January 2011
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I think that, as a culture, we really are scared of artists. I think, as a...
– Kathy Halbreich Associate Director, Museum of Modern Art, New York ARTFORUM International, Summer 2010 (via tobia) (via artlistpro)
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Primp My Book: A brief history of the customized... →
“Long before viewers watched Pimp My Ride or American Chopper—in fact, long before the combustion engine—readers personalized, customized, glamorized, and just plain peacocked their books. Whether encrusted with jewels, adorned by portraits of queens, or scribbled upon with ballpoint pens, the books pictured here demonstrate post-market enhancements, or primping, as a recurring phenomenon in...
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Post-coital bacon
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plus beer and Jersey Shore means I’m a happy camper.
Same here, except with postcoital pickles instead of bacon. (Bacon would have been better.)
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You think abortion is wrong? Don’t have one. I think killing people is wrong, so...
– Sarah Jaffe (via -iwilldestroyyou)
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Is no one inspired by our present picture of the universe? This value of science...
– Richard Feynman, What Do You Care What Other People Think? (1988)
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Cosmos Vs. Chaos: Entropic Thoughts For A New Year →
To obsess over what will happen in the “end” is to miss what goes on now. What matters is what happens in between.
We and all other living creatures (and hurricanes and rainbows) are the spurts of order that makes it all worthwhile. The wonder is in the richness of forms that do emerge en route to disorder, the holdouts against decay. To look at things from a one-dimensional perspective ...
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Poets and artists live on frontiers. They have no feedback, only feedforward....
– Marshall McLuhan (via kahokarl + notational) (via prostheticknowledge)
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NOT FOR THE CLAUSTROPHOBIC
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Installations by Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota.
www.chiharu-shiota.com
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We live today in the age of partial objects, bricks that have been shattered to...
– Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus (via sfpml) (via pareidoliac) (via montycantsin)