Ragg It: April 2009

Charles Webster Leadbeater

Following immediately upon this declaration the Pancha Sila, commonly called “The Five Precepts”, are recited. Again “precepts” is hardly the right word, although it is a possible translation of sila; “pledges” comes much nearer the fact, though hardly permissible as a translation. These are often compared to the Ten Commandments of Judaism; but in reality they differ greatly in character and, though fewer in number, are much more comprehensive. They are as follows:

(1) I observe the precept to refrain from destruction of life.

(2) I observe the precept to refrain from taking that which is not mine.

(3) I observe the precept to refrain from unlawful sexual intercourse.

(4) I observe the precept to refrain from falsehood.

(5) I observe the precept to refrain from using intoxicating liquors or stupefying drugs.

It can hardly fail to strike the intelligent person that, as Colonel Olcott writes:

One who observes these strictly must escape from every cause productive of human misery, for if we study history we shall find that it has all sprung from one or another of these causes. The far-seeing wisdom of the Lord Buddha is most plainly shown in the first, third, and fifth, for the taking of life, sensuality and the use of intoxicants cause at least ninety-five per cent of the suffering among men.

It is interesting to notice how each of these precepts goes further than the corresponding Jewish commandment. Instead of being told to do no murder, we find ourselves enjoined to take no life whatever; instead of being commanded not to steal, we have the more far-reaching precept not to take that which does not belong to us, which would obviously cover the acceptance of praise not honestly due to us, and many another case quite outside of what is commonly called stealing. It will be observed also that the third of these precepts includes a great deal more than the seventh of the commandments of Moses, forbidding not only one particular type of unlawful intercourse, but all types. Instead of being forbidden to bear false witness in a court of law, we are enjoined to avoid falsehood altogether. I have often thought what a .good thing it would have been for all these European countries which have taken up the teachings of Christ if the legendary Moses had included in his decalogue the fifth of the Buddhist precepts—the instruction to touch no intoxicating liquor nor stupefying drugs. How much simpler would be all our essential problems if that commandment were observed in England and America as it is observed in Buddhist countries!

It is also very characteristic of the Buddhist faith that there is here no commandment “Thou shalt not do this or that”—no order given by a Deity or a teacher, but simply the quiet promise made by each man that he will refrain from certain actions which are obviously undesirable.

How Theosophy Came To Me:
http://www.singaporelodge.org/htctm.htm

54. THE SIN OF SLAUGHTER

55. Hitherto we have been speaking of what we have called the physical and selfish considerations which. should make a man give up the eating of this dead flesh, and turn him, even though only for his own sake, to the purer diet. Let us now think for a few moments of the moral and unselfish considerations connected with his duty towards others. The first of these - and this does seem to me a most terrible thing - is the awful sin of unnecessarily murdering these animals. Those who live in Chicago know well how this ghastly ceaseless slaughter goes on in their midst, how they feed the greater part of the world by wholesale butchery, and how the money made in this abominable business is stained with blood, every coin of it. I have shown clearly upon irreproachable testimony that all this is unnecessary; and if it is unnecessary it is a crime.

56. The destruction of life is always a crime. There may be certain cases in which it is the lesser of two evils; but here it is needless and without a shadow of justification, for it happens only because of the selfish unscrupulous greed of those who coin money out of the agonies of the animal kingdom in order to pander to the perverted tastes of those who are sufficiently depraved to desire such loathsome aliment. Remember it is not only those who do the obscene work, but those who by feeding on this dead flesh encourage them and make their crime remunerative, who are guilty before God of this awful thing. Every person who partakes of this unclean food has his share in the indescribable guilt and suffering by which it has been obtained. It is universally recognised in law that qui facit per alium facit per se - whatsoever a man does through another he does himself.

57. A man will often say: "But it would make no difference to all this horror if I alone ceased to eat meat."That is untrue and disingenuous. First, it would make a difference, for although you may consume only a pound or two each day, that would in time amount to the weight of an animal. Secondly, it is not a question of amount, but of complicity in a crime; and if you partake of the results of a crime, you are helping to make it remunerative, and so you share in the guilt. No honest man can fail to see that this is so. But when men's lower lusts are concerned they are usually dishonest in their view, and decline to face the plain facts. There surely can be no difference of opinion as to the proposition that all this horrible unnecessary slaughter is indeed a terrible crime.

