संपूर्ण जीवन जगून सुद्धा माहित न होणे शक्य आहे...रिचर्ड फाईनमन शताब्दी.....Richard Feynman@100

#RichardFeynman100    (May 11 1918- February 15 1988)      

Today May 11 2018 is birth centenary of  Richard Feynman 

Carlo Rovelli, ‘Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity’, 2014:
“....The greatest physicist of the second half of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman, wrote at the beginning of his wonderful introductory lessons on physics:
If, in some cataclysm, all scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generation of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I believe it is the atomic hypothesis, or the atomic fact, or whatever you wish to call it, that all things are made of atoms – little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another. In that one sentence you will see an enormous amount of information about the world, if just a little imagination and thinking are applied.

Without needing anything from modern physics, Democritus had already arrived at the idea that everything is made up of indivisible particles. How did he do it?...”

कार्लो रोवली काय म्हणतायत पहा .रिचर्ड फाईनमन यांच्या बद्दल: “The greatest physicist of the second half of the twentieth century”

Richard Feynman:
"We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty. People are terrified – how can you live and not know? It is not odd at all. You only think you know, as a matter of fact. And most of your actions are based on incomplete knowledge and you really don’t know what it is all about, or what the purpose of the world is, or know a great deal of other things. It is possible to live and not know."

व्हर्टिगोचे पोस्टर आणि श्याम जोशींचे मुखपृष्ठ....The Best Film Ever Made, Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo@60

#HitchcockVertigo60 

Alfred Hitchcock's 'Vertigo' was released, sixty years ago, on May 9 1958

मी 'व्हर्टिगो', १९५८ मुंबईच्या आलिशान स्टर्लिंग सिनेमात १९८५-८६ च्या सुमारास पहिल्यांदा बघितला आणि भारावून गेलो.  त्या सिनेमातील काय नाही आवडल? अगदी सॅनफ्रान्सिस्कोच्या  सुद्धा प्रेमात पडलो. किम नोवॅक तर बरेच दिवस डोक्यातून गेल्याच नाहीत- कित्येक महिन्यांनंतर समजले की त्यांनी पूर्ण सिनेमात ब्रेसीयर घातली नाहीये ते!.....

त्यानंतर 'व्हर्टिगो'  इतक्या वेळा पहिला की आता बघून, बघून पाठ झाला आहे. अलीकडे मला स्वतःला व्हर्टिगोचा त्रास झाल्यानंतर तर जिम स्टीवर्ट यांचा अभिनय आता अगदी आतपर्यंत पोचतोय.

 'सिटीझन केन' ला मागे टाकून व्हर्टिगो अलीकडे पहिल्या क्रमांकाला चढला आहे. (माझ्या यादीत टोकियो स्टोरी हा, मी तो पाहिल्या दिवसापासून, एक नंबरला आहे.)


David Thomson, LRB, June 2018:
"...Novak was a rarity, the shy knockout, a beauty who had no confidence. Her voice was hushed. There was a faraway look in her eyes. She was a ravishing blonde, but seemed uneasy being photographed or even seen. She was anxious to be respected (she had once been Miss Deepfreeze), and it was rumoured that she was the favoured project of Harry Cohn, the head of Columbia, the studio that signed her up in 1954. There were whispers that she couldn’t act; she was a restrained version of Marilyn Monroe early in her career, the kind of actress who was cast as a voyeur’s delight but seldom trusted with a serious part. Instead, she got the socialite wife in The Eddy Duchin Story. She was actually loaned out for Vertigo. Cohn profited hugely on her salary. She was being exploited in the standard Hollywood way while being asked to fit into a male dream...." 

François Truffaut:
“...The whole erotic aspect of the picture is fascinating. I remember another scene, at the beginning, when Stewart hauled Kim Novak out of the water. He takes her to his place, where we find her asleep in his bed. As she gradually comes to, there's an implication, though it's not specifically stated, that he's probably taken the girl's clothes off and has seen her in the nude. The rest of that scene is superb, as Kim Novak walks around with her toes sticking out of his bathrobe and then settles down by the fire, with Stewart pacing back and forth behind' her. Vertigo unfolds at a deliberate pace, with a contemplative rhythm that contrasts sharply with your other pictures, which are mostly based on swift motion and sudden transitions...”

David Thomson, The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: Sixth Edition:
“…I found Orson Welles saying, “I believe that the movies—I’ll say a terrible thing—have never gone beyond Kane. That doesn’t mean that there haven’t been good movies, or great movies. But everything has been done now in movies, to the point of fatigue.”

Now, we may wonder just how pained Welles was by that vision. But in the recent “stir” that replaced Kane as the best film ever made—with Vertigo—his point was hard to escape. Vertigo is so much more old-fashioned than Kane, so clammy with self-pity, and so desperate to be sincere and significant. Those were never Hitchcock’s strengths, or things Welles bothered with. It’s not that film has stopped, or died, but it has not advanced like the sensation it was in its first fifty years. The realization that F may be for fake, and film, grows on us.,,,”  

 

आता माझी मी हे पोस्टर पाहण्याच्या आधीची,  मार्च १६ २०१६ची पोस्ट पहा. 

आता वाटतय ह्या पोस्टरचा प्रभाव तर श्याम जोशींच्या खालील चित्रावर नव्हता?

