Bacon vs. Bacon

In philosophy class tonight a fellow student brought up Deleuze's book on Francis Bacon. For the rest of class the professor would say things such as, "...as is the case with the Bacon...".

While is was clear that he was talking about this:                I couldn't stop thinking about this:

Hello Seahorse!

Hello Seahorse! is a pop/rock group out of Mexico City. I guess they've been around since 2005 but they are new to me. They aren't allowing their YouTube video for the song "Bestia" to be embedded, so check it out here and chime in to let me know what you think.

Saxophone Superstar Sergio Flores is Above the Law

Translation and Progeny as Repetition: "Al hijo"

No soy yo quien te engendra. Son los muertos.

Son mi padre, su padre y sus mayores;

son los que un largo dédalo de amores

trazaron desde Adán y los desiertos

de Caín y de Abel, en una aurora

tan antigua que ya es mitología,

y llegan, sangre y médula, a este día

del porvenir, en que te engendro ahora.

Siento su multitud. Somos nosotros

y, entre nosotros, tú y los venideros

hijos que has de engendrar. Los postrimeros

y los del rojo Adán. Soy esos otros,

también. La eternidad está en las cosas

del tiempo, que son formas presurosas.

-Jorge Luis Borges

El hacedor, 1960

It is not I who begets you. It is the dead.

My father, his father and their ancestors;

those who have traced a long labyrinth

of loves from Adam and the deserts

of Cain and of Abel, in an aurora

so ancient that is is now mythology,

they arrive, blood and marrow, this day

of the future, in which I now beget you.

I feel their multitude. We are they

and among us, you and those yet born

whom you shall beget. The last ones

and those of red Adam. I am these others,

also. Eternity is in this things of time,

which are fleeting forms.

(translation my own)

Carbon Fiber Daydreams

Perspective

Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo.


"We learned a lot about the Moon, but what we really learned was about the Earth. The fact that just form the distance of the Moon you can put your thumb up and you can hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything that you've ever known, your loved ones, your business, the problems of the Earth itself-all behind your thumb. And how insignificant we really all are, but then how fortunate we are to have this body and to able to enjoy loving here amongst the beauty of the Earth itself."

-Jim Lovell, Apollo 8 & 13, interview for the 2007 film The Shadow of the Moon


"When you're finally up at the moon  looking back on earth, all those differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend, and you're going to get a concept that maybe this really is one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people."

-Frank Borman, Apollo 8, Newsweek, Dec. 23 1968

"That's not a toaster, that's a deadly weapon!"