Maybe It's All OK

"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow..."

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:23:28 -0500

“Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion’s starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don’t see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often, it’s not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it’s always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know, none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I’ve got a sneaking suspicion… love actually is all around.”

- - Love Actually

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"For what gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner decor in us. We can’t cheat..."

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:08:25 -0500

“For what gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner decor in us. We can’t cheat any more - hide ourselves away behind the hours in the office or at the plant (these hours against which we protest so strongly and protect us so surely against the suffering of being alone) … Travel takes this refuge from us. Far from our own people, our own language, wrenched away from all support, deprived of our masks…we are completely on the surface of ourselves.”

- Albert Camus, Betwixt and Between

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"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine."

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:07:00 -0500

“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:06:38 -0500

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Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:50:38 -0500

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"There is never a sudden revelation, a complete and tidy explanation for why it happened, or why it..."

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:48:44 -0500

“There is never a sudden revelation, a complete and tidy explanation for why it happened, or why it ends, or why or who you are. You want one and I want one, but there isn’t one. It comes in bits and pieces, and you stitch them together wherever they fit, and when you are done you hold yourself up, and still there are holes and you are a rag doll, invented, imperfect. And yet you are all that you have, so you must be enough. There is no other way.”

- Mayra Hornbacher, Wasted

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“one of the defining truisms of modern culture: In a reality TV world, no place is deemed more real...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:24:28 -0500

“one of the defining truisms of modern culture: In a reality TV world, no place is deemed more real than New Jersey. Whether it’s “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” or “Jersey Shore,” the fictional mob reality of “The Sopranos” or the real-folks rock of Bruce Springsteen, if you want real reality, not silly poseurs sneaking into the White House, there’s no better place to find it than New Jersey.”

—- NYT’s - New Jersey, Keeping It Fucking Real?

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Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:23:32 -0500

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Site-specific work (this one is at the QAG in Australia) The...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:33:26 -0500

Site-specific work (this one is at the QAG in Australia)

The Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, born in 1929, has spent the last 20 years commuting between her large studio in the Tokyo suburbs and the psychiatric hospital that she chooses to call home.

Narcissus garden (detail) 1966/2002

in 1966, when, with the help of the Milanese artist Lucio Fontana, she presented “Narcissus Garden,” a rogue installation of 1,500 reflective metal balls. (At the time, Kusama, dressed in a kimono, hawked the balls herself for $2 a piece on the lawn in front of the Padiglione Italia in the Venice Biennale Giardini.) Another version of the same work is now in Milan and it still leaves you breathless, letting you see your image reflected endlessly on the spherical surfaces. The effect was even more dramatic at night, when the images were reflected not just on the balls but on the glass wall facing the garden behind them.

Yayoi Kusama

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Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:32:10 -0500

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"The novel’s spirit is the spirit of complexity. Every novel says to the reader: “Things are not as..."

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:31:11 -0500

“The novel’s spirit is the spirit of complexity. Every novel says to the reader: “Things are not as simple as you think.” That is the novel’s eternal truth, but it grows steadily harder to hear amid the din of easy, quick answers that come faster than the question and block it off.”

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Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:30:31 -0500

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Neon Boneyard by Pam...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:33:15 -0500

Neon Boneyard by Pam Sattler
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"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius...."

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:37:17 -0500

“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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"If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then..."

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:35:34 -0500

“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.”

- —Anais Nin

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Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:32:49 -0500

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"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:13:59 -0500

““Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.””

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Incredible Underground Residence in Switzerland | Interior...

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:12:28 -0500

Incredible Underground Residence in Switzerland | Interior Design, Decorating, Furniture, Architecture, Home & House Design Magazine

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"There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment."

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:02:34 -0500

““There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.””

- - Anonymous

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"Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or..."

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:01:03 -0500

“Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.”

- - Orson Scott Card

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