Dictionary. Word

Aggregates

The components of the psychophysical [ersonality, on the basis of which beings commonly impute the false notion of self. The five aggregates are form, feelings, discriminations, consciousness, compositional factors.

Source: John Powwers, Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism



Anamorphic Projection

is a distorted projection or perspective requiring the viewer to use special devices or occupy a specific vantage point to reconstitute the image. The word " anamorphosis" is derived from the Greek prefix ana-, meaning back or again, and the word morphe. meaning shape or form.

Source: Wikipedia



Bodhisattva

literally "awakening" being," one who has generated bodhicitta and seeks awakening for the benefit of others.

Source: John Powwers, Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism


Compassion

Sensityvity to the sufferings exoerienced by other beings, coupled with a desire to help to overcome suffering and it causes.

Source: John Powwers, Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism


Emptiness

The final nature of phenomena, their absence of ingerent existence.

Source: John Powwers, Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism


Karma

Action (which is linked with it causes and effects)

Source: John Powwers, Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism



Lama

A spiritual preceptor.

Source: John Powwers, Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism



Mahayana

Literally "Great Vehicle," this is the Buddhist system that emphasizes the path and practice of the boddhisattva.

Source: John Powwers, Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism

Reference. Book

01 2007

Walking Through Walls
Eyal Weizman
The maneuver conducted by units of the Israeli military during the attack on the city of Nablus in April 2002 was described by its commander, Brigadier General Aviv Kochavi, as “inverse geometry,” which he explained as the re-organization of the urban syntax by means of a series of micro-tactical actions. During the attack, soldiers moved within the city across hundred-meter-long “over-ground-tunnels” carved out through a dense and contiguous urban fabric. Although several thousand soldiers and hundreds of Palestinian guerrilla fighters were maneuvering simultaneously in the city, they were saturated within its fabric to the degree that most would not have been visible from an aerial perspective at any given moment. Furthermore, soldiers did not often use the streets, roads, alleys, or courtyards that constitute the syntax of the city, as well as the external doors, internal stairwells, and windows that constitute the order of buildings, but rather moved horizontally through party walls, and vertically through holes blasted in ceilings and floors. This form of movement is part of a tactics that the military refers to in metaphors it borrows from the world of aggregate animal formation as “swarming” and “infestation.” Moving through domestic interiors this maneuver turns inside to outside and private domains to thoroughfares. Fighting took place within half-demolished living rooms, bedrooms and corridors of poorly built refugee homes, where the television may still be operating and a pot may still on the stove. Rather than submitting to the authority of conventional spatial boundaries, movement became constitutive of space, and space was constituted as an event. It was not the order of space that governed patterns of movement but movement that produced and practiced space around it. The three-dimensional movement through walls, ceilings, and floors across the urban bulk reinterpreted, short-circuited, and recomposed both architectural and urban syntax. The tactics of “walking-through-walls” involved a conception of the city as not just the site, but as the very medium of warfare – a flexible, almost liquid matter that is forever contingent and in flux.

Dictionary. Word

Dictionary. Word

Improvisation

noun

[mass noun]

• the action of improvising:she specializes in improvisation on the pianoimprovisation is a performer’s greatest creative act
• [count noun] something that is improvised, in particular a piece of music, drama, etc. created spontaneously or without preparation:free-form jazz improvisations

Non-conformist

adjective

• 1 (Nonconformist) relating to Nonconformists or their principles and practices:teetotalism was a largely Nonconformist movementa Nonconformist minister

• 2characterized by behaviour or views that do not conform to prevailing ideas or practices:he was eccentric and nonconformist, as artists tend to benonconformist directors like Scorsese

Normative

adjective

formal

• establishing, relating to, or deriving from a standard or norm, especially of behaviour:negative sanctions to enforce normative behaviour

Aerography

Automatism

noun

[mass noun] Psychiatry

• the performance of actions without conscious thought or intention:diabetic patients who commit crimes while hypoglycaemic may be able to plead automatism
• [count noun] an action performed unconsciously or involuntarily:automatisms occurred in all four epileptic syndromes
• Art the avoidance of conscious intention in producing works of art, especially by using mechanical techniques or subconscious associations.
  
  
   is a surrealist technique involving spontaneous writing, drawing, or the like practiced without conscious aesthetic or moral self-censorship. Automatism has taken on many forms: the automatic writing and drawing initially (and still to this day) practiced by surrealists can be compared to similar, or perhaps parallel phenomena, such as the non-idiomatic improvisation of free jazz 

Bulletism
is shooting ink at a blank piece of paper. The artist can then develop images based on what is seen.

Calligramme

A calligramme is a text or poem of a type developed by Guillaume Apollinaire in which the words or letters make up a shape, particularly a shape connected to the subject of the text or poem.

