Repetition. Each time It resurfaces, every time I remember, I reject It, remaining without reconciliation.

I happened to leave the house at just the right time this afternoon, around 3:30PM, right at the start of the golden hour. Walking through the snow-covered gardens was magical.

Luxembourg Gardens, Paris Ve.

this book of grievances looks at performance. i will stage this theme via gender and divinity, as reality effects of power and ideology. interventions include Derrida on mimicry, Butler on panic and propriety, Zizek on materialist theology, and Rumi on empty mirroring. toward truth, an unveiling of the present. to see the regime of sexuality as a death drive. that the symbolic demands imitative strategies with no referent. and that there is nothing more holy than our relation to each other.

play the mp3: Performance

the ecstasy of excess

texts:

Butler, “Imitation and Gender Insubordination”

Davis, Milbank, Zizek, Monstrosity of Christ

Rumi, “Hidden Music”

phantasy of the original

Repetition is fundamental to generative and compositional processes in performance, from traditional notions of rehearsal (indeed, répétition in French) to all other processes through which manifestations of performance processes iterate themselves. The performances we produce might be derived from improvisational strategies, scores, scripts, physical/sonic/ visual ‘writing’ in space and time, and/or solo or collaborative processes of myriad kinds, but all of them involve relationships between conception, repetition and choices around the transformations caused by iteration and reiteration, including the ways we adapt a performance to its social, cultural, financial and institutional contexts.

From Anna Birch’s call for papers for 2010 FIRT/IFTR Performance as Research Working Group, Munich Conference.

I’m a learner. I try to soak up as much information as possible. But, here’s the kicker. I often let that information stay in my head rather than soaking it up in my heart to produce transformation.Thus, intentionality, repetition, and the Holy Spirit are my friends.  Instead of storing away the information in “hopes” of doing something with it later, I turn to them.

I intentionally make time to dig deeper, ask how to practically put this into practice, make a plan to put it into practice, and to ask the Holy Spirit what else.

Then I become Ms. post-it anywhere and everywhere. Reminders are key.  By my bed you’ll see my goals, ways to seek intimacy with God, ways to be guarded and a “what-if” plan, and the scripture I’m memorizing for the week.  My bathroom mirror holds promises to stand on and by my door there is the South African flag and the poster of Hope House kids.  My phone has pictures of Lindo.  I need to see, read, meditate, memorize, and be reminded in order to let these truths penetrate my heart and make that journey.

Finally, I make sure that I’m looking to Him and not getting distracted or relying on my own “plans” or practical steps.  I desire to live a life that is sensitive to the Holy Spirit’s leading in ALL areas including what I’m learning and how I live out what I’m learning.  I want to be a doer of what I learn and hear.

In conclusion: “So let us know, let us press on to know the Lord.”

I came upon a discovery, or revelation one might say, but until recently I had not completely decided whether or not I wanted to reiterate it. My conclusion, is of our uncanny resemblance to that of Roman culture. Let me explain. In the Roman culture, one’s form of entertainment varied from that of the Colosseum, where men were torn to pieces by animals or worse–each other, or possibly even a play of sorts which were none the better. Now we strive for very similar forms of entertainment. “Never,” you argue, “we are not that barbaric.” Quite the contrary I must say, with films like Hostel I & II, or the Saw saga, or as I have heard websites built exclusively for “snuff films”, which if you lack the knowledge of their substance, feel lucky you are innocent in that respect. I also beg you wholeheartedly, to abstain from tainting your innocence by looking them up. But, back to the matter at hand, though these atrocities are not as horrific as say watching a man’s arm ripped from it’s socket by a starving tiger, just the same they are barbaric. Also an ironic twist, our current diplomatic policies toward foreign countries are oddly reminiscent of Roman policies as well–”you will be like us, or submit.” Now, I’m not saying that’s literally what our view-point is, but it is fairly similar. We, this nation, has constantly tried to save country after country and in these efforts have also tried to establish our form of government in the process. Some of these were marginally successful–Korea–and others were not–Vietnam. Looking back at the Romans, they were so hell-bent on conquering the world around them that they neglected their world. In the same light this nation focuses so much on foreign policies and affairs that the domestic affairs go unnoticed or forgotten, or worse just thrown out as if it doesn’t matter. For example, for so long now they have tried to fix the government in the Iranian peninsula and the surrounding areas, yet here in the United States, our government has gone completely to the dogs. The rights we once cherished so greatly have now been defiled with the reinstatement of the Patriot Act. The thousands upon thousands of people who are starving and homeless are neglected. Housings are started and finished almost every month, but they cost in 100 thousands or more, prices which the middle and lower class-classes which fill out much of the United States population cannot afford. A grave disappointment. If you look at history because of these things Rome….fell. It collapsed in on itself. This nation could do the same if we don’t watch out.

