Sculpting in Time
by Andrey Tarkovsky · first published 1989
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…Story: A Big History of Everything by David Christian compares to A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. Otherwise, if anyone is looking for other recommendations for summer reading: - Sculpting in Time by Andrei Tarkovsky - When Nietzsche Wept by Irvin D. Yalom - The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke
on “Books worth reading this summer” ↗…Tarkovsky published a book with that kind of title before his untimely death. Tarkovsky may or may not be your cup of tea, but he is remembered for his unique and intricate cinematography. The book's title? Sculpting In Time. When I came across it, I thought "well, that explains a few things".
on “Books with titles so good, you don’t have to read them” ↗Andrey Tarkovsky's Sculpting in Time Milorad Pavic's Landscape Painted With Tea A signed and framed picture by Will Cullen Hart Herzog Zwei for my Sega Genesis Planescape Torment for PC Leadbelly collection A brick of soft lead…
on “Ask HN: So HNers, whatd'ya get for Christmas?” ↗I'm pretty certain cultural and social conditioning is a large, if not the entire, part of the problem with poor mental health (and not just poor mental health!). Take this line from Andrei Tarkovsky's Sculpting in Time: "Modern mass culture, aimed at the 'consumer', the civilisation of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of his existence, his consciousness…
on “Poor mental health at work 'widespread'” ↗…into space. (Of course some may say that society ought to be destroyed so that something completely new and just can be built on the debris! I don’t know, I am not a destroyer ...)" Andrey Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time
on “What is empathy?” ↗…help new viewers to understand that Tarkovsky viewed film as art, not entertainment. As such, he purposely avoided strong narratives or plots, instead focusing on poetry, mood, and time. From the book "Sculpting in Time" by Tarkovsky himself: "I find poetic links, the logic of poetry in cinema, extraordinarily pleasing. They seem to me perfectly appropriate to the potential of cinema as the most truthful and poetic of…
on “Watch Tarkovsky's Best Films Online for Free” ↗…something teenagers should come to know: Thomas Merton: "The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds.” Andrei Tarkovsky from Sculpting in Time: “Modern mass culture, aimed at the 'consumer', the civilisation of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of his existence, his consciousness…
on “Teenagers are growing more anxious and depressed” ↗