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Where to? That way! (rough translation of the text carved in this nice contemporary stone)
This rowing man is looking back, but going in the opposite direction. It’s just like life. You know what lays behind you, but what will the future bring?
More than 400 years ago Dutch houses had no numbers, but names. This lead to a rich variety of carved stones in the facades of houses. After the houses got their numbers thanks to Napoleon, the habbit stopped. In some occasions stones are carved after the beginning of the 19 th century, but modern ones are rare. This one is a gem. It’s placed in a house in the oldest part of Nieuwendam, a former village built on a dyke north of Amsterdam. The sculptor is Hans ’t Mannetje. The village now is part of Amsterdam, but has retained a rural atmosphere. The boat is a traditional wooden rowing boat of the region.
NTW08 - The Dark Philosophers
Photography credit: Gareth Phillips / National Theatre Wales
November 2010
The Riverfront, Newport
National Theatre Wales and Told by an Idiot celebrate Gwyn Thomas the great Welsh storyteller and dark hilarious chronicler of the Valleys one of the most distinctive Welsh voices of the last century Taking as its inspiration Thomas ink black comic tales The Dark Philosophers National Theatre Wales eighth production is a funny violent and passionate depiction of a community teetering on the brink of humanity Using Told by an Idiots trademark anarchic physicality and inventive storytelling this adaptation brings out the bleak wild humour in tales laced with sex murder and Thomas devastating Valleys wit.
An ancient statue of a stoic philosopher explodes at the exact moment of realizing the truth about reality.
The truth is not for beginners, grasshopper.
Cheers.
The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Serbian: Српска академија наука и уметности / Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti; САНУ / SANU) is the most prominent academic institution in Serbia today. An institutional outgrowth of the Društvo srpske slovesnosi (Society of Serbian Scholarship), founded in 1841, and of its successor, Srpsko učeno društvo (Serbian Learned Society), founded in 1864, the Serbian Academy was established in 1886 under the name of Kraljevska srpska akademija nauka (Royal Serbian Academy of Sciences).
In the past, the Academy's illustrious membership included Josif Pančić, a well-known European botanist; Jovan Cvijić, an internationally renowned anthropogeographer and geomorphologist; Stojan Novaković, a distinguished historian, statesman and diplomat; Branislav Petronijević, a famous European philosopher, mathematician and paleontologist; Mihajlo I. Pupin, a noted Serbian-American inventor and a long-time Professor of Physics at the University of Columbia; Nikola Tesla, a globally honoured Serbian-American inventor of the Tesla coil, alternating current and more than 700 other patented discoveries; Milutin Milanković, an internationally acclaimed astrophysicist and paleoclimatologist; Mihailo Petrović-Alas, a major mathematician and phenomenologist; and many other outstanding scientists, scholars and artists, both Serbian and foreign. (E.g.: In 1864, the original Society of Serbian Scholarship elected to its membership such international revolutionary figures as Giuseppe Garibaldi, Nikolay Chernyshevsky and Alexander Herzen, and was immediately abolished for this action by the conservative government of Prince Michael Obrenović.)
Since the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts was founded by law (as the Serbian Royal Academy) of 1 November 1886, it has been the highest academic institution in Serbia. According to the Royal Academy Founding Act, King Milan was to appoint the first academic, who would then choose other members of the academy. The names of the first academics were announced by King Milan on 5 April 1887. At that time, there existed four sections in the academy, which were then called "specialised academies".
he was sitting next to our table when suddenly he became very chatty, talked about life itself, wanted to explain to us about the world...meanwhile his delicious looking pasta was getting cold...too bad.. but at least i could take a nice picture of his food ;)
Dead Philosophers' Limbo, 2009
Susie Burpee - Toronto, Canada
Dance
Dead Philosophers' Limbo is a twelve-hour dance to the life of ideas and the death of philosophers as told by the living philosopher Simon Critchley in his, The Book of Dead Philosophers. Each dancer's boombox emits passages from the book, broadcasting epitaphs as the score for the performers who literally and figuratively use dance to break into that space between life and death, between mind and body and between the here and the now. Find your place in this limbo as twenty-four dancers dance and nearly two hundred philosophers die. Witness the wonder and amazement as these bodies describe a philosophical dictum for the ages. Dance all you dead philosophers - dance!
Susie Burpee is a contemporary choreographer and dancer based in Toronto. She was awarded the K.M. Hunter Artist Award in 2006, and has received Dora Mavor Moore Awards for Outstanding Performance and Outstanding New Choreography. She trained at the Professional Program of Contemporary Dancers in Winnipeg and studied at the Limon and Cunningham Schools in New York and Ecole Philippe Gaulier in Paris. Burpee has worked with many innovative Canadian choreographers and companies, including Dancemakers and Le Groupe Dance Lab.
A philosopher once said that human beings can suffer through any “what” as long as they have a good enough “why.”
Sara Nachshon grew up in the village of Kfar Chassidim in the north of Israel. Her parents had fled from Poland several months before World War II, and despite their poverty, she has sweet memories of her childhood. Her family lived in a small shack, and she didn’t have any toys. She had only one dress. If she wanted to wear another dress she had to trade with one of her friends. Her parents taught her to be happy with what she had.
Nachshon parents taught her the value of self-sacrifice for the land of Israel. She remembered the stories her parents told of how they fought to establish the State of Israel. They taught her that if the Jews want to keep the Land of Israel, then they must fight for the Land of Israel.
