May 2013
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March 2013
4 posts
February 2013
5 posts
January 2013
6 posts
“When we are dead,
seek not our tomb in the earth,
but find it in the hearts of...”
– Rumi (via moroccanstateofmind)
Watchwillystaley:
On one of his stronger tracks this year, “Stove on High,” E-40 makes a rather bold claim. Assuming the voice of a wise street hustler offering unsolicited advice — something he has always done, but one which, in his middle age, has become strangely endearing — 40 says this: ”They can see through walls with radio waves, not infrared/the Xaver 800 is now nationwide spread.” I have no...
December 2012
3 posts
November 2012
3 posts
“We have gained in terms of reality and lost in terms of the dream. We no longer...”
– Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities. This was written more than half a century ago, and set almost exactly a whole century ago, and the context of both the book, and the quote (later on), is the impending high-tech destruction of WWI. Still, swap out “mathematics” for “consumer technology” and,...
lavishbungalows:
Roc Marciano - “Flash Gordon”...
October 2012
4 posts
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September 2012
12 posts
Chris Arnade Photography: Pigeons over Dots →
arnade:
“A hundred-birded tumult and blur.” — Don DeLillo, Underworld
(Willie’s Pigeons, Bushwick)
I first noticed the beautiful flocks of pigeons high above Maria Hernandez Park in Bushwick, Brooklyn three summers ago, pointed out to me by my friend Sam Bailey. They were beautiful, a mass of…
August 2012
6 posts
Chris Arnade Photography: The arrogance of... →
arnade:
(Classic riders Bushwick)
I have spent a good portion of the last three years photographing two of New York’s highest crime districts: Hