Wednesday, September 29, 2010

How To Make A Free Damask



Cluster in Hercules M13
Picture taken on 29/09/2010
the globular cluster in Hercules (also known as M 13 from its position in the Messier Catalog, or as NGC 6205) is a globular cluster visible in the constellation Hercules. It is brighter than the globular cluster in the northern hemisphere and is visible to the naked eye.


Data Recovery: Meade SC 203 at f10 frame HEQ5 Pro Sky Watcher postazionbe fixed telescope guide Bresse Skylux 70/700, Sony a550 camera shooting, driving MagZero MZ5m room.
ligth 17 x 180 seconds at 800 ISO for a total of 51 minutes of installation, dark 15, 10 and 10 'dark flat flat: The individual images were summed and then processed with IRIS with Gimp

Monday, September 27, 2010

Creepy Crawler Doll Maker



Karl Where Knausgård
"Understanding the world means to be at a distance from it. What is too small to be seen with the naked eye, such as molecules and atoms in the enlarged, that is too large, as the piles of clouds, river deltas, the constellations, the smaller. When we reduced the reach of our senses, we fix it. What we have set, we call knowledge. Throughout childhood and adolescence, we strive to establish the correct distance from the things and phenomena. We read, we learn, we experience, as corrected. We arrive one day to the point where all the necessary clearances have been established, all the necessary systems are established. E 'then the time starts to go faster. Do not meet any obstacles, tutto è stato fissato, il tempo scorre attraverso le nostre vite, i giorni scompaiono a gran velocità, prima di rendercene conto abbiamo quaranta, cinquanta, sessant'anni... Il senso ha bisogno di essere colmato, per colmarlo c'è bisogno di tempo, il tempo ha bisogno di incontrare resistenza. La conoscenza è distanza, la conoscenza è stabilità e nemica del senso."

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Bottomless Party Clip Harold And Kumar

16 settembre: si riparte

Primo giorno di scuola: nuove sfide, percorsi diversi. Un altro anno e un altro cammino da percorrere.
Come un anno fa l'augurio di un anno scolastico pieno di sfide brillantemente vincenti

"Non avere maestro è come non avere a chi domandare e, ancora più profondamente, non avere colui davanti al quale domandare a se stessi, il che (significherebbe) restare chiusi all'interno del labirinto primario che in origine è la mente di ogni uomo; restare rinchiuso come il Minotauro, traboccante d'impeto senza via d'uscita. La presenza del maestro che non ha abdicato ne si è dimesso indica un punto, l'unico verso il quale si indirizza l'attenzione. L'alunno si irrigidisce. Ed è in questo secondo momento che il maestro, con la sua tranquillità, ha da dare quel che gli sembra possibile, ha da trasmettere, even before a knowledge, a time, a space of time, a journey of time. The master has come, as the author, to give time and light, the essential elements of any mediation. (...)
The teacher has to be the one that opens up the possibility, the reality of life in the world, the truth. A conversion is the best way to call the action of the master. The initial resistance that breaks in the classrooms, is converted into attention. The question begins to unfold. Ignorance awakened intelligence is already in place and the teacher has ceased to feel the vertigo of distance and the desert of the chair, prodigal, like all deserts, temptations. Ignorance and knowledge driven and awaken to the same extent in teacher and the Alliance, which only later begins to be a disciple. To create dialogue. "

