December 2010
17 posts
robynmariewilcox: Images by Philipp Schaerer. “The series of images with the title Bildbauten deals with the effect and the claim to credibility of images of architecture that appear to be photographs. It further questions the medium photograph as a documentary piece of evidence depicting reality.” (via butdoesitfloat)
Dec 31st
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 19th
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Dec 14th
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“What constitutes a gentleman? A rare dispute between a rustic and a shop man....”
–  From the diary of Eighteenth Century Welsh adventurer Morgan J. Rhees in Kentucky, July 1795.
Dec 14th
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The Whiteness of the Whale
Though in many natural objects, whiteness refiningly enhances beauty, as if imparting some special virtue of its own, as in marbles, japonicas, and pearls; and though various nations have in some way recognised a certain royal preeminence in this hue; even the barbaric, grand old kings of Pegu placing the title ” Lord of the White Elephants ” above all their other magniloquent...
Dec 14th
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Dec 8th
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All The True Vows
All the True Vows By David Whyte All the true vows are secret vows the ones we speak out loud are the ones we break…
Dec 4th
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Dec 4th
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“Rather than better business plans (not that they don’t matter), we need a new...”
–  Robert Darnton, From the January 2011 Issue of New York Review of Books
Dec 3rd
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Dec 3rd
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Dec 2nd
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Dec 2nd
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