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An Ode to the Girl Who I Could Never Write
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she returned
with her mind
clouded by flowers
poetic leaves
decorated with her lips
she danced
with my heart
She returned with a bouquet of fynbos flowers and her mind was clouted by poetry. I looked at her beauty like the words of poetry in an old book. I read her mind and body like a beautifully sad novel that I could not put down.
Another day, another post about a girl, but this time, I tried the new ecency function of adding a video in the post. I hope that it works. At the end of the post, I will also post a YouTube link of the same video, for if the ecency one is not working, because I think the video came out really nicely.
In any case, I hope you enjoy this post. I disperse random lines of poetry between some of the photographs, but if you prefer just the photographs, please scroll past the juxtaposed words.
A Video of a Girl with Flowers A Mind Full of Flowers - Random Haikus Random Haikus
she hid between the
flowers - bright emotions told
the story anew
fynbos flowers in
her hands with poetry on
her seductive lips
she picked the flowers
like random words from her mind
to make poetry
fynbos smells honey
scented flowers delicious
treats for my plain mind
delicious honey
cover your poetry mind
with my callous hands
let your hair fall down
with the flowers and your mind
so that I can dream
write your words on my
face with your poetic tongue
drench me in honey
silence and nothing
after the fynbos shadows
your body droops raw
Postscriptum, or I handed her a Bouquet of FlowersI uploaded the video here on ecency firstly and then on YouTube if the first attempt did not work. I really liked how it came out and wanted to share it with you in any format.
In any case, I handed my girl a bouquet of flowers, and I wrote her some poetry. She is feeling a bit sick, so I hope that my poetic attempts will make her feel a little bit better.
I hope you liked the photographs and the video. It is something new, and I would appreciate any feedback.
For now, happy photographing and stay safe.
All of the photographs are my own, and the video as well. I uploaded it to both ecency and YouTube. The photographs were taken with my Nikon D300 and Nikkor 50mm lens. The video was taken with my Nikon D3200. The poetry and writings are also my own creations.
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Making a Simple Basil Pesto Pasta
In this video, I will be making a simple basil pesto pasta sprinkled with some philosophical musings. This is not a normal cooking show. In this cooking show of sorts, I reflect on my philosophical thoughts whilst I cook and edit the video.
I am playing around with my old Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 lens on a Nikon D3200. I am not a professional chef neither a videographer. This is just some experiments! Maybe you like the cooking and philosophy aspect.
You will need the following ingredients:
- basil leaves
- garlic
- salt and pepper
- olive oil
- hard cheese
- pasta
- pasta water
Below is the script of the video if you prefer reading.
Picking Fresh Basil I would reckon that most good basil pesto’s start with home grown or good quality basil. I am obviously biased in this position as I am growing my own basil. Psychologically, I would argue, this makes sense. I get rewarded with something I accomplished. I did not merely go to the shops to buy the produce. I actually produced the produce.
Making Pesto in a Mortar and Pestle Some people find it more fulfilling to produce things with their hands. One can make the argument that in our modern lives everything is made for us by either other people in factories or by machines. Making something with your own hands, in a very loose sense, can constitute a resistance to the automation or transference of work. However, this is a video on how to make basil pesto and not a political piece, but it is after all philosophy and cooking. Growing, making and cooking your own food can represent a type of taking back control.
So, start by grinding a clove of garlic in the mortar and pestle with salt and pepper. The salt and pepper will provide the necessary friction to create a type of garlic paste. Proceed to grind the basil leaves. Do not cut them smaller. If you want to make the pieces smaller, break them into with your fingers. Apparently, this creates a more aromatic pesto. I guess by tearing the leaves you bruise the leaves which releases the aromas we associate with basil. If you merely cut the leaves, it will not bruise them.
After you sufficiently ground the basil leaves into a pulp, the emulsification process begins. Pesto is essentially an emulsification of the basil pulp, which might be seen as water, and olive oil. Two added ingredients aid this emulsification: nuts and cheese. Traditionally pine nuts will be used with a hard cheese, but I only had some almonds. Crush the almonds, add the cheese, and then add the oil. As I am making this pesto for a pasta, the emulsification at this stage is not that important. Mix the pesto until all the ingredients are mixed together.
I am not calling this pesto authentic. There are all sorts of battles on the internet about authentic dishes and sauces. For me, if I want to go back to existential philosophy, it is best to live authentically. That is, I would live in accordance with authenticity if I do not try and conform to societal norms. How beautifully contradictory: by making an in-authentic pesto, according to societal norms, I will live more authentically.
