January 2011
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“The hand must venture in the unknown, it must remain alive to the danger it is...”
– Roger Bissière
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“An operation has saved my eyes. But something that I cannot analyze has taken...”
– Roger Bissère on loss of sight.
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“In art, mathematics must be subordinate to phantoms. The good painter is a...”
– Roger Bissière
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“I have ceased to question stars and books;
I have begun to listen to the...”
– Hermann Hesse (via ratak-monodosico)
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“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?”
– Oscar Wilde (via turquoisekush)
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What Comes After Sharing?
Sharing ideas, work and knowledge used to be an extremely novel concept. It is now increasingly accepted as vital for community recognition and distinction for businesses. We publish all types of information online, but the sharing of ideas, thoughts and insights is arguably the most fundamental and imperative form. With the pervasiveness of sharing, its current manifestation is quickly becoming...
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“[The artist’s] job was similar to the scientist’s in that he had to...”
– Marcel Marnat
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Meditation Correlated With Structural Changes In... →
buffleheadcabin:
Recently scientists from Massachusetts General Hospital had 16 participants take an 8-week mindfulness meditation program. This sort of meditation focuses on non-judgmental awareness of sensations and feelings. Subjects practiced for about 30 minutes a day.
Brain images were taken of each subject before and after the training. Scientists found increases in grey-matter density...
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“Art had become a serious business and it was believe that the...”
– Marcel Marnat
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Sentences on Conceptual Art
1. Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.
2. Rational judgements repeat rational judgements.
3. Irrational judgements lead to new experience.
4. Formal art is essentially rational.
5. Irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically.
6. If the artist changes his mind midway through the execution of the...
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Friends and Neighbours
Nestor Almendros is one cool cat ‘cause I just learned today that he was besties with Luciano Tovoli and Maya Deren!
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“Romanticism, of course, had given the artist a mission, making him responsible...”
– Marcel Marnat
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“Klee’s ability to perceive the most infinitesimal vibrations at the heart...”
– Marcel Marnat
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“Art does not reproduce what can be seen: it makes things visible.”
– Paul Klee
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“Who is to say what is real and what is not? “Real” is a distinction of a naïve...”
– Terence McKenna via but does it float (via bendelaney)
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“This is what we do, humans. We tinker and change and endlessly imagine a more...”
– Ira Glass, This American Life Television Series: Season One, Episode: Pandora’s Box (via rawlikesugar)
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