10 August 2010

Kava Gorna

Kava Gorna

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13 March 2010

Horsetail-Firefall
Photography by Rob Kroenert
via Today & Tomorrow

Filed under: Photography — Cynthia @ 10:19 pm
3 March 2010

Throwing Four Balls in the Air to get a Square (Best of 36 Tries), John Baldessari, 1974.
Quality Material—…, John Baldessari, late 1960s.

Filed under: Concept, People — Tags: — Cynthia @ 10:25 pm
16 February 2010

I discovered this video on Vance Wellenstein’s tumblr, once again, thank you.

Filed under: Film/Video — Tags: , — Cynthia @ 8:29 pm

Video for Yeasayer’s “Ambling Alp,” from the album ODD BLOOD.

Filed under: Film/Video — Tags: , — Cynthia @ 8:22 pm
17 December 2009

Rock of Ages # 4, Abandoned Section, Adam-Pirie Quarry, Barre, Vermont, Edward Burtynsky, 1991.
Photography by Edward Burtynsky
Part of the Quarries Series, Vermont

Belly of the Whale Series #7, Robin Friend

Belly of the Whale Series #2, Robin Friend
Photography by Robin Friend

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Photography Unknown

Filed under: Environment, People, Photography — Tags: , , — Cynthia @ 2:01 am
16 December 2009

There are two surviving sets of answers to the confession album questions by Proust: the first, from 1885 or 1886, is to an English confessions album, although his answers are in French. The second, from 1891 or 1892, is from a French album, Les confidences de salon (”Drawing room confessions”), which contains translations of the original questions, lacking some that were in the English version and adding others.

Confessions questions/ Confidences questions : Proust’s answers 1890
Your favorite virtue / The principal aspect of my personality : The need to be loved; more precisely, the need to be caressed and spoiled much more than the need to be admired
Your favorite qualities in a man / The quality that I desire in a man : Feminine charms.
Your favorite qualities in a woman / The quality that I desire in a woman : Manly virtues, and frankness in friendship.
Your chief characteristic —- —-
What you appreciate the most in your friends / What I appreciate most about my friends : To have tenderness for me, if their personage is exquisite enough to render quite high the price of their tenderness
Your main fault / My main fault : Not knowing, not being able to “want”.
Your favourite occupation / My favorite occupation : Loving.
Your idea of happiness / My dream of happiness : I am afraid it be not great enough, I dare not speak it, I am afraid of destroying it by speaking it.
Your idea of misery / What would be my greatest misfortune? : Not to have known my mother or my grandmother.
If not yourself, who would you be? / What I should like to be: Myself, as the people whom I admire would like me to be.
Where would you like to live? / The country where I should like to live : A country where certain things that I should like would come true as though by magic, and where tenderness would always be reciprocated
Your favourite colour and flower / My favourite colour : The beauty is not in the colours, but in their harmony.
—- / The flower that I like : Hers/His – and after, all of them.[1]
—- / My favorite bird : The swallow.
Your favorite prose authors / My favorite prose authors : Currently, Anatole France and Pierre Loti.
Your favorite poets / My favorite poets : Baudelaire and Alfred de Vigny.
Your favorite heroes in fiction / My heroes in fiction : Hamlet.
Your favorite heroines in fiction / My favorite heroines in fiction : Bérénice.
Your favorite painters and composers / My favorite composers : Beethoven, Wagner, Schumann.
—- / My favorite painters : Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt.
Your heroes in real life / My heroes in real life : Mr. Darlu, Mr. Boutroux.
Your favorite heroines in real life / —- : —-
What characters in history do you most dislike / —- : —-
Your heroines in World history / My heroines in history : Cleopatra.
Your favorite food and drink / —- : —-
Your favorite names / My favorite names : I only have one at a time.
What I hate the most / What I hate most of al : What is bad about me.
World history characters I hate the most / Historical figures that I despise the most : I am not educated enough.
The military event I admire the most / The military event that I admire most : My military service!
The reform I admire the most / The reform which I admire the most : —-
The natural talent I’d like to be gifted with / The gift of nature that I would like to have : Will-power, and seductiveness.
How I wish to die / How I want to die : Improved—and loved.
What is your present state of mind / My present state of mind : Boredom from having thought about myself to answer all these questions.
For what fault have you most toleration? / Faults for which I have the most indulgence : Those that I understand.
Your favorite motto / My motto : I should be too afraid that it bring me misfortune.

Excerpted from Wikipedia

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7 December 2009

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Filed under: Environment, Habitat, Objects — Tags: , , , — Cynthia @ 12:22 am

Good design is innovative.
Good design makes a product useful.
Good design is aesthetic.
Good design makes a product understandable.
Good design is unobtrusive.
Good design is honest.
Good design is long-lasting.
Good design is thorough down to the last detail.
Good design is environmentally friendly.
Good design is as little design as possible.

Copyright Dieter Rams, amended March 2003 and October 2009

Filed under: Concept, Design, Methodology — Tags: , , — Cynthia @ 12:00 am
6 December 2009

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