Links and write-ups about beautiful things from around the web!
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It Was As if This Word Signifying an Abrupt
It was as if this word, signifying an abrupt change in space and time, also initiated another kind of vision that would be necessary to see, to read what was to follow. One needed to follow these images not merely chronologically, but associatively. SUDDENLY, one’s whole notion of spatial and temporal continuity was shattered. Eisenstein’s purposeful combination of events that were happening successively and simultaneously forces the spectator to construct another time frame: one which is bound by the limits of the film and not by the always doomed attempt to mimic real life. Michael Tarantino, A Few Brief Moments of Cinematic Time (1999). Quoted in The Cinematic, from MIT Press.
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Death Follows Artists Around Like Their
[Death] follows [artists] around like their shadow, and I think that’s one of the reasons most artists are so conscious of the vulnerability and nothingness of life. Francis Bacon, taken from D. Ashton’s Twentieth-century Artists on Art p. 139
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Beneath the Good the Kind the Stupid and the
Beneath the good, the kind, the stupid, and the cruel, there’s a fire that’s just waiting for fuel. Ani Difranco, “Fuel”
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More Wise Words Were Never Spoken
More wise words were never spoken.
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Even Though the Fogged Photograph Is Not in Itself
Even though the fogged photograph is not in itself pure absence, but rather the eclipsing of an image, we know that what we are seeing is a representation that has been spoilt, a calamity that no technology can ever repair. The image is there, but hidden, ‘fogged’, conceled for ever by a curtain of shadow, which no one is capable of raising. A Short History of the Shadow by Victor Stoichita, in reference to an 1839 cartoon by Cham (Amédée de Noé) from the book L’Histoire de Monsieur Jobard