58. Another point to be remembered is that there is dreadful cruelty connected with the transport of these miserable animals, both by land and sea, and there is often dreadful cruelty in the slaughtering itself. Those who seek to justify these loathsome crimes will tell you that an endeavour is made to murder the animals as rapidly and painlessly as possible; but you have only to read the reports to see that in many cases these intentions are not carried out, and appalling suffering ensues.

59. THE DEGRADATION OF THE SLAUGHTERMAN

60. Yet another point to be considered is the wickedness of causing degradation and sin in other men. If you yourselves had to use the knife or the pole-axe, and slaughter the animal before you could feed upon its flesh, you would realise the sickening nature of the task and would soon refuse to perform it. Would the delicate ladies who devour sanguinary beefsteaks like to see their sons working as slaughtermen ? If not, then they have no right to put this task upon some other woman's son. We have no right to impose upon a fellow-citizen work which we ourselves should decline to do. It may be said that we force no one to undertake this abominable means of livelihood; but that is a mere tergiversation, for in eating this horrible food we are making a demand that some one shall brutalise himself, that some one shall degrade himself below the level of humanity. You know that a class of men has been created by the demand for this food - a class of men which has an exceedingly bad reputation. Naturally those who are brutalised by such unclean work as this prove themselves brutal in other relations as well. They are savage in their disposition and bloodthirsty in their quarrels; and I have heard it stated that in many a murder case evidence has been found that the criminal employed the peculiar twist of the knife which is characteristic of the slaughterman. You must surely recognise that here is an unspeakably horrible work, and that if you take any part in this terrible business - even that of helping to support it - you are putting another man in the position of doing (not in the least for your need, but merely for the gratification of your lusts and passions) work that you would under no circumstances consent to do for yourself.

61. Then we should surely remember that we are all of us hoping for the time of universal peace and kindness - a golden age when war shall be no more, a time when man shall be so far removed from strife and anger that the whole conditions of the world will be different from those which now prevail. Do you not think that the animal kingdom also will have its share in that good time coming - that this horrible nightmare of wholesale slaughter will be removed from it ? The really civilised nations of the world know far better than this; it is only that we of the West are as yet a young race, and still have many of the crudities of youth; otherwise we could not bear these things amongst us even for a day. Beyond all question the future is with the vegetarian. It seems certain that in the future - and I hope it maybe in the near future - we shall be looking back upon this time with disgust and with horror. In spite of all its wonderful discoveries, in spite of its marvelous machinery, in spite of the enormous fortunes that have been made in it, I am certain that our descendants will look back upon this age as one of only partial civilisation, and in fact but little removed from savagery. One of the arguments by which they will prove this will assuredly be that we allowed among us this wholesale, unnecessary slaughter of innocent animals - that we actually battened on it and made money out of it, and that we even created a class of beings who did this dirty work for us, arid that we were not ashamed to profit by the result of their degradation.

72. MAN'S DUTY TOWARDS NATURE

73. Then there is the far more important unselfish side of the question - that of man's duty towards nature. Every religion has taught that man should put himself always on the side of the will of God in the world, on the side of good as against evil, of evolution as against retrogression. The man who ranges himself on the side of evolution realises the wickedness of destroying life; for he knows that, just as he is here in this physical body in order that he may learn the lessons of this plane, so is the animal occupying his body for the same reason, that through it he may gain experience at his lower stage. He knows that the life behind the animal is the Divine Life, that all life in the world is Divine; the animals therefore are truly our brothers, even though they may be younger brothers, and we can have no sort of right to take their lives for the gratification of our perverted tastes - no right to cause them untold agony and suffering merely to satisfy our degraded and detestable lusts.

74. We have brought things to such a pass with our miscalled"sport" and our wholesale slaughterings, that all wild creatures fly from the sight of us. Does that seem like the universal brotherhood of God's creatures ? Is that your idea of the golden age of world-wide kindliness that is to come - a condition when every living thing flees from the face of man because of his murderous instincts ? There is an influence flowing back upon us from all this - an effect which you can hardly realise unless you are able to see how it looks when regarded with the sight of the higher plane. Every one of these creatures which you so ruthlessly murder in this way has its own thoughts and feelings with regard to all this; it has horror, pain and indignation, and an intense but unexpressed feeling of the hideous injustice of it all. The whole atmosphere about us is full of it. Twice lately I have heard from psychic people that they felt the awful aura or surroundings of Chicago even many miles away from it. Mrs. Besant herself told me the same thing years ago in England - that long before she came in sight of Chicago she felt the horror of it and the deadly pall of depression descending upon her, and asked: " Where are we, and what is the reason that there should be this terrible feeling in the air ? " To sense the effect as clearly as this is beyond the reach of the person who is not developed ; but, though all the inhabitants may not be directly conscious of it and recognise it as Mrs. Besant did, they may be sure that they are suffering from it unconsciously, and that that terrible vibration of horror and fear and injustice is acting upon every one of .them, even though they do not know it.