Collage

noun

• a piece of art made by sticking various different materials such as photographs and pieces of paper or fabric on to a backing.
• [mass noun] the art of making collages.
• a collection or combination of various things:a collage of musical genres
  is the assemblage of different forms creating a new whole. For example, an artistic collage work may include newspaper clippings, ribbons, bits of colored or hand-made papers, photographs, etc., glued to a solid support or canvas.

Coulage
is a kind of automatic or involuntary sculpture made by pouring a molten material (such as metal, wax, chocolate or white chocolate) into cold water. As the material cools it takes on what appears to be a random (or aleatoric) form, though the physical properties of the materials involved may lead to a conglomeration of discs or spheres. The artist may utilize a variety of techniques to affect the outcome.

Cubomania
is a method of making collages in which a picture or image is cut into squares and the squares are then reassembled without regard for the image. The technique was first used by the Romanian surrealist Gherasim Luca.

Cut up Technique
 is a literary form or method in which a text is cut up at random and rearranged to create a new text.

Decalcomania
rom the French décalcomanie, is a decorative technique by which engravings and prints may be transferred to pottery or other materials. It was invented in England about 1750 and imported into the United States at least as early as 1865. Its invention has been attributed to Simon François Ravenet, an engraver from France who later moved to England and perfected the process he called "decalquer" (which means to copy by tracing). It is pronounced DEE-CALK. The first known use of the French term décalcomanie, in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Eleanor's Victory (1863), was soon followed by the English decalcomania in an 1865 trade show catalog (The Tenth Exhibition of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics' Association); it was popularized during the ceramic transfer craze of the mid-1870s. You can even hear how it was derived - "dee calk 0 mania / decalc o mania". Today the shortened version is "Decal".

Dream resume
A variation of this procedure in which paint is applied to a paper, the paper then being folded, is popularly practiced (though without surrealist intent) by young schoolchildren.
The dream résumé takes the form of an employment résumé but chronicles its subject's achievements, employment, or the like, in dreams, rather than in waking life. Sometimes dream résumés contain the achievements of both, however.

Echo Poem
 is a poem written using a technique invented by Aurélien Dauguet in 1972. The poem is composed by one or more persons, working together in a process as follows.

Eclaboussure
 a process in Surrealist painting where Oil paint or Watercolour is laid down and water or turpentine is splattered then soaked up to reveal random splatters or dots where the media was removed, this technique gives the appearance of space and atmosphere. Used in paintings by Remedios Varo.

Entoptic graphomania
(sometimes, though inaccurately, called "entopic graphomania") is a surrealist and automatic method of drawing in which dots are made at the sites of impurities in a blank sheet of paper, and lines are then made between the dots. It is apparently to be distinguished from other "entoptic" methods of drawing or art-making.
The method was invented by Dolfi Trost, who as the subtitle of his 1945 book ("Vision dans le cristal. Oniromancie obsessionelle. Et neuf graphomanies entoptiques") suggests, included nine examples therein. This method of "indecipherable writing" (see below) was supposedly an example of "surautomatism," the controversial theory put forward by Trost and Gherashim Luca in which surrealist methods would be practiced that "went beyond" automatism. In Dialectique de Dialectique they had proposed the further radicalization of surrealist automatism by abandoning images produced by artistic techniques in favour of those "resulting from rigorously applied scientific procedures," allegedly cutting the notion of "artist" out of the process of creating images and replacing it with chance and scientific rigour. However, the question has arisen whether an algorithm should be used to determine in what order to connect the dots to maintain the "automatic" nature of the method.

Etrecissements
The method has been compared to the "voronoi mathematical progression."
Collage is perceived as an additive method of visual poetry whereas Étrécissements are a reductive method. This was first employed by Marcel Mariën in the 1950s. The results are achieved by the cutting away of parts of images to encourage a new image, by means of a pair of scissors or any other manipulative sharpened instrument.
Exquisite corpse (also known as "exquisite cadaver" or "rotating corpse") is a method by which a collection of words or images are collectively assembled, the result being known as the exquisite corpse or cadavre exquis in French. Each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence, either by following a rule (e.g. "The adjective noun adverb verb the adjective noun") or by being allowed to see the end of what the previous person contributed.

Exquisite corpse
is a method by which a collection of words or images are collectively assembled. It is based on an old parlour game known by the same name (and also as Consequences )in which players wrote in turn on a sheet of paper, folded it to conceal part of the writing, and then passed it to the next player for a further contribution.

Fronttage
In art, frottage (from French frotter, "to rub") is a surrealist and "automatic" method of creative production developed by Max Ernst.
In frottage the artist takes a pencil or other drawing tool and makes a "rubbing" over a textured surface. The drawing can be left as is or used as the basis for further refinement. While superficially similar to brass rubbing and other forms of rubbing intended to reproduce an existing subject, and in fact sometimes being used as an alternate term for rubbing, frottage differs in being aleatoric or improvisational and random in nature.

