Amsterdam RealTime: Diary in Traces

The most beautiful example of cartography in motion is Esther Polak’s “Amsterdam RealTime: Diary in Traces,” where GPS-equipped pedestrians sketch out the city plan of Amsterdam as a record of their everyday itineraries. Their paths appear as lines of light on a black ground, only to be gradually effaced, giving way to the traces of other walkers. But the work is a fragile gesture, fraught with ambiguity: the individual’s wavering life-line appears at once as testimony of human singularity in time, and proof of infallible performance by the satellite mapping system.

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your life is your life

Tom Waits reads Charles Bukowski

Alice Coltrane - Turiya & Ramakrishna

what a gracious moon howl dance -

I LOVE IT, Brings in me

true

deep

JOY

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"The sound in your mind

is the first sound

that you could sing"

Jack Kerouac - Mexico City Blues

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"It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment."

- Jeanette Winterson

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split

The Split sereis of photographs by Meirav Heiman was taken during 2003 at various places throughout Israel.

Wadi Khadav , 2003, C Print, 150X120 cm.

"Heiman's decision to thus poistion herself in relation to the landscape creates a basic situation where she dominates the environment through the presence of her body, through her pose, and through the foreign colorfulness that she brings with her. But at the same time, the specific pose she has chosen places her in the landscape horizontally, spread out, present but also stuck. As it is not a simple position, and it does not allow any movement, it transforms her, to a point, from being an active subject dominating the landscape into a passive object located in it." sais Hadas Maor at the text she wrote for the exhibition.

Ducks on the Water (Fawn, Tom Waits)

"The river of life, dark and deep, moves swiftly.

The two sides are muddy, the middle is depthless."

- Raga Gunjari

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comfort

"When we think about our human lives, there are, as you know, people who live long, like those Sun-faced Buddhas, and there are people whose lives are short, like those Moon-faced Buddhas. It's useless to worry." - Baso

The Blue Cliff Records

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Chinese Sentiment

Shen Wei Chinese Sentiment series,Black Swan, 2009. via shenphotoblog

penetration

Michael Raedecker, penetration, 2005 Acrylic and thread on canvas 98 x 62 cm / 38 5/8 x 24 3/8 in

Perpetuum Mobile

Brilliant Trees

David Sylvian Brilliant Trees Lyrics

When you come to me

I'll question myself again

Is this grip on life still my own

When every step I take

Leads me so far away

Every thought should bring me closer home

And there you stand

Making my life possible

Raise my hands up to heaven

But only you could know

My whole world stands in front of me

By the look in your eyes

By the look in your eyes

My whole life stretches in front of me

Reaching up like a flower

Leading my life back to the soil

Every plan I've made's

Lost in the scheme of things

Within each lesson lies the price to learn

A reason to believe

Divorces itself from me

Every hope I hold lies in my arms

And there you stand

Making my life possible

Raise my hands up to heaven

But only you could know

My whole world stands in front of me

By the look in your eyes

By the look in your eyes

My whole life stretches in front of me

Reaching up like a flower

Leading my life back to the soil

Shearwater - An insular life

A calm

then the roaring wall of the eye

as we sailed to the world

from an insular life

from the boughs that had sheltered us all of our lives

from the sun's red blooming

With a shadow on every life

and we laid in the dark

through the thundering nights

and awoke to an ocean of shimmering white

where the hull scrapes on the silent ice

and the gulls on the frozen ropes

Oh lights on the floor

let the audience rise

let them file through the halls

still assured in their lives

until the sky shudders open

impossibly wide

and the room glows in the sudden light

and they are gone

they are gone for life

Women

Daniel Silver Untitled (Woman) 2010 Marble, wood, plaster, paint 161 x 54 x 53 cm

Sentimental Journey

Nobuyoshi Araki, "Sentimental Journey/ Winter Journey: (1991) B&W print. via purpose

Face

Phoebe Unwin , Face, 2008 Acrylic and gloss paint on linen (50 × 40.5 cm)

World Map

Charles Avery World Map, 2008 Gouache, pencil, ink and gold colour on paper 255 x 330 cm. via drawingsandnotes

אסתר עופרים / "היו לילות", "סתיו" 1971

Ester Opharim, Israeli Singer

Map of London as a Tree

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fake is the new real

I feel connected to Neil Freeman's way of mapping שמג seeing the world

All the streets, centered Neil Freeman, 2010 Inkjet prints dimensions vary All of the streets in selected cities, horizontally and vertically centered. via sevensixfive

Ephemera

Barbara and Zafer Baran, Ephemera #144 (diptych), 2002 (collection of Tel Aviv Museum of Art).

Obstruction

Michaela Fruhwirth, 101cm x 301cm, pencil on vellum, glass Obstruction_1 (2006) detail

yellow book

Sylvia Jill, untitled (yellow book),hand cut ledger paper, 2008

wake to songbirds wake to crows

Jonathan Levitt

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