After the Six Day War in 1967, Nachshon and her husband, the respected Chassidic artist, Baruch Nachshon, joined a group of idealistic activists determined to reestablish the ancient Jewish community inside newly-liberated Hebron. The Lubavitcher Rebbe encouraged them and endowed them with many blessings for their efforts.
While living in the army compound, Sara gave birth to three more children, and repeatedly risked imprisonment by defying government orders, circumcising her newborn sons at the Cave of Machpelah. The mohel wept as he said the blessing over “the covenant of Abraham our father,” in the burial place of the Patriarch himself. It was the first circumcision performed at Machpelah in over 700.
In 1975, Sara gave birth to another child who died without warning of SDS when he was only six months old.
The day he died she wept, prayed, and reminded herself that everything God does is for a purpose, even if it is hidden from us. Suddenly, she understood that her son was meant to play a sad but vital role in the rebuilding of the City of the Patriarchs. “I decided that we would bury him in Hebron.” He would be the first Jew buried in the ancient Jewish cemetery of Hebron since 1929.”
However, because of the instability in the regions roadblocks kept the funeral procession from advancing to the cemetery. Soldiers manning the roadblock told them that the cemetery was off-limits. Sara showed them, “Here is my baby, in my arms. If you won’t let us drive to the cemetery we will walk!” As senior officers barked orders of “Stop them – don’t let them proceed,” the soldiers at the scene radioed back, We can’t stop them. If you want to stop them come down here and do it yourselves.”
One of the soldiers got out of his vehicle and, as he wept, he begged Sara, “Please, Mrs. Nachshon, it is too far to walk! Please permit me to drive you to the cemetery.”
“Four thousand years ago our Patriarch Abraham purchased Hebron for the Jewish People by burying his wife Sara here. Tonight I am repurchasing Hebron for the Jewish People by burying my son here”.
Sara Nachshon is living proof that when you live for a “why” that is greater than yourself, you can become a person who is so much more fulfilled than if you only live for yourself. God had a plan for Sara. He has a plan for Israel, just as He has for all of us. Seek His face. Discover His plan for you. Pray for the peace and protection of Jerusalem (Psalm122:6) as he brings His children home to Israel.
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Director Theophilus Raynsford Mann
~ a Taiwanese social reformer, philosopher, photographer, and film director
“Do Everything for My People”
馬天亮導演
~ 臺灣的社會改革者，哲學家，攝影師，和電影導演
《造福人民》
SUMMARY
Theophilus Raynsford Mann is a naturalist, occultist, Buddhist and Taoist. In 1982, Mann developed a technique for abstract photography, applied “Rayonism” into photographic works. Mann staged 32 individual, extraordinary exhibitions around Taiwan, who was the first exhibitor around Formosa. Mann’s works is the beginning of modernization in the modern abstract arts in the world. At the University of Oxford, Mann’s attractive topic was “A View of Architectural History: Towns through the Ages from Winchester through London Arrived at Oxford in England”; also an author at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Michigan in the United States; an alumnus from Christ Church College at the University of Oxford in England, the University of Glamorgan in Wales, and National Taiwan University in Taipei on Taiwan. Mann’s works have been quoted by the scholars many times, making Mann one of the highly cited technological, artistic, and managing public administrators in the academia. Mann was listed in “Taiwan Who’s Who In Business” © 1984, 1987, 1989 Harvard Management Service.
Early Life and Record of Genealogy
Theophilus Raynsford Mann possesses both Taiwanese and German surnames from birth. Usually, whenever anyone asks Mann about where he comes from, he would reply “Formosa” as he grew up and was educated in the Far East and lives in Taiwanese and Japanese lifestyles. Moreover, he often teaches and educates younger generations based on the methods of the Far Eastern teaching he experienced when he was young, though he does not oppose the Western ways of teaching and thinking. Mann takes great pride in his roots, which go back 150 years (since 1864); Mann’s ancestry originates and creates generations, and prepares younger generations to succeed their personality and ethical standards and integrity.
Education in Taiwan and a Brief of Latest Generation of History in Taiwan / Formosa
In 1980, Mann obtained his postgraduate certificate from the Graduate Institute of Electrical Engineering of National Taiwan University in Taipei; successfully completed another graduate studies in Information dBase III Plus and Taiwanese Traditional Chinese Mandarin Information System at National Sun Yat-Sen University in Kaohsiung in 1989.
In history, the Portuguese explorers discovered and called the island (Taiwan), “Formosa” (meaning “Beautiful Island”) in 1590. They are non-Chinese people; it was long a Chinese and Japanese pirate base. Fighting continued, between its original inhabitants of Taiwanese and the Chinese settlers, into the 19th century. In 1894-95 first Sino-Japanese War that ended in Manchus of the Qing (Ching) dynasty defeat, the late Manchu Qing Government forced to cede Formosa to Japan. This result was made by the Treaty of Shomonoseki in 1895 and remained under Japanese control until the end of the Second World War. Early on, Taiwan was conquered by the Qing in 1683 and for the first time became part of older China dynasty. However, today, the home country of Mann’s origin has around 165 institutions (93 universities) of higher education, which now has one of the best-educated populations in Asia. Among the major public (state) ones are the National Taiwan University (NTU) at Taipei, and National Sun Yat-Sen University (NSYSU) at Kaohsiung. NSYSU is also called National Chun-Shan University; according to Times Higher Education 2010-2011, NSYSU ranks as the 3rd university in Taiwan, 21st in Asia, and 163rd worldwide. National Taiwan University is ranked 51 to 60 ranks on Times Higher Education World University Rankings - Top Universities by Reputation 2013, the United Kingdom (see www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/...); King's College London (KCL) (21st in the world and 6th in Europe in the 2010, QS World University Rankings), the University of London, and University of Southern California (is one of the world's leading private research universities, located in the heart of Los Angeles), afterward.
