b_flat

Trial and Error...

„...[Life is] bold, persistent experimentation... [...]
Try something, if it fails, admit it frankly, and try another....“

Franklin D. Roosevelt (from „Looking Forward“, 1933)

„The World On Time.“ FedEx Mission Statement.

„The World On Time“ that is FedEx‘s mission statement - but that does not mean that you have to ship every package around the world.... I just wanted to send a few photographs from Frankfurt to London with FedEx... The parcel was misrouted and made a small world tour this week inter alia to Guangzhou/China and Almaty/Kazakhstan... I admit that „London/United Kingdom“ and „ Almaty/Kazakhstan“ can be easily mistaken... similar phonetics and then the two locations are pretty close geographically as well...

Not sure how guilty I should feel about the carbon footprint of these photographs...

But they got delivered in the end...

„Only the imaginary can be exact“ José Ortega y Gasset

On Coping with Obliquity

„It is not given to human beings - happily for them, otherwise life would be intolerable - to foresee or predict to any large extent the unfolding of events. In one phase men seem to have been right, in another they seem to have been wrong. Then again, a few years later, when the perspective of time has lengthened, all stands in a different setting. There is a new proportion. There is another scale of values. History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes...“

Winston Churchill (1940)

города/Cities

Меня пугают фонари
Они молчат, когда я плачу
И я не знаю, кто они
И не могу я дать им сдачи

Деревья ночью все молчат
Но не молчат пустые руки
Они кричат и кричат
И загибаются от муки

Refrain:

Я вливаю в реки свою кровь
Я люблю и это есть любовь
Мы бежим бежим с тобой туда
Где построим наши города

Verse 2:

И снова лето далеко
И небо падает на нас
А я кричу и мне легко
Как будто снова в первый раз

Я сяду в поезд и вперед
Прощай, что было и что будет
Зима, и этот гладкий лед
Меня возьмет и не забудет

Refrain:

Я вливаю в реки свою кровь
Я люблю и это есть любовь
Мы бежим бежим с тобой туда
Где построим наши города

Verse 3:

Твой чай остынет на столе
Я буду помнить это утро
Как ты во мне, а я в тебе
Искали жизни смысл как будто...

Refrain (2x):

Я вливаю в реки свою кровь
Я люблю и это есть любовь
Мы бежим бежим с тобой туда
Где построим наши города

[Lyrics by D.G. from the forthcoming album "Out of the Clouds" by The Impossibles].

„Poets don‘t finish poems, they abandon them...“ - Robert Mapplethorpe

The Impossible Project

„Some dreams work out, some don‘t... at which stage do you decide that it is time to throw in the towel and change direction... how long do you persist, persevere without success... how long before you call it quits?... [...] when are you in danger to give up too early, when success is just around the corner? when are you a fool for hanging on to a dream which is long dead?...how do you know when it is time to leave...“.

[Excerpt from „Ruminations of a Tortured Soul“ by Roman Beljajev/Роман Беляев; Copyright © 1966 Роман Беляев]

Time

The time has come for you to make up your own mind
Stop looking for the answers that you'll never find
Save all your tears for when you really need to cry
Don't wish your life away to spread your wings and fly

Time waits for no-one yeah
It's never what it seems
Stop waiting for tomorrow
Stop living in your dreams

This life fading away
This life ticking like a time bomb ready to blow your tortured mind
I know it's wasting away we don't plan for
When it goes from the time that we lose we will never find time.

Can't hide the clock when every line shows on your face
So take it slow you'll never win the human race

Time waits for no-one yeah
Everything must change
Stop running to the future
Start living for today

This life fading away
This life ticking like a time bomb ready to blow your tortured mind
I know it's wasting away we don't plan for
When it goes from the time that we lose we will never find time.

Just live every moment for these days
Cause death is the price we all must pay

This life fading away
This life ticking like a time bomb ready to blow your tortured mind
I know it's wasting away we don't plan for
When it goes from the time that we lose we will never find time.

This life fading away
This life ticking like a time bomb ready to blow your tortured mind
I know it's wasting away we don't plan for
When it goes from the time that we lose we will never find time.

(Ozzy Osbourne - „Time“ from the album „Scream“)

Congratulations, Spain! Scenes from Barcelona last night...

I picture you in the sun...

Arthur Rimbaud: Départ

Assez vu. La vision s'est rencontrée à tous les airs.

Assez eu. Rumeurs des villes, le soir, et au soleil, et toujours.

Assez connu. Les arrêts de la vie. -
Ô Rumeurs et Visions!

Départ dans l'affection et le bruit neufs!

Arthur RIMBAUD   (1854-1891)

cauchemar

"Nothing is finished until you see it." - Robert Mapplethorpe

Of Sleeping Trains, Pure Darkness and Eventual Redemption