Artist: Shyam Joshi (श्याम जोशी) , 'Vangmay Shobha' (वाङ्मय-शोभा), दिवाळी १९६५

आधुनिक हिंदच्या खऱ्या नवयुगाचा जन्म या क्रांतिकार्यांच्या विजयानेच होणार आहे ...Karl Marx@200

#KarlMarx200
Today May 5 2018 is 200th birth anniversary of Karl Marx

D K Bedekar, Vangmay Shobha, August 1949:
दि के बेडेकर, वाङ्मय शोभा, ऑगस्ट १९४९:

Mary Gabriel, ‘Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution’:

“...The picture that gradually emerged was of a family that sacrificed everything for an idea the world would come to know as Marxism but which existed in their lifetimes largely inside Karl Marx’s brain. Egress of his ideas was continually thwarted.

The story I discovered was of a love between a husband and wife that remained passionate and consuming despite the deaths of four children, poverty, illness, social ostracism, and the ultimate betrayal, when Marx fathered another woman’s child. It was the story of three young women who adored their father and dedicated themselves to his grand idea, even at the cost of their own dreams, even at the cost of their own children. It was the story of a group of brilliant, combative, exasperating, funny, passionate, and ultimately tragic figures caught up in the revolutions sweeping nineteenth-century Europe. It was, above all, the story of hopes dashed against the bulwark of bitter reality, personal and political...”

 
Jason Barker, The New York Times, April 30 2018:
"...The key factor in Marx’s intellectual legacy in our present-day society is not “philosophy” but “critique,” or what he described in 1843 as “the ruthless criticism of all that exists: ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives at and in the sense of being just as little afraid of conflict with the powers that be.” “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it,” he wrote in 1845...."

आज कार्ल मार्क्स यांची २००वी जयंती.
जीएंनी मार्क्सवादावर सडकून टीका केली आहे. ती माझ्या ब्लॉगच्या एका वर्षांपूर्वीच्या पोस्टवर (http://searchingforlaugh.blogspot.in/…/karl-marx-will-soon-…) आली होती.

"...तेव्हा अखेर प्रत्येकाला जाता जाता स्वतःचेच 'तत्वज्ञान' बनवत जगण्याखेरीज काही मार्ग दिसत नाही., कारण धर्माचे मूळ स्वरूप सदैव वैयक्तिकच राहणार. Institutionalized religion म्हणजे एक fraud आहे, किंवा स्काऊट, रोटरी, लायन चळवळीपेक्षा तिला महत्व नाही. ज्यावेळी धर्मच अपुरा पडू लागला तेव्हा काही जणांना Marxism सारखे secular तत्वज्ञान समाधान देऊ शकले. पण त्याबाबतही मी अगदी असाध्य कोडगा ठरतो. त्याच्याइतके अनाकर्षक, वैराण, हमाली तत्वज्ञान मला कुठे आढळले नाही...मार्क्सवादी माणसाचे चित्र काढायचे झाल्यास ठोकळ्यावर ठोकळे ठेवलेली आकृती काढली की पुरे..."
(पृष्ठ १७९, 'जी एंची निवडक पत्रे', खंड १, १९९५)

त्यांच्या स्वामी ह्या कथेकडे स्टालिनच्या काळातील सोवियत रशियामधील जीवनाचे रूपक कथा (allegory) म्हणून पाहता येईल.

पण आज मला जीएंचे दुसरे अवतरण आठवते.
"...त्याने प्रेमाचा व शांतीचा संदेश सांगितला, पण प्रसार झाला तो तलवारीच्या जोरावर; त्याने निरिच्छ्तेवर भर दिला, तर आता त्याच्या धर्माचा आधार आहे संपत्ती. हा तुला त्याचा विजय वाटतो, तसे पाहिले तर त्याचे सच्चे अनुयायी एखाद्या खेड्यातील वसतीपेक्षा जास्त नसतील. पण म्हणून का त्याच्या शिकवणीचे महत्व कमी होते?..."
('यात्रिक', 'पिंगळावेळ', 1977)

आपल्याला बहुतेकांना माहित आहे की जीएंनी हे येसू आणि ख्रिश्चन धर्माबद्दल म्हटले आहे. मला आज वाटते हे मार्क्स आणि त्याच्या नावाने ज्या कम्युनिझम चा प्रसार झाला त्याला सुद्धा लागू आहे.

लेनिन, स्टालिन, माओ वगैरे क्रूरात्मे किंवा भारतातले अप्पलपोटे, बडबडे, टीव्ही, पुस्तक, फेसबुक आणि वर्तमानपत्रात आढळणारे समाजवादी, म्हणजे कार्ल आणि त्याची शिकवण नव्हे.... "त्याचे सच्चे अनुयायी एखाद्या खेड्यातील वसतीपेक्षा जास्त नसतील".... "पण म्हणून का त्याच्या शिकवणीचे महत्व कमी होते?"

असाच एक कार्लचा सच्चा अनुयायी म्हणजे मला दि के बेडेकर वाटतात. वर दिलेले त्यांचे quotation वाचा....  इतका आशावाद, इतका भाबडेपणा, इतका सज्जनपणा, इतकी सचोटी...आज जगभर कम्युनिझम कोलमडून पडला असला तरी हेलावून टाकते... (btw बा सी मर्ढेकरांच्या कवितांचे सुंदर परिक्षण करणारे दि के बेडेकर जीए म्हणतात - "ठोकळ्यावर ठोकळे ठेवलेली आकृती काढली की पुरे"- तसे अजिबात नव्हते!)

Best known for lyric poetry and praised profusely by Nietzsche for the use of German language but whose writings were abhorred by the Nazis, Heinrich Heine sitting with Jenny and Karl Marx, standing, 1848

courtesy: AKG Images