Squint your eyes and look closer
I’m not between you and your ambition
I am a poster girl with no poster
I am thirty-two flavors and then some
And I’m beyond your peripheral vision
So you might want to turn your head
Cause someday you might find you’re starving
and eating all of the words you said.
Ani DiFranco
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
— Albert Einstein
Why don’t you go back to your home on whore island.
— Ron Burgundy
Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
— Ernest Hemingway
There is no poetry without absolute creation.
— Pierre-Jean Jouve
You can live accepting the presence of the absurd, or you can live in the absurd.
— Andre Malraux
what are you made of

what are you made of

Ai Weiwei and Fake StudioWorking Progress (Fountain of Light) 2007

Ai Weiwei and Fake Studio
Working Progress (Fountain of Light) 2007

Man himself is mute, and it is the image that speaks.
— Boris Pasternak - 1954 issue of Cahiers G.L.M.

BLDGBLOG: Ancient Lights

“Ancient lights” is a colloquialism for the “right to light,” guaranteed under English law, whereby windows that have seen twenty years’ worth of “uninterrupted” daylight cannot be blocked by the construction of new buildings.

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EELS - That look you give that guy

with the grace of heart in the grace of light

with the grace of heart in the grace of light

The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between this profusion of matter and the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.
— Andre Malraux ‘Les Noyers de l’Altenburg