From my parents, who are in the Everglades and know what I like.

Bald cypress. I'm pretty sure.

I can't stop thinking about this movie.

What is UP with this BOOK. It's perfect.

And this artist?? Can I just start over and be Jochen Lempert?

Segment on Robert Adams from PBS.

"...I came into the darkroom and printed them, and I was really surprised. I thought I was taking pictures of things that I hated. But there was something about these pictures.. they were unexpectedly, disconcertingly glorious."

Have I really never put his photos on here?

Robert Adams, from The New West: Along the Colorado Front Range.

I didn't take many photos this month, but I did get to rewatch my favorite movie.

Oh, Mosfilm has the whole movie online with subtitles! Part 1, Part 2. Mirror is there, too. If you watch it, my advice is to put the movie on full-screen and give it your undivided attention. Yi Yi: A One and a Two was also great.

"In Jitka’s pictures there is no welcome. They have been taken from the inside. The deep inside of a forest, perceived like the inside of a glove by a hand within it.

"She speaks of the between-forest. This is because, in the same valley as her village, there are two forests which join. Yet the preposition between belongs to forests in general. It’s what they are about. A forest is what exists between trees, between its dense undergrowth and its clearings, between all its life cycles and their different time-scales, ranging from solar energy to insects that live for a day. A forest is also a meeting place between those who enter it and something unnameable and attendant, waiting behind a tree or in the undergrowth. Something intangible and within touching distance. Neither silent nor audible. It is not only visitors who feel this attendant something; hunters and foresters who can read unwritten signs are even more keenly aware of it."

"It’s a commonplace to say that photographs interrupt or arrest the flow of time. They do it, however, in thousands of different ways. Cartier-Bresson’s 'decisive moment' is different from Atget’s slowing down to a standstill, or from Thomas Struth’s ceremonial stopping of time. What is strange about some of Jitka’s forest photos – not her photos of other subjects – is that they appear to have stopped nothing. In a space without gravity there is no weight, and these pictures of hers are, as it were, weightless in terms of time. It is as if they have been taken between times, where there is none… In the silence of the forest certain events are unaccommodated and cannot be placed in time. Being like this they both disconcert and entice the observer’s imagination: for they are like another creature’s experience of duration. We feel them occurring, we feel their presence, yet we cannot confront them, for they are occurring for us, somewhere between past, present and future…"

From John Berger's introduction to Jitka Hanzlová's book Forest. Taken from here.

One of my favorite movies.

A little statriotism. When I visited my friend in Khakassia, someone told us that it's crucial for people to believe that where they live is the center of the universe. He said it's when you start thinking the center is somewhere else that your culture stops developing.

I have some money now, so I'm going to buy film today.

Ron Jude's book Lick Creek Line.

There are a lot of other great photo books on that channel, too!

golden! via shooting gallery.

"A stone with which one could see where the sun was in Heaven."

Here.

"Using his research and his navigational skills, Karlsen seeks to solve the mystery of how the Vikings could have determined the vital position of the hidden sun. In his book he writes: 'During the middle of the summer there is too much light in the night sky to see the stars at the high latitudes where the Vikings sailed. The sun was the only dependable celestial body available for reference.' He explores hints in the ancient Viking Sagas, as well as Thorkild Ramskou's theory of a mineral answer, by devising and successfully utilizing what he considers to be the most obvious choice: calcite.

"Karlsen makes a very strong case for Iceland Spar. His proposed technique is premised on the ready availability of optical quality calcite in an area of Iceland where the Vikings made first landfall and which relies on the mineral's high birefringence. Mr. Karlsen devised a plausible scenario as it might have happened more than 1000 years ago and which he proved to be extremely accurate.

"The Vikings reached their destinations by latitudinal sailing, that is to say they sailed in straight east-west courses. They used a myriad of navigational clues and techniques to hold to this kind of course, such as observation of sea-birds, waves, stars and the sun. Karlsen found that with the help of a calcite sunstone and a 'bearing board,' very accurate determinations of latitude could be obtained."

From here. More here.

Via FlowingData.