Prepare the Pasta Cook the pasta according to your standards. We can get very philosophical about this. Essentially, it boils down to the subjective pleasurable experience of the person who eats the pasta. If you cook pasta in the fashion you like, there will be no problem. We should petition pasta makers to add to their cooking time the following: Optimal cooking time, probably 8 to 9 minutes, but cook it to your preference. No one can tell you to like al dente pasta, but no one can tell you not to prefer al dente.
Mix the Pesto and Pasta There is no two ways about it, mixing pasta produces a wonderful sound in the kitchen. Jokes aside, the real emulsification starts now. Mix in the basil pesto, pasta water and olive oil. There should be enough heat in the pasta and the pan. Mix until you created a thick sauce that sticks to the pasta. It is that simple. Add some extra cheese if you prefer. The vigorous mixing creates an emulsified sauce. It is mostly technique, but practice makes perfect. Hence, eat more pasta. Some would say it is simple logic. But life is too short not to enjoy simple food.
Plate Do not eat too much in one sitting. Palate fatigue is a real thing. Add some hard cheese shavings at the end for a contrast in texture. If you did everything right, the right amount of sauce will stick to the pasta. Enjoy life’s simple gifts. Do not overthink making simple pasta dishes. It is not easy to work with minimal ingredients, but the rewards will far outweigh complex dishes in my opinion.
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The Untranslatability of Ideas: Reading a Poem in Afrikaans and Reflections on Translation
This is my first real video on Hive. There is a reason why some people can act, and some people can make videos. This is not easy. In any case, in the video, I read a poem in my home language Afrikaans. I proceed to reflect on translation and why I think it is so hard to achieve any outcome in translation. This is not an in-depth study, but more of an art project of some sorts. Most people who make videos say your first couple will always be the worst. So let us hope for better days. Below is the original script, but I did not stick to it all the way. Also, I add the Afrikaans poem below the script.
I hope you enjoy this rather personal moment of reflection and my old typing machine. I write a lot of my poetry on the typing machine. There is something carnal to the use of an old machine like this. The sounds, the texture of the keys under your fingers, and the end product.
The video was shot on a Nikon D3200 with my old Nikkor 50mm lens. The poem I read comes from one of my books. The reflections are also of my own. Thank you so much if you listened and watched. If you have any advice for a newbie, please let me know in the comments.
A Script of Sorts Needless to say, if you do not understand Afrikaans, the reading of my poem would not have made any sense. Translating poetry have always fascinated me. Not so much the end product of the translated work, but the sheer impossibility thereof. Or that is my subjective experience.
I had to translate poetry as a requirement to enter a creative writing course. Again, what struck me was a feeling of pointlessness or meaninglessness. Writing, or saying, these words, I undergo the same process. The word I use in Afrikaans is “nutteloosheid”. If something has “nut” there is some kind of utility to it. “nutteloos” means there is no utility, there is no reason to do it. Translating poetry feels like this to me.
Translating poetry seems to be a poetic undertaking itself. The reason why I think poetry cannot be translated is that sounds and word pairings are integral to poetry itself. It is as if the words, sounds, and meanings are like paint strokes on a canvas. But I want to take this even further and claim that ideas themselves are untranslatable.
This is a rather radical claim to make. But, using poetry as my example, there are some ideas that one simply cannot just translate. But this is a slippery slope argument that inevitably leads to the idea that we have private languages and that we can only understand ourselves. Meanings are fleeting, always deferred.
Thus, my idea with the reading of this poem was for the listener to focus on the sounds of the words. Almost like the sounds themselves become brushstrokes on the canvas.
Dans met die Dood om en om dans ons
op sagte note van verdwaalde melodieë
onder die maan verlig
stilte
skielik was dit swart
soos ʼn kraai se vere
val ons stadig in die niet van lewe
banaal absurd ʼn beeldskone gesig
vertel vir my ʼn verhaal
dat ek kan sing
en die stilte verbreek
en saam dood dans op die maat van jou stem
stilte
alles val tot niks
banaal en absurd elke beweging
nutteloos verplig
Shameless Tagging I am shamelessly tagging two friends with whom I have talked about this video, @yahia-lababidi and @insaneworks.
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Listen
It amazes me how much good we can do. We plant a couple of plants and seemingly out of nowhere hundreds of living creatures arrive at your garden for work. We are rewarded with flowers and colours that will make even the best artist jealous. Please listen and see, take a detour and look at how life busily carries on whilst we try and forget about the past and invision a better future, at the cost of a wonderful present. Listen. Look. Learn.
Transcript Listen.
Close your eyes and just listen.
When last did you slow down to look and listen to the world beyond the one you made?
When last did you slow down to appreciate the natural world onto which we project our humanity?
Listen.
