David Sagasta from Madrid.

The captain, however, drank a glass of wine, and topped it off with a second and a third, and then, a vicious flush lighting his swarthy face, stretched out on top of his blankets, where he soon was snoring loudly.

J.L.

Seascapes by Ray Collins, waves as mountains.

Freezing the ephemeral relationship between water and light is what drives and inspires him to clamber out of bed in the dark each morning to celebrate the sun rising over the sea.

A clip, showing food production and consumption, from Samsara, non-verbal documentary from filmmakers Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson.

Imagine being served a plate of sushi. But this plate also holds all of the animals that were killed for your serving of sushi. The plate might have to be five feet across. (J.S.F)

side a. watching the stone of celestial flaw rush down.
side b. in a realm of wander behold the fleeting shadows exclaim in delight.
side c. for seconds he felt the grandeur of devastation.
side d. together we transcend into this wreckage called heart.

Jon Westwood, illustrator from Ontario.

We can ask ourselves later why the fanatic specialism of the Phoenicians,
which hacked the alphabet out of the hieroglyphic culture, did not release any further intellectual or artistic activity in them.

The pre-Socratics were still mainly in a non-literate culture. Socrates stood on the border between that oral world and the visual and literate culture. But be wrote nothing. The Middle Ages regarded Plato as the mere scribe or amanuensis of Socrates. And Aquinas considered that neither Socrates nor Our Lord committed their teaching to writing because the kind of interplay of minds that is in teaching is not possible by means of writing.

M.M.

Los Angeles based automotive photographer Richard Thompson.

After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.

J.G.B.