María Zambrano

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Bloody Skin Tag On A Dog

Robert L. Stevenson - La freccia nera

Troppo spesso tendo Unfortunately, to associate the idea of \u200b\u200bthe romance adventure novel. In addition to strain my school, I reach to hold off the historical novels, because like a good goat on I always feel overwhelmed by the presence of names, dates and relationships unknown to me. This time, after dispassionate advice (arrived after you open and close the second page of trivia seething yet another fantasy), I put aside any hesitation and I dipped the pages of this text. Accomplices
the long hours of inactivity due to the care of the baby, the reading was intense and moving, too. Why do I have to admit, was one of those books that ended too soon.
Style di Stevenson è talmente piacevole, curato, ironico, ritmato, che la narrazione è un flusso senza interruzione, una corrente che porta la mente con sé lungo corsi imprevedibili.
La storia ricalca con qualche variazione sul tema quella di Robin Hood (anche se in rete non ho trovato alcun riferimento su un'ipotetica ispirazione) e possiede lo stesso sapore avventuroso del Robin di Costner come l'atmosfera giocosa da fiaba del film della Disney: insomma, il meglio dei due mondi, con l'indubbio vantaggio che Stevenson è arrivato un pelino prima! E, per quanto sembri sempre la stessa storia, non la si percepisce mai come banale. I colpi di scena non mancano e non si riesce a mollare la presa sul libro.
Anche i personaggi e i rapporti interpersonal, such as they may seem, are not archetypes. The balance are constantly changing and belief are in perpetual flux.
will ensure an adventure story, but more than high quality. For some reason today genres as they are often relegated to the level of amateurism more desperate. I do not think that a general should not be sought only intended for a younger audience or maybe not so demanding. There should be a literature of series A and series B, as the author (as I have found to say in the past) should always give respect to your readers, if only they take out (many) money to get their hands on the final product.
And if some aspects of the blame can be attributed to the publishers, the mediocrity of the author remains the main discriminant.
So I will give you the same advice that was given to me: if you feel like adventure, but especially if you want to read a novel that will give you the measure should be written as a story of adventure, and leggetevelo sappiatemi say.
And if you have any problems with the history texts as "The Black Arrow" can help you more than you can imagine. At least the curiosity to go there to comb through wikipedia to understand something should pick you!

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Fortified Breakfast Cereals

George Orwell - 1984

Note: Spoiler Warning!

Reviewing a classic is always difficult. You risk falling into the banality of already said or, conversely, to shoot zero yielding to the temptation of the proceedings against the current. Already
a novel approach is presented as a masterpiece in motion a series of prejudices about its quality: we are expecting great things but at the same time it addresses the reading with a critical mind sharpened.
is one of the few cases in which the text has not only kept every promise, but has even exceeded.
I had never read anything by Orwell and do not know if his other works are written with equal skill, but I was deeply impressed by the quality non solo della storia (già preannunciata), ma anche dello stile e della cura del contesto.
Nessun scivolone, nessuna caduta di stile. Già questo dovrebbe essere sufficiente per convincersi a leggerlo.
La stessa cura concessa alla lingua è stata inoltre posta nel dipingere il mondo in cui si muove la vicenda. Angosciante, schiacciante, senza un barlume di speranza all'orizzonte.
Nei giorni seguenti mi sono concessa un altro bellissimo classico, "La freccia nera" di Stevenson (di cui scriverò presto una recensione), e mentre mi godevo questa lettura leggera e scorrevole ho realizzato di quanto siamo abituati a seguire personaggi che, una disavventura dopo l'altra, hanno sempre una porta aperta in cui infilarsi, fosse also that of death. Instead
in "1984" all hope is rejected, any disappointment follows another, until the surprising final, where, instead of an end to the horrible and shameful, not nothing but a waste emptied of everything.
I do not think we realize the way down to what is painfully reconstructed from Orwell's infamous the world until we make a comparison with other literary contexts in which we are accustomed.
also supposed to be a writer (let's say I tried and nothing more), I know how impossible it is to resist the temptation to always leave the door open to its notorious characters, and I can only vaguely imagine the effort to create characters destined all'annichilimento e all'umiliazione più profonda.
Quando un autore arriva a sacrificare la propria creatura (cosa che, come King ci insegna in "On writing", è decisamente la più difficile per uno scrittore) per raggiungere uno scopo che sia ben oltre la mera narrazione, allora quell'obiettivo ha ricevuto tutta l'attenzione e il tributo che merita.
Inutile aggiungere considerazioni sull'analisi estremamente acuta e spiazzante dell'influenza che una lingua può avere sulla società o sulle motivazioni puramente economiche alla base di molte delle guerre moderne. Sono sicura che su tali argomenti il web pulluli di discussioni ben più accurate della mia.
Di certo, se il contesto volutamente portato agli estremi può reassure the reader in some way, you illuderà (and thank) to each page not to live in such a society, there are phrases, seemingly innocuous, that will wipe out any sense of security.
A small example?
The heavy work, housekeeping and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer, and especially gambling, limiting their horizons. Keep them under control was not difficult.
[...] a bit 'primitive patriotism which can appeal whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or a decrease rations something.
remember anything? Sad but true, as they sang i Metallica.