Author : SANTOSO, ARTA

Saat ini, pengolahan gambar manual dapat digantikan dengan pengolahan citra digital oleh komputer. Ada satu objek kompleks dalam matematika yang dapat digunakan untuk menghasilkan citra digital, yaitu fractal. Fractal dapat diartikan sebagai pola pengulangan yang menampilkan kekompleksan lebih dalam jika diperbesar. Dalam penelitian lebih lanjut, ternyata pola pengulangan dapat ditemui pada hampir seluruh benda di muka bumi ini, termasuk di antaranya adalah batu-batuan. Batu-batuan dapat dibuat tiruannya berupa gambar tekstur melalui perhitungan fractal yang cukup rumit dengan bantuan komputer. Gambar tekstur dapat dimanfaatkan sebagai wallpaper, game atau bahkan untuk studi lebih lanjut mengenai batu-batuan. Fractal yang dimaksud adalah diamond square yang pada penerapannya menggunakan tampilan 3D dengan OpenGL API. Tingkat kemiripan gambar tekstur dengan tekstur asli boleh dibilang cukup tinggi karena dapat menampilkan warna dan pola yang hampir sama, kecuali bila range warna terlalu tinggi.

Keyword : fractal, diamond square, 3d open gl, stone, rock, repetition, pattern

Sumber : http://repository.petra.ac.id/3049/

Sometimes they just choose between repetition and amputated context. How unfortunate phenomenon…

‘Untitled #756′, work by Douglas Walker

What one thing that separates the successful ones from the unsuccessful ones?

What one thing that gives the great men and women the power that projects them wherever they go and whatever they do?

Why the successful men and women of all times are often called as “Wizards” or “sorcerers” in the line that they had chosen and what made them to master their skills in their line of profession?

Let it be revealed here in the words of the great motivational guru Anthony Robbins,

“Repetition is the mother of skill.”

Knowing your goals is like knowing the target you want to hit. But knowing a target is one thing and knowing how to hit the target effectively is another facet of your marvelous, successful journey! And it could very well be an entertaining and enjoyable experience.

Every man and woman can become a true master in whatever he or she has decided to pursue as a profession when he/she has the discipline and patience to keep on repeating the skills and knowledge needed to be a “Sorcerer” in the field.

Tiger woods was practicing and honing his skills again and again when the world was sleeping! He was repeating that even while he was sleeping unconsciously. His swing was getting better and better with each attempt be it physically or in his mind and his hands were crying loudly “I deserve the US open, PGA championship and so on!” —he was actually surpassing every other giant in his field when he was REPEATING the same routine over and over and over!!

Even the genetics would lose the match against the industrious man or woman and of course, even the genetics cannot help one if he/she doesn’t repeat and keep on sharpening their skills.

Though many people know the power of doing or repeating the thing in which they want to shine and be a master, they don’t do it just because they find it boring and REALLY DON’T realize the results that could show up as a result of such a continuous training. But not you. Just have the discipline to do what others wouldn’t do and you’ll have what others don’t have!

You had every potential given to you even before your eyelids opened and saw this world for the first time. You have what it takes to become a champion like a Tiger Woods or a Laila Ali. Just realize the massive power sleeping in you and develop it to a great level by repetition that one day it would be acknowledged all over the world and you’d be in the same list of the greats!

Do you want to improve your math profiency? Then keep practicing solving the problems again and again and consolidating the concepts!

Do you want to be a one-of-a-kind computer programmer? Then keep typing the codes and learning the concepts again and again!

Do you want to be a marvelous communicator and want to improve your inter personal skill? Then learn the techniques and keep on applying them over and over!!

Do you want to be known as a “legend” in your business or in your job? Then keep practicing the fine principles of business and the good skills needed to lift you up everyday again and again!

Do you want to be a tremendous dancer? Then keep practicing the moves and in the process make your body to “Obey” you whatever it is that you want it to do!

Or you may want to be a scientist, or a “Miss Universe” or a world renowned doctor or a top notch engineer or an awe-inspiring actor!

The one practice that intersects all the professional achievements is “Repetition”. After you have done your part of repetition the universe will do its part of repetition by handing you the success again and again throughout your life!!

If others have scoffed at you, don’t let that experience to topple you but rather keep on doing the thing in which you have failed and that same people someday would be astonished by your vast transformation and success!!

Wish you all the riches to come with God’s blessings

Peter Anand