Gerhard Strassgschwandtner
Austria, 1040 Wien, Pressgasse 25/21, tel / fax ++43-1-5864872, e-mail: gstrassg@yahoo.com
http://members.aon.at/3mpc/stadt-kunst.com/Neue_Site%20engl/index.htmSaturday, July 05, 2008
Gerhard Strassgschwandtner
If you ever go to Vienna. Book this man. He is erudite, charming, sad and delightful.
Melk Abbey
The Danube Cruise and the Melk Abbey library (Name of the Rose?) are highpoints. We cruised past where the willendorf venus was found.
The Melk abbey and library are too much baroque, but it is a working abbey and as such was special.
The Danube was fast, greenish and cold. I was beginning to talk myself into the importance of the counter-reformation, the Magisterium, the spectacle of Baroque/State/Church power. People love spectacle. we worship it, we consume it, we cannot imagine a life without it. It is the Cornerstone of the American Religion. If we tear down the old churches, build newer/better bigger/brighter, add ornament and elaboration do we really show power? Yes. Mutation, mutex, mixtape, mishmash architecture.
The highlight of Vienna was
Watch his youtube movie here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcDoCnOtonM
. The Third Man Museum.
The movie, The Third Man
The Melk abbey and library are too much baroque, but it is a working abbey and as such was special.
The Danube was fast, greenish and cold. I was beginning to talk myself into the importance of the counter-reformation, the Magisterium, the spectacle of Baroque/State/Church power. People love spectacle. we worship it, we consume it, we cannot imagine a life without it. It is the Cornerstone of the American Religion. If we tear down the old churches, build newer/better bigger/brighter, add ornament and elaboration do we really show power? Yes. Mutation, mutex, mixtape, mishmash architecture.
The highlight of Vienna was
Gerhard Strassgschwandtner He is a rocket man, and a delightful wit. His best quote, was when we past the observatory and he said that nobody wants to go to an observatory....
I want to reread everything Graham Greene wrote.Watch his youtube movie here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcDoCnOtonM
. The Third Man Museum.
The movie, The Third Man
Vienna
Vienna is an international place. Home sick is where I belong. Howerver, on the bus in to the city, I see three things for home.
Rainbarrels, cisterns, pumps and irrigation systems for gardens.
Greenhouse
Window boxes
In town, we need flowers and ribbons on everything. Colors fade are even better. Grow art and wabi-sabi the place.
Two ton stone face of christ in the front pasture. A Religion that has everything we need to locate the body, tactile, using the body as an intense solstice festival.
In a gallery window near the Albertina
Deborah Seng
Sissi Farassat
Gerlinde Thuma
Udo Hohenberger
St Augustine Church
The Huldingung (Homage) in the Rat Cellar restaurant.
Caprese sandwich at the truck stop
Musuem Quarter
The Leopold
I really liked Koloman Moser
There was an exhibit of art from the Faroe Islands well done.
The graphic's cabinet of the Egon-Schiele-collection, many of Klimt seemed gone. There was a very small hyper-realistic painting by Klimt that was intense. Then at 1900 the symbolism meme/virus attacked him. The Beethoven Frieze at the Secession museum was great.
We all thought twice about Arcimbaldo after the exhibit at the fine arts museum. I had no idea.
The Red-light district bus breaking down ruse was extra special. But it was raining and most of the working ladies were inside.
Rainbarrels, cisterns, pumps and irrigation systems for gardens.
Greenhouse
Window boxes
In town, we need flowers and ribbons on everything. Colors fade are even better. Grow art and wabi-sabi the place.
Two ton stone face of christ in the front pasture. A Religion that has everything we need to locate the body, tactile, using the body as an intense solstice festival.
In a gallery window near the Albertina
Deborah Seng
Sissi Farassat
Gerlinde Thuma
Udo Hohenberger
St Augustine Church
The Huldingung (Homage) in the Rat Cellar restaurant.
Caprese sandwich at the truck stop
Musuem Quarter
The Leopold
I really liked Koloman Moser
There was an exhibit of art from the Faroe Islands well done.