Backing to Mann’s early school-time of Taiwan Provincial Kaohsiung Industrial Senior High School (Kaohsiung Municipal Kaohsiung Industrial High school), the professional technical education, which is equivalent to Advanced Level General Certificate of Education, commonly referred to as an A-level in the United Kingdom; China Electronic Engineering College, the distance learning programme, which is in equivalence as UK’s Diploma of Higher Education / Undergraduate Diploma (as an Associate Degree in the United States). An additional, his middle education was taught by the Kaohsiung Municipal Chihjh (Ci Sian) Junior High School; and Kaohsiung Municipal San Min Elementary School was his first school in Taiwan.
Early Career
In 1989, Mann instituted Mann’s Office of Electrical Engineer, he settled himself in electrical technology and industries as a chief engineer in his early years. He put his professional and precise knowledge to good account in business management. A formal business management with business relationship established to provide for regular services, dealings, and other commercial transactions and deed. He had many customers having a business and credit relationship with his firm then he was a successful engineer.
Study Abroad and Immigration into the United Kingdom
In 1998, Mann studied abroad when he arrived in Great Britain; he studied at School of Built Environment, the University of Glamorgan (Prifysgol Morgannwg) in Merthyr Tydfil, Pontypridd, Wales for a master of science in real estate appraisal. Until the summer of 2000, Mann completed an academic course on “Towns through the Ages” from Christ Church College at the University of Oxford (is ranked the 2nd place worldwide on The Times Higher Education, World University Rankings 2012-2013 www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/...) in England. Afterward, Mann immigrated into the United Kingdom in the early year of 2004.
PHILOSOPHICAL VIEWS
Mann is a naturalist; he trusts spiritual naturalism and naturalistic spirituality, which teaches that “the unknown” created this wonderful world. “The unknown” arranged the nature with its law so that everything in nature is kept balanced and in order. However, human beings failed to control themselves, deliberately went against the law of nature, and resulted in disasters, which we deserved. He also is an occultist, a Taoist, and a Buddhist; but in Britain, he frequently goes to Christian and Catholic churches, where he makes friends with pastors and fathers as well as churchgoers. In his mind, he recognizes “Belief is truth held in the mind; faith is a fire in the heart”. He is always a freethinker, does not accept traditional, social, and religious teaching, but based on his ideas: a thought or conception that potentially and actually exists in his mind as a product of mental activity - his opinion, conviction, and principle. If people have not come across eastern classics and philosophy, we are afraid that people would never understand Theophilus Raynsford Mann. People cannot judge an eastern philosopher based on western ways of thinking. He studies I Ching discovering eastern classics of ancient origin consisting of 64 interrelated hexagrams along with commentaries. The hexagrams embody Taoist philosophy by describing all nature and human endeavour in terms of the interaction of yin and yang, and the classics may be consulted as an oracle.
Back in the 1990s when Mann just arrived at England, he had been offered places to do Ph.D. and LL.M. degrees (degree in Law and Politics of the European Union) by several western professors in the Great Britain. He has met all the requirements for postgraduate admissions to study at UK’s universities.
During his time at Oxford, he learnt a lot of British culture and folk-custom while carrying out research with many British and Western professors, experts, and archaeologists. This proves that Mann understands various aspects in British society, culture, and lifestyles. Of course, he does not fully understand about the perspectives of thinking of a typical British. For example, what would be the most valuable in life for a British person? What would a British want to gain from life? What is the goal in life for a British? Is it fortune or a lover? Alternatively, perhaps honour? On the other hand, maybe being able to travel around the world and see the world?
FAIRNESS and JUSTICE
As Theophilus Raynsford Mann’s saying are:
“Touching Fairness and Justice”
Feel good about themselves, but do not know the sufferings of the people...
Who can get easy life like them?
What is profile of modern society?
What type and style is truly solemn for this society identify?
Where “the characterization” is? Who can see? Did you see it?
《感動的公平與正義》
自我感覺良好, 不知民間疾苦...
誰能得到安逸的生活如同他們一樣？
這是個什麼樣子的社會？
這個社會認定什麼樣的類型和風格是真正莊重的?
「特徵」在那裡？誰可以看到？你看到了嗎？
Jurisprudence and Political Philosophy and Perspectives
Mann ever studied judicial review and governmental action, the impact of law and legal techniques, constitutional mechanisms for the protection of basic rights, and ensuring the integrity of commercial activity, the impact of law and legal techniques on government, policymaking, and administration, as well as the creation of markets. He tries to understand these critical trends in the political development of modern state. Mann will combine both theoretical and empirical approaches, and the conditions for democratic transition and the nature of state development in the ‘post-industrial’ era of globalisation and economic integration.
According as Mann’s legal experiences, he comprehend that “the knowledge of the law is like a deep well, out of which each man draught according to the strength of his understanding”, and, law and arbitrary power are in eternal enmity. He is also sure law and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate like clocks; they must be occasionally cleansed, and wound up, and set to true time.
