| — | Anton Chekhov, “216. To Alexey Suvorin, 7 April 1897, Moscow”, Chekhov: A Life in Letters, trans. R. Bartlett and A. Phillips, Penguin, 2004, p. 368. |
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“You write that laziness is my ideal state. That is not entirely accurate; I despise laziness as I despise weakness and flabby emotional responses. I was not talking about laziness but about idleness, moreover I said that idleness was not an ideal, merely that it was one of the indispensable conditions of personal happiness.”
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“The New Aesthetic is about being looked at by humans and by machines — by drones, surveillance cameras, people tagging you on Facebook — about being the object of the gaze. It’s about looking through the eyes of a machine and seeing the machine turn its beady LEDs on you. It’s about the dissolution of privacy and reproductive rights, and the monitoring, mapping, and surveillance of the (re)gendered (re)racialised body, and building our own super-pervasive panopticon. The effects of these encroachments upon privacy, though, are not equal. The app Girls Around Me — which meshes geolocation and women’s publicly available Facebook and Foursquare data to variously “avoid ugly girls” or, more menacingly, stalk women — proves the perfect example. As Forbes privacy blogger Kashmir Hill noted in responding to the furor around the app, “ ‘You’re too public with your digital data, ladies,’ may be the new ‘your skirt was too short and you had it coming.’ ”
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It really is amazing.
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Hello NYC! Yours truly, Raven New York.
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bonneaventure reblogged bookspaperscissors:
”Solar Equation” by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer.
This large installation entitled Solar Equation is a simulation of the Sun, 100 million times smaller than the real thing! The sphere, commissioned by the Light in Winter Festival in Australia, is the largest spherical balloon in the world.Using mathematical equations, Lozano-Hemmer developed a pattern of animations that are projected onto the sphere, and that never repeat. Through this simulation, the artist provides the public with a glimpse of the Sun’s unpredictable and intense atmosphere. The public can interact with the installation and affect these animations via an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad application, creating various visual experiences. It’s hard to imagine seeing such a large, burning star so gigantic and up-close.
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My barn project at Beaver Brook is slowly progressing. Here are a few shots from different stages in chronological order, the top image shows the site this past weekend after a bulk of the frame was erected.
The barn originally stood in Mount Cobb, PA. Each timber member was cataloged, taken down, cleaned, repaired, and erected at Beaver Brook, 47 miles away, on a concrete pedestal built into a hillside.
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consquisiteparole reblogged strangewood:
Burt Lancaster and Claudia Cardinale promote their film The Leopard at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival. The film, directed by Luchino Visconti, won the Palme d’Or that year.
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Russian scientist Natalia Avseenko swims with Beluga whales in the Murmansk Oblast region (Arctic).
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About a year ago, Irina Rozovsky began photographing in Prospect Park. “It was my first summer in New York City and a real scorcher,” Rozovsky told me. “I discovered the park, and it felt like the only place to hide from the heat, the cement, the noise.”
Click through for a photo slideshow of images from Rozovsky’s project “In Plain Air,” and a short Q. & A.: http://nyr.kr/K5qUiU
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wunderkammernn reblogged cavetocanvas:
Ilya Repin, Young Ladies Walk Among a Herd of Cows, 1896
