February 2012
0 posts
It sounds subtle, but these are the only days where I find myself getting...
– Start every day as a producer, not a consumer - Journal - Daniel Howells
/via @eric_wvgg
(via pieratt)
4 tags
1 tag
http://www.flickr.com/photos/anderrennick/ →
It took me a while to bother getting a Flickr. This is where I’m going to throw all my art junk for the year.
January 2012
Nietzsche stressed this point. As he observed in his 1878 book Human, All Too...
– How Do We Identify Good Ideas? | Wired Science | Wired.com (via slantback)
3 tags
Thinking involves a wrenching of concepts away from their usual configurations,...
– Elizabeth Grosz (Architecture from the Outside: Essays on Real and Virtual Space)
4 tags
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I...
– Walt Whitman (via inthenoosphere)
It is the great irony of life that a mindless act repeated in sequence can only...
– Kevin Kelly (via inthenoosphere)
The key to the creative type is that he is separated out of the common pool of...
– Ernest Becker in The Denial of Death
2 tags
Space, by definition, is outside us… space appears to us to subsist even...
– Henri Bergson (Matter and Memory)
It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
– Alfred North Whitehead (via inthenoosphere)
The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts,...
– Charles Bukowski (via burnthazel)
4 tags
“Isn’t language loss a good thing, because fewer languages mean easier...
– Jared Diamond, American scientist and author, currently Professor of Geography and Physiology at UCLA, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution & Future of the Human Animal, Hutchinson Radius, 1991. See also: ☞ Why Do Languages Die? Urbanization, the state and the rise of nationalism (via amiquote)
4 tags
2 tags
HITTIN A WALL IN TOKYO SERIOUSLY SO MANY PLACES CLOSED WHAT TO DO I HAVE NO FRIENDS walking around aimlessly dressed in black drapey acne being an art fag taking photos of shit is good but like.
and I refuse to be a tourist and go ‘see sights’ b/c i already did that shit in like 05 ok
Symmetry became the sine qua non of particle physics. In search of theories with...
– John Horgan (via inthenoosphere)
5 tags
2 tags
Endlessly gallery hopping in Tokyo—there is so much to see here. I spend half the time wandering the streets in awe of the architecture and the acute awareness of space and orientation, the other half enclosed in white-cube gallery spaces delving into the works of local emerging and established artists. I speak about three sentences per day and smoke a ¥400 deck of cigarettes per night. It...
It turns out than an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order...
– Douglas Hofstadter (via inthenoosphere)
3 tags
4 tags
I like the authority of black. It’s an uncompromising colour. A violent colour,...
– Pierre Soulages (via lyvcreation)
4 tags
ϕύσις κρύπτεσθαι φιλεῖ
Nature loves to hide.
– Heraclitus of Ephesus (via inthenoosphere)
5 tags