop to
the present development, the damage
to health and economic fundamentals
is predictable and will fully manifest
itself not now, but in the next
generation.
The reasons for this are explained in
this paper. It endeavours to quantify
natural electrical and magnetic
signals provided to men and animals
as guiding signals throughout
evolution. The paper, however,
places particular emphasis on what
happens when these natural signal
amplitudes are suppressed, changed
and distorted on an unprecedented
scale by technically generated
artificial fields. Mankind can only take
successful countermeasures if the
damage mechanisms are understood

b. The involvement of government in
industry and the high percentage of
industry-financed research and
industry-beholden panels and
consultants, have spawned a
questionable system of environment
and consumer protection. Only that
which does not seriously endanger
common commercial interests is
noted and supported. The rights of
the citizen to protection and the
suffering of the people are flatly
ignored. Those with political
responsibility have apparently still not
realised that their negligent handling of
the obligation to take precautions has
long since been proven to be one of
the main causes of past environmental
disasters and scandals.

How to order:
Competence Initiative,
E-mail: bienenbroschuere@kompetenzinitiative.de
Bürgerwelle e. V., Dachverband der Bürger und Initiativen zum Schutz vor
Elektrosmog, Lindenweg 10, D-95643 Tirschenreuth;
Tel.: 09631-795736; Fax: 09631-795734;
E-mail: bestellung@buergerwelle.de;
Internet: www.buergerwelle.de
Diagnose-Funk, Umweltorganisation zum Schutz vor Funkstrahlung,
Goetheanumstraße 18, CH-4143 Dornach;
Tel.: 0041 (0)61 702 07 79;
E-mail: bestellung@diagnose-funk.org; Internet:
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Bookstore: ISBN 978-3-00-023124-7
Price: € 5.00;
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Reprints of the principle programme of the Competence Initiative can be included in the delivery at an additional
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Refer to www.broschuerenreihe.de for information on the series of papers on Effects of Mobile Radio and
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Democracy

Sunday, 15 March 2009

Rautavaara

Einojuhani Rautavaara
Cantus Arcticus, Op 61-1, The Marsh, Op 61-2, Melancholy, Op 61-3 Swans Migrating

http://www.last.fm/music/Einojuhani+Rautavaara/_/Cantus%2BArcticus%2BOp_61-2%2B%252F%2BMelankolia%2B%2528Melancholy%2529?autostart

extract from Wikipedia "Cantus Arcticus, op. 61, is an orchestral composition by the Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara. It was written in 1972, and is probably his best-known work.

Subtitled Concerto for Birds and Orchestra it incorporates tape recordings of birdsong recorded near the Arctic Circle and on the bogs of Liminka in northern Finland.

The work is in three movements: The bog opens with a flute duet, after which the other woodwinds join in, followed by the birds. The second movement, Melancholy, features a slowed-down recording of the song of the shore lark. The final movement, Swans migrating, takes the form of a long crescendo for orchestra, with the sounds of whooper swans, before both birdsong and orchestra fade, as if into the distance.[1]

Cantus Arcticus was commissioned by the University of Oulu for its first doctoral degree ceremony.[

A Welcome Wind of Wisdom

"I sense a wind from the east - a welcome wind of wisdom. The flaxen haired pixie-gnome stirs in his lair, ventures forth and sirens his call to an eager tribe. The voice of Pax rings clearly resonant - audible down the ages until the Victorians and into the depths of future-time ...." thus spake Zarathustra's sibyl

Tuesday, 18 November 2008

Degress For All Responsible for the Gross Levels of Incompetence in Government and Business

In recent discussions on BBC Radio 4 on the topic of current higher education and Blair's vision that 50% would go through higher education, intellectual capacity was not mentioned.

Previously, degrees were synonemous with, and only for those with the highest intellect, and therefore those who went on with a degree into a profession or business were intellectually equipped to hold important responsible posts and to carry out their work to the highest standards. Given that a very small percentage of any population possesses a high intellect, we are now in a position where hordes with a modicum of intellect, who now have a degree have ended up in positions which at one time they would not have been considered for. This has clearly given rise to the unprecedented levels of incompetence and mismanagement in central and local government, and constantly lowering standards in business.

We have produced a generation with falsely high aspirations who lack the intellectual capacity to utilise their higher education effectively.

It is high time to learn the lesson of Blair's misguided policy and to revert to a system where more emphasis is placed on vocational skills' training and leave academic higher education to those who are intellectually most suited, and who will ultimately, if given the opportunity, be able to contribute effectively to getting us out of this mess.

We can not see the wood from the trees.