Vegetarianism and Occultism:
http://www.anandgholap.net/Vegetarianism_And_Occultism-CWL.htm

http://leadbeater.info/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._W._Leadbeater

Namaste

"I honor the place in you in which the entire Universe dwells, I honor the place in you which is of Love, of Integrity, of Wisdom and of Peace. When you are in that place in you, and I am in that place in me, we are One."

"The Divinity within me perceives and adores the Divinity within you."

"The light within me honors the light within you."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namaste

Gospel of Thomas

1 And he said, "Whoever discovers the interpretation of these sayings will not taste death."

25 Jesus said, "Love your friends like your own soul, protect them like the pupil of your eye."

32 Jesus said, "A city built on a high hill and fortified cannot fall, nor can it be hidden."

35 Jesus said, "One can't enter a strong person's house and take it by force without tying his hands. Then one can loot his house."

39 Jesus said, "The Pharisees and the scholars have taken the keys of knowledge and have hidden them. They have not entered nor have they allowed those who want to enter to do so.
As for you, be as sly as snakes and as simple as doves."

41 Jesus said, "Whoever has something in hand will be given more, and whoever has nothing will be deprived of even the little they have."

42 Jesus said, "Be passersby."

56 Jesus said, "Whoever has come to know the world has discovered a carcass, and whoever has discovered a carcass, of that person the world is not worthy."

58 Jesus said, "Congratulations to the person who has toiled and has found life."

63 Jesus said, There was a rich person who had a great deal of money. He said, "I shall invest my money so that I may sow, reap, plant, and fill my storehouses with produce, that I may lack nothing." These were the things he was thinking in his heart, but that very night he died. Anyone here with two ears had better listen!

64 Jesus said, A person was receiving guests. When he had prepared the dinner, he sent his slave to invite the guests. The slave went to the first and said to that one, "My master invites you." That one said, "Some merchants owe me money; they are coming to me tonight. I have to go and give them instructions. Please excuse me from dinner." The slave went to another and said to that one, "My master has invited you." That one said to the slave, "I have bought a house, and I have been called away for a day. I shall have no time." The slave went to another and said to that one, "My master invites you." That one said to the slave, "My friend is to be married, and I am to arrange the banquet. I shall not be able to come. Please excuse me from dinner." The slave went to another and said to that one, "My master invites you." That one said to the slave, "I have bought an estate, and I am going to collect the rent. I shall not be able to come. Please excuse me." The slave returned and said to his master, "Those whom you invited to dinner have asked to be excused." The master said to his slave, "Go out on the streets and bring back whomever you find to have dinner."
Buyers and merchants [will] not enter the places of my Father.

66 Jesus said, "Show me the stone that the builders rejected: that is the keystone."

67 Jesus said, "Those who know all, but are lacking in themselves, are utterly lacking."

84 Jesus said, "When you see your likeness, you are happy. But when you see your images that came into being before you and that neither die nor become visible, how much you will have to bear!"

95 [Jesus said], "If you have money, don't lend it at interest. Rather, give [it] to someone from whom you won't get it back."

102 Jesus said, "Damn the Pharisees! They are like a dog sleeping in the cattle manger: the dog neither eats nor [lets] the cattle eat."

105 Jesus said, "Whoever knows the father and the mother will be called the child of a whore."

110 Jesus said, "Let one who has found the world, and has become wealthy, renounce the world."

113 His disciples said to him, "When will the kingdom come?"
"It will not come by watching for it. It will not be said, 'Look, here!' or 'Look, there!' Rather, the Father's kingdom is spread out upon the earth, and people don't see it."

http://users.misericordia.edu//davies/thomas/Trans.htm

Hylics, Psychics and Pneumatics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hylics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_(Gnosticism)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism

The Cow Jumped Over the Moon

Hey diddle diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon,
The little dog laughed to see such fun,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Diddle_Diddle

