Gfrun

Gfrun

@fenyizi.bsky.social

The sea’s Santa Barbara is a fish swimming in the forest.

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Grey-white death, the feather is the final gift. Distant in naming, the closer the distance. bsky.app/profile/latt... Courtesy of @mickh5.bsky.social

John Latta@lattaj.bsky.social

Stray hunch, likely awry: Equipped with such formidable mortality whatever style I choose operates in me like a sky— it passes and changes and persists and I possess nothing but the sum of naming, curious and frantic. —Lisa Robertson, out of “After Trees” Lisa Robertson’s Magenta Soul Whip (20050

A shadow has no height, only a frightening breadth, yet it evokes a profound dread, like entropy. Dance needs only rising to create a miracle. Yet many are defeated by the entropy or shadows.

Friedrich Nietzsche@nietzschean.bsky.social

"I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer." The Gay Science §381 #existentialism #Nietzsche

Like Dong Zhongshu蕫仲舒’s view of the cosmos during the Han dynasty.🤔

Barb Drummond@barbdrummond.bsky.social

From #DavidByrne’s book @SleepingBeauties #Kepler believed thst #planets had #souls

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Sometimes, we don’t even know where the beauty of mountains lies, as if it had nothing to do with time, startling us awake, then calling us back.

A bloom is a gathering: Faces to faces, Hearts to hearts.

Rabih Alameddine@rabihalameddine.bsky.social

'Reward of Merit 'bookmark,' watercolor ink, c. 1810-30, Pennsylvania, possibly given to students as reward for good behavior/grades

沈长山 旧为休文别业故云,南去里许即前山溔,入省之要道也。山多美竹,望之丽然。大中丞北川陆公构亭其上,文人墨士多往游焉。 明 宋旭(《湖州十八景图》册页一开)

Open Art@open-art.bsky.social

Song Xu's 'Mt. Shenchang' from around 1588 is an album leaf painted with ink and color on silk. It is part of the Cleveland Museum of Art's collection.

"by little more than ink & their own strength brushed momentarily over it" In fact, the ink records much information: whose residence, what plants, a gift for whom, weather, time. Momentarily, it makes these places historically traceable. Literati painting is too freehand; history must be present.

John Latta@lattaj.bsky.social

Because today’s a Philip Whalen anniversary (b. 20 October 2023)—thank you, Pat Nolan [ @xileinparadise.bsky.social ]—here’s a bittersweet paean to this world (and others) “held together now by little more than ink . . .”

Crystal Forms: A Victorian Aesthetics of Accident Daniel Williams

Daniel Grey@djrgrey.bsky.social

2026 marks the 30th birthday of @jofvictculture.bsky.social!! 🎂 Reflecting this milestone & working with previous editors, we 5 Co-Editors have put together a Virtual Special Issue of the 30 articles felt to best represent the journal's lifetime📄 🌟https://academic.oup.com/jvc/pages/30-for-30th

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Gfrun@fenyizi.bsky.social

By the way, why has the four-panel grid become a shared convention between humans and machines? Is it a way of approaching the circle through the square, or is it the duality inherent in this numerical form—in fact, an unfolding of musicality?🫠

Crystal Forms: A Victorian Aesthetics of Accident Daniel Williams

Daniel Grey@djrgrey.bsky.social

2026 marks the 30th birthday of @jofvictculture.bsky.social!! 🎂 Reflecting this milestone & working with previous editors, we 5 Co-Editors have put together a Virtual Special Issue of the 30 articles felt to best represent the journal's lifetime📄 🌟https://academic.oup.com/jvc/pages/30-for-30th

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“Botanical motifs are dominant in this discourse, and also in late Victorian catalogues for decorative objects like encaustic tiles, whose square format favours pattern symmetries in multiples of four, rather than six. ”

Encaustic tiles and carpet,more toward square shapes. How does the square actually come on stage? Because there are no straight lines in nature—obviously no squares—so when squares suddenly appear in decorative art, isn't that astonishing?😄 "the four quarters" appears frequently in the Shijing诗经.