The government issues a decree - an authoritative order having the force of law, which charged with putting into effect a country's laws and the administering of its functions. Any of the officials promulgate a law or put into practice relating to the government charged with the execution and administration of the nation's laws then they announce and carry out the creation of any order or new policy that will be responsible for the people.
Mann had knowledge in connexion with construction law; he also understands architectural arts, and as well learnt the forms by combining materials and parts include as an integral part concerning modern construct. I ever built urban buildings and rural architecture in different styles under new housing and building projects by the governmental administration and construction corporations.
Right now, Mann studies the problems caused by ethnic disputes and human armed conflicts in the modern society resulted code of mixed civil and criminal procedure. He wishes an agreement or a treaty to end human hostilities - the absence of war and other hostilities around the world. The interrelation and arrangement of freedom from quarrels and disagreement become harmonious relations living in peace with each other. Actually, erect peace in more friendly ways of making friendships for modern human society is comfortable in my ideal. It is like building monolithic architecture: houses and buildings for the people. Mann would like to do “something beautiful for `the unknown`”.
In the ethnic disagreement and armed conflicts as concerning the poor people and children notwithstanding they live through a bad environment on any of poor or crowded village or town in a particular manner - lived frugally. However, after years of industrialisation as a more educated population, becomes more aware of global plenum, continuing to be alive. Environmental groups are increasing and lobbing government will legislate to stop bad environmental and social practices. The establishments of human rights’ wide and untiring efforts will be alleviated people’s suffering. And as well the poor people shall meet and debate sustainable development and for a concerted government led action towards sustainability is an example that the younger generation are concerned for the future. It shall be making the younger easier for their life and make better on their lives, and help them to build a better future.
In present world, Mann really knows the full meanings of “Fundamental Human Rights and Equal Opportunities for the People”. He thinks ethics is the moral code governing the daily conduct of the individual toward those about him / her. It represents those rules or principles by which men and women live and work in a spirit of mutual confidence and service. Without going into the question of how an ethical code was formulated or why anybody should obey it, we can look at the matter in a common-sense fashion with reference to its influence upon our legal affairs. In brief, from the law point of view, a reputable ethical code embodies the qualities of accuracy, dependability, fair play, sound judgement, and service. It is based upon honesty.
No person can have an ethical code that concerns him / her alone. Living in society, as he / she must, a person encounters others whose rights must be respected as well as his / her own. An honest regard for the rights of others is an essential element of any decent code of ethics, and one that anyone must observe if anybody intends to follow that code. After all, ethics is not something apart from human beings. Indeed, there is no such thing apart from our actions and us. It is the duty, therefore, of every man and woman in legal affairs to see that his daily associations with others are truly in conformity with the plain meaning of the Ten Commandments: “Thou shalt not barratry, thou shalt not bear false witness, thou shalt not receive illegal fee and the rest”.
The knowledge Mann has, in connection with legal affairs, was usually come from his precious experiences of his past over ten year’s law and political careers. In an interval regarded as a distinct period of 1980s, he studied mixed civil and crime, and the code of mixed civil and criminal procedure for the problems caused by ethnic disputes and human armed conflicts in the modern society. He was especially one who maintains the language and customs of the group, and social security in Taiwan.
Since 30 July of 1988, Mann settled himself in law as a chief executive and scrivener at Central Legal, Real Estate, and Accounting Services Office; it is in the equivalent to a solicitor of the United Kingdom. The Office provided full legal, accounting, real estate, and commercial services to the public. He did his job as a person legally appointed by another to act as his or her agent in the transaction of business, specifically one qualified and licensed to act for plaintiffs and defendants in legal proceedings and affairs. Over and above Mann was a chairman and executive consultant at Taiwan Credit Information Company®, founded in 1994. The company offered services to the public in response to need and demand in the area of credit information.
Mann had excellent experiences in political and law work was pertaining to mixed civil and crime, the code of mixed civil and criminal procedure, construction, and commercial law abroad. The experiences of legal services related to the rights of private individuals and legal proceedings concerning these rights as distinguished. In the criminal proceedings, he did many cases for the defendants. Although an act committed or omitted in violation of a law forbidding or commanding it and for which punishment is imposed upon conviction; but he also laid legal claim, required as useful, just, proper, or necessary to the defendants under the human rights in the meantime. This provision ensures to the defendant a real voice in the subject.
The men whose judgement we respect are those who do not allow prejudices, preferences, or personalities to influence their decisions. Profit and self-aggrandisement are likewise ignored in their determination to reach an equitable and fair settlement. What are the basic principles upon which good judgement is founded? A keen intellect, a normal emotionally, a through understanding of human nature, experience of law work, sincerity, and integrity.
Developed a Technique for Abstract Photography and Abstractionist
In 1982, Mann developed a technique for abstractive photography, which applied “rayonism” to the photographic works. In November of 1984, Mann was 26-year-old, he instructed many professors and students of National Taiwan Normal University in photography of abstract impressionism and rayonnisme in Taipei, Taiwan. The word “rayonnisme” is French for rayonism - a style of abstract painting developed in 1911 in Russia.
Photographic Exhibitions
Theophilus Raynsford Mann Photographic Exhibition of “Rayonnisme / Rayonism” Tour - Invitational Exhibition of Taiwan 1983-84.
