Musashi Miyamoto
I remembered the first film, the seaweed waving in the river, the parting on the bridge, like a film I'd seen a long, long time ago and didn't remember...it made me sad.
Maybe I didn't. Maybe I hadn't seen it all. The next two in the series, they're on their own, I've no recollection whatsoever.
It's Cambell's "The Hero's Journey", but in Japanese and some decades before he wrote it. It's "El Topo" without the Acid. It's genius, and in countless tiny things brilliant and without peer, it's that rare film (trilogy) - that hired a proper writer and director, and the results are clear...
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Trout Lake
The New Italian Waiter, the one that walked out after I left, friend of the Nephews, when he found out I was moving to BC had told me that "Trout Lake" was where it was at. By which he meant it was, according to all the drunken conversations he'd had with friends, the perfect place to ride out the Armageddon.
I hummed and hawed, "Sure" I agreed, and promised to remember it for future reference.
Turns out the place would be cemented in my memory for different reasons:
Link: http://www.revelstokereview.com/news/395025051.html
Note that these are "preliminary" results, and - remember Bre-X, anyone? Anyways, it pays to take these things with a pinch of salt. But I've been up around there, panned a few flakes, it's not hopeless...
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John Kenn Mortensen
AKA Don Kenn. Found him while searching for Edward Gorey, I like his style, needed some inspiration for some illustrations of my own. He's amazing. Find a few of his illustrations below (drawn upon post-it notes), with links to more at the end...
Unfortunately, this is the kind of inspiration a first year art student gets by visiting the Louvre or National Gallery and laying down his/her brushes forever. This is impossible to compete with. And, is it just me, or do a few of his illustrations look positively Japanese?
If you like his work, (and he's very, very good), follow the links below:
The yellowish background, btw, is because he draws these on post-it notes. Yep.
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Mudlarking
When I lived in London we (coworker and I) went out and did this a couple of times, wandering the banks of the Thames at low tide and searching for whatever buried treasure the river saw fit to cough up. Nothing too interesting, a lot of china, broken pipe stems, an ancient fossil tooth (mammal, pre-ice age but not dinosaur), our finds didn't amount to much but we ran into others with better luck - one, a metal detectorist, talking to him, a bag full of shrapnel from the war, told us his best find was a 16th century widow's ring, gold, with a coffin shaped diamond...
We weren't deluded, go to the British Museum or Museum of London and you'll find that a lot of their most amazing treasures were found in the Thames, some examples below:
- https://blog.britishmuseum.org/2014/12/22/lost-and-found-toys-tears-and-the-thames/
- http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1362722&partId=1
- http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=828310&partId=1
- http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=65102&partId=1
- http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=831341&partId=1
There's even a website devoted solely to finds on the river: http://www.thamesmuseum.org/
So to find a whole sub-niche of youtube videos that take you on the experience, well, it was inspiring...
Some articles to get you started:
And finally, here are a couple of my favorite channels:
Of course, this is a rabbit hole without end, watch the videos, there are finds of gold coins, votive offerings, abundant jewelry and pipes from all ages...
Inspiring.
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