No Time Like Present

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After nearly two years behind bars and much international outcry on their behalf, the two imprisoned members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot were released from Russian jail this morning.

Ugly is attractive, ugly is exciting. Maybe because it is newer. The investigation of ugliness is to me, more interesting, than the bourgeois idea of beauty. And why? Because ugly is human. It touches the bad and the dirty side of people.

Miuccia Prada, T Magazine “Culture” 2013 (via dinnerwithannawintour)

Ethical thought consists of the systematic examination of the relations of human beings to each other, the conceptions, interests and ideals from which human ways of treating one another spring, and the systems of value on which such ends of life are based. These beliefs about how life should be lived, what men and women should be and do, are objects of moral enquiry; and when applied to groups and nations, and, indeed, mankind as a whole, are called political philosophy, which is but ethics applied to society.

Isaiah Berlin The Pursuit of the Ideal

...it is the music and the lyrics that trigger the emotions within us, rather than the other way around. We don't make music--it makes us.

David Byrne How Music Works

The art of reading is in many ways opposed to the art of writing. Read- ing is a craft that enriches the text conceived by the author, deepening it and rendering it more complex, concentrating it to reflect the reader’s personal experience and expanding it to reach the farthest confines of the reader’s uni- verse and beyond. Writing, instead, is the art of resignation. The writer must accept the fact that the final text will be but a blurred reflection of the work conceived in the mind, less enlightening, less subtle, less poignant, less pre- cise. The imagination of a writer is all-powerful, and capable of dreaming up the most extraordinary creations in all their wishful perfection. Then comes the descent into language, and in the passage from thought to expres- sion much—very much—is lost. To this rule there are hardly any exceptions. To write a book is to resign oneself to failure, however honorable that failure might be.

Alberto Manguel 'Curiosity'

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Modelo para armar

Un toque surrealista, a lo Buñuel-Dali, en este trabajo de Banksy.

Banksy NY

The Weather Project | Olafur Eliasson | Via 1 2 3 4

Is there nothing that humans cannot recreate?

SoP - Scale of Environments

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