Physics@physics.bsky.social

The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics. – Galileo Galilei

Crystal Forms: A Victorian Aesthetics of Accident Daniel Williams

Daniel Grey@djrgrey.bsky.social

2026 marks the 30th birthday of @jofvictculture.bsky.social!! 🎂 Reflecting this milestone & working with previous editors, we 5 Co-Editors have put together a Virtual Special Issue of the 30 articles felt to best represent the journal's lifetime📄 🌟https://academic.oup.com/jvc/pages/30-for-30th

“‘truth to nature’ in hand-drawn images to ‘mechanical objectivity’ in photomicrography. ” ‘pseudomorphism’.

“its ‘parasitical sublimity’, in the words of John Ruskin, ‘dependent on the accidents […] of the objects to which it belongs’; and in the glitches and stray details valued by early photographers, who recuperated their medium’s ‘prone[ness] to chance’ as a source of ‘aesthetic potential’.”2

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Heat killed a record 50,000 people in European cities this summer, research suggests, with scientists blaming climate breakdown for two in every three of the deaths. Guardian

Most Chinese classical poems, once translated, leave even native readers baffled. I thought I at least knew them-yet seeing this title, I was somewhat stunned. 😳 How should ancient poetry be taught so that it can be recognized “with all its vital organs intact” in another language?

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《题张氏隐居二首•其一》 春山无伴独相求,伐木丁丁山更幽。 涧道馀寒历冰雪,石门斜日到林丘。 不贪夜识金银气,远害朝看麋鹿游。 乘兴杳然迷出处,对君疑是泛虚舟。

Frank Hudson@frankhudson.bsky.social

Here’s an English translation by Kenneth Rexroth of this Du Fu (Tu Fu) poem.

Most Chinese classical poems, once translated, leave even native readers baffled. I thought I at least knew them-yet seeing this title, I was somewhat stunned. 😳 How should ancient poetry be taught so that it can be recognized “with all its vital organs intact” in another language?

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Most Chinese classical poems, once translated, leave even native readers baffled. I thought I at least knew them-yet seeing this title, I was somewhat stunned. 😳 How should ancient poetry be taught so that it can be recognized “with all its vital organs intact” in another language?

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Continuing yesterday’s topic: the concrete manifestation of emptiness is negation and questioning—for example, in this line, “has no one seen”.

John Latta@lattaj.bsky.social

What a perfect way to turn the reader back to the world, the ending of Gary Snyder’s epic _Mountains and Rivers Without End_ (1996). Pure bounty in release, triggered by a kind of infinitesimal ending (“drawn to a point”), a collapse into plenty.

Pinyin is proper for cultural keywords and names, not for ordinary adjectives. Grey, Yin 阴.

David Hayden@seventydys.bsky.social

Here in October Michael Smith, ‘The Colour of Grey’

My quiet is a realm of birds, deeper than rivers, farther than autumn.

Peter van Tilburg@pbvantilburg.bsky.social

Check the complete picture in the reply #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #Seasonal shot from #Autumn/ #fall #LeTeich #France #wulp #eurasiancurlew #Numenius_arquata #Courlis #waterbirds #wader #wadern #saltmarsh #samphire #zeekraal #Salicornia #Salicorne @robcrank68.bsky.social @atlanticbirding.bsky.social

Most Chinese classical poems, once translated, leave even native readers baffled. I thought I at least knew them-yet seeing this title, I was somewhat stunned. 😳 How should ancient poetry be taught so that it can be recognized “with all its vital organs intact” in another language?

I believe the title must be kept in both English and Chinese. 复阴 杜甫 方冬合沓玄阴塞, 昨日晚晴今日黑。 万里飞蓬映天过, 孤城树羽扬风直。 江涛簸岸黄沙走, 云雪埋山苍兕吼。 君不见夔子之国杜陵翁,牙齿半落左耳聋。