"Life is color"
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Kennemer dunes 360° today. Start [ finish ]
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"[When I began] the business was so new then that the cameraman, as I recall it, had nobody to consult with. […] You were more or less completely on your own […] A great many individuals, directors and producers, realised the importance of each and every person on a motion picture […] The same ideals are present today as they were when I began. In the early days, the cameraman had to do practically everything himself, with his own hands. Now, he has many assistants who do the actual work, but under his direction. So I would still be called upon to exercise all the various things I formally did, but directing other people to do my work physically. [Looking back upon my first color picture], not having had any experience with color, I do believe that my thoughts were to try to control color. The good Lord, when he goes to paint the exterior, has almost lavish palette of color in the world. So my thinking was an attempt to control color, to eliminate color unless it could be used dramatically. I don't want the color to control me. I recall [ a] scene [with] a table covered with a white cloth, and on that cloth was a bowl of fruit. The bowl of fruit consisted of every kind of fruit one could think of, a complete conglomeration of color. [It] dazzled me when I looked at it. So first I emptied the bowl and put back fruit until it almost looked as if there was no color there, then I mounted a red apple in a very important position there where you could not help but see it. [This] bowl of fruit consisted of a red apple -- it was almost the only color there -- and it was startling on the screen. That was my idea of the control of color.[…] There are subjects that may lend themselves to black and white, but put them in color, and see if they're not better, or equally as good. I think they will be better. […] Everything is color, therefore you don't even think about it. Life is color"
Hal Rosson in 'The Art of the Cinematographer' by Leonard Maltin, page 96, 97, first published in 1971 by Dover Publications, Inc. New York
Breakfast
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Duin and Kruidberg, 360° yesterday. Dust [ to dust ]
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"Es gibt augenblicke, in denen ich sehr diktatorisch bin. Ich habe zwar auch Filme gemacht, die anders gedreht worden sind, aber wenn der Druck zu groβ wird, dann werde ich zum Diktator. Wenn die Arbeit schwierig ist, oder wenn das Ganze schlecht läuft, wenn die leute auch noch auf einem herumtrampeln, anstatt einem zu helfen, dann bleibt halt nur noch die Diktatur. [...] Von dem, was wahrscheinlich sehr viele Leute beängstigt, hoffe ich letztlich, daβ es sie sensibilisiert, auch für das, was deutsche Geschichte ist. Das ist auch nötig und notwendig. Denn wenn das, was die Deutsche Geschichte ist, abermals verdrängt wird, fängt im Untergrund wieder etwas zu rumoren an. Durch das >Dritte Reich< ist das alles nicht verarbeitet."
Rainer Werner Fassbinder in 'Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Bilder und Dokumente', page 22, 56, by Hans Gunther Pflaum, first published in 1992 by edition Spangenberg, München, Germany
Meanwhile back at the car
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Zandvoort aan zee, 360°, today. Raise [ and shine ]
Above: car streching
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"The wise do not hold opinions.
They are aware of the needs of others [...]
The wise are shy and humble.
They behave like small children.
To the world they seem confusing.
Yet people look to them and listen."
Lao Tsu in 'Tao Te Ching', translated by Gia-fu Feng and Jane English. Originally published by Knopf, New York, 1972
Protection
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Kennemer dunes 360° today. Artificiality [ just enough to protect natural foundation ]
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"To inspire implies filling with spirit; dispirited means dejected, hopeless, defeated. But what exactly does the term spirit signify? The collective totality of human experience can be comprehended in phrases such as "team spirit" or when we exhort people to "get in the spirit". That spirit is a highly pragmatic factor, which can determine the difference between victory and defeat, is well known by military commanders, coaches, and CEO's. [I]t's clear that spirit refers to an unseen essence, which never changes, even though its expression varies from one situation to another. This essence is vital; when we lose our spirit, we die -- we expire from lack of which inspires. […] Spirit is the aliveness that accompanies, and is an expression of, alignment with life energy. The power is […] anabolic, sustaining life; their opposites are catabolic, eventually leading to death. True power = life = spirit, whereas force = weakness = death. When an individual has lost or lacks those qualities we term spiritual, he becomes devoid of humanity, love and self-respect; he may even become selfish and violent. When a nation veers from its alignment with the spirit of man, it can become an international criminal. It's a common error to identify spirituality with religion. […] In fact, the founders of the world's great religions would be chocked at the profoundly unspiritual deeds wrought in their names trough history -- many of which would make a heathen shudder. Force always distorts truth for its own self-serving purposes. […] Like religions, entire cultures are weakened when the principles that they're based upon are obscured or contaminated by false interpretation."
David Hawkins in 'Power vs Force', page 185, 186, 187, first published in 1995 by Hay House UK Ltd
"I said, you can't stop righteousness, so it will grow
From the east to the west, you'd better take warning (warning)
If you do good, I said, you will get a righteous pay, oh yes
What will be on the man, who cause Jah children to cry"
From: 'Can't Stop Righteousness' by The Gladiators, track 8 on the LP 'Show Down' by Don Carlos & Gold/The Gladiators, first released in 1983 trough Empire Records, produced by Kenneth Hoo Kim at Channel One Recording Studio
In the rhythm of the landscape
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Kennemer dunes 360° today. Energy [ results ]
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"The battlefield is symbolic of the field of life, where every creature lives on the death of another. A realisation of the inevitable guilt of life may so sicken the heart that, like Hamlet […], one may refuse to go on with it. On the other hand, like most of the rest of us, one may invent a false, finally unjustified, image of oneself as an exceptional phenomenon in the world, not guilty as others are, but justified in one's inevitable sinning because one represents the good. Such self-righteousness leads to a misunderstanding, not only of oneself but of the nature of both man and the cosmos. The goal of the myth is to dispel the need for such life ignorance by effecting a reconciliation of the individual consciousness with the universal will. And this is effected trough a realisation of the true relationship of the passing phenomena of time of the imperishable life that lives and dies in all. "
Joseph Campbell in 'The hero with a thousand faces', page 238, first published by Princeton University Press, USA
"You are in danger of falling into a bad way if you wander and choose the wrong path, for the slightest error in judgement can have grave consequences. […] In daily life as well as in [ training ], it is necessary to have an ample and broad mind and to carefully keep it very straight, not too tight and not at all loose. In order not to have your mind too much off to one side, it is necessary to place it in the centre and move it calmly so that it does not cease to move even in moments of change. […] Even at a calm time, the mind is not calm; even at a moment of great speed, the mind is not at all fast. The mind must not be carried along by the body, nor the body by the mind.
[I]t is appropriate to keep the face neither lowered nor raised, nor leaning nor frowning; to keep the eyes unperturbed, the forehead without wrinkles but with creases between the brows; not to move the eyeball and not to blink, though keeping the eyelids slightly lowered. In this way you shape a beautiful, luminous face, keeping the nose straight and the lower jaw slightly protruding. Keep your neck straight, putting some force in the hollow of the nape; lower your shoulders, with the sensation that the torso from the shoulders down forms a unity; keep the back straight, do not stick out your buttocks, push your force downward from your knees to the tips of your toes. Advance the belly slightly forward so that the pelvis does not lose its stability […]"
Miyamoto Musashi in Kenji Tokitsu's 'Miyamoto Musashi. His Life and Writing', page 151, 152, first published in 2000 by Editions Desiris in France