一九八三〜八四年中華民國臺灣 馬天亮攝影巡迴邀請展
Theophilus Raynsford Mann Photographic Exhibition of Rayonism (32 individual exhibitions) 1983~1985.
馬天亮『光影』攝影特展（個人展32場）1983〜1985年.
Mann staged 32 individual, extraordinary exhibitions and annual special exhibitions on photography of abstractive image and Rayonnisme around Taiwan / Formosa. Mann was the first exhibitor around the country. All of the invited displays were by the Taiwan’s Government, cultural and artistic organisations, and sponsors. Mann’s earliest exhibition took place in the National Taiwan Arts Education Center (Museum) on 19 December 1983 when Mann was 25 years old; Mann was the youngest exhibitor in the history of the Center in any solo exhibitions. The Center that was opened in March 1957, kept a collection of Mann’s work. It is currently updating the Center’s internal organisation and strengthening co-operation with leading centers and museums around the world. Meanwhile, it widened the center’s scope to increase its emphasis on Taiwan’ regional culture and folk arts.
Modernization in the Modern Abstract Arts of Taiwan
Mann’s works is the beginning of modernization in the modern abstract arts of Taiwan, China and greater Chinese society in the world. The use of “modernisation” as a concept that is opposed to “Traditional” of “Conservative” ideas began with the approach of the 20th century. It spreads rapidly through academic circles, and was broadly accepted as a means to reform society. Chinese Manchu Qing (Ching) dynasty’s first steps toward modernisation began in the Tung-chih era (1862-1874) with the “Self-Empowerment Movement”. During the late 19th century, as late Manchu dynasty was confronted on all sides by foreign aggression, voices throughout society debated the most effective means to reform and strengthen the country. Some advocated “combining the best of East and West”, while others went so far as to call for “complete Westernisation”. Taiwan was at the centre of these waves of reform. Faced with direct threats against the island by foreign enemies, the Chinese Ching dynasty court took special steps to push Taiwan’s modernisation.
In a role just like that of a gardener wanting to create a rich and fertile environment for the seeds of culture, one in which Mann may sprout, grow and bloom. Mann aims to provide an educational stimulus for society by introducing his works - Mann can express the neo-romantic spirit deftly from various creations and supporting international artistic exchanges. Mann believes that the first step in creating such a new and independent state is the real emergence of culture and arts, for which the art and science of designing and erecting buildings, and fine arts (including photography and motion picture) of the civilization is a good measurement of success. For the foreseeable future, Mann should be continuing to forge ahead, working diligently and unceasingly towards its mission of raising China and Formosa / Taiwan’s culture in his spare time.
Became an Author and a Scholar
In 1980, Theophilus Raynsford Mann completed his first book - scenario original “The Soul's Sentimentalizing”, also named: “Hun Yun : Jin Qi Tu Rui” 電影原著《魂韻》(衿契吐蕊) then Mann was at the age of 22. In 1983, The General Library of the University of California, Berkeley in the United States of America, collected and kept Mann’s writings - scenario original 「魂韻 : 衿契吐蕊」“Hun Yun : jin qi tu rui”, included a musical composition of his own – “Sonate Nr. 1 C-dur op. 3 für Klavier (piano)”, composed on 3rd April 1977 then Mann was 18 years old. The works were published in 1980; the theme was based on “The Soul's Sentimentalizing”. Another masterpiece was an Album of Academic Work for News Publication “Theophilus Raynsford Mann Photographic Exhibition of Rayonnisme / Rayonism”, published in 1985. The Hathi Trust Digital Library, the University of Michigan also collected and kept Mann’s writings.
Authorship
Mann’s articles and writings were published in more than 200 different kinds of domestic and foreign magazines, newspapers, and periodicals, in the period between May of 1972 and 1990s. It was all started when Mann was just 13-year-old. Many of which have been very influential. These have been quoted by Western and Eastern scholars many times in the last few years, making Mann one of the highly cited technological, artistic, and managing public administrators in the world in the late 20th and early 21st century. The Ministry of the Interior in Taiwan had registered Mann’s professional writings and given him two certificates of copyright. The numbers are 33080 and 33081 on 4th July of 1985; and Taiwan’s Gazette of The Presidential Office issue No. 4499, featured his writings on 4th September 1985.
Became an Academic and Film Director
Today, Mann is a professor at Space Time Life Research Academy, and a photographer, film director, and computer engineer now live and work in London.
Director Works:
FILMS:
Experimental Film “New Image for the Spring” © 1982
Documentary Film “Rayonnisme” © 2011
“The Soul's Sentimentalizing” of the feature film is based on the scenario original “The Soul's Sentimentalizing” (preparation)
FASHION SHOWS:
New Image for the Spring of Shapely Models International © 1982
High Lights on the Summer and Fall Fashion of Shapely Models Int’l © 1982
ART EXHIBITIONS:
The Cadillac Club International Fine Arts Exhibition © 1981
The Cinematic & Photographic Arts Salon and the Hall of the Arts, Pegasus Academy of Arts © 1981
Musician Work:
MUSIC COMPOSITION:
Sonate Nr. 1 C-dur op. 3 für Klavier (piano) © 1977, © 1980, © 1981, © 1983, the theme was based on “The Soul's Sentimentalizing”.
PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUMS:
Portrait and Landscape in France © 2000
Portrait and Landscape in Scotland © 2001
Portrait and Landscape in England © 2009
Portrait at Queen Mary, University of London © 2010
Rayonism of London © 2011
Portrait at The University of Nottingham, United Kingdom © 2011
Snowy London © 2012
Portrait at King's College London © 2013
BOOKS:
Scenario Original 「魂韻」(衿契吐蕊) “Hun yun: jin qi tu rui” © December 1980, © 1981, © 1983 (Date of First Publication: 31 December 1980, Second Edition on 29 July 1981, Date of Revision: Revised Edition on 8 May 1983), Languages: Chinese (traditional), and English language.
“Album of the Cadillac Club International Fine Arts Exhibition” © 1981
“Album of the Cinematic & Photographic Arts Salon and the Hall of the Arts, Pegasus Academy of Arts” © 1981
“Album of New Image for the Spring of Shapely Models International” © 1982
“Album of High Lights on the Summer and Fall Fashion of Shapely Models Int’l” © 1982
“Romantic Carol” © 1982
Album of Academic Work for News Publication: “Theophilus Raynsford Mann Photographic Exhibitions of Rayonnisme” © May 1985
New version of scenario original “The Soul's Sentimentalizing” (to be published)
「曾經輝煌到頂天立地」(individual biography, to be published)
“My Life, My History, and My Love” (based on a legend, to be published, a film scenario will be developed later)
「感動的公平與正義」“Touching Fairness and Justice” (political science and social studies, to be published)
Research Interests:
University of Oxford
Research Studies in Archaeology:
Mann’s attractive topic was “A View of Architectural History: Towns through the Ages from Winchester through London Arrived at Oxford in England”.
National Taiwan University
Graduate Certificate,
Graduate Institute of Electrical Engineering:
Mann’s monograph of seminar was “Applied the sequence control in the electric power distribution engineering”.
University of Glamorgan
M.Sc. Course,
Master of Science in Real Estate Appraisal:
Mann’s thesis - major subject, with relevant construction law was “The Assignment is under Economics of Construction Management in Architecture”.
National Sun Yat-Sen University
Postgraduate Certificate,
Postgraduate Studies in Computing:
Mann’s required subject was Information dBase III Plus and Taiwanese Traditional Mandarin Chinese Information System. He combined academic course work and practical laboratory sessions in “Applied Mandarin Phonetic Symbols into Traditional Taiwanese Personal Computer and Its Information System”.
Associations:
Member of The Kaohsiung Life Line Association since 11 January 1979, an association established in the USA.
Member of The Society of Youth Writers, Tien (Catholic) Educational Center, Taipei since 1980.
Since 1980, a member of Chinese Taipei Film Archive (CTFA, National Film Archive, Taiwan; founded in 1978), The Motion Picture Foundation, R.O.C. (member of Fédération Internationale des Archives du Film, FIAF; The International Federation of Film Archives was founded in Paris in 1938 by the British Film Institute, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Cinémathèque Française and the Reichsfilmarchiv in Berlin.)
Commissioner of the cinema, photography, radio, and television committee of The Culture and Arts Association (Chinese Writers and Artists Association) of Taiwan ever since September 1983.
Classic member, the membership is equivalent to a doctorate membership of the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering since 23 March 1984.
On 15 March 1989, Mann promoted and founded the Consortium Juridical Person Mr. Theophilus Raynsford Mann Social Benefit Foundation 財團法人馬天亮先生社會公益基金會籌備處 (Social Charity 社會慈善事業) in Taiwan.
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Classic member, the membership is equal to a professor or associate professor of The Chinese Institute of Engineers since 30 September 1991.
Honours:
Listed on ‘Taiwan Who’s Who In Business’, © 1984, © 1987, and © 1989 Harvard Management Service.
中華民國企業名人錄編纂委員會, 哈佛企業管理顧問公司.
On 26 August 1985, Mann was awarded a professional certificate of the Outdoor Artistry Activities issued by Education Bureau, Kaohsiung City Government, Taiwan. He acquired awards and certificates of honour about twenty times from National Taiwan Arts Education Center (Museum) on 24 December 1983; Kaohsiung Municipal Social Education Center on 17 March 1984, Kaohsiung Cultural Center, Taipei Cultural Center (Taipei Municipal Social Education Hall); and Taiwan Province Government, Taipei City Government, Kaohsiung City Government, and many cultural centres and art galleries, and so on.
Careers:
Honorary Professor at Space Time Life Research Academy, 7 June 2012 to present; Professor at Space Time Life Research Academy, 1 September 2011 to 1 June 2012 in London, United Kingdom:
Academia,
Teaching and Research:
business management and consultant, political philosophy, Chinese classics, Chinese humanities, modern Chinese language and literature, photography (portrait, fashion, commercial, digital, architectural, abstract photography), visual arts and filmmaking.
教學與研究：
企業管理及顧問、政治哲學、中華經典 (古典漢學、文學、藝術、語言) 、中華人文、中華現代語言與文學、攝影 (人像、時裝、商業、數位/數碼、建築、抽象攝影) ，視覺藝術和製作影片。
Consultant and Translator at Eternal Life Consultants of Immigration and Translations Services, 10 March 2004 to present in London, United Kingdom:
consultants of immigration, translations, and legal services.
永生移民顧問翻譯服務社的移民諮詢顧問和翻譯：
移民事務，翻譯和法律服務。
Computer Hardware & Networking Engineer at Mann Office of Electrical Engineer, 8 March 2004 to present in London, United Kingdom:
Computer Engineering and Network Services. Repairing of Motherboards, Monitors, Power Supplies, CD-ROM Drives; UPS, Hard Disk Drives, H.D.D Data Recovery; BIOS Programming, and all types of Computer Hardware and Software Solutions.
