June 2011
I just realized (while driving) that I use Tumblr as a kind of external storage/digital component of my sketch book.
I rarely post any finished work, I post fragments of thoughts, artists I’m inspired by, works that resonate with me because of their form, content or concept.
For me this is not an exercise in cultivating an image bank or curating an aesthetically linked collection of...
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“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
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“Minimalism is not a style, it is an attitude, a way of being. It’s a fundamental...”
– Massimo Vingelli
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Tumblr-famous
I’m kind of sad this term exists, and saddened even more that some are so hungry for something so empty.
Don’t get me wrong I’m a Tumblr fan and have fallen into a Tumblr vortex, refreshing, binging and posting obsessively…
I’ve felt those weird pangs nudging me to post after a hiatus, and I’ve experienced the self-questioning ‘who AM I maintaining this...
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“In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not...”
– M. PROUST
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“Instead of enlarging our view of being human, it contains safe rehashing of...”
– JERRY SALTZ
Re:current state of ART
“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I...”
– WALT WHITMAN
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AI WEIWEI, FREE ON BAIL (sort of)
FREE: lawyer Liu Xiaoyuan, a close friend of Ai, explained via Twitter, “As Ai Weiwei has been granted bail, so long as he doesn’t leave the limits of Beijing city, he is completely free.”
(and no talking to the media)
BAIL: is apparently is a translation of the Chinese term “qubao houshen,” “a technique that the public security authorities sometimes use as...
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“My spirits, as in a dream, are all bound up.”
– SHAKESPEARE (Ferdinand, form The Tempest)
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