001g The Story of Jiro | Cameron's Design Lab

~ Snoopy ~

My life has no direction, no aim,
no meaning, And yet I’m happy.
I can’t figure it out!
What am I doing right?

A Fable in Five Acts

Jiro's Preamble >>

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• Click Liberty Bell •
Act 1 begins at end

Act 2
Jiro & The Navigator

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CREDITS: Video Background: Peggy Johnson & Philip Waikolo at Pexels.com • Poem: TrothPoet59 at AllPoetry.com
Chimes: Pixabay.com - Free Sound Community • Ripple Clock: MiyoshiKensho.com • Ishmael quote: Daniel Quinn

Man is the creature for whom all the rest was made:
this world,
this solar system,
this galaxy,
the universe itself.

Ishmael

Benediction
of Surprise

The Judge

CREDITS: William Blake • Leonardo Da Vinci • MC Escher • Eduard Manet • Francisco Goya • Gustav Courbet • George Stubbs • Gustav Klimt • Roy Lichtentstein
Gian Lorenzo Bernini • Henri Roussseau • Salvador Dali • Maxfield Parrish • Bridget Riley • George Costanza • Robert Motherwell • Jean-Michel Basquiat • Frick
Gerhard Richter

Catharsis
of Judgement

. . . L I S T E N . . .
by Ogden Nash

The Solitary Prisoner

Credits:
Josef Albers (graphic)
Amedeo Modigliani
George Braque
Buddha photographer (?)
Duccio (mother & child)
Joel Sartore (mantis)
Ogden Nash (poem)
Pixabay.com (chimes)

Act 3
Jiro & The Pelican

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Jiro & The Pelican

Act 3

- Click Gong -
Act 3 begins
after third ring

Text to Speech by platform.hume.ai

Riddle me this, Pedro, The Pelican, asks: “This thing all things devours;
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats mountain down.”

the more i see the more i regret

the more i touch the more i'm grateful

the more i taste the more i'm grateful

the more i smell the more i'm grateful

Craftsman

Physicist

confirmation bias

"Animation vs Geometry" by Alan Becker

"Kintsugi"" by Greatcoat Films

Time began in a garden

cognitive dissonance

persistence of memory

No one knows
where it comes from
or where it goes,
but it is always
right here.

Being an American ... Everyone is special ... No one is special ...

Cover for a 1793 mythological narrative by William Blake

What disappears
as soon as you say
its name?

Act 4
Jiro & The Raven

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The Story of Jiro

Jiro & The Raven

Act 4

• Click Drum •
Act 4 begins
at end

A Fable in Five Acts

Inverary Pier, Loch Fyne: Morning, ca. 1845

Standing in Siddhartha's stream,
Jiro's wife Karasu, The Raven, asks:
"What have you learned about perfection."

Credit:
Background by J.M.W. Turner ("Inverary Pier, Loch Fyne: Morning")
"Karasu" (or "Kyo Maiko") by Hasegawa Sadanobu III
Karasu animation using Adobe Firefly

Perfection embraces the flow of time and the nature of self and therefore your very essence.

Siddhartha replies:

"The Dancer" – wood block print by Shimura Tatsumi
"They both listened ..." – from Herman Hesse's Siddhartha

"Karasu," Siddhartha asks,
"Why are ravens unkind?"

They both listened
to the water
percolating in the stream
which to them
was not just water,
but the voice of life,
the voice of being,
the voice of perpetual
becoming.

Karasu replies,
"Indifference can be seen as cruelty."

Karasu adds:
"Like the sea,
ravens simply wait
for the innocent
but actually stalk
the unprepared,
the careless,
and the arrogant."

"The Raven" by Jamie Wyeth

Act 5
Jiro & The Scorpion

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in God's Mind

• Click Guitar •
Act 5 begins at end

THE STORY OF JIRO : A Fable in Five Acts

Be an Enchantment

Act 5 - Jiro & The Scorpion

KELLY BOESCH Ai ART
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then press "m".

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct to Hell. In short, the period was so far like the present that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on it being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

Opening of "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens
"Raft of the Medusa" by Theodore Gericault
"Keyframe Ai Video made with Luma and Midjourney" by Kelly Boesch