AWIL-UM : Thoughts in Perspective

2013-04-26

Late Night Post #1

Scene from Equilibrium.

- Music: Nu - Man o to (Persian for "Me and You")

We surround ourselves with ideas, concepts and opinions, we carefully study other
people's thoughts till we consider ourselves experts but it could all be just a wall raised around our souls.

Or, maybe, these ideas and intellectual endeavors have the purpose of lifting us higher by opening doors toward knowledge or just by giving us examples which to copy either knowingly or unknowingly. Maybe even what we want, what we search for (if indeed we search for something) are things seeded by accident, by chance or through the will of someone else. So, who are we, who am I and who are you? Could we be the prisoners of concepts and ideas or can we consider ourselves free and above any kind of destiny. Ultimately, the things I wrote here are themselves ideas which I will not assume as mine.

When it rains is a time I like the most, I open the window and listen, there isn't a happier moment than rediscovering yourself in every drop of rain.

Ne înconjurăm cu idei, gânduri, concepte și păreri, studiem atenți anumite domenii și devenim experți, dar totul este ca o armură pe care o croim în jurul sufletelor noastre.

Sau, poate, aceste idei și strădanii intelectuale ale semenilor au drept scop să ne înalțe și pe noi la nivelul lor, fie copiindu-i conștient sau inconștient, fie deschizandu-ne porți către cunoaștere. Poate până și ceea ce dorim, ce căutăm, ne-a fost cumva însămânțat in mințile noastre de copii prin cine știe ce accidente, întâmplări sau din voința altora. Așadar, cine suntem noi, cine sunt eu și cine ești tu? Suntem oare prizonierii unor concepte și idei sau putem sa ne considerăm liberi, deasupra oricărui destin. Până la urmă și cele ce le-am scris aici sunt doar idei pe care nu mi le pot însuși însă am vazut cum s-au copt de-a lungul zilei și am considerat util să le împărtășesc cu voi.

Cel mai mult îmi place când plouă și deschid larg geamul și ascult, nu există lucru mai frumos ca a te regăsi în stropii de ploaie.

2013-03-09

Overview of Caravaggio's Christian Art

Sometime in the early 13th century, between 1227 and 1234 [1], a liturgical drama was composed now known as "The Play of Daniel" (Ludus Danielis). Out of several versions only one survived complete with musical notation and that is the version from Beauvais. The play dates back to ~1140 [2]. What you are listening to now is only a small part of it but the part which in my opinion clearly stands out from the rest because of its unforeseen power. How much of the original composition was altered, maybe none, maybe a lot, I don't know, but this does not alter the experience of hearing it.

I doubt Caravaggio would of had the chance to listen to this song, but who can know such things. Born as Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio in 1571 studied in Naples under Simone Peterzano, he remainde in the history of art a very intriguing character and an exceptional painter who had a formative influence on Baroque painting. His biography is quite entertaining in the sense that he was a veritable rock star of his time, if I could say so and apparently I can. Among the highlights of his eccentric behavior I can remember that he used a well known prostitute as his model for St Mary and that he killed a man. He died in 1610. He didn't have many years of painting but what he eventually painted is truly art at its highest. I don't know what his painting habits were but I don't think he was following the method used by Byzantine painters while working on their icons, immersed in prayer. This being said it is safe to assume that many of his religious works are not entirely religios, meaning that they also have roots in his personal life, in fact there are studies done on this which I am sure you can find on the web.