Waldorf Education

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldorf_schools

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldorf_doll

Rudolf Steiner

"Steiner believed that through freely chosen ethical disciplines and meditative training, anyone could develop the ability to experience the spiritual world, including the higher nature of oneself and others. Steiner believed that such discipline and training would help a person to become a more moral, creative and free individual - free in the sense of being capable of actions motivated solely by love."
"Steiner emphasized that there is an objective natural and spiritual world that can be known, and that perceptions of the spiritual world and incorporeal beings are, under conditions of training comparable to that required for the natural sciences, but including extraordinary self-discipline, replicable by multiple observers. It is on this basis that spiritual science is possible, with radically different epistemological foundations than those of natural science."
"For Steiner, the cosmos is permeated and continually transformed by the creative activity of non-physical processes and spiritual beings. For the human being to become conscious of the objective reality of these processes and beings, it is necessary to creatively enact and reenact, within, their creative activity. Thus objective knowledge always entails creative inner activity."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Steiner

"Lachman explains that Steiner believed consciousness to be an irreducible spiritual truth. Consciousness, for Steiner, actively participates in reality and is in no way a simple, passive observer.
Steiner works hardest against materialism and the mechanical, overly rational world it promotes, and the Anthroposophy movement was an attempt to “guide the spiritual in the human being to the spiritual in the universe.” "
http://www.forteantimes.com/reviews/books/49/rudolf_steiner_an_introduction_to_his_life_and_work.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threefold_Social_Order

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthroposophy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldorf_schools

Four Meals Away From Anarchy

It is estimated that after as little as four missed meals, a "law of the jungle" would take over, in which citizens resorted to looting or violence to find food.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article492642.ece

The 48 Laws of Power

The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene and Joost Elffers:
http://www2.tech.purdue.edu/cg/Courses/cgt411/covey/48_laws_of_power.htm

Xerox Star 8010 Interfaces (1981)

http://www.digibarn.com/collections/screenshots/xerox-star-8010/index.html

Ratt Shake

http://www.loshadka.org/wp/?p=1136

Francis Alÿs

http://www.davidzwirner.com/artists/56/selected_works_1.htm

http://www.diacenter.org/alys/

http://www.postmedia.net/alys/interview.htm

http://www.postmedia.net/alys/alys.htm

Buck and Judy

http://shapeandcolour.wordpress.com/2009/04/10/deerhoof-c-spencer-yeh-buck-and-judy/

Star Trails over the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090413.html

Home-made helicopters hit northern Nigeria

For a four-seater it is a big aircraft, measuring twelve metres (39 feet) long, seven meters high by five wide. It has never attained an altitude of more than seven feet.

He said he learned the rudiments of flying a helicopter from the Internet and first got the idea of building one from the films he watches on television.

"I watched action movies a lot and I was fascinated by the way choppers fly. I decided it would be easier to build one than to build a car," he said pacing the premises of the security division of the university which he uses as hanger for his helicopter.

https://www.modernghana.com/ghanahome/photos/event_album.asp?album_id=9105&parent_id=9102&page_no=1&action=single&menu_id=33&cat_id=1

Jason Rohrer

Passage:
http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/passage

Gravitation:
http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/gravitation/

http://www.esquire.com/features/best-and-brightest-2008/future-of-video-game-design-1208
http://www.esquire.com/features/best-and-brightest-2008/future-of-video-game-design-1208-2

http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/jason-rohrer/simpleLife.html

http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/jason-rohrer/supportMyWork.php

http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/jason-rohrer/

Howard Zinn

A People's History Of The United States:
"The terror was very real among the Indians, but in time they came to meditate upon its foundations. They drew three lessons from the Pequot War: (1) that the Englishmen's most solemn pledge would be broken whenever obligation conflicted with advantage; (2) that the English way of war had no limit of scruple or mercy; and (3) that weapons of Indian making were almost useless against weapons of European manufacture. These lessons the Indians took to heart."

