A Compilation by Claudia Hardi aka F. Sigorski

1066 & All That - the Mallory Neely House is a personal experimental workspace. The mode of associative attention are annotations, footnotes and excerpts out of reading material of the news which is relevant to us, whether it is urgent or remote. A versatile info sphere resulting from the practice of perpetually scanning the horizon for cultural references - be it an internet travelogue, a collection, a storage space.

Saturday, April 23, 2005

Coffin Joe Trilogy


Ze Do Caixao
Originally uploaded by Sigorski.



Horrorfilms suggested by Laura Erber for pis_project:
Dvd Coffin Joe Collection - Ze Do Caixao

Colecao Ze Do Caixao
Cast: Jose Mojica Marins (Ze do Caixao).
Director: Jose Mojica Marins (Ze do Caixao).
(Collector's box set with 6 movies on 6 discs
with lots of extra materials)

Movies:
"At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul"
(A Meia-Noite Levarei Sua Alma)
1964, 81 mins.

"This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse"
(Esta Noite Encarnarei No Teu Cadaver)
1967, 107 mins.

"The Strange World Of Coffin Joe"
(O Estranho Mundo de Ze do Caixao)
1968, 80 mins.

"Finis Hominis - The End Of Man"
(Finis Hominis - O Fim Do Homem)
1971, 79 mins.

"Hallucinations Of A Deranged Mind"
(Delirios De Um Anormal)
1978, 83 mins.

"Awakening Of The Beast"
(Ritual Dos Sadicos - O Despertar Da Besta)
1970, 91 mins.

Collection: PIS N.G.N.P. project

Screenstill Musicvideo Gwen Stefani


Screenstill Video Gwen Stefani
Originally uploaded by Sigorski.

Collection: PIS N.G.N.P. project.

Screenstill Musicvideo Gwen Stefani


Screenstill Video Gwen Stefani
Originally uploaded by Sigorski.

Collection: PIS N.G.N.P project.

Thursday, April 21, 2005

Maze out of Kubrick's "Shining"


Maze out of Kubrick's "Shining
Originally uploaded by Sigorski.

Shining. 1985 orig. 1977. (123) hellsichtige leute sehen manchmal dinge, die geschehen werden, und manchmal dinge, die schon geschehen sind. aber diese dinge sind nur wie bilder in einem buch.(137) der teppich war mit einem scheusslichen muster aus kakteen und anderen wuestenpflanzen bestickt (208) er wird aus diesen dingen herauswachsen sagte jack. (277) (dieser unmenschliche ort macht menschen zu ungeheuern.) (398) wie von einem polypen, der sich hoch in den kalten blauen himmel erhob. (408) wuetendes gebruell. / geruch von blut und immergruen. (425) im overlook hatten alle dinge eine art leben. es war, als ob das ganze hotel mit einem silbernen schluessel aufgezogen worden waere. die uhr lief. die uhr lief.(595) es war der kern seiner erfahrungen an diesem boesen ort - ein trauriges destillat. (Collection: PIS N.G.N.P project.)

Maze out of Love, Angel, Music, Baby




"Shining Reference" Love, Angel Music, Baby by Gwen Stefani

In the vast, empty space of the Colorado Lounge where Jack an aspiring, but frustrated novelist has set up his typewriter, a blank white page sits waiting for him, he appears to lack creativity, entirely entropic - bankrupt of ideas, mind, and spirit. Outside, Wendy teasingly chases her son into the Overlook Maze built of hedges on the grounds. They explore the convoluted passageways of the maze - and struggle to find their way around. While wandering through the lobby of the hotel at the same time, Jack ambles over to a table-top scale model of the Maze outside. As he leans over and peers downward on the miniature replica with a domineering gaze, an overhead God's eye-view of the Maze appears. An indication of his impending madness, or evidence that his spirit is in league with the Overlook, he seems to see his wife and son strolling in the hedges of the Maze. The camera tracks slowly into the mirror-image of the outdoor Maze, picking up two small figures and faint voices moving in the Maze - it is his wife and son in the very center of the maze. The next camera shot is a normal, eye level view of the two walking in the Maze. A reference found to these scenes is the music video of the song "Waht You Waiting For?" from Gwen Stefanie's album "Love, Angel, Music, Baby"; 2004. The video starts with a story of the songwriter who suffers from a serious writers block. Scenes with empty pages lying on the piano with sudden appearing texts are apparantly a part of this music clip. Another reference to "Shining" is obviously the end of the clip, where girls dressed in crazy bunny dresses are running through a hegde maze, as the last hunting scene in "Shining" where Jack hunts his son through the maze and finally freezes to death within the maze.

Video what you waiting for? album: love, angel, music, baby 2004
9) define the word "sesquipedalian" (r)? 10) hedgehogs live in hedges. true / false Part lll 11) what are your five favorite colors? 13) please write as best you can the sound a flamingo makes. (Collection: PIS N.G.N.P project.)

Postcard from...


Postcard of Fujiama, Japan
Originally uploaded by Sigorski.

