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23 November 2009
video 500 Fotos by Adam Tyson

from "500 Fotos," by Adam Tyson
Adam Tyson is a novelist, photographer and video jockey whose work includes slide show installations like this photo collection, "500 Fotos." I'm drawn to this compilation's seemingly random succession of images that reflect things both familiar and foreign. The technical quality and composition feel accessible, as if I am looking through snapshots in someone's personal photo album, and the way the music comes and goes takes me back to the days of cassette tapes, when one song ended and then tape rolled for a couple of seconds before the next song started (something modern ears are unaccustomed to). Many of the images draw me in to the action, arousing my natural curiosity about people and my attraction to eclecticism and the energy that I have only ever encountered in urban centers.
re: adam tyson, cultural worlds, humanity, photography, technology
Christy:
6 July 2009
excerpt The power of weakness
From a long and moving theological and philosophical essay about suffering and human society, by Xavier Le Pichon, a geophysicist (a key figure in the development of plate techtonics) who has lived for many years at L'Arche and other communities centered around members who suffer from mental illness. He discusses the ideas in his essay in a wonderful 1hr public radio interview here.
re: community, horizons of the possible, humanity, poverty, science, suffering
Nate:
from "Ecce Homo (Behold Humanity)," by Xavier Le Pichon, reprinted at Speaking of Faith, 25 June 2009

Anybody who has experienced fatherhood or motherhood knows about the power of the infants. The arrival of a baby completely changes the structure and life of the whole family. One could say actually that the infant is the one who has the authority. The activities of the whole family are ordered to his needs. What is true for infants is also true for sick, handicapped and aged people. As I have argued above, they have a real power of reorganization of the human communities. But I believe that the experience repeatedly made by humans is that there is something beyond. Entering into relation with the weak may become an experience of discovery and acceptation of our own weaknesses. Discovering indeed that whenever I recognize that I am weak, then I am strong. And entering through this experience into a world of fragility and vulnerability that we share with our friends who have made the same experience, a world that becomes a world of kindness, mercy and love.