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"I still have your number on my phone. One day I accidentally called it and I heard that familiar..."

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:53:00 -0600

“I still have your number on my phone. One day I accidentally called it and I heard that familiar voice again. So I left a message: Let’s start over.”

- Tony Leung on Leslie Cheung

"Am I in love? — Yes, since I’m waiting.” The other never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of..."

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 23:21:00 -0600

“Am I in love? — Yes, since I’m waiting.” The other never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn’t wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game: whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. The lover’s fatal identity is precisely this: “I am the one who waits.””

- Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse (via bookmania)

Waiting for waiting. Always waiting.

Through the storm.

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 19:14:19 -0600

Through the storm.

I wish my friends Able and Julia Parris the best of luck this...

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 10:21:00 -0600

I wish my friends Able and Julia Parris the best of luck this week, as they are each in final preparations for individual solo shows at the Beard Arts Center at Indiana Wesleyan University, in Marion, Indiana.

Both shows run April 4–30.

colchrishadfield: Like the sand came crashing over the shore of...

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:25:58 -0600

colchrishadfield:

Like the sand came crashing over the shore of rock.

Amazing.

cacomixl: Holy crap, anyone else notice the Kentile Sign...

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 07:57:35 -0600

cacomixl:

Holy crap, anyone else notice the Kentile Sign tonight? Lit up — looks amazing!

jonathangreen: Very Deleuzian. Smooth vs...

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 16:47:26 -0600

jonathangreen:

Very Deleuzian. Smooth vs strata

kateoplis:

Admiral Richard Byrd’s “Little America III” station, built in Antarctic in 1940, was spotted by a Navy icebreaker sticking out of the side of this floating iceberg in the Antarctic’s Ross Sea, on March 13, 1963. The old outpost was buried beneath 25 feet of snow, 300 miles away from its original location. A helicopter pilot flew in close and reported cans and supplies still stacked neatly on shelves.

50 Years Ago: The World in 1963 | In Focus

"One thing that happens, for example, is you start a painting, and you try to get it right. You say..."

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 15:24:12 -0600

“One thing that happens, for example, is you start a painting, and you try to get it right. You say this edge is here, and then, no, it’s not, it’s further over here. And, the color isn’t quite that color. And slowly, bit-by-bit, your painting begins to get a little turgid, a little drab, and painstaking looking, and that’s not what you want. You want it to be lively! You want the surface to be lively, to somehow give the feeling of life, without being life. You give a little fleck to your brushstroke. You want it to dance off the surface. And you see that even in someone very realistic like Vermeer. You get close to Vermeer, and you see that it’s quite abstract.”

- Painting Is a Metaphor: An Interview with Rackstraw Downes

(via Storyboarding terror: Hitchcock’s The Birds turns 50 |...

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:12:41 -0600

(via Storyboarding terror: Hitchcock’s The Birds turns 50 | British Film Institute)

Cool Hunting Video: Dieter Rams’ Principles of Good Design

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:51:58 -0600

Cool Hunting Video: Dieter Rams’ Principles of Good Design

ghostsgotyourback: Tokujin Yoshioka’s Snow installation at the...

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:43:17 -0600

ghostsgotyourback:

Tokujin Yoshioka’s Snow installation at the Mori Art Museum

"I found that every single successful person I’ve ever spoken to had a turning point and the turning..."

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 18:15:37 -0600

““I found that every single successful person I’ve ever spoken to had a turning point and the turning point was where they made a clear, specific, unequivocal decision that they were not going to live like this anymore. Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50 and most never make it at all.””

- Brian Tracy

(via youngfolksociety)

Hear.

Forging the Future with the Tip of the Pen

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:06:36 -0600

Forging the Future with the Tip of the Pen

"I never ask myself why I am taking photos. In reality, it is a desperate battle against the idea..."

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 07:08:23 -0600

“I never ask myself why I am taking photos. In reality, it is a desperate battle against the idea that we are all destined to disappear … I am determined to stop the time from fleeing. It is complete madness.”

- Robert Doisneau, the Masters collection

(via gettyimagesarchive)

photojojo: Lisa Tomasetti was one of the visual artists behind...

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:31:14 -0600

photojojo:

Lisa Tomasetti was one of the visual artists behind films such as Star Wars Ep-2 and Charlotte’s Web, but she’s also quite the photographer. In her Dance series, she focuses on levitating dancers in unusual settings.

Mesmerizing Photos of Levitating Dancers

via 2photo

bombing: Josh Sinn Glory, this.

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:20:46 -0600

bombing:

Josh Sinn

Glory, this.

deliciousdimension: Cloud streets in Davis Strait by NASA...

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:38:59 -0600

deliciousdimension:

Cloud streets in Davis Strait by NASA Goddard Photo and Video http://flic.kr/p/e1z6rp

Glory, this.

John Cage about silence

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 23:55:49 -0600

John Cage about silence

Wes Sumner

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 14:17:24 -0700

Wes Sumner

Abu Hani Ahmed sits in his front yard, less than ten meters...

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 18:24:00 -0700

Abu Hani Ahmed sits in his front yard, less than ten meters from the Israel Security Wall. He and his three children painted their section of the wall to escape the solemn reality of the barrier.In the Shadow of the Wall. Jeffrey Fehder, 2007

The Israeli Security Wall completely encircles the West Bank town of Qalqilyah, resulting in desperate conditions for Palestinians trapped inside the concrete barrier.

The Palestinian town of Qalqilyah sits cut off from the outside world, completely encircled by the Israeli Security Wall constructed in 2003. I have seen firsthand the effects the Wall is having on this small community and witnessed the isolation Palestinians in Qalqilyah are forced to undergo. I plan to document the effects the Wall is having on the local economy, medical care access and the daily lives of Palestinians living in these extreme circumstance.

Qalqilyah is historically a hot bed for political aggression toward Israel. Fatah and Hamas both have a strong presence in the community, and much of the rhetoric behind the Second Intifadah of 2000 came out of Qalqilyah. The town is less than 8 miles from the Mediterranean Sea on some of the most fertile farmland in the world, yet access to the local water supply, once used for irrigating crops, is now non-existent due to the Security Wall’s construction. The neighboring Israeli settlement of Kochev Ya’ir now uses the irrigation and confiscated farmland for their own crops. An aerial view of Qalqilyah would show the dust-laden city, brown from drought and enclosed by the circular divide from the surrounding rich, green countryside. Over 28,000 residents live within the confines of the town only eleven kilometers in diameter. Every few hundred meters, there are watchtowers monitoring activity near the Wall, and the Israeli Defense Force has closed all roads but one into the city, allowing them to control all movement.

(via Alexia Foundation : Jeffrey Fehder)