Friends of the Armchair Traveller

ANOTHER GIFT FROM AEON I found this short film to be stunningly filmed and edited... it's a complex subject which straddles many fields of inquiry, superb microscopy, time lapse imaging, rich word associations, playfulness with philosophical ideas, etc. I wonder what you will make of it?  While were are on this page, I've invited David King and Darko Duilo to assist me with running this blog. There are 7 other  people already listed as writers and admins who may also post blogs on this site. Some of these good friends have contributed in the past. However we would like to encourage all our friends to have a go. It's not like Facebook, it gives you a opportunity to post a serious item for consideration by people who are keen to be involved and who will give intelligent comments, and hopefully we'll never have to deal with the riff-raff often found on other social media outlets. Please let us know if you would like to be listed under permissions as "authors'. PT

  ROLAND  QUELVEN Today I'm sharing just a few short works by our friend Roland. They are not recent works, quite a few years have passed since he posted them. I keep going back to his various pieces, over and over. I find them fascinating, compelling. Many of Roland's themes keep recurring, from one work to another. I hope that you will enjoy their rich associations as I do. White Light / White Heat White Light / White Heat from Roland Quelven on Vimeo . ΙΚΑΡΟΣ Daedalus ACT1 / ΙΚΑΡΟΣ Daedalus The Winds, the Fall, the Drowning Did Daedalus plan everything.. ? ΙΚΑΡΟΣ Daedalus from Roland Quelven on Vimeo . ΙΚΑΡΟΣ The Drowning "For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return." Leonardo da Vinci. ΙΚΑΡΟΣ The Drowning from Roland Quelven on Vimeo . ROJA Sarcófago Bathtubs strangely look like Sarcófagos. ROJA Sarcófago  from  Roland Quelven  on  Vimeo . Rol...

 Recently David King sent me a note to inform me that Jean-Luc Godard had died.  Note, I did not say "passed" or use any other euphemism which might be applied.  Jean-Luc was not the sort of person to stand upon niceties and PC stuff, he was a bit like me old mate Henry Miller who liked to call a spade a spade, so I'm sure he would not want me to use "passed" for "died". In amongst a swarm of death notices and funeral notices what is one more such notice? It is a season of dying! There are so many people of about my own age who are dying I'm starting to get a bit worried about it. And as for funerals, well the Queen is having her medieval magical funeral tour but I've had far too much exposure and can't bear to hear any more of it. This is not meant to be any sort of putdown of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II... I reckon she gave good service to her people for a very long time, all the while having to contend with a world spiraling out of co...

  The Mythical Video That Grew Itself This video began as a record of the rather amazing garden we have  at our place in the Victorian seaside town of Portarlington, Australia.  The original title was Avant Garde(n)  but someone else  had already used that title for their work so I dropped it. The video sat in my editing system for a long time, largely  because I couldn't come up with a suitable sound track for it. Every time I looked in on it, it had mysteriously grown new  images.  More  and more new images until the original video  was just a distant m emory  and our garden  had become  an even more  amazing and magical place. But one day it stopped growing new images! It remained exactly the same each time I looked in on it   so I knew  it was 'finished'.  But it still didn't have a sound track worth squat. Recently Peter Tammer asked to see it again. He'd seen the original video or something c...