December 2008
“By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty...”
– Hannah Arendt (via rainier) (via hangmanblues)
Watchhighfivingfly: Simon Ingram constructs a Lego robot to autonomously make art. The body slowly becoming obsolete.
Yeah right, like originality.
N.B. When the complete description of your work consists of explaining how you realised it technically it is not interesting enough. I want to like this, I actually do, but it does nothing for me.
“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to...”
– Claude Monet (via tender) (via sexartandpolitics) (via myownprivate)
“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or...”
– Reblogged because this is from Jim Jarmusch (via hangmanblues) who I admire and aspire to be more like.
“‘One of the beauties of my life is that I never work. I’m lazy and I have no...”
– Tate Magazine Issue 2: Christian Boltanski (via standardgrey) this is basically why I alwaays wanted to be an artist. Seemed such a great life, one that I was naturally attuned to. Which is crazy if you see the hours I spend in my design company last month.
“The Frame
The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting:...”
– Frank Zappa in “The Real Frank Zappa Book”. (via signa) You might even argue what makes most contemporary art is the frame, or the exposing of the frame, the shifting of it.
“There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via bitchville) (via bebelestrange)
“I got a lot more work done, a lot more imagining done. It’s nice when you read...”
– Kevin Smith (via ronenreblogs)
“Fall in love with the process and the results will follow. You’ve got to want to...”
– Bradley Whitford (via scout) (via julyshewillfly) (via robot-heart) (via vaughnshirley)
“The first step — especially for young people with energy and drive and talent,...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via lorenrochelle via tiffany)
mills:
“The elasticity of what Homo sapiens will believe in an effort to convince themselves that they’re gaining an understanding of themselves or of the universe is fascinating.” — Topherchris. I agree, and without any condescension implied for that effort, which I consider to be one of the finer aspects of the human mind. The fact that some patently fabricated systems of belief retain...
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I like the “about” of this site: HYBRID FLOATERS believe that how you live your life is as important as what you are doing with it. Life is not shaped like a pyramid. There is no such thing as “what do you want to be when you grow up.” There is just “tell me what you did today.”