Wittgensteins neffe. eine freundschaft. orig. 1987
(46) ..., denn machen wir uns nichts vor, die koepfe, die uns die meiste zeit erreichbar sind, sind uninteressant, wir haben nicht viel mehr davon als wenn wir mit ausgewachsenen erdaepfeln zusammen waeren, die auf wehleidigen koerpern in mehr oder weniger geschmacklosen kleidern ein kuemmerliches, leider gar nicht erbarmungswuerdiges dasein fristen. (78) wir glauben sehr lange, es handelt sich um ein tatsaechliches, waehrend es sich doch nur um ein scheinbares gehandelt hat, vor welchem wir lange zeit blind gewesen sind. (87) tatsaechlich liebe ich alles, nur nicht die natur, denn die natur ist mir unheimlich und ich habe ihre boesartigkeit und ihre unerbittlichkeit am eigenen koerper und in der eigenen seele kennengelernt und da ich ihre schoenheiten immer nur gleichzeitig mit ihrer boesartigkeit und mit ihrer unerbittlichkeit betrachten kann, fuerchte ich sie und ich meide sie, wo ich nur kann. Ich bin ein stadtmensch und ich nehme die natur nur in kauf, das ist die wahrheit. (Collection: PIS N.G.N.P project.)

Mt Hoods, Portland, Oregon


Mt Hoods, Portland, Oregon
Originally uploaded by Sigorski.


In der gruft und andere makabre erzaehlungen / "dagon and other macabre tales", orig. 1939, 1945
(188 /189) ich habe gesagt, dass selbst aus groesserer entfernung die position des leuchtenden objekts merkwuerdig undefinierbar war. (211) ich werde ganz still im schlamm liegen und soviel kraefte sammeln wie moeglich. (112) all die vertuschten andeutungen und verstohlenen geschichten von dingen mit einem entstellten auge, die in der nacht an fenstern oder in verlassenen wiesen naheder waelder gesehen wurden. (113) weil er doch daran glaube, dass fenster die latenten abbilder jener aufbewahrten,die an ihnen gesessen hatten. (17) in den grossen und luftigen und mit unmoeglichen tapeten und laecherlichen zierkarniesen aus stuck geschmueckten raeumen siechte eine deprimierende dumpfigkeit. (49) konnte es sein, dass die traumseele, die diesen inferioren koerper innewohnte, sich verzweifelt bemuehte, dinge zu sagen. (51) so trieben wir eine weile dahin (53) doch wir sind alle durchschweifende gewaltiger raeume und wanderer in vielen zeitalter. (54) nach ein oder zwei wochen war er sichtlich verblasst und im verlauf weniger monate mit blossem auge kaum mehr auszumachen. (68) es gab sie in widerwaertiger huelle und fuelle, und ich sah zu meinem entsetzen, dass sie sich ueberlappten. (Collection: PIS N.G.N.P project.)

Outlook Residence




The Outlook Residence belonged to the Russell Trust Association, New Haven, Connecticut . The Russell Trust Association is the business name for the "Skull and Bones" society, incorporated in 1856. Collection: PIS N.G.N.P project.

Saturday, April 09, 2005

Ghost of Fujiama


Ghost of Fujiama
Originally uploaded by Sigorski.


Finally arrived. The view out of the window looking at the ghost of Fujiama. Changing site; The Shining directed by Stanley Kubrick, 1980. Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) gets a job as the custodian of the Overlook Hotel, in the mountains of Colorado. The place is closed down during winter, and Torrance and his family will be the only occupants of the hotel for a long while. When the snow storms block the Torrance family in the hotel, Jack's son Danny - who has some clairvoyance and telepathy powers - discovers that the hotel is haunted and that the spirits are slowly driving Jack crazy. When Jack meets the ghost of Mr. Grady, the former custodian of the hotel who murdered his wife and his two daughters. During their stay, strange things occur when Jack's son Danny sees gruesome images powered by a force called 'the shining' and Jack is heavily affected by this. Along with writer's block and the demons of the hotel haunting him, Jack has a complete mental breakdown and the situation takes a sinister turn for the worse. An interesting thing about this film is that the exteriors of the Overlook Hotel in the movie were filmed at Timberline Lodge. This lodge is on the slope of Mt. Hood in Portland, Oregon. The actual Timberline lodge does not have the elaborate hedge maze outside the hotel, which figures prominently in the movie's climax. Built in 1937 at the 6,000 ft. level, Timberline Lodge was officially opened on September 28, 1937, by the President, Franklin Roosevelt. The WPA (Works Progress Administration) built Timberline Lodge and interior furnishings were crafted by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). Mt. Hood, the fourth highest mountain in the Western United States, was named for the famed British Naval Officer, Admiral Arthur Hood. Sailing up the Columbia for King George III, British Navy Lt. William E. Broughton and his crew first saw the mountain on October 29, 1792, when they got to the Willamette River at the present-day site of Portland. They bestowed the name of their superior upon the mountain. Mt. Hood is the second most climbed mountain in the world, second only to Japan's Mt. Fujiama.

Timberline Lodge Scene 03


Timberline Lodge Scene 04


Timberline Lodge Scene 02


Timberline Lodge Scene 01