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Symbols
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Reading 2 books at the moment:
- The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols - Jean Chevalier and Alain Gheerbrant
- A Dictionary of Symbols - J.E. Cirlot
Both - as fascinating as dictionaries can be, a bit short of plot but that's to be expected. Both right up my alley, and thoughtfully analyze - with respect to Freud, Jung, and a host of other sources all the symbols we encounter in books, art, dreams, psychology, alchemy, magic, science and even day to day life...
Great, in that they awaken you to a whole world of meaning which you were always aware of, but unable to decipher.
Worth considering - that symbolic thought predates the written word, artwork and quite possibly even language. That all these things - painting, writing, etc - are attempts to interpret our most intuitive understanding of spirituality, ourselves and our place in the world.
Binaural Beats
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Music
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When I'm writing - it's often quiet, too quiet, hard to focus and I crave a little background music. Not "Muzak" - I abhor it, and while light classical sometimes does the trick I've been trying out some of the "Binaural Beats" videos on YouTube - listening with the headphones, strange - not music, more some sort of ... I dunno, low-tones, strange, as if someone went a little overboard on their new-age kick, imagine the lightest synth played at a quarter speed - yet it seems to work, and after an hour's writing or staring at the screen you take off the headphones and feel strangely discombobulated. It's almost a mental white noise...
I'm not sure that it's all that, but the experiment is free and it definitely can't hurt ...
Scrolls
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Stormy
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When I left he gave me that bag of scrolls - I mean it was a big bag, easily a hundred, double sided, the results of barely 2 weeks of work - if even.
I've started photographing and uploading them, they are fascinating (if a bit repetitive, ...); all of them can be substantially embiggened by right clicking and selecting "open image in new tab". When looking at them they're all in pairs - one side, then the other; only rarely is a scroll one-sided. And - I'd like to say - a lot of people would guess from his artwork that he's a dirty-old-man. He's not. I mean, he is, just not in that way, he's very respectful of women; clearly he's gotta have some sort of charm if any (or all?) of these women posed for him...
This job of digitally archiving them - and poorly, at that - it's a full time thing - I'm not kidding, already friends are advising me I have more bags of scrolls waiting, you're going to have to settle for the best I can do...
A Side
B Side
The Other Drumheller Museum
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While in Drumheller we passed "The Other" museum. This is a rock/mineral and dinosaur museum that capitalizes on the signage guiding tourists to the Royal Tyrell - I have every suspicion that they waylay a substantial portion of the people on their way to their museum who think they've prematurely arrived...
Let me assure you, this is not it. I mean, interesting - "Animatronic" dinosaurs, most of which had all the veracity of that motion-activated Halloween Zombie you got at dollarama, the only exception being the T-Rex (I think?), which was well done. The others - well...not so much. Laughable even. The exhibits, good, clearly it cost a lot to set up, and it perfectly balances the cheesy with the very-lightly-informative, and a hint of the owner's anti-climate-change or "all this is perfectly normal" agenda. The daughter and I, we had our laughs, were quickly in and out, 30 minutes is plenty of time, they probably do a great business in the summer, glad we stopped but really no need to go here twice...It would be fun for families with smaller children, but it annoys the heck out of me that people visiting might stop here and think they've taken in the Royal Tyrell and wonder what all the fuss was about...
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