Two weeks, at Balse.

Some Sartre docs, enter conciseness.

A lot of times you will learn that Sartre is incoherent, Sartre has betrayed himself, ah, Sartre has been with the Communist, without the Communist. He misunderstood this misunderstood that. He made mistakes and this and that…. I don’t think that is very important. It’s an attitude. It’s ‘do not take anything for granted. Criticize it. Attack. Find your own way.’ uh…he would say something wonderful, he would say ‘I THINK AGAINST MYSELF’. You have to think against everything which has been given to you by education. You have to criticize every single thing which is being given to you.

Jean-Paul Sartre: The Road to Freedom (Human All Too Human) - BBC

Annie Cohen-Solal, Biographer

Sartre spent his life testing the limits of traditional thinking but at the heart of this philosophy is one deceptively simple question, ‘if human beings are truly free to do anything they want how are we to live our lives?’ Sartre never did find a convincing answer to this question, but he was never less than unflinchingly honest with the attempt.

Continued the journey with the encounter with Vitesse X, nyc.

Vitesse X - Us Ephemeral

Vitesse X - Right Now

Vitesse X - Activation

A drive to Century City, Wim Wenders, PERFECT DAYS, first theater in 2024.

Now to revisit Wenders’ past films.

YOUR WORK AS GIFT. Contribution to the world.

Then, there was, a Crayon

Da$H - "HAD TO LIVE IT"

TOKYOPILL

Old school? Pop, dance. TDJ - Enfin c'est ici que ☀️ Sous les rayons incandescents ☁️ D'un monde plastiquement parfait ☀️ Où les rêves ne sont pas que des rêves mais bien des réalités ☁️ Dans cet univers vêtu de charme se trouve

TDJ - Lalala (Want Somebody)

TDJ - Open Air (feat. fknsyd)

Are these the same people? non so, random encounters. Or probably not random.

SPF INFINI

Sainté - Compare

And entering the world of Daniil Trifonov - Coming up on the 25th, at Disney Hall, LA PHIL, Brahms Piano Concerto no. 2, conducted by Malikki .

All connected. Design and culture. Diversity of culture. Subcultures.

Eastern & Western Design: How Culture Rewires The Brain

Rabbits eat carrots. Cross-culture collaborations. Inventing the concept of nature, Greeks. St. Augustine. Language.

Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis - the very words you use can influence the world view

Complex nuanced issues.

The absurd hero, the lens of humor.

To be experienced. Not to be riddled.

I am unknowing.

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must lived forward - Søren Kierkegaard

Torstoy, Kurosawa, Living.

Hedonistically, love, finding your own meaning. Worth.

Sense of meaning.

Starting to get into Fashion philosophy - Martin Margiela: In His Own Words

Deeper than clothes

till next time.

Charles A. Balse

**The World Made Wondrous: The Dutch Collector’s Cabinet and the Politics of Possession** **- LACMA**

Words of Wisdom

AKADEMIE X LESSONS IN ART + LIFE
LESSON 19
TUTOR: Thomas Lawson
Page 178
Artists notice stuff - the way things come together or fall apart, the telling detail or overlooked ruin, the tell-tale gesture. To be an artist, you have to train yourself to pay attention to the world in which you live, constantly looking for clues, always aware of your surroundings. Make notes, try observational drawing or taking photographs, study how things are made. There is no one method here. The task is to find a way to notice the details that make sense to you, the details that will open your eyes to content.

This is why so many of us get pissed off with lazy thinking that equates making art to expressing feelings. Too often, this simply means the equivalent of throwing a tantrum and nobody cares to see that. If you are interested in expressing emotion, you have to examine that emotion, find its source, calibrate how best to represent it. The most successful expressionist art is always coldly calculating.
A good artist pays attention to the world she finds herself in which includes the political and moral dimensions of that world. Making straight-up political work is difficult, and most attempts fail. They come across as simple-minded or strident; worse, they are usually so tied to a particular moment that they are irrelevant within a couple of months. But work that is grounded in a specific set of observations, developed through appropriately considered and handled techniques, will always speak to an understanding of relationships, and thus to society.