Back Up Your Hard Drive. What do I mean by that? Although your life may be cruising along smoothly, I recommend that every once in a while you stop and envision a sudden shipwreck occurring. Then think, re-think and remember what you would really want to hold on to if disaster should strike.
Larry Bock (via liquidlightandrunningtrees)
“The ceramics teacher announced that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality. His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the “quantity” group: fifty pounds of pots rated an “A”, forty pounds a “B”, and so on. Those being graded on “quality”, however, needed to produce only one pot — albeit a perfect one — to get an “A”. Well, came grading time and a curious fact emerged: the works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity. It seems that while the “quantity” group was busily churning out piles of work-and learning from their mistakes — the “quality” group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay.”
— David Bayles, Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
“Diffraction patterns for natural and synthetic fibers.” Encyclopedia of X-rays and gamma rays. 1963.
RIP bell hooks. The impact of this book on generations of artists, writers and readers is immeasurable. It’s been a rough few weeks.
Issey Miyake Pleats Please Travel Through Kenya By Yuriko Takagi
Photography by Liu Heung Shing (1989). A young couple waiting under a bridge pass tanks
"Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves."
-T. S. Eliot
that Brian Eno quote about how whatever you find most repulsive about a medium (film grain, record scratches/fuzz, CDs skipping) will be the first thing you try and emulate once that medium is obsolete because it's "the sign of a moment too powerful for the medium assigned to contain it".... man.......
funkylilpunk
“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
Ryuichi Sakamoto, Sampled Life, (4xCD, interview book, mini picture book, diary book, photo card (10 pieces), Leaflet (2 pieces)), WPC6-10058-61, WEA Japan, 1999, Limited Edition / Special Box. Creative Direction: Norika Sky-Sora. Editorial Direction: Shigeo Goto. Art Direction and Design: Hideki Nakajima. Supervisor: Akira Asada
(via Adrian Shaughnessy)
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