"Life is color"
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Kennemer dunes 360° today. Start [ finish ]
Min/max temperature: 7°C/16°C; humidity: 84%; precipitation: 1 mm; sea level pressure: 1025 hPa; wind: NW 1.9 km/h; visibility: 11.0 kilometres; First Quarter Moon, 61% visible
"[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
Training/today/after_footprint/fresh/sunny/wide_tide/30K
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Todays training: warm after cold week...
Run, Rhythm, Landscape
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Haarlem, today. Winter training is creating our own summer [ generating warmth in the rhythm of the landscape ]
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
Today/training/after_footprint/30K_book
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Today/training/after/footprint. The 30kms. training started fresh. As time progresses air temperature and general feel unite. Dry and sunny.
Todays training dedicated to Mark Divine's book 'The way of the Seal'. Two fragments:
1) "Much of our fear in today's relatively safe world stems from an imagined but unknown future, so those who orient their minds towards that future by visualising failure and all the horrible things that might happen find themselves trapped in a constant loop of negative input."
2) "The creative mind operates in the present, while the rational, thinking mind rests in the past or future. Therefore, you must be able to tap into all three without getting stuck. You want to be optimistic and goal-oriented for the future, and then learn from and reconcile history. Finally, you must remain front-sight focused on new opportunities in the present. If you can readily shift focus from future to past to present, you will easily be able to spot gaps between old and new realities and detect openings for breaking things that other miss." (both quotes from 'The Way of the Seal", page 123)
