May 2011
27 posts
from The Myth of Photography
III.
It’s so easy for nothing to happen. Dust rises
from the pavement when I shuffle my shoes
— that’s what I should have been looking at.
Art is something about to happen,
ventriloquist of the present tense.
The man pulled a black cloth over his head to block
the ambient light, to focus, to compose. The something
about to happen is the telling.Rick Bursky
“The internet has taught me that a surprising number of people enjoy framed aphorisms, especially if set in a typeface that resembles an old typewriter or handwriting. It hasn’t yet taught me how to monetize this knowledge.”
—(via magnificentruin)
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“There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What’s up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don’t think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who’s been pinching my beer? And at the other end of the bar the world is full of the other type of person, who has a broken glass, or a glass that has been carelessly knocked over (usually by one of the people calling for a larger glass) or who had no glass at all, because he was at the back of the crowd and had failed to catch the barman’s eye.”
—Terry Pratchett (via suzywire)
Fuck Yeah, Solitude.: Sixteen things I believe, by Susan Cain →
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1. Introverts are to extroverts what women once were to men: second-class citizens whose time has come.
2. There’s a word for “people who are in their heads too much”: thinkers.
3. Our culture rightly admires risk-takers, but we need our “heed-takers” more than ever.
4. Solitude is a catalyst…
“But secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revelation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not.”
—Patti Smith, Just Kids (via mylove4u)
