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Nothing better for when your head is exploding.

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:25:00 -0400

Nothing better for when your head is exploding.

"The span of his seventy-five years had acted as a magic bellows — the first quarter-century had..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 06:35:36 -0400

“The span of his seventy-five years had acted as a magic bellows — the first quarter-century had blown him full with life, and the last had sucked it all back. It had sucked in the cheeks and the chest and the girth of arm and leg. It had tyrannously demanded his teeth, one by one, suspended his small eyes in dark-bluish sacks, tweeked out his hairs, changed him from gray to white in some places, from pink to yellow in others — callously transposing his colors like a child trying over a paintbox. Then through his body and his soul it had attacked his brain. It had sent him night-sweats and tears and unfounded dreads. It had split his intense normality into credulity and suspicion. Out of the coarse material of his enthusiasm it had cut dozens of meek but petulant obsessions; his energy was shrunk to the bad temper of a spoiled child, and for his will to power was substituted a fatuous puerile desire for a land of harps and canticles on earth.”

- The Beautiful and Damned, F.S. Fitzgerald

It’s been a while. Edinburgh 2013.

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:45:10 -0400

It’s been a while. Edinburgh 2013.

subtilitas: The home of architects Benedetta Tagliabue and her...

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 14:51:39 -0500

subtilitas:

The home of architects Benedetta Tagliabue and her late husband Enric Miralles, renovated from a 19th century building in Barcelona in 1994. Via, photos (C) Gunnar Knechtel.

My new blog, follow! morningcoffeeandtv: Private Moon In his...

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 08:50:33 -0500

My new blog, follow!

morningcoffeeandtv:

Private Moon

In his ongoing project, Private Moon, the Russian artist Leonid Tishkov travels across the world with a mobile installation of a crescent moon. He photographs it in locations he finds meaningful, accompanying each image with a poem telling the story of a man who met the Moon and stayed with her. Tishkov writes his next destination is the Milky Way!

Starting from the top left, clockwise, the images featured are: stray cats, Shanhai; at the clay oven, Dashu, Sanhe Kilns; metal forest, shipyard, Kaohsiung; house for the moon, Meinong.

morningcoffeeandtv: Hôtel Droog in Amsterdam. In all honesty,...

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 08:59:05 -0500

morningcoffeeandtv:

Hôtel Droog in Amsterdam. In all honesty, it is enough to look at the design of the interiors to understand what it’s all about. Unlike many other hotels, Droog adopts a more multidisciplinary approach, attempting to provide a range of facilities such as shops, exhibitions, lectures, beauty advice, a garden and others as part of the experience of the hotel. Instead of just being a place for rest, it gives the visitors numerous attractions and ‘…invites people to plug in as they chose’, as described by Renny Remarkers, the co-founder and the director of Droog.

For more on the this hotel and booking, go to: http://www.hoteldroog.com/

Hey guys! Hannah and I started a new art and design blog, here’s...

Tue, 25 Dec 2012 15:00:00 -0500

Hey guys! Hannah and I started a new art and design blog, here’s one post from it, so check it out and follow if you like it ;)

Yumi x

morningcoffeeandtv:

Having an ambitious mission to revive the British furniture industry is no easy task for one person. Tom Dixon however, is set to do just that and so far, if he hasn’t revived, he definitely brought it to the centre of international attention. His work is both widely commercial and deeply personal, including everything from decorations to put on your shelf to a series of lamps to install in a five-star hotel.

To find out more about Tom Dixon’s designs or buy any of his works visit:

http://www.tomdixon.net/

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Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:47:23 -0500

sonicbloom11: The Atlantic: Happy Birthday, Aldous Huxley: A...

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 19:24:21 -0400

sonicbloom11:

The Atlantic:

Happy Birthday, Aldous Huxley: A Rare, Prophetic 1958 Interview

Aldous Huxley—author of the classic Brave New World, little-known children’s book wordsmith, staple of Carl Sagan’s reading list—would have been 118 today. To celebrate his mind and his legacy, here is a rare 1958 conversation with Mike Wallace—the same masterful interviewer who also offered rare glimpses into the minds of Salvador Dalí and Ayn Rand—in which Huxley predicts the “fictional world of horror” depicted in Brave New World is just around the corner for humanity. He explains how overpopulation is among the greatest threats to our freedom, admonishes against the effects of advertising on children, and, more than a century before Occupy Wall Street, outlines how global economic destabilization will incite widespread social unrest.

It’s extremely important, here and now, to start thinking about these problems—not to let ourselves be taken by surprise by the new advances of technology.

[…]

We can foresee, and we can do a great deal to forestall. After all, the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

Wallace reads a passage on American political campaigns from Huxley’s Brave New World(originally written under the title Enemies of Freedom) that rings with remarkable, and remarkably unsettling, timeliness:

All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere; political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.