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katazome #2

February 20, 2012
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Isa Kunio, Japanese paper/stencil dyed

katazome - naito hideharu

Naito Hideharu, linen/indigo stencil dyeing

katazome_seiryuten    katazome nishijima  katazome_naito 

via  http://someseiryu.net and Katazome

farewell to Nanga Parbat

February 16, 2012


a masterclass on dispatch video by The North Face, from Nanga Parbat via Simone Moro and Denis Urubko.

When I Find You Again It Will Be in Mountains – Chia Tao and Mike O’Connor

January 24, 2012
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When I Find You Again, It Will Be in Mountains - Chia TaoPublished: 2000
Reading style: medium
Images: b&w photos and illustration

What the publisher says:

Selected Poems of Chia Tao (Jia Dao)

Chia Tao (779-843), an erstwhile Zen monk who became a poet during China’s Tang Dynasty, recorded the lives of the sages, masters, immortals, and hermits who helped establish the great spiritual tradition of Zen Buddhism in China.

Presented in both the original Chinese and Mike O’Connor’s beautifully crafted English translation, When I Find You Again, It Will Be in Mountains brings to life this preeminent poet and his glorious religious tradition, offering the fullest translation of Chia Tao’s poems to date.

good at maths

January 18, 2012
Mathematical Mountains Generative art by Steven L. Brunton

Mathematical Mountains Generative art by Steven L. Brunton

Mathematical Mountains Generative art by Steven L. Brunton

Mathematical Mountains Generative art by Steven L. Brunton

source and explanation about what it all means via butdoesitfloat and Princeton’s Art of Science Gallery.

Let my people go surfing – Yvon Chouinard

January 13, 2012

Let my people go surfing - Yvon ChouinardPublished: 2005
Reading style: easy
Images: b&w throughout

What the publisher says:

the education of a reluctant businessman

As a child, Yvon Chouinard moved with his father, a French Canadian blacksmith, to Southern California with little English and less money. Today his company, Patagonia, earns more than $230 million a year and is one of the most environmentally responsible corporations on the planet. This is the amazing story of a young man who found escape by scaling the world’s highest peaks, of an innovator who used his father’s tools to fashion equipment that changed climbing forever, and of the entrepreneur who brought doing good and having a blast into the heart of a business like no other.

“Three wonderful books rolled into one: a moving autobiography, the story of a unique business, and a detailed blueprint for hope.” — JARED DIAMOND, professor of geography at UCLA, author of the books Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse, and winner of a 1998 Pulitzer Prize

a desire to measure

January 11, 2012
Comparative Height of the Principal Mountains and other Elevations in the World

Comparative Height of the Principal Mountains and other Elevations in the World. J. Cone Sc. Author: Lucas, Fielding Jr. Date: 1823 . David Rumsey Historical Map Collection.

Comparative Heights of the Principal Mountains and Lengths of the Principal Rivers

Comparative Heights of the Principal Mountains and Lengths of the Principal Rivers. Author: Darton, William; Gardner, W.R. Date: 1823. David Rumsey Historical Map Collection.

via Retronaut and the David Rumsey Map Collection.

click on the image to view a scalable version.

melt down

December 19, 2011
Neil Frazer - Melt Down (2007)

Neil Frazer - Melt Down (2007) oil over acrylic on canvas stretcher: 1525 x 1520 x 34 mm

Neil Frazer - traverse

More Neil Frazer via Martin Browne Fine Art and Milford Galleries.