like the blades of a propeller overhead
I feel your power circling me
accompanying sleep and lucid dreams
your arms and kisses engulfing me
this way and that all-embracing breathlessness
cool rain bossanova with hearts drumming
entwined acceleration orchestrating
only this moment stages our finest performance.

from a dream~~

the world will go on
it's only people who change
because they have to!

lauren6

surreptitiously guiding breeze changed
lashing rain obliterated soothing Sun
turncoats inside and out
Sunday's best on the run

redundant windmill refinery's kept
sleeping giant's allegory
the Wensum meanders as the soul wept
merely part of the untold story

to be seen and not heard
pain screaming upon deaf ears
once heard and never forgotten
is the 'silent' fall of lonely tears

lauren6

for the med.

music: Divine Works: Gloria Deo Patri, from Hildegard von Bingen und ihre zeit - ensemble of fruhe Musik Augsburg

Vatican 'cashes in' by putting price on the Pope's copyright
From Richard Owen in Rome

THE Vatican has been accused of trying to cash in on the Pope’s words after it decided to impose strict copyright on all papal pronouncements.
For the first time all papal documents, including encyclicals, will be governed by copyright invested in the official Vatican publishing house, the Libreria Editrice Vaticana.

The edict covers Pope Benedict XVI’s first encyclical, which is to be issued this week amid huge international interest. The edict is retroactive, covering not only the writings of the present pontiff — as Pope and as cardinal — but also those of his predecessors over the past 50 years. It therefore includes anything written by John Paul II, John Paul I, Paul VI and John XXIII.

The decision was denounced yesterday for treating the Pope’s words as “saleable merchandise” and endangering the Church’s mission to “spread the Christian message”.

A Milanese publishing house that had issued an anthology containing 30 lines from Pope Benedict’s speech to the conclave that elected him and an extract from his enthronement speech is reported to have been sent a bill for €15,000 (£10,000). This was made up of 15 per cent of the cover price of each copy sold plus “legal expenses” of €3,500.

Vittorio Messori, who has co-authored works with Pope Benedict and John Paul II, said that he was “perplexed and alarmed . . . This is wholly negative and absolutely disastrous for the Vatican’s image.” A pope’s words should be available to all free of charge, he said, and to “cash in in this way surrounds the clergy with the odour of money”.

Publishers will have to negotiate a levy of between 3 per cent and 5 per cent of the cover price of any book or publication “containing the Pope’s words”. Those who infringe the copyright face legal action and a higher levy of 15 per cent.

The Union of Italian Catholic Publishers and Booksellers said that it had not been consulted, and that the edict “flies in the face of what we do — spreading the Pope’s message to the world”.

A Vatican spokesman said that the Holy See had to defend itself against “pirated editions”. The move is also aimed at “premature publication”. Journalists accredited to the Vatican are handed papal texts under embargo. The Vatican said that if embargos were broken in future not only would the journalist face sanctions but also his or her publication would face legal action.

Last week ANSA, the Italian news agency, published what it said were brief extracts from the forthcoming encyclical, Deus Caritas Est. Vatican officials said that the final text was still being worked on and the supposed extracts were “speculative”. Publication, originally scheduled for six weeks ago, has been held up by internal Vatican wrangling, allegedly over translation.

Officials said that newspapers would be free to publish extracts from papal documents without charge once they were officially released, but only by “prior agreement”. The rules cover not only encyclicals — the most authoritative papal pronouncements, issued in Latin — but also the Pope’s homilies at his weekly audiences on Wednesdays, and his addresses at Angelus prayers on Sundays.

The decree was signed last May by Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the Secretary of State, but put into effect only a month ago at a meeting of Vatican lawyers on the rights to works by Pope Benedict, who as Cardinal Ratzinger was the late Pope’s doctrinal adviser and a prolific author.

Signor Messori agreed that some publishers had in the past “overstepped the mark”. “But the Church exists to spread the Word, as commanded by Christ himself.” He said that he was appalled at “the very idea of placing a tax on the words of the Pope, the principal interpreter of the Gospel”. Publishers and journalists would be “terrorised”, wondering whether they would be sued for quoting the pontiff, he said.

PRINTS OF THE CHURCH

The Vatican publishing house Libreria Editrice Vaticana was founded in 1587 by Pope Sixtus V when he set up the Holy See’s printing press

It became a seperate organisation in 1926

In 1988 under a reorganisation of Vatican institutions by Pope John Paul II it was given full responsibility for publishing all “acts and documents of the Pope” and of the Vatican bureaucracy

It publishes books from other writers with intention of defining doctrine, liturgy and Catholic culture and sells religious works from other publishers

It offers works in Italian, Latin, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Polish.

from Timesonline

Chemical Brothers: Star Guitar (2002)
Directed by Michel Grondy.

"The video describes a journey as seen from a train window, only the disposition of each passing element in the landscape is positioned exactly in sync with the music.

"Every sound from the track will be illustrated by an element of the landscape that appears each time that sound is heard. As the song becomes more elaborate, we will create a more and more complex landscape."

This published portion of Gondry's treatment describes well the fusion between music and landscape in his second video for the Chemical Brothers.

One notices the similarity in concept between this video and Daft Punk's Around the World, yet the difference in execution. Instead of each element being a dancer, it is a part of the scenery. The video is based on DV footage Gondry shot while on vacation in France. They shot the train ride 10 different times during the day to get different light gradients.

Star Guitar is one of those videos that you must see several times in order to see all of the video. Upon later viewings this fan noticed smoke stacks in time with keyboard trills, funny railroad track behavior, and sky changes. Images for the truly nitpicky. All of these were worked on for three months in post by Michel's brother Olivier.
-director-file