計算機工程和網絡服務。維修主機板，顯示器，電源供應器，光碟機/光盘驱动器，不斷電系統，硬碟/硬盘，硬盤數據恢復，基本輸入輸出系統編程，以及所有類型的電腦/計算機硬體/硬件和軟體/軟件解決方案。
Film Director and Photographer at Shapely Studio of Creative and Cultural Industries, 2 April 2007 to present in London, United Kingdom:
1) Photo, Video and Film Production; 2) Graphic Design, Web Design, Social Networking, Social Media and Advertising; 3) Architectural Design and Interior Design.
Reformer and Philosopher at Taiwanese Social Reformer and Philosopher, 7 April 2012 (location: Los Angeles, California) to present in London, United Kingdom:
Social Reform in Taiwan
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《魂韻》(衿契吐蕊) - 馬天亮22歲寫的電影原著。Theophilus Raynsford Mann (TianLiang Maa) wrote “Hun Yun” (Jin Qi Tu Rui), scenario original “The Soul’s Sentimentalizing” © 1980, 1981, 1983, was at the age of 22.
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At the different part of the world, philosophy of living can be vary.
At this part of China (大理/DaLi, 云南/Yunnan), women are the main labour force, where men tend to stay at home doing nothing (ideal for some guys, isn't it?), there is nothing about male chauvinism, only the tradition and culture, or, even more of a maternal society thing.
As I travelled to the famous Butterfly Spring (蝴蝶泉), I saw a group of local women sitting under the tree shades, enjoying the nice weather, peacefully. I was so curious why they are not working in the field but only sit there, so I went to an elder lady and asked her. Her answer was so simple, yet it was like from a sainted philosopher. She said, ever since we were born, we are all heading to one place, which is death, if we are all heading to the same place, the same direction, why in a hurry?
We work hard and try hard to make a better living, but often, we forget to slow down and enjoy what life can offer us, we complain how life is not fair, how life is a bitch, but never noticed that we are missing out so much of it, so, slow down my friends, take your time to enjoy life, it is beautiful.
Musée Rolin, Autun
Saône-et-Loire, Burgundy, France
Exquisitely detailed Roman mosaic (2nd or 3rd century) depicting a Greek philosopher. It was discovered under a street in Autun (Augustodunum).
created for: Surrealart challenge "Two in one"
Escola de Atenas by: Rafael Sanzio (detalhe)
Aspasia Surrounded by Greek Philosophers by: Michele Corneille the Younger ( detalhe)
A minature O-scale hand-painted figure of a man sitting on a book in a library. To compose the photo, the minature man and the large old book were placed in front of a computer screen with a blurred-out image of a book shelf as the background. Lighting was achieved with an adjustable mini-LED placed above the camera pointing down and slightly toward the subject.
Developed using Darktable 3.6.0. Color graded with GIMP 2.10.24 and G'MIC 2.7.9 filters. A light texture and a light leak overlay were also added.
Dead Philosophers' Limbo, 2009
Susie Burpee - Toronto, Canada
Dance
Dead Philosophers' Limbo is a twelve-hour dance to the life of ideas and the death of philosophers as told by the living philosopher Simon Critchley in his, The Book of Dead Philosophers. Each dancer's boombox emits passages from the book, broadcasting epitaphs as the score for the performers who literally and figuratively use dance to break into that space between life and death, between mind and body and between the here and the now. Find your place in this limbo as twenty-four dancers dance and nearly two hundred philosophers die. Witness the wonder and amazement as these bodies describe a philosophical dictum for the ages. Dance all you dead philosophers - dance!
Susie Burpee is a contemporary choreographer and dancer based in Toronto. She was awarded the K.M. Hunter Artist Award in 2006, and has received Dora Mavor Moore Awards for Outstanding Performance and Outstanding New Choreography. She trained at the Professional Program of Contemporary Dancers in Winnipeg and studied at the Limon and Cunningham Schools in New York and Ecole Philippe Gaulier in Paris. Burpee has worked with many innovative Canadian choreographers and companies, including Dancemakers and Le Groupe Dance Lab.
Seated Philosopher.
Roman 1stC AD.
Things that caught my eye in the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg.
Ascetic philosopher, Pattirakiriyar. Pattirakiriyar was a king of Kongu Nadu before becoming a religious mendicant under Pattinathar.
Carlos is a Colombian philosopher I Meet in North Pakistan...
No writing books, but living with a simple idea... be free !
So as he told me.. don't forget :
No women no cry
No chapattis no chaï
No money no honey
No toilet no shower...
24 hours full power
Busts of Greek philosophers and poets on display at the reconstructed 'New Museum' on Museum Island in Berlin.
Sloppy Seconds: A Burlesque in Two Acts
Sunday, May 8, 2011 @ The OBERON - 2 Arrow Street- Cambridge, MA
Axe To Ice Productions, Leyna McKenney, Jill Gibson (creators of Bent Wit Cabaret and the sell-out hit Cupid's Misfire) presents Sloppy Seconds, a high-concept burlesque show that offers two different takes on the same song.
Posted by Karin Webb
Pulling from the gods of influence, brainstorming and sexmagic, this show is divided into two acts. The first: 9 songs, ranging from Beethoven to Nirvana to Britney and beyond. The second act: covers of the same songs, with the cast and concept of each completely changed. Acts may or may not include body paint, stilts, knives, and more boobs than you can hold in two hands. Think you can handle it?