We sometimes forget that we can do good. With all the bad news floating around, we forget that we can correct the wrongs. Nature takes over when we let go. Planting a plant connects you with a world that is bigger than yourself. Tapping into the roots of life itself, planting something brings you closer to the living and breathing earth. We sometimes forget that even the smallest of gesture can create a ripple effect that outlasts us. If you plant a tree, bugs will begin to return around the roots and trunk. Bird wills return to eat the bugs, and bees and insects will pollinate the flowers. Birds of prey will hunt the smaller birds. It is a simple system that we can only observe and never truly understand.
Listen.
The sounds of life will envelope you if you close your eyes and listen. Only us humans truly know about the past and the future, but this gift stifles our ability to focus on the present. We are constantly trying to forget the past, and to imagine a better future, we rarely quiet ourselves and feel the present for what it is. Look at the ground and see the ants and insects tireless go about their work. See the bees always scurry and hurry along the seemingly infinite flowers they want to pollinate. Understand that what you do will be multiplied infinitely with the help of an apparently invisible force. If you plant a plant, or a tree, you will sow rewards towards countless others.
Listen. But don’t just listen. Listen to what you have created. We can do better if we just slow down and see what our hands can achieve.
(Edit: Transcript added.)
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The Theory of Ostranenie or Defamiliarization
I have experimented with ostranenie for some time now.
This video plays on the idea that the everyday can become unfamiliar and stranger, or if you will, uncanny.
This video is a preview of a series of photographs I will upload soon.
I hope you feel strange and uncomfortable when you view the video, and if you listen to the strange sounds that does not match up with the photographs.
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=fermentedphil/xfyhnwvi
This is a slow motion video of my golf swing. I am sharing this as a sport related video! Hopefully you like it!
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=fermentedphil/prfghgpx
Please enjoy a sped up version of one of my drawings.
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=fermentedphil/ntyvtwna
I love to draw “incomplete” drawings. I never finish works because the aesthetics of an unfinished work is pleasing to my eyes. This was never a good reason to my art teacher. However, here I am making incomplete drawings.
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=fermentedphil/ffrgofed
In this weeks video, I briefly discuss how we might systematically go about answering philosophical questions. This is also the last of the 101 series before next weeks 201 and more in depth philosophy series.
See the previous parts in this series:
See Part one: https://3speak.online/watch?v=fermentedphil/fdtyddtg
See Part two: https://3speak.online/watch?v=fermentedphil/iihtbfct
See Part three: https://3speak.online/watch?v=fermentedphil/hyldpncf
See Part four: https://3speak.online/watch?v=fermentedphil/tobeqqqj
See Part five: https://3speak.online/watch?v=fermentedphil/nmljkqvv
See Part six: https://3speak.online/watch?v=fermentedphil/gswrwaro
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=fermentedphil/gswrwaro
In this part of our series, I investigate how to answer philosophical questions using creative reflections. This is of utmost importance because it helps us to answer the question as how to live in a creative and unrestrictive manner.
See the previous parts in this series:
See Part one: https://3speak.online/watch?v=fermentedphil/fdtyddtg
See Part two: https://3speak.online/watch?v=fermentedphil/iihtbfct
See Part three: https://3speak.online/watch?v=fermentedphil/hyldpncf
See Part four: https://3speak.online/watch?v=fermentedphil/tobeqqqj
See Part five: https://3speak.online/watch?v=fermentedphil/tobeqqqj
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=fermentedphil/bgmrfuor
Hi! This is an intimate look at how I made some smash burgers for the family! I will write up a recipe and method if anyone asks for it, but for now I am just sharing the video. Please enjoy!
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=fermentedphil/nmljkqvv
How do we go about answering philosophical questions? One way is to critically reflect on concepts and meaning-giving-ideas. These are important for our everyday life and the question: How might I live?, as this is a meaning-giving-idea.
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=fermentedphil/tpdpfnhc
Hey there! I played with some sped up footage of me drawing somethings. Please enjoy the manner in which I draw!
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=fermentedphil/tobeqqqj
In this instalment, I explain what are questions of meaning. These questions are of the utmost importance for our main question in this series: How might I live? In the video, I explain frameworks and how we value certain things and how we can question them. This is an intro for next weeks part on how to actually answer philosophical questions.
See Part one: https://3speak.online/watch?v=fermentedphil/fdtyddtg
See Part two: https://3speak.online/watch?v=fermentedphil/iihtbfct
See Part three: https://3speak.online/watch?v=fermentedphil/hyldpncf
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=fermentedphil/rynvkmrp
Here are some of my sketches in my sketchbook. I am obsessed with drawing eyes, so please enjoy looking through my eyes!
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=fermentedphil/hyldpncf
In this video I briefly explain concpets via Plato's epistemology and reconcile this with our main question: How might I live my life?
See part 1 and 2 here:
https://3speak.online/watch?v=fermentedphil/iihtbfct
https://3speak.online/watch?v=fermentedphil/fdtyddtg