Fumage
Fumage is a surrealist technique invented by Wolfgang Paalen in which impressions are made by the smoke of a candle or kerosene lamp on a piece of paper or canvas.
It was later employed by Salvador Dalí, who called it "sfumato."
Both Paalen and Dali used the technique as a basis for their oil paintings. Paalen's elongated surreal landscapes and Dali's elongated, wavy treatment of animals and objects reveal the influence of the technique on their imagery.

Games
is a surrealist technique in painting in which (usually dry) paint is scraped off the canvas. It was employed by Max Ernst and Joan Miro.

Heatage
is an automatic technique developed and used by David Hare in which an exposed but unfixed photographic negative is heated from below, causing the emulsion (and the resulting image, when developed) to distort in a random fashion.

Indecipherable writing
In addition to its obvious meaning of writing that is illegibile or for whatever other reason cannot be made out by the reader, indecipherable writing refers to a set of automatic techniques, most developed by Romanian surrealists and falling under the heading of surautomatism. Examples include entoptic graphomania, fumage and the movement of liquid down a vertical surface.

Involuntary sculpture
Surrealism describes as "involuntary sculpture" those made by absent-mindedly manipulating something, such as rolling and unrolling a movie ticket, bending a paper clip, and so forth.
Latent news is a game in which an article from a newspaper is cut into individual words (or perhaps phrases) and then rapidly reassembled; see also Cut-up technique.

Latent news
is a game in which an article from a newspaper is cut into individual words (or perhaps phrases) and then rapidly reassembled; see also Cut-up technique.

Mimeogram
is a type of automatic art made by peeling off the backing sheets of mimeograph stencils.
The movement of liquid down a vertical surface is, as the name suggests, a technique, invented by surrealists from Romania and said by them to be surautomatic and a form of indecipherable writing, of making pictures by dripping or allowing a flow of some form of liquid down a vertical surface.

Movement of liquid down a vertical surface
Outagraphy
Paranoiac-critical method
is a surrealist technique developed by Salvador Dalí in the early 1930s. He employed it in the production of paintings and other artworks, especially those that involved optical illusions and other multiple images.
The Surrealists related theories of psychology to the idea of creativity and the production of art. In the mid-1930s André Breton wrote about a "fundamental crisis of the object". The object began being thought of not as a fixed external object but also as an extension of our subjective self. One of the types of objects manifested in Surrealism was the phantom object.
According to Dalí, these objects have a minimum of mechanical meaning, but when viewed the mind evokes phantom images which are the result of unconscious acts.

Parsemage
 is a surrealist and automatic method in the visual arts invented by Ithell Colquhoun in which dust from charcoal or colored chalk is scattered on the surface of water and then skimmed off by passing a stiff paper or cardboard just under the water's surface.
Photomontage is making of composite picture by cutting and joining a number of photographs.

Photomontage
 is the process and result of making a composite photograph by cutting and joining a number of other photographs. The composite picture was sometimes photographed so that the final image is converted back into a seamless photographic print. A similar method, although one that does not use film, is realized today through image-editing software. This latter technique is referred to by professionals as "compositing", and in casual usage is often called "photoshopping".

Soufflage
is a Surrealist technique originated by Jimmy Ernst in which liquid paint is blown to inspire or reveal an image.

Surautomatism
ncludes cubomania, entopic graphomania and various types of what the Romanian surrealists called "indecipherable writing".

Triptography
 is an automatic photographic technique whereby a roll of film is used three times (either by the same photographer or, in the spirit of Exquisite Corpse, three different photographers), causing it to be triple-exposed in such a way that the chances of any single photograph having a clear and definite subject is nearly impossible. Indeed, finding any edges on the negative itself during the developing process is a nearly impossible task. Typically the developing of such a roll of film is an exercise in automatic technique in and of itself, cutting the film by counting sprocket holes alone, with no regard for the images present on the negative. The results have a quality reminiscent of the transitory period in sleep when one dream suddenly becomes another.

Reference. Film. Eyes Wide Shut. (1999)

The movie, eyes wide shut, strikes me as a highly addicted movie, especially in the context of our studio where we are studying "experience" and "atmosphere". Every scenes has special atmospheric quality to it and this was archived by flawless cinematographic works. If one looks carefully, every scenes is interesting in its own right, composition wise, color, light, movement, costume, acting, actors and actresses tone of voice, their facial expressions, their personality everything just added up to a very choragraphed and controlled experience. Either  or both the cinematographic works is alluring or the narrative, these goes on and on, one after the other. There are a a lot of fantasy,surrealism, alluring and delirious elements to be intrigued by. These elements are there as a transformative mechanism which help transport the audience to another world, a world of Stanley Kubrick.

The following snapshots are some many atmospheric qualities in the film.