Comments for Jon Jost's Weblog

Comment on American Pastoral #8 by KJ

KJ — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:26:17 +0000

If Jefferson only knew how very bad it got.
after eight years of being alternately angry and depressed under the Bush regime, I had foolishly thought there might be some abatement.How wrong was I. The hostility, the anger and the filth that is being spread throughout this nation by those who oppose the basic human need for the dignity of decent, affordable healthcare is simply astonishing. How did we become so despicably selfish, fearful and hateful? This country is so deeply broken I have no idea how it might be corrected.

As relevant now as then- http://www.progressive.org/wx041409.html

Comment on Autumnal meander by accidie

accidie — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:14:24 +0000

“And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe,
And then from hour to hour we rot and rot;
And thereby hangs a tale.”
- William Shakespeare, As You Like It

Thank you for your essay and pictures – very poignant and beautiful.

The denial and refusal to accept the reality of death is what makes so many people ‘deathly’ afraid, so quick to condemn death as unnatural and so ready to believe that any discussion of death in any manner is morbid. This is a pity, because to ignore death is to ignore what makes life so heartbreakingly sweet.

“…when we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings.”
- Sogyal Rinpoche

Comment on Death and delusions by Anna

Anna — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:12:24 +0000

I hope that father is forever aware that his son murdered five good men. I hope that son wakes up every morning knowing that his father was an evil and twisted murderous and unworthy asshole. Decent people would disown such a disgusting individual. Clearly, John M. Russell’s family members are not decent people.

Comment on Autumnal meander by pmdello

pmdello — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:37:22 +0000

Nice to discover you via the NYT comment on Olivia Judson’s defense of scientific speculation. “Life’s conveyor belt,” I love that.

Comment on Mala Italia by Hélder António

Hélder António — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:11:01 +0000

http://periodiccircumspection.blogspot.com/2009/11/pier-paolo-pasolini-foi-assassinado-ha.html

Comment on Autumnal meander by jeffbbz

jeffbbz — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:47:51 +0000

I’m highly interested in seeing Nebraska especially recalling those screen shots you posted back when you had that huge computer disaster. Maybe i can take a peek whenever I have a chance to swing by. I’ve been fairly swamped since I got back from PIFF.

By the wow small world kinda by, I was at said world peace march, and although I didn’t participate in the actual march (had go do some stuff) I probably briefly bumped into you friend and some fellows from my organization joined the march (although I believe it was more of a bicycle ride)

Comment on Mala Italia by Marc Kehoe

Marc Kehoe — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:44:41 +0000

Well, thank you—your blog entry prompted me to join a popular by-mail movie rental service so that I could see the film again-also after quite a while-(and checked myself at this address: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy97uqingPA)
Great to discover your blog- will be visiting frequently-thanks again

Comment on JON’S SHORT BIO by jonjost

jonjost — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:29:32 +0000

Hi – I’m glad you liked it. The ZKM didn’t let me know they were putting it back up – I must write them. I hope it was installed somewhat better than the first time around when it was too small, too high up and other things. I’m not sure what I can tell you about it. I’d lived in Rome some time, and visited many churches (for the art – I am not in the usual sense “religious”), and clearly Trinity was influenced by my look at many altar pieces. It is willfully organized as one, both formally in the panels, in the cross layout of having two screens perpendicular to the 5 screens on the walls, and then temporally it is the “passion” sequence – Gethsemane, Golgotha, the Ascension and the Assumption, in that order, and the tonality of the work tuned to those ideas. Aside from the “word” an”big Bang sequences, all the visual material was generated from a single one minute and some seconds long shot, reworking it on computer with standard video processing. Nothing is repeated, every frame is different from all others. If you want more drop me a line at my website address http://www.jon-jost.com Best jon

Comment on JON’S SHORT BIO by Claudia Pohl

Claudia Pohl — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:43:03 +0000

Dear Mr. J. Jost,
I stay in Karlsruhe, Germany. Last week opened at the ZKM, which is based here, a new exhibition with a work you did in 2000-02, titeld: Trinity, an Altar piece. Can you give me same information about it, It´s realy beautiful!
Sincerely
Claudia Pohl

Comment on Mala Italia by jonjost

jonjost — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:30:45 +0000

Hi – thanks for correction. I am lousy at these things and while when I posted the picture I thought it didn’t look like Stamp that still didn’t prompt me to check it out. I saw the film maybe, uh, 40 years ago or so. A little memory lapse for which I will forgive myself. Again, thanks for correcting that.