fouetté rond de jambe en tournant, avec poulpe

The Elder Brother-Unit, Tumbleweed, maintains several blogs. I only follow American Idyll with regularity. It turns out, of course, that I've been missing good stuff on the other sites.  He illustrates himself, is all I can say, and I'm hungry for each glimpse.

The video below is mesmerizing.  The best meditations skew vanishing points and horizon lines, twist sinewy, all sinewy, soft strong form, the shape of water.  If you've missed me these past few days, that's the where and what of it.  I've been contemplating dancing sea creatures.





Uploaded to YouTube by RSNOOI on Mar 31, 2009, who wrote:

This white octopus was filmed with a high-definition underwater video camera at 6600 feet depth 200 miles off the coast of Oregon in September 2005 as part of the VISIONS '05 expedition led by Professors John Delaney and Deborah Kelleyof the University of Washington. Little is known about the deep-sea octopuses that live in proximity to the hydrothermal vent fields associated with theunderwater volcanoes of the Juan de Fuca Ridge in theNortheast Pacific Ocean.


This video features the Grimpoteuthis bathynectes species. Sometimes nicknamed the Dumbo octopus, its ears are really fins that help it move through the water.


Primary sponsors of the VISIONS '05 Expedition were theNational Science Foundation,W.M. Keck Foundation, NOAA Coastal Services Center, University of Washington, and the ResearchChannel.


Special thanks to Jerome M. Paros and Elaina Jorgensen.


Music courtesy of Bryan Verhoye.


Video production by Nancy Penrose
© University of Washington, 2009

While my mind was still all wavy and without perspective, I ran into this bookend of a dance video, a production by the Moldova Ballet School:




Eugen Garnet/ Massenet. Meditation
Uploaded to YouTube by MrViorelMIRON on Apr 27, 2010

moldova ballet school