29/01/2009

Further Angels

I have decided that this year's blog will be devoted mainly to angels. I would welcome any ideas, sources or hints about these entities.

Here are some of the ones I captured around November 2008. They are pixelly because of the incredible magnification that has had to take place.




The magnification process has created countless digital artefacts, but those of you familiar with this kind of thing will doubtless concur that digital artefacts seldom create angels. It is clear that these are the real McCoy. Swirls of light created on a cold night with exposure beyond breaking point for handheld. That's when you might see them. Or are they merely nudes descending staircases?

I am trying to find an Eastern European animation with scary angels depicted. Julian has seen it, and knows it is referred to in a book somewhere. It was shown in the Fourmations sporadic series. I have a few videotapes of these to look through (and catalogue). Makes me wistful for the good ol pioneering days of Channel 4. It is such a shame that it has finally capitulated. With the support of the BBC, I might add - here no surprise there then.


A couple of things people have said about angels that I like:

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. ~Luciano de Crescenzo - little bit about him here


You'll meet more angels on a winding path than on a straight one. ~Daisey Verlaef

14/01/2009

More about Angels

The closer you look, the more there are. Once you see one, you start seeing them all over the place. Every day a new angel is discovered, but the heard of angels remains the same. They are known as demiurges in various Platonic clinches. In culinary terms, garlic sublimes if you have the presence of mind to add enough. The notion of 'savor' in Latin America goes well beyond our own notion of taste. Savor. Saviour. Savoir faire. Save our fayre. Fairy. Faerie. Fiery. Angel.



























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