{"id":15282,"date":"2012-12-28T11:30:32","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T16:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=15282"},"modified":"2012-12-28T13:22:57","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T18:22:57","slug":"jupiter-personified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2012\/12\/28\/jupiter-personified\/","title":{"rendered":"~JUPITER, PERSONIFIED . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nJUPITER – PERSONIFIED !! image via Astrology on the Web<\/a><\/p>\n

sweet info \/ communication \/ graphic design logo !! or what ?!!
\ntalk about ‘BRANDING’ !! <\/p>\n

JUPITER OVER MANHATTAN . . . . <\/p>\n

well that does bring some other thoughts to mind, esp about cameras.<\/strong><\/p>\n

it’s funny, as in INTENSE (!!) . . .
\nif you think on it. the contrast between the kind of information early man picked up about JUPITER, that distant tiny bright orb they saw up in the sky . . . and the way they went on to classify its influence on them, which in turn – lead them in fact to . . . ‘deify’ it. <\/p>\n

VS . . .<\/strong> the purely ‘pictorial’ information we get from that contemporary NASA composite photograph transmitted from space – in real time.<\/p>\n

as to the question of the ‘greater’ force – i.e. the force behind the ‘ultimate’ design project – the night sky and the universe. <\/p>\n

get this: the PLANET, SATURN itself – was\/is<\/strong> the GREATER FORCE. it’s as simple as that.<\/p>\n

I know it’s still hard for us to understand that a huge ball of ‘smoke’ and ‘light’- as opposed to an old man with a long beard or a beautiful damsel siren, or even a fire-breathing dragon – can be a ‘greater’ force. and that’s exactly why the early people ‘personified ‘ it.
\nand yes, that falls under: ART.
\npainting, sculpture, graphic design, logos, pictorial codes, maps, etc. etc. <\/p>\n

the planet transmitted a powerful kind of ‘influence’ that drove civilization, just as surely as our mighty sun, sends warmth and drives agriculture, which in turn feeds, and nourishes us.<\/p>\n

SATURN and its ‘impulse’ and perceived effect & interpretation of that affect – nourished us, intellectually – in the push towards advanced knowledge and evolution.<\/p>\n

yep. it’s hard, even today, or esp today (!!) to get your head around that kind of ‘power’ transmission – it is so beyond our own 3-D existence – and that’s probably why – !! – the early peoples, and esp the Greeks, personified<\/strong> the planets, and the other heavenly bodies – as ‘GODS’ . . . .
\nin our own ‘image’. (also know as … the beginnings of ART !!, duh.)<\/p>\n

like I said, talk about – the power of design branding !! <\/p>\n

not to forget: informational<\/strong> graphics.<\/p>\n

which is really quite amazing when we think on it, the knowledge they had of the planets and their inherent ‘powers’ – except to note how much more silent the world was once, and how bonded to the physical aspects of the earth and sky – our early ancestors – were. <\/p>\n

so I guess the bigger question is: is there an even greater power, or master designer … behind the ‘planets’, an overall architect .. of the universe ?<\/p>\n

IT’S SUPER INTENSE – to contrast that flow and ‘expression’ of ‘celestial’ power and information – to the technical triumph, (and, in way scale-back of intuited\/experienced charted information) … of our contemporary world to being able to actually go up there – and actually<\/strong> photograph it !!<\/p>\n

and then you realize at once – how absolutely ‘realist’ and yet inversely limited<\/strong> . . . the pictorial image really . . . is.<\/p>\n

on some level, you really have to have had<\/strong> previous experience or detailed definition\/knowledge of what is photographed – to be able to fully comprehend<\/strong> the ‘captured’ image.<\/p>\n

I mean, just what does that incredible 2000 NASA composite photo of SATURN actually say, as in . . . . ‘reveal’,
\nesp with regard to the planet’s ‘powers’ or even its nightly journey.
\nor even, at base – that it rolls around in ‘space’. or even that it’s h-u-g-e.
\nour sense of its scale, does NOT come from the photograph per se – but from our previous knowledge. <\/p>\n

in fact on some level, the photograph ‘denies’ the life force or ‘power’ of the subject. in case, the planetary sphere – where are the clues to its huge – centuries old documented spirit-existence ?<\/p>\n

it brings to mind, just why those earth & sky bonded North American Indians were afraid of the photograph – it ‘stole’ the spirit, the life force of the photographer’s sitter. the photograph in its one dimensional ‘capture of ‘reality’ finds only the outer ‘image’ or physical plane . . By its very primal nature it – in fact DENIES the ‘hidden’ or inner life force aka the spiritual planes. <\/p>\n

that’s why we, the art world so value photographers who can capture the inner aspect, such as WALKER EVANS, or even today … GREGORY CREWDSON.<\/p>\n

and yes, you can file that under: ART.<\/p>\n

SO, IT SEEMS, the more our modern super technology … ‘fact’ analyses the big planet … the more its spirit and powers … are minimalized at best, and downright denied at worst.
\ngood-bye world as we knew it. maybe that’s what the Mayans meant about the end of the world \/<\/p>\n

yep, for sure. it’s hard to look at that photograph of a big ball of gases – and see “GOD”. <\/p>\n

but WHOA !!
\nimagine the reverse scenario. instead of a big ball of yellow and gray swirling fumes – the space cameras had sent back an image of huge lone bearded guy floating all alone way up in space – in a kind of Christmas snowy snow-falling glass globe – ?
\nwould we get it better, then. <\/p>\n

I mean with all our centuries of religious imagery, maybe that would be more acceptable, but mighty w-e-i-r-d.
\nI mean do we really expect our ‘gods’ to be human in form ?
\nwe are NOT supposed to.
\nmost ancient religions are absolutely against portraying ‘god’ in a graven human form. <\/p>\n

what do we expect ?
\nthat out greater forces will be human-looking, just floating disconnected out there in infinite space.
\n????<\/p>\n

I’m still waiting for the first ‘vocal’ recordings, from space. I do know from the Science pages – that they have finally admitted (!!) there are traces of ‘alien’ biology – in all of our DNA, from primordial micro creatures all the way up the food chain. I mean do we really think it’s going to come back as: a bearded man saying … ‘HELLO EARTHLINGS’ ???
\nmore like, an alien from STAR WARS, how about JAR JAR !!
\nand he be saying . . . “WHERE ARE YOU ? HOLD ON, ON THE WAY TO HELP YOU ESCAPE” – !! <\/p>\n

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LISTEN TO: JUPITER …. NASA VOYAGER RECORDING<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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