Performers include:
Sugar Dish (The Slutcracker, Abbey Road), Femme Brulee (Bent Wit Cabaret), Jane Doe (Bitches of Destiny), Mary Widow (Black Cat Burlesque), Rogue Burlesque, Femme Bones (The Slaughterhouse Sweethearts), Artistic Director UnAmerika's Sweetheart Karin Webb (Bent Wit Cabaret, Boiling Point Burlesque), Abby Normal, Cara Melle Sunday, Booty Poppins and Kid Vicious
München
Biergarten
Hofgarten
At Work
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Was ist ein gutes Bild?
im fotoMagazin 10/2014 (S. 36-40) gab es Antworten:
Felix Hoffmann, Kurator bei C/O Berlin:
"Von einem guten Foto wird man nie gelangweilt - egal, ob es an der Wand hängt oder ob man es in einem Magazin sieht. Ein gutes Foto weiß den Betrachter zu unterhalten."
Julian Räder, Fotograf:
In einer Welt, die längst zu Tode fotografiert worden ist, ist es für Julian Röder wichtig, dass ein Bild mit Klischees zu brechen versteht: „Natürlich sollte jedes Foto auch Elemente enthalten, die man unmittelbar zuordnen kann. Darüber hinaus aber sollte es eine Art Erkenntrnisgewinn liefern.“ Der 33-jährige Ostkreuz-Fotograf vollführt diesen Gewinn in seiner Arbeit unentwegt. Er zitiert Bildsprachen aus der Werbung oder der Kunstgeschichte und setzt sie in einen journalistischen Kontext. Der Fotograf, der in den 90er-Jahren eine Ausbildung bei der Agentur Ostkreuz durchlaufen und anschließend an der HGB in Leipzig studiert hat, weiß mit seinen Bildern immer wieder zu irritieren. „Ich denke, das ist es, was ein gutes Bild ausmacht: Ein Foto sollte die Dinge so zeigen, wie man sie noch nicht gesehen hat. Alles andere wäre stereotyp. Bei solchen Bildern wird mir schnell langweilig.“ Langeweile überkommt Röder auch, wenn ein Foto nur um seiner selbst Willen entstanden ist. Für den Berliner ist es wichtig, dass es sich mit der Welt auseinandersetzt.
„Natürlich kann man sıch auch mıt der Geschichte der Kunst oder der des Mediums auseinandersetzen. Meist geschieht das ohnehın unbewusst ...
Oft braucht es für Röder die Einbettung in eine Serie, damit ein Bild funktioniert. Ein Foto, das eine Wirklichkeit abbilden will, die immer komplexer wird. Diese Komplexität soll ein gutes Foto widerspiegeln. „Manchmal ist es gut, wenn Bilder mit allem Hergebrachten brechen. Wenn sıe eben nıcht bedienen, was längst ästhetisch bekannt ist. Daher funktionieren Snapshots oder irgendwie kaputte Bılder zuweilen wesentlich besser als das klassische journalistische Foto."
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Peter Bitzer, Geschäftsführender Gesellschafter der Kölner Fotoagentur Laif:
Fotografie erreicht einen über den Bauch. Für Peter Bitzer ist es wichtig, dass Fotos Assoziationsräume öffnen. „Natürlich sollten Fotos - besonders Reportagefotos - informativ sein. Sie sollen von Orten und Begebenheiten erzählen, die mir fremd sind. Doch zudem sollten sie Platz lassen, damit in meinem Kopf die Geschichte weitergehen kann.“ Für Bitzer sind Fotos immer nur Links. Sie tippen etwas an, was in uns angelegt ist. Sie erzählen etwas von der „Conditio humana“.
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Hier geht es um grundsätzliche Emotionen: Um Einsamkeit, Isolation, um Angst, Bedrängung und Großstadtgefühle.“ Für Bitzer ist eine Fotografie dann gut, wenn sie Verbindungen zu den elementaren Dingen ın uns selbst herstellt; zu den Bildern und Emotionen, die in jedem Menschen des 21. Jahrhunderts angelegt sind. Dann wirken Bilder, als wären sie Archetypen der Moderne.
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weckt in mir nicht nur Gefühle, es ruft auch Fragen wach. Es tippt eine Geschichte an, die im Kopf weitergesponnen wird.“
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Michael Biedowicz, Bildredakteur, ZEIT-Magazin:
„Wichtig , dass ein Bild sofort mit einem zu sprechen beginnt“ ... „Ein Foto muss mich anspringen, ohne dass ich dabei mein Gehirn einschalte.“ Das Nachdenken und Innehalten kommt dann in einem zweiten Schritt, wenn man die Emotionen beiseite schiebt. „Die Gründe für die emotionale Berührung können unterschiedlich sein: Mal ist es etwas Grafisches — der Bildaufbau, die Komposition, das Arrangement. Mal liegt es am Thema. Themen, die uns interessieren, machen uns für entsprechende Fotos empfänglich.“ Eines haben gute Fotos für Michael Biedowicz gemeinsam: „Sie halten auch dem dritten, vierten und fünften Blick stand.“ Und dann gibt es natürlich noch die Königsdisziplin: sehr gute Fotos.
„Diese sind immer zeitlos. Sie unterliegen keinen Moden.“
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