"The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.
-Cormac McCarthy
''Tranillumination''-white pencil on black paper drawing by Bette Burgoyne
Monday, January 31, 2011
The people of Sagada, Philippines follow a unique burial ritual.The elderly carve their own coffins out of hollowed logs. The dead are placed in their coffins and instead of being placed in the ground the coffins are either hung inside the caves or on the face of the cliffs near the hanging coffins of their ancestors. ...The Sagada people have been practicing such burials for over 2000 years and some of the coffins are well over a century old.
Monday, January 24, 2011
"For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche. In their highest boughs the world rustles, their roots rest in infinity; but they do not lose themselves there, they struggle with all the force of their lives for one thing only: to fulfil themselves according to their own laws, to build up their own form, to represent themselves. Nothing is holier, nothing is more exemplary than a beautiful, strong tree.''-Hermann Hesse
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Externsteine, a site consisting of five enormous rock pillars in northern Germany, has probably been regarded as sacred since prehistoric times.
An undeniably mysterious and magical place, Externsteine is thought to have been a pagan cultic center until Charlemagne abolished Saxon paganism in 782 AD. It was then used by... Christian hermits throughout the Middle Ages.
Externsteine contains a number of astronomical alighnments and other fascinating features, and attracts many devotees of Neopaganism and New Age religion.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Walton Ford (born 1960) is an American artist who paints large scale watercolors in the style of Audubon's naturalist illustrations. Each painting is a meticulous study in flora and fauna, while being filled with symbols, clues and jokes referencing a multitude of texts from colonial literature and folktales to travel ...guides. Ford's paintings are complex narratives that critique the history of colonialism, industrialism, politics, natural science, and man's effect on the environment.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
2011 BMH European Spring Tour!!!
We're excited to announce Tour Dates for our upcoming 2011 European Spring Tour!
Our friends Mammifer will be joining us for some of the shows. Hope you can join us!
April 1 Comet-Berlin, Germany
April 2 Muz- Furth, Germany
April 3 Sedel- Luzern, Switzerland
April 4 Feierwerk-Munich, Germany
April 5 Stadwerkstatt- Linz, Austria
April 6 tba- Brno, Czech Republic
April 8 Weltecho- Chemnitz, Germany
April 9 UT Connewitz- Leipzig, Germany (w/ Mammifer)
April 10 Beatpol- Dresden, Germany (w/ Mammifer)
April 11 Rosenkeller- Jena, Germany (w/ Mammifer)
April 13 Molotov- Hamburg, Germany (w/ Mammifer)
April 14 Steinbruch- Duisburg, Germany (w/ Mammifer)
April 15 Magasin 4- Brussels, Belgium
April 16 Roadburn Festival- Tilburg, Netherlands
Our friends Mammifer will be joining us for some of the shows. Hope you can join us!
April 1 Comet-Berlin, Germany
April 2 Muz- Furth, Germany
April 3 Sedel- Luzern, Switzerland
April 4 Feierwerk-Munich, Germany
April 5 Stadwerkstatt- Linz, Austria
April 6 tba- Brno, Czech Republic
April 8 Weltecho- Chemnitz, Germany
April 9 UT Connewitz- Leipzig, Germany (w/ Mammifer)
April 10 Beatpol- Dresden, Germany (w/ Mammifer)
April 11 Rosenkeller- Jena, Germany (w/ Mammifer)
April 13 Molotov- Hamburg, Germany (w/ Mammifer)
April 14 Steinbruch- Duisburg, Germany (w/ Mammifer)
April 15 Magasin 4- Brussels, Belgium
April 16 Roadburn Festival- Tilburg, Netherlands
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