December 21sts (Solstice Moments)

12/21/1999

Celestial triple-play occurred today. the winter solstice (when the earth is closest to the sun), the full moon, and the moon at perigee. It hasn't happened in 166 years.

12/21/2010

For the first time in 372 years, Monday into Tuesday’s lunar eclipse coincided with the start of the winter solstice. I love synchronicities like this. Interesting that the Lascaux caves were designed such that the cave openings would direct a sunbeam into the cave at the solstices.

12/21/2020

The Jupiter-Saturn great conjunction simultaneous with the winter solstice is another example of the “touching”—the universe is telling us something with this particular display. But the “something” is just another “anything”: the ascription of meaning is both personal and collective.

12/21/2021

Sunny solstice morning, 9:58. A day of 1s and 2s (122121).

A six-word haiku:

repeating ritual
stonehenge solstice
tilt terminus

Reading The Dawn of Everything, a posthumous tome by David Graeber. Interesting section on Monk’s Mound at Cahokia. They had a woodhenge. They are so elegant, anyone can make one.

 

    
 

 

 

 

 

Two simultaneous scenes at the Winter Solstice take place at the 32nd parallel, north and south, Marfa Texas and at Chapman’s Peak, Cape Town, South Africa:

Bill and Karin, Katherine Street, Marfa, Texas:

 

12/21/2021 (Chapman’s Peak)

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Where do the things we forgot go? (Dynaxiom 0498). 

If you take into account all the thoughts that people have had throughout human history, where are they stored? Perhaps it’s a big brain that has recorded everything and can be recalled at certain points out of the blue. Dreams may draw from this ancient history. Your brain wiring isn’t necessarily connected to anything else in human history but there has to be a subliminal learning that’s going on. That’s the intuitive way to think about it, but when you actually look at what’s happening in the world there isn’t a learning. We never learn from anything that we do. Why is it that we still have medieval thinking?  

12/21/2022

Music is a visual art in the sense that when we think about music we can mentally visualize it. To identify intervals, for example, I would visualize the fingerboard on a bass. Musicians look at music in different ways, as one would look at an abstract sculpture from different vantage points: Untrained musicians tend to be on one side of the monument and other musicians on the other side of the monument, or even looking at it from above, or as a foreground element zoomed out and seeing the background elements as well, or zooming in, seeing the minute details of the steel or stone that the monument is made of. 

Musing on Music: "Discuss how music is a visual art" 

12/21/2023

Winter Solstice at 9:27 PM

I think in the future there’s going to be fewer and fewer musicians who want to be "Artistes", but there could be an overlap between music, visual art, and sports/athletics/dance/kinetics and new technologies, especially fake AI artists who could easily be huge Artistes. But the cleverness and cunning have to be there as well, which AI may or not do (well). Think Duchamp a century ago and how that modernism gave birth to postmodern art, and perhaps now on to metamodernism. Or John Cage: Will the Artistes of the 21st century even know who he is, and more importantly, be influenced by his philosophy of art? In the practical sense, it’s difficult to steer a piece of work in an arty direction. I often have to stop and consider it when I’m in left-hemisphere mode just trying to focus on plunking out the notes on a bass. If music is a form of “painting” am I reminding myself of that metaphor often enough—and going into right-brain exploratory mode and investigating other things? 

12/21/2024

Winter Solstice 3:21 AM 

Solstice Moment (Minute)

Solstice Moment – meta4s by meta4s

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12/21/2046

(Anthony Townes Diary)

Took a stroll around hospital floor overlooking Gates Park. Large crowd at the Memorial for the solstice celebration. Nice—just as it arrived sunlight beamed from the glass curtain of Central Tower, bathing the Memorial in silver light.