Darlings, it is December 12, and the moon is 28,000 km closer to the earth than its average distance. The moon orbits our planet in an ellipse, and tonight it is at its closest point to us. This means the moon appears bigger and brighter than we will ever see it throughout the year!
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From Jack Kerouac:
The Moon
The moon her magic be, big sad face
Of infinity An illuminated clay ball
Manifesting many gentlemanly remarks
She kicks a star, clouds foregather
In Scimitar shape, to round her
Cradle out, upsidedown any old time
You can also let the moon fool you
With imaginary orange-balls
Of blazing imaginary light in fright
As eyeballs, hurt & foregathered,
Wink to the wince of the seeing
Of a little sprightly otay
Which projects spikes of light
Out the round smooth blue balloon
Ball full of mountains and moons
Deep as the ocean, high as the moon,
Low as the lowliest river lagoon
Fish in the Tar and pull in the Spar
Billy de Bud and Hanshan Emperor
And all wall moongazers since
Daniel Machree, Yeats see
Gaze at the moon ocean marking
the face -
In some cases
The moon is you
In any case
The moon
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(Photo by Jen MacMillan, 12/12/08
p.s. Even J.K. could not describe the moon without using "moon!" :)
Damn I like Kerouac! I'd have gone looking to meet him if he were writing now.
You like the moon? Nice picture.
Posted by: Alessandro Cima | January 10, 2009 at 08:46 PM
Hey Alessandro, Happy New Year! How are you?
I'm glad that you like the Kerouac poem and my photo. :) There is a recording of Kerouac reading this poem, and it is so beautiful. That's how I learned of it.
Did you see the Moon last night? There was so much snow in NY, that the sky was too bright, and I could not see the full Moon . . .
Posted by: jmac | January 11, 2009 at 10:32 AM
I did see the moon last night. In fact, I spent quite some time making film of it. I then used several of the shots in my new film. I'll send you a link as soon as it's online - in a day or so.
I usually like to photograph the moon with lots of halo around it and some forest or trees in the frame. So that's what I was doing.
Posted by: Alessandro Cima | January 11, 2009 at 07:49 PM
Oh, how beautiful! Please send the link to me. I look forward to seeing your film!!!
Posted by: jmac | January 11, 2009 at 07:50 PM
wow very nice.. thanks
Posted by: online film izle | January 12, 2009 at 10:27 AM