Assignment in Morocco, Niigata, Tokyo, Taiwan.
2024- the year of BIENNALE ARTE 2024
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Taiwan R.O.C. photo essay, cafe de fleur
Oh-, such trembling pain and deep nausea that is the food poisoning in Marrakech. Some bike exhaust, smog, with Paris, to bronchitis. Back from the Morocco assignment. And yeah, suffering. equals…delaying this issue. Yet, wonderful Sahara dunes in the sunset, that is to come, in the next newsletter.
Read MoreThis is the live calendar for 2024. I will continue to update and track events throughout the year in this page. These will include places we visit, art exhibits and concerts scheduled and visited.
HARMONY KORINE
AGGRESSIVE DR1FTER
15 SEPTEMBER 2023 – 14 JANUARY 2024
Hauser & Wirth, Downtown LA
Writing from Charles De Gaulles Airport, Paris, France. On the way to Marrakech, Morocco for photo documentary assignment. Thinking about the Moroccan rug weavers.
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PACE Gallery, Los Angeles
Exhibition Details:
William Monk
West of Nowhere
Sep 9 – Oct 21, 2023
I wish for dance from around the world. Dance with tear of joy.
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ClassicAsobi starting his 2023-24 season in NYC. First up, Dead Man Walking, American contemporary opera that world premiered San Francisco Opera, 2000.
Read Moreany fluctuation of the mind will lead to lack of peace’, ‘as you start ignoring the desires of your mind, you will cultivate detachment.’ ‘liberating’. - Starting with headspace 8,663 minutes. Then, day 138, 30 minutes of meditating. ‘Acting objectively instead of subjectively’ ‘a mirage’
Geeked out on digital sound. fun to listen to, precise. ‘digital audio signal’. “peak to noise floor…dynamic range of a human ear is often quoted as 120 decibels…as close as you can bear it…signal to noise ratio…” and so on. You get the point. check it out.
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A much awaited interview session with Jon Ho.listic.
Then a solid house, deep house set. Onto Moby Dick, now purchased.
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More JFDR
Igor Levitt. Last week was all about Igor Levitt. Tristan. Must see doc. “as fearless as you can”
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n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.
video: sonder: everyone has a story
Read MoreTrying to make this better.
Since I can’t let go.
Give me a chance.
So the song goes
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Back from the Brooklyn Film Festival 2023. World Premiere of our great friend Alex Andre’s feature film PRATFALL. Awards were announced and the film won the Spirit Award for Narrative Feature! Lovely afterparty, and less than 24 hours later, back in LA. Memorable moments in life.
Read MoreFirst, we would like to congratulate Alex Andre, a long time Balse project friend and contributor, for his directorial debut with his feature film PRATFALL at the Brooklyn Film Festival.
Balse is going to Brooklyn to attend the world premier this Saturday, June 3rd, documenting the scene and the crew through photography.
Read MoreWhat we consume, the choices we make, everyday, shapes us and the world around us.
Read MoreReady to succeed. Ready to receive.
Read MoreSelect, experience, transform.
To be present, or not to be.
Every hour and day: discarding and focusing.
Consciousness. Open mind.
Courage, and gut feeling.
A constant process.
At Balse, we will share our selection process and what we learned.
We will visualize our transformation.
And for some, we hope, will be a valuable source of inspiration.
We are ultimate selectors.
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Welcome
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Been a few weeks since coming back from New York. Working on photo edits and all.
Also revisiting the meaning of Balse. The existence. Been re-writing the About page.
Here are some of the latest edits.
What to make of this?
How to live?
Our eternal questions.
No body can advise you and help you, nobody. There is only one way. Go into yourself. Examine the reason that bids you to write; check whether it reaches its roots into the deepest region of your heart, admit to yourself whether you would die if it should be denied you to write. - Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
In a way, Balse is a research institute. In another, simply an experience of life, the NOW.
How I feel. My journey. Real human drama through photography and words.
Things are not all as graspable and sayable as on the whole we are led to believe; most events are unsayable, occur in a place that no word has ever penetrated, and most unsayable of all are works of art, mysterious existences whose life endures alongside ours, which passes away. - Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Key areas of research are:
Art, Music, and History
Philosophy
Environment
From ancient to contemporary.
What we consume, how we spend time, shapes us. Consume less, consume consciously.
A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. The verdict on it lies in this nature of its origin: there is no other.
Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Follow the fun. Experience the world - LIFE.
With your needle, feel the groove - Focus.
Signal - seek with heart - Phono stage.
Find your message, expand with light - amplification.
Energy, vibration, form, harmony, emotion, being, breath in, and breathe out - Sound.
Now - DANCE.
Life.