The graphic's cabinet of the Egon-Schiele-collection, many of Klimt seemed gone. There was a very small hyper-realistic painting by Klimt that was intense. Then at 1900 the symbolism meme/virus attacked him. The Beethoven Frieze at the Secession museum was great.
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| Gustav Klimt, Tod und Leben | |||
We all thought twice about Arcimbaldo after the exhibit at the fine arts museum. I had no idea.
The Red-light district bus breaking down ruse was extra special. But it was raining and most of the working ladies were inside.
Budapest
More thoughts as travelling in Europe. Will post pictures to Picassa.
What does it mean to engage in projects? See
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Welcome to Part Two of your outlook for
the second half of 2008, Aries. We're checking up on how you're
progressing with the challenges you were given near the end of last year.
I'm hoping that by now you're well on your way toward leaving your
amateur or rookie status behind for good. I trust that you have had a
vision of exactly what you need to do in order to boost your level of
professionalism, and that you have taken aggressive steps to carry out
that vision. If for some bizarre reason you have not yet begun this
glorious work, jumpstart yourself immediately. Fate will conspire
dramatically on your behalf if you do. Now here's a tip on how to make
sure that your inner warrior is operating at peak efficiency: Assume
there's always more you can do to raise your standards and aspire to a
higher grade of excellence.
Topo Mapping the contours fo a life work?
Do social ethics involve more than the 4 non-negotiables?
Prayer (authority of Christ?)
Fasting and Almsgiving (Obedience to Bishop?)
Private Morality (Theology of the Body?)
Place (locality, community, loyalty?)
What would all this mean to me if I was a teacher/priest/monk in Second Life?
In Budapest
The opera house was beautiful. The tour guide was an retired dancer, 36 years old, beautife accent and could not believe that tourists wanted to see the inside of a normal opera box. She kept saying, it is just a box, why would you want to see it? If was endearing, sad and right all at the same time. Lemmings we are and we may never pass that way again.
The fisherman's Bastian was better than the castle. The tour guide ,Paul, was snarky, sacreligeous, and liked by the group. Odd. The chain bridge was excellent to walk accross. The largest bridge was the largest engineering project every built in its time. Mid 19th.
Need more to know about the Megyar Chieftans. The Holy Dexter relic of the right hand of St. Stephen?
Boar warpers pull boats on river/canal
Andre Kertesz artist to review
http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28437
Blind Girl Listening to Sand was Mary Anne's comment.
What does it mean to engage in projects? See
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Welcome to Part Two of your outlook for
the second half of 2008, Aries. We're checking up on how you're
progressing with the challenges you were given near the end of last year.
I'm hoping that by now you're well on your way toward leaving your
amateur or rookie status behind for good. I trust that you have had a
vision of exactly what you need to do in order to boost your level of
professionalism, and that you have taken aggressive steps to carry out
that vision. If for some bizarre reason you have not yet begun this
glorious work, jumpstart yourself immediately. Fate will conspire
dramatically on your behalf if you do. Now here's a tip on how to make
sure that your inner warrior is operating at peak efficiency: Assume
there's always more you can do to raise your standards and aspire to a
higher grade of excellence.
Topo Mapping the contours fo a life work?
Do social ethics involve more than the 4 non-negotiables?
Prayer (authority of Christ?)
Fasting and Almsgiving (Obedience to Bishop?)
Private Morality (Theology of the Body?)
Place (locality, community, loyalty?)
What would all this mean to me if I was a teacher/priest/monk in Second Life?
In Budapest
The opera house was beautiful. The tour guide was an retired dancer, 36 years old, beautife accent and could not believe that tourists wanted to see the inside of a normal opera box. She kept saying, it is just a box, why would you want to see it? If was endearing, sad and right all at the same time. Lemmings we are and we may never pass that way again.
The fisherman's Bastian was better than the castle. The tour guide ,Paul, was snarky, sacreligeous, and liked by the group. Odd. The chain bridge was excellent to walk accross. The largest bridge was the largest engineering project every built in its time. Mid 19th.
