MISSMELN @ BUNGALOW TONIGHT

I’ll be spinning some of my favorite records tonight at the Bungalow. It is part of a weekly night called Modern Leisure Tuesdays. Every week they have a new guest DJ and tonight its me!

Also spinning are resident djs JENNY GREY and KID_CHAMPAGNE.

Should be a lot of fun. It sure is nice to be spinning records again!

THE ALCHEMIST

 

Slow in the dawn, a young man, hollow-eyed
from lengthy thought and unrewarding vigils,
is lost in his reflections, contemplating
the sleepless braziers and the silent stills.

He knows that gold, that Proteus, is lurking
in all chance happenings, like destiny;
he knows it hides in the dust along the way,
in the action of the bow, the arm, the arrow.

His occult vision of a secret being
hidden in the stars and in raw earth
echoes that other dream, that everything
is water, the dream of Thales of Miletus.

There's another vision, that of an eternal
God who appears in every single thing,
as Spinoza the geometer explains
in a book more tortuous than all of Hell.

In the vast blue expanses to the west,
the planets are beginning to grow pale.
The alchemist is thinking of his secrets,
the secret laws that link planet and metal.

And while he dreams of finding in the fire
that true gold that will put an end to dying,
God, who knows His alchemy, transforms him
to no one, dust, oblivion.

 

OF MONTREAL FAMILY ON LETTERMAN TONIGHT

“The day I watch television is the day my ninatwin is on Letterman” she was last night. 

I was hoping she would wear her nudie Rapunzel bush outfit but she was a ninja instead. Here is a pic of Nina at the New York show in October… She really is the Queen of Hearts.

“our madness was released on thee: and we all got down on each other”

- Nina Barnes

the heavens gave us snow today

Ok Fred X Death by Basel w EYE YAMATAKA

Remember how I mentioned in my note “Death By Basel” that there was going to be a publication with Ok Fred?

I just found out its with eYe. I need this Antonin please mail it to me!!!!

Seriously if you are in Miami don’t miss Death By Basel!

i decided to get a tree this year.

 

 

i love it so much! *m

THE GODS ARE SMILING ON US

If you looked up at the moon last night it would have looked like this…

Venus, named after the Roman goddess of love, and Jupiter, named after the god of sky and thunder, and a three-day-old crescent moon appeared as a smiley face on the western horizon last night. Here is a fancy picture on National Geo. I suggest checking it out, notice the symmetry. 

Hopefully you got a chance to capture it in your mind or lens. You can still see the two planets just right of the moon. The western sky is just beautiful right now!!!!

NYC ON 8MM

This film is the roll I took last month while on holiday in New York…

 

higher quality on my Vimeo. 

Last year when I was in Providence Rhode Island a generous friend gave me a glorious super 8 camera. Japanese made (smile). I have long had a love affair with super 8 film, technology and quite simply the frame. When I heard you could only shoot for three minutes it always baffled my mind because such romantic beauty comes out of that film! When I realized my camera shot single frames I wanted to explore it more. It wasn’t until the weekend of the Sled Island music festival (June) did I start using this method in my still photography. The film I shot over the festival was dated 1967 and I also found it at a flee market outside of Paris. Serious. So far I really enjoy this method. The romantic poetry of it all. 

Currently I’m working on different printing techniques for the stills.  

Special thanks to my beautiful friend Christina Milinusic for helping me record the audio of a actual 8mm projector at 18 frames per second.

With love,

meln