SeptemberSep 28 Monday 09
Reading and have nearly completed Theo Richmond's "Konin"
updated Sep 28, 2009 via Virb
FebruaryFeb 26 Thursday 09
“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”
Oscar Wilde
FebruaryFeb 22 Sunday 09
“The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.”
TS Eliot
Mark Tamea website ∞
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Mark Tamea on Atmoworks ∞
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Just completed Frederick Taylor's excellent "Dresden"
updated Feb 20, 2009 via Virb
FebruaryFeb 19 Thursday 09
Landschaft website ∞
This is my personal website with lots of reviews and history pages that give a full overview of what Landschaft is about. My Virb stuff is just the tip of the iceberg!
“What doesn't kill you makes you stronger"”
Friedrich Nietzsche - my favourite big-mouth
Listened to Michael Jackson's Thriller - oh yes!
updated Feb 19, 2009 via Virb
SeptemberSep 17 Wednesday 08
Review Mark Tamea: Tessellation
Another reviewer has beaten me to the line in declaring this album as Modern Classical, and I would agree wholeheartedly with that assertion. It would play in any art space and would support performance. There is the air and space, the drama and the fluidity that …
AugustAug 26 Tuesday 08
The death of Power-Knowledge and the connections to classical contexts of Rhetoric
The death of Power-Knowledge and the connections to classical contexts of Rhetoric
Following the philosophies of the Stoics and Cynics, journeying through Determinism and Rhetoric; on to Modernism and Post Modernism I draw conclusions on the formation of small internet …
FebruaryFeb 14 Thursday 08
The application of the Golden Section in Adobe Photoshop
The application of the Golden Section in Adobe Photoshop is quite easy to set up, and provides an invaluable template for composing image composition.
The Golden Section is a fundamental ratio of composition defined by the proportions 1.61803 to 1. It was defined in …
JanuaryJan 11 Friday 08
Search engine optimisation
My masterplan to get to Google page one has been a success.
I am now number one slot for the word LANDSCAHFT which means countryside in German. Also AMBIENT MUSIC LANDSCHAFT The key to my success has been
high keyword density on my www site at …
JanuaryJan 7 Monday 08
The Chronicals of Lake Narocz by Mieczyslaw Lisiewicz, 1945
The Chronicals of Lake Narocz by Mieczyslaw Lisiewicz, 1945, published in full with extensive (and growing) commentary and additional background material. I have spent several years, on and off, transcribing the work, picking up new snippets of information along the …
DecemberDec 27 Thursday 07
Neuro-economics and the applications to Drone
An article in the financial pages of the Sunday Telegraph pronounced on this new field of psychology: that financial market events trigger the same neural responses as in the wild; that fight and flight kick in at the onset of bad news. This part of the piece …
Indistinct Borders - redux
A busy busy month. Putting the finishing touches on a long project in support of my Indistinct Borders album - the inspiration for the music in fact - transcription of a long out of print Polish book "Chronicals of Lake Narocz" by Mieczyslaw Lisiewicz written …
NovemberNov 11 Sunday 07
A peaceful reflection for today this day of remembrance
In a reductive, stripped bare way, I am trying to arrest the process of degeneration of memory. With my tone sculptures and selective investigation and exposition of the small histories that have been passed over. Memories as ripples; echoing in concentric circles of …
OctoberOct 27 Saturday 07
Some reflections on Tarkovsky's "Mirror"
Mirror
Tarkovsky's "Mirror", a wide weave of sepia archive footage and remembered history. Without discernable plot, pinpoints of light and scene capture precisely those snapshots moments from childhood that distill the experiences of years to vigette visual poems. …