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Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:14:00 -0500

thisbigcity: I See What You Mean, otherwise affectionately...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 22:32:21 -0500

I See What You Mean, otherwise affectionately known as The Big Blue Bear, is a Denver public art installation by artist Lawrence Argent. Installed outside the Colorado Convention Center, it peers inside at both locals and tourists alike. Here’s to hoping the the big blue bear someday finds what it’s looking for!

"Mexico, the phosphorescent steps in the night, the music playing on corners where in the past whores..."

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 14:18:56 -0500

“Mexico, the phosphorescent steps in the night,
the music playing on corners
where in the past whores would freeze
(in the icy heart of Colonia Guerrero)
and would dole him out the sustenance needed
to clench his teeth
and not cry in fear.”

- Roberto Bolaño’s Devotion by Roberto Bolaño | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books

"Each of us is several, is many, is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his..."

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 23:12:05 -0500

“Each of us is several, is many, is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the self who suffers or takes joy in them. In the vast colony of our being there are many species of people who think and feel in different ways.”

- Fernando Pessoa (via silencemadenietzschecry)

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Sun, 09 Jun 2013 17:32:50 -0500

thisbigcity: thegreenurbanist: Chicago opens up for diagonal...

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 20:45:08 -0500

thisbigcity:

thegreenurbanist:

Chicago opens up for diagonal pedestrian crossings

These are great. Giving pedestrians the opportunity to cross in all directions and getting automobiles from every direction to stop at the same time is a great reminder that cities are a collaboration.

Daft Punk- Male Models “Get Lucky”, 2013 CFDA Awards...

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 20:10:17 -0500

Daft Punk- Male Models “Get Lucky”, 2013 CFDA Awards (by KCDDigital)

(via txchnologist)

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 20:04:00 -0500

(via txchnologist)

b22-design: Enrico Castiglioni

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 19:52:35 -0500

b22-design:

Enrico Castiglioni

"‘Negative capability’ is the advanced ability of a person to tolerate uncertainty. This does not..."

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 23:24:48 -0500

“‘Negative capability’ is the advanced ability of a person to tolerate uncertainty. This does not mean the passive uncertainty associated with ignorance or general insecurity but the active uncertainty that is to do with being without a template and yet being able to tolerate, or even relish, a sense of feeling lost. ‘Negative capability’ involves purposely submitting to being unsettled by a person, or situation, and embracing the feelings and possibilities that emerge.”

- Contemporary Psychotherapy » Negative Capability

"I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries,..."

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 23:10:25 -0500

“I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason”

- Keats on Negative capability

relative (via What Is Science? From Feynman to Sagan to Curie,...

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 23:06:23 -0500

relative (via What Is Science? From Feynman to Sagan to Curie, an Omnibus of Definitions | Brain Pickings)

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so..."

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 23:04:07 -0500

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”

- What Is Science? From Feynman to Sagan to Curie, an Omnibus of Definitions | Brain Pickings

"Democracy is neither black nor red. Democracy is gray… It chooses banality over excellence,..."

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 15:55:49 -0500

“Democracy is neither black nor red. Democracy is gray… It chooses banality over excellence, shrewdness over nobility, empty promise over true competence… It is eternal imperfection, a mixture of sinfulness, saintliness and monkey business. This is why the seekers of a moral state and of a perfectly just society do not like democracy. Yet only democracy —having the capacity to question itself— also has the capacity to correct its own mistakes.””

- Adam Michnik

"That poor girl, she doesn’t know that loving you is the worst way to get to you."

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 18:48:57 -0500

“That poor girl, she doesn’t know that loving you is the worst way to get to you.”

- Betty Draper

robertogreco: Trailer for 75 Watt Trailer, Cohen Van Balen ...

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 13:09:45 -0500

robertogreco:

Trailer for 75 Watt Trailer, Cohen Van Balen

A product is designed especially to be made in China. The object’s only function is to choreograph a dance performed by the labourers manufacturing it.

See the website for additional text and photos. (via @bopuc)

"Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its..."

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 13:02:41 -0500

“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.”

- Brian Eno, A Year With Swollen Appendices (via volumexii)

thewindroseup: During November 1970, forty people were...

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 13:00:55 -0500

thewindroseup:

During November 1970, forty people were photographed at the instant exactly after the photographer said: “You have a beautiful face.”

Douglas Huebler, Variable Piece #34, 1970.

Marie Bovo - Interior Courtyards (2008-9)

Wed, 29 May 2013 18:56:20 -0500

Marie Bovo - Interior Courtyards (2008-9)

(via Intervención urbana: “La Ciudad es para Jugar”, São Paulo |...

Mon, 27 May 2013 11:09:25 -0500

(via Intervención urbana: “La Ciudad es para Jugar”, São Paulo | Plataforma Urbana)