"How skillful to tax the middle class to pay for the relief of the poor, building resentment on top of humiliation! How adroit to bus poor black youngsters into poor white neighborhoods, in a violent exchange of impoverished schools, while the schools of the rich remain untouched and the wealth of the nation, doled out carefully where children need free milk, is drained for billion-dollar aircraft carriers. How ingenious to meet the demands of blacks and women for equality by giving them small special benefits, and setting them in competition with everyone else for jobs made scarce by an irrational, wasteful system. How wise to turn the fear and anger of the majority toward a class of criminals bred-by economic inequity-faster than they can be put away, deflecting attention from the huge thefts of national resources carried out within the law by men in executive offices.
...
To recall this is to remind people of what the Establishment would like them to forget-the enormous capacity of apparently helpless people to resist, of apparently contented people to demand change. To uncover such history is to find a powerful human impulse to assert one's humanity. It is to hold out, even in times of deep pessimism, the possibility of surprise.
...
The threat of unemployment, always inside the homes of the poor, has spread to white-collar workers, professionals. A college education is no longer a guarantee against joblessness', and a system that cannot offer a future to the young coming out of school is in deep trouble. If it happens only to the children of the poor, the problem is manageable; there are the jails. If it happens to the children of the middle class, things may get out of hand. The poor are accustomed to being squeezed and always short of money, but in recent years the middle classes, too, have begun to feel the press of high prices, high taxes."

"The society's levers of powers would have to be taken away from those whose drives have led to the present state-the giant corporations, the military, and their politician collaborators. We would need-by a coordinated effort of local groups all over the country-to reconstruct the economy for both efficiency and justice, producing in a cooperative way what people need most. We would start on our neighborhoods, our cities, our workplaces. Work of some kind would be needed by everyone, including people now kept out of the work force-children, old people, "handicapped" people. Society could use the enormous energy now idle, the skills and talents now unused. Everyone could share the routine but necessary jobs for a few hours a day, and leave most of the time free for enjoyment, creativity, labors of love, and yet produce enough for an equal and ample distribution of goods. Certain basic things would be abundant enough to be taken out of the money system and be available-free-to everyone: food, housing, health care, education, transportation.
The great problem would be to work out a way of accomplishing this without a centralized bureaucracy, using not the incentives of prison and punishment, but those incentives of cooperation which spring from natural human desires, which in the past have been used by the state in times of war, but also by social movements that gave hints of how people might behave in different conditions. Decisions would be made by small groups of people in their workplaces, their neighborhoods-a network of cooperatives, in communication with one another, a neighborly socialism avoiding the class hierarchies of capitalism and the harsh dictatorships that have taken the name "socialist."
People in time, in friendly communities, might create a new, diversified, nonviolent culture, in which all forms of personal and group expression would be possible. Men and women, black and white, old and young, could then cherish their differences as positive attributes, not as reasons for domination. New values of cooperation and freedom might then show up in the relations of people, the upbringing of children."

"Antimilitarist feeling expressed itself also in resistance to the draft. When President Jimmy Carter, responding to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan, called for the registration of young men for a military draft, more than 800,000 men (10 percent) failed to register. One mother wrote to the New York Time:
To the Editor: Thirty-six years ago I stood in front of the crematorium. The ugliest force in the world had promised itself that I should be removed from the cycle of life-that I should never know the pleasure of giving life. With great guns and great hatred, this force thought itself the equal of the force of lift.
I survived the great guns, and with every smile of my son, they grow smaller. It is not for me, sir, to offer my son's blood as lubricant for the next generation of guns. I remove myself and my own from the cycle of death.
Isabella Leitner"

"Willard Gaylin, a psychiatrist, relates (Partial Justice) a case which, with changes in details, could be multiplied thousands of rimes. He had just interviewed seventeen Jehovah's Witnesses who refused to register for the draft during the Vietnam war, and all had received two-year sentences. He came to a young black man who had notified his draft board he could not in conscience cooperate with the draft because he was repelled by the violence of the Vietnam war. He received a five-year sentence. Gaylin writes: "Hank's was the first five-year sentence I had encountered. He was also the first black man." There were additional factors:
"How was your hair then?" I asked.
"Afro."
"And what were you wearing?"
"A dashiki."
"Don't you think that might have affected your sentence?"
"Of course."
"Was it worth a year or two of your life?" I asked.
"That's all of my life," he said, looking at me with a combination of dismay and confusion. "Man, don't you know! That's what it's all about! Am I free to have my style, am I free to have my hair, am I free to have my skin?"
"Of course," I said. "You're right."
"

"Chief Luther Standing Bear, in his 1933 autobiography, From the Land of the Spotted Eagle, wrote:
True, the white man brought great change. But the varied fruits of his civilization, though highly colored and inviting, are sickening and deadening. And if it be the part of civilization to maim, rob, and thwart, then what is progress?
I am going to venture that the man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting- the kinship of all creatures, and acknowledging unity with the universe of things, was infusing into his being the true essence of civilization..."