Need more to know about the Megyar Chieftans. The Holy Dexter relic of the right hand of St. Stephen?
Boar warpers pull boats on river/canal
Andre Kertesz artist to review
http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28437
 Photo gallery | The soul embodied? |
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| June 25, 2008 06:00 pm | Adéle Eisenstein takes a close up look at a major photography exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts |
Blind Girl Listening to Sand was Mary Anne's comment.
two and two make 3
Think about this...
Provocation from Halden has posted this little gem from Stanley Hauerwas – some questions which he asked a group of trainee youth pastors in Princeton:
- How many of you worship in a church with an American flag? I am sorry to tell you that your salvation is in doubt.
- How many of you worship in a church in which the fourth of July is celebrated? I am sorry to tell you that your salvation is in doubt.
- How many of you worship in a church that recognizes Thanksgiving? I am sorry to tell you that your salvation is in doubt.
- How many of you worship in a church that celebrates January 1 as the "New Year"? I am sorry to tell you that your salvation is in doubt.
- How many of you worship in a church that recognizes "Mother's Day"? I am sorry to tell you that your salvation is in doubt.
I seem to keep returning to Douglas Knight's The Eschatological Economy. I certainly think that it deserves to be counted among the best theological books in recent years. One suggestive claim offered in the book involves, in a sense, a heightening, or a radicalization of what in recent years has come to be called a relational ontology. However, Knight moves beyond the tired (though true and necessary) assertions that "to be is to be related." Rather he looks more closely at the relationship of being and action in the context of an ontology of communion, or what he refers to as a doxological ontology. Here he claims, rightly in my view that "Being and doing are one and the same thing. The work of each creature is the being of all other creatures."
All of this of course is ultimately from God. It is God whose action constitutes our being and sustains us as creatures. "The freedom of humankind is the task of God, and very subordinately it is the task into which God introduces human beings. Under God we bring one another into being." This notion, of our action bringing on another into being and freedom is quite radical. It reorients our notions of growth and holiness, and their relation to our own disciplines and practices.
From The Guardian
Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% - far more than previously estimated - according to a confidential World Bank report obtained by the Guardian.
The damning unpublished assessment is based on the most detailed analysis of the crisis so far, carried out by an internationally-respected economist at global financial body.
The figure emphatically contradicts the US government's claims that plant-derived fuels contribute less than 3% to food-price rises. It will add to pressure on governments in Washington and across Europe, which have turned to plant-derived fuels to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and reduce their dependence on imported oil.
"Political leaders seem intent on suppressing and ignoring the strong evidence that biofuels are a major factor in recent food price rises," said Robert Bailey, policy adviser at Oxfam. "It is imperative that we have the full picture. While politicians concentrate on keeping industry lobbies happy, people in poor countries cannot afford enough to eat."
Rising food prices have pushed 100m people worldwide below the poverty line, estimates the World Bank, and have sparked riots from Bangladesh to Egypt. Government ministers here have described higher food and fuel prices as "the first real economic crisis of globalisation".
President Bush has linked higher food prices to higher demand from India and China, but the leaked World Bank study disputes that: "Rapid income growth in developing countries has not led to large increases in global grain consumption and was not a major factor responsible for the large price increases."
Friday, July 04, 2008
diary abbrev
Prague
House of the Black Madonna (Cubist/Deco)
Astronomical Clock
Black Light Theatre steampunk + disco-ballet meets slapstick
Mountain Onion Soup
Gardens
Infant Jesus of Prague
prahajesu (prayed for ....
Park with couple breaking up
St. Vitius cathedral at the Castle
Mucha windows Green one
Vaclav havel's cafe and table
International stonemarks
Jewish Quarter (Barock sushi)
Tirezen (Work camp, nazi, fetish for symmetry done max.
Senate garden, dripstone and owls
Ema Blazkova artist
St. Hubert with the stag
In all of these cities, I am looking for a usable past. Baroque counter-reformation is not going to work. Art Nouveau will not work, mishmash architecture will not work. Post-modern will not. The onlything that worked this trip was the people in the streets and the graffiti. Appropriation of public space for private use. AMEN>
We drown in our freedom, time is the revelator, The answer to constantinianism is locality and license. (agency and obedience) See ontology of action/being
put your hand to the gospel plow boy.
