February 2009
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“Total inflation has happened to pop music today, as it gets multiplied and...”
– www.srvc.se
they’re auctioning off all three on ebay (via offnotesnotes)
One day, we will run out of ridiculous new gimmicks to sell music. But not today. (via catbird)
For later reading
standardgrey left me with:
1095 project by Craig Cowling, A great compliment by Erik Wahlstrom, A Photo Editor, A Visual Society, Adam Seward, Agnes Karin Thor, Alec Soth, Alessandro di Giampietro, Alethea Austin, Ali Bosworth, Almagul Menlibayeva, Amanda, AmCar by Lars Botten, Amy Kellner, Anders Petersen, Andrew Laumann, Andrew Phelps, Anna Yausheva, Anti-Censorship in Visual Art, Araki...
ineedanotherwordforvagina.com →
Via hazal
deleteyourself:Safe for work. Unless you consider the word vagina unsafe for work. I laughed hard at ‘Jaws of Hell’ and ‘Baby Cave’.
“Without hope we live in desire.”
– The Inferno, The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri - Wikiquote (via alcolchete)
“So apparently the Sears Tower is considering painting itself silver. Well, the...”
– ART OR IDIOCY? (via sexartandpolitics)
“We talk far too much. We should talk less and draw more. I personally should...”
– Goethe (via theministryoftruth)
“I have only one reason to write novels, and that is to bring the dignity of the...”
– Murakami (via reversecowgirl)
Contemporary art is a fraud, says top dealer →
Via standardgrey: appc:“The soaring prices - and their subsequent collapse - are proof to some experts that the works had a price, but not much value.” And his point is…? That’s what makes it so much fun!
“Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via psychotherapy) (via signa)
The Arts Need Better Arguments - WSJ.com →
jenbee:
The arts are going to need a better strategy. And in the end it’s going to have to come from art itself, from the benefits art brings, in a world where popular culture — which has gotten smart and…
Art needs better writing, in general.
Biggest known diamond in the universe →
science:
According to American astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, a white dwarf star in the constellation of Centaurus has been found to have a 3000-kilometer-wide core of crystallized carbon, or diamond.
It weighs 2.27 thousand trillion trillion tons - that’s 10 billion trillion trillion carats, or a 1 followed by 34 zeroes. The biggest earthly jewel is one of the...
“Why I Am Not a Painter I am not a painter, I am a poet.
Why? I think I would...”
– Frank O’Hara. Via Personism
“Who does Jacques Derrida write for, who does Frank Stella paint for, who does...”
– Peter Eisenman (via hydeordie)
