The form of things that must be attended to.
“Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is. I dunno. If the Eiffel tower were now representing the world’s age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle-knob at its summit would represent man’s share of that age; & anybody would perceive that that skin was what the tower was built for. I reckon they would. I dunno.”
-Mark Twain, “Was the World Made for Man?“
“Can anyone with intelligence really believe that a child born today should be doomed because the snake tempted Eve and Eve tempted Adam? To believe that is not God-worship; it is devil-worship.”
-Clarence Darrow, from “Why I Am An Agnostic.”
from here.
“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”
-Pablo Picasso
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, or The Young Ladies of Avignon, by Pablo Picasso, 1907.
When light enters a dark room through a small hole, it projects the reverse image of the scene outside the room, creating a Camera Obscura.
The trailer for Lars Von Trier’s upcoming Antichrist.
Shockingly, controversy surrounds the stage production of The Vagina Monologues in Kyrgyzstan because of it’s strong sexual content. Seriously.
Fuck that business in Somalia, here’s the most notorious pirates ever.
Mysterious dark matter possibly detected.
“The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.”
-Bill Murray
Pavement “Something” (Beatles cover)(mp3)
My Brightest Diamond “Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except For Me And My Monkey” (Beatles cover)(mp3)
R.E.M. “She Just Wants To Be” (mp3)
“It is not the form of things that must be attended to but their spirit. The real is what matters, not the apparent. In politics, reality is that which is unseen.”
-José Martí
