Here you see some random pictures of the day. They were take on Saturday Oct 2nd with my very handy ipod nano that was gifted to me a while ago. Except that it does not take pictures, but video. Don’t expect good photos from something so spontaneous, it was just handy at the moment. The audio was not good at all.
To convert the video to pictures I had to use the image capture of my computer screen (it produces rather large files), only after I figured how to get the movies transfered to my computer. Then I went through a process of reducing the file size by trying random programs until I was able to find the one that would do the job. Turns out there’s more than one, but it took me a while to figure it out.
Of course, part of the fun of blogging is sharing truly random stuff. Like a weird vantage point to take a picture of Times square, or a mushroom formation that looks like a real crown.
I have been too busy finishing various stuff with deadlines in the past few weeks to make a long post about anything serious, so instead this stuff that I just happened on will do in the meantime.
I don’t like taking pictures in general. Pictures seems to me like a burden for space and time; they imprison it in a sense. Space, time and people’s lives within should unfold like an indefinite vague game. Regarding this here is something a wise man once said:
“The opening in space-time is not something mysterious. Take a group of people on the beach. Some are taking pictures of each other. They want to own them in a way, to file them in an archive. Others are taking pictures of the sea, they want to restrain it, to detain it. Others say, it is so beautiful here, look, look how nice that wave hits the shore. All these are forms of stopping the time, space and not of opening in time and space. Opening is to swim, to enjoy, to live without that ‘look’, ‘look’ all the time…”
So according to him a man must open himself to space, time, nature and to the Cosmos as a whole by unfolding his life in an evanescent world as an ephemeral game of wandering without trying to “capture” anything.
Dear Giotis, I suppose you also dislike music because it imprisons the vibrations of the air in the momentum space and quantum gravity because it imprisons information on the holographic screens.
You may dislike life because it imprisons the free biological information in the binary A-C-G-T space, mathematics because it imprisons creative vague language in the True-False space, and the courts because they imprison criminals in the small space of the prison cells.
Opening the world means to scream out-of-tune, out-of-touch, throw stuff into objects that are denser than black holes, decompose DNA into free bases by nuclear explosions, replacing mathematicians with postmodern philosophers, and free up the killers so that they can do their job without being captured all the time.
If you look around you should be able to find a (free) video editing program which will export frames – the output quality should be slightly better than taking a screen capture. I would suggest one but I have a non-free one I use for DV editing called Edius.