Either our institutions and projects are in perfect alignment with the standard model or we must accept the fact that we are acculturated, middle-class, complacent accomodators and collaborators to the status quo. NO MIDDLE GROUND. Now, what is the standard model.
Infant Jesus
we enter, bless ourselves with water
stay awhile
Reverence the saints
Leave again
Fantasy for Prague
Non-collaboration with all state/imperial and their instrumentation projects
Warrior ethos, defending the city walls in the wars that happen before we start shooting each other.
Let wabi sabi defeat Late State Decadent Capitalism.
Wonder about multilingual horizontal Nudes ala Klimt.
Notes
House of the Black Madonna (Cubist/Deco)
Astronomical Clock
Black Light Theatre steampunk + disco-ballet meets slapstick
Mountain Onion Soup
Gardens
Infant Jesus of Prague
prahajesu (prayed for ....
Park with couple breaking up
St. Vitius cathedral at the Castle
Mucha windows Green one
Vaclav havel's cafe and table
International stonemarks
Jewish Quarter (Barock sushi)
Tirezen (Work camp, nazi, fetish for symmetry done max.
Senate garden, dripstone and owls
Ema Blazkova artist
St. Hubert with the stag
In all of these cities, I am looking for a usable past. Baroque counter-reformation is not going to work. Art Nouveau will not work, mishmash architecture will not work. Post-modern will not. The onlything that worked this trip was the people in the streets and the graffiti. Appropriation of public space for private use. AMEN>
We drown in our freedom, time is the revelator, The answer to constantinianism is locality and license. (agency and obedience) See ontology of action/being
put your hand to the gospel plow boy.
Either our institutions and projects are in perfect alignment with the standard model or we must accept the fact that we are acculturated, middle-class, complacent accomodators and collaborators to the status quo. NO MIDDLE GROUND. Now, what is the standard model.
Infant Jesus
we enter, bless ourselves with water
stay awhile
Reverence the saints
Leave again
Fantasy for Prague
Non-collaboration with all state/imperial and their instrumentation projects
Warrior ethos, defending the city walls in the wars that happen before we start shooting each other.
Let wabi sabi defeat Late State Decadent Capitalism.
Wonder about multilingual horizontal Nudes ala Klimt.
Notes
Chronicle Review
In "Education by Poetry," one of his finest essays, Frost argued that an understanding of how poetry works is essential to the developing intellect. He went so far as to suggest that unless you are at home in the metaphor, you are not safe anywhere. Because you are not at ease with figurative values, "you don't know how far you may expect to ride it and when it may break down with you." Those are very large claims.
In the 19th century, poetry had a mass audience, says Jay Parini. But in the 20th century, poetry decided to get "difficult," to require footnotes... more»
In the 19th century, poetry had a mass audience, says Jay Parini. But in the 20th century, poetry decided to get "difficult," to require footnotes... more»
Thursday, July 03, 2008
Belle Epoque
Why our endless facination with the Belle Epoque and Late Stage High Victorian eclecticism, cabinet curiosity, and collecting, collecting and collection? Do we admire it for beauty? Do we admire their certainty of belief, manner and style rules? Why the fascination with mixing and remixing the classical? So much of my thoughts of Prague was about the certainty of belief and the ordering of desire that the people with money seemed to evince.
P (4) living
Prayer (private and corporate) Suggest Jesus Prayer with beads for every student.
Place (parish and community) Rooted, local and radically committed to local transactions, family and school
Poor (here and there, everywhere) end poverty as best I can
Private Morality : In the place where there are no men, strive to be a man. In the place where there is no courtesy, be courteous. In the place where there are no warriors, fight.
Place (parish and community) Rooted, local and radically committed to local transactions, family and school
Poor (here and there, everywhere) end poverty as best I can
Private Morality : In the place where there are no men, strive to be a man. In the place where there is no courtesy, be courteous. In the place where there are no warriors, fight.
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