http://www.historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html

"I learned something about democracy: that it does not come from the government, from on high, it comes from people getting together and struggling for justice. I learned about race. I learned something that any intelligent person realizes at a certain point -- that race is a manufactured thing, an artificial thing, and while race does matter (as Cornel West has written), it only matters because certain people want it to matter, just as nationalism is something artificial. I learned that what really matters is that all of us -- of whatever so-called race and so-called nationality -- are human beings and should cherish one another."
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/2728/graduation_day_with_howard_zinn

http://howardzinn.org

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Zinn

Air Cartoons

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGm_LI-mtEg

Unusual Deaths

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths

The Nedelin Catastrophe

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e0d_1230842002

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nedelin_disaster

NASA's Alien Anomalies caught on film - A compilation of stunning UFO footage from NASA's archives

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlLN_Jcg1pc

Olaf Breuning

http://web.mac.com/olafbreuning/photos/Photos.html#grid

http://web.mac.com/olafbreuning/works/works.html

Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPeWwvsnaaQ
http://www.junji.org/saveyourself/index.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf0E9llkZIU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guaiDZdsDjI
http://www.hi.mce.uec.ac.jp/inami-lab/local/siggraph2005/Shaking_the_world.pdf

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=10358131

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galvanic_Vestibular_Stimulation

Junji Watanabe

Saccade:
http://www.junji.org/saccade/

Save Yourself!!!:
http://www.junji.org/saveyourself/index.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPeWwvsnaaQ

Touch the Invisibles:
http://www.junji.org/invisibles/index.html

http://www.junji.org/

Moongoose

RGBy:
http://mongoose.proto-type.jp/products/rgby/

Type Time:
http://mongoose.proto-type.jp/products/typetime/

Bright Blind:
http://mongoose.proto-type.jp/products/brightblind/

http://mongoose.proto-type.jp/about/

Kenneth A. Huff

http://www.kennethahuff.com/Works/Work.php?w=2004.10b&g=Time&v=excerpt1

http://www.kennethahuff.com/Works/Work.php?w=2004.9a&g=Time&v=excerpt1

http://www.kennethahuff.com/Works/WorkGroupThumbnails.php?g=Prints

http://www.kennethahuff.com/

Leonardo da Vinci

Ultima Cena:
http://www.haltadefinizione.com/magnifier.jsp?idopera=1

William K. Black

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ4JXW_ErXQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOA1RpK7ttg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMDLx_-f1L4
Transcript: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04032009/transcript1.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_K._Black

John Steinbeck

From "The Grapes of Wrath":
"And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the great fact: when property accumulates in too few hands it is taken away. And that companion fact: when a majority of the people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need. And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed."
"How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him--he has known a fear beyond every other."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grapes_of_Wrath

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck

13 Lakes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKwhBk4d7M0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlXhb9SAap0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=offsnpJ7Gwo

Ten Skies:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aIrfuptR6c

Utopia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT4xyD2-5zA

Segobi:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8im2__5kkko

Landscape Suicide:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jblQHNK6Xus

http://www.cinema-scope.com/cs34/int_peranson_benning.html

I have an interest in exploring space-time relationships through film. There's real time, and there's how we perceive time. Time affects the way we perceive place. That's where I get this idea of “looking and listening”. In my films, I'm very aware of recording place over time, and the way that makes you understand place. Once you've been watching something for a while, you become aware of it differently. I could show you a photograph of the place, but that doesn't convince you, it's not the same as seeing it in time. I'm very interested, now, in how much time is necessary to understand place.
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Consideration of audience is not a part of it because, to me, the interest shouldn't be determined by audiences – it should be by myself, to understand the concept and then the audience can work out how they interact with it. My films ask you to look around the frame, and at the frame, and have a different experience to the one you're probably used to from TV or Hollywood. If we see things being signposted all the time…we become lazy, we become dominated by the filmmaker instead of having room to move.
I'm interested in the spatialisation of time. And the temporalisation of space! (laughs).
If we come to expect that every few seconds we're going to be signposted to another piece of space, then we're not going to be able to read longer images.
http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/04/33/james_benning.html

http://www.canyoncinema.com/B/Benning.html

http://www.jigsawlounge.co.uk/film/benningfull.html

http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/archives/online_features/tortured_landscapes.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Benning_(film_director)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTHEsPOzzYo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTHEsPOzzYo