from the pavement up

2012-01-29T14:10:00.000-08:00

2012-01-03T09:47:00.000-08:00

"It is customary these days to ignore what should be done
in favour of what pleases us."

-- Plautus

2012-01-02T16:32:00.001-08:00

"I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction."

—Saul Bellow

2011-11-02T23:36:00.000-07:00

Great book found at the library on making your own pinhole cameras. Authors website: chriskeeney.com

2011-09-27T23:22:00.000-07:00

2011-09-27T22:56:00.000-07:00

2011-09-15T00:22:00.000-07:00

2011-09-15T00:15:00.000-07:00

2011-09-06T10:33:00.000-07:00

2011-09-02T10:06:00.000-07:00

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos.

— William Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

2011-08-21T20:51:00.000-07:00

Currently reading. Really enjoy his writing.

2011-08-20T00:41:00.000-07:00

I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

-- Clarence Darrow

2011-08-20T00:38:00.001-07:00

A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.

- Syd Barrett

2011-08-02T21:12:00.001-07:00

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere
the careless, the most stupid thinker.

-- David Hume

2011-06-26T22:59:00.000-07:00

2011-06-24T10:29:00.000-07:00

japanese wwii infographic
via: loverofbeauty

2011-06-21T17:00:00.000-07:00

hand drawn map association

2011-06-21T10:12:00.000-07:00

"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."

William Shakespeare

2011-06-20T11:57:00.000-07:00

Exxon logo sketches Raymond Loewy.

2011-06-07T02:00:00.000-07:00

"Kiss me and you'll know how important I am."

Sylvia Plath

2011-06-06T08:48:00.000-07:00

via: cooperfrederickson

2011-03-12T00:37:00.001-08:00

Perhaps what you're looking for isn't on the map you're looking at.

2011-02-27T10:32:00.000-08:00

Amazing article on the catacombs, tunnels, etc., underneath Paris.

2011-02-21T20:44:00.000-08:00

"What I find amazing is the extent to which many people are well dressed, but still ugly."

D. Gates

2011-01-16T22:27:00.000-08:00

"When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?"

John Maynard Keynes
From "Future Babble" by Dan Gardner.

2011-01-16T22:23:00.000-08:00

2011-01-16T22:20:00.000-08:00

2010-12-08T23:39:00.000-08:00

2010-12-03T10:36:00.000-08:00

(via sejourner)

2010-12-01T22:42:00.000-08:00

Great Book!

2010-11-30T22:43:00.000-08:00

I would maintain that thanks are the highest
form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness
doubled by wonder.

- G. K. Chesterton

2010-11-13T09:01:00.000-08:00

vasodilation:

Dr. No.1962

(via CurrrziO)

2010-11-12T22:52:00.000-08:00

2010-11-09T22:04:00.000-08:00

"The artist is a collector of things imaginary or real. He accumulates things with the same enthusiasm that a little boy stuffs his pockets. The scrap heap and the museum are embraced with equal curiosity. He takes snapshots, makes notes and records impressions on tablecloths or newspapers, on backs of envelopes or matchbooks. Why one thing and not another is part of the mystery, but he is omnivorous."

- Paul Rand

2010-10-21T21:41:00.000-07:00

"If you make people think you're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you. "

- Don Marquis

2010-10-13T19:03:00.000-07:00

Two of the excellent books
by the late Neil Postman.

2010-10-09T10:43:00.000-07:00

Currently rereading...
Great book!

2010-10-07T18:15:00.001-07:00

Bottle Rocket -1996

Dignan: Why are you here right now? You're always at lunch at this time!
Workers: Not always.
Dignan: Yes! Always!

2010-10-06T20:44:00.001-07:00

2010-10-06T20:39:00.000-07:00

2010-08-18T08:51:00.000-07:00

2010-08-12T23:44:00.001-07:00

"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."

--Emily Dickinson

2010-08-11T00:40:00.001-07:00

2010-08-11T00:36:00.000-07:00

2010-08-11T00:29:00.000-07:00

2010-08-10T09:07:00.000-07:00

2010-08-05T23:26:00.001-07:00

"There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening."

Marshall McLuhan (1911 - 1980)

2010-08-05T23:19:00.000-07:00

"Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling."

Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)

2010-07-30T00:13:00.001-07:00

Found Postcard:
Photo by Michael W. Siegrist Sr.,
Published by Outdoor Photo,
Olympia WA
U.S.A.

2010-07-30T00:13:00.000-07:00

Found Postcard:
Portofina - Italia

2010-07-20T11:13:00.000-07:00

2010-07-20T09:50:00.000-07:00

2010-07-09T23:32:00.001-07:00

White House 1993

2010-07-09T23:31:00.000-07:00

Washington Monument 1993

2010-07-09T19:27:00.000-07:00

Very interesting book.

"Grand Avenues: The Story of the French Visionary who Designed Washington, D.C."
by Scott W. Berg
Pantheon Books, New York, 2007

2010-07-09T09:50:00.000-07:00

"I am delighted that it's romance and the wonder of life give satisfaction, and apparently a kind of reassurance, to so many people. Not many authors nowadays seem to like life or think it rich, and often I feel very lonely and somewhat odd; but people - just readers who do not suffer from literary ennui and sourness of spirit - often agree with me."

Robertson Davies
In a letter to Sir John Gielgud 1976 regarding the book "World of Wonders" by Davies
From "For Your Eyes Alone - Letters 1976 -1995"
Published by McClelland & Stewart 1999

2010-07-01T13:05:00.000-07:00

Great Book!

The Arcanum:
The Extraordinary
True Story of the
Invention of European
Porcelain. (1998)
A non fiction book
by Janet Gleeson.

2010-06-29T23:32:00.000-07:00

Chicago 2001

2010-06-29T23:31:00.000-07:00

Chaicago 2001

2010-06-28T12:09:00.000-07:00

2010-06-28T09:05:00.000-07:00

"To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees."
-- Paul Valery

2010-06-21T11:09:00.000-07:00

"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays."

Soren Kierkegaard

2010-06-20T23:39:00.000-07:00

2010-06-19T18:29:00.001-07:00

2010-06-19T18:28:00.000-07:00

2010-06-18T23:43:00.001-07:00

2010-06-18T23:37:00.000-07:00

2010-06-18T23:36:00.000-07:00

2010-06-16T09:55:00.000-07:00

Antique fly wallet

2010-06-15T11:47:00.000-07:00

2010-06-15T11:41:00.000-07:00

2010-06-15T11:38:00.000-07:00

More Max Huber

2010-06-13T23:32:00.000-07:00

Door in Paris 1999

2010-06-09T22:56:00.000-07:00

2010-05-31T00:43:00.000-07:00

"Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas."

Alfred North Whitehead

2010-05-28T12:41:00.000-07:00

"I have plunged into certain religious matters because of a thought of the philosopher Hegel, who said that philosophy, art, and religion are what he called the 'moments' of Absolute Spirit. I offer this because it suggests that art, philosophy, and religion are forms through which human beings represent what it means to be human."

Arthur C. Danto
from his book "Andy Warhol"

2010-05-27T23:39:00.000-07:00

Sculpture at the Louvre
late 90's.

2010-05-27T11:24:00.000-07:00

Great Movie!

2010-05-24T22:21:00.001-07:00

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it isn't utterly absurd. Indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible."

Bertrand Russell

2010-05-24T22:18:00.001-07:00

"Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't."

Theodore Roethke

2010-05-12T19:46:00.001-07:00

2010-05-12T19:45:00.001-07:00

2010-05-09T23:08:00.000-07:00

2010-05-07T10:09:00.001-07:00

"In art good intentions are not of the smallest value. All bad art is the result of good intentions."

Oscar Wilde

2010-05-07T10:07:00.000-07:00

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.

Robertson Davies

2010-05-07T00:33:00.000-07:00

More early 80's surf, pop, trash.

2010-05-07T00:30:00.000-07:00

Early 80's hypno surf trash

2010-05-06T00:17:00.000-07:00

Fish hook

2010-04-30T16:30:00.000-07:00

Max Huber
1949 offset litho
Poster for seventh international congress of modern architecture
From the book "The Modern Poster"
Stuart Wrede
The Museum of Modern Art, N.Y.
1988

2010-04-30T16:26:00.000-07:00

Popp-Kircheim
1935 litho
BMW motorcycle poster
From the book "The Modern Poster"
Stuart Wrede
The Museum of Modern Art, N.Y.
1988

2010-04-29T18:05:00.000-07:00

"He is not in sufficiently naïve accord with the range of preconceptions then in vogue."

Thorstein Veblen on Hume

2010-04-28T01:02:00.000-07:00

Fantastic book!

The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

2010-04-27T11:59:00.000-07:00

Richard Scraper

2010-04-27T10:04:00.000-07:00

Florida early 90's

2010-04-26T16:24:00.001-07:00

“In art, everything matters except what it is about.”

Oscar Wilde

2010-04-26T16:23:00.000-07:00

"Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good."

Buddha

2010-04-21T22:32:00.000-07:00

2010-04-21T21:46:00.000-07:00

2010-04-01T23:52:00.000-07:00

“Do not ask yourself what the world needs; Ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” Howard Thurman

2010-04-01T23:51:00.000-07:00

“Art has to move you and design does not– unless it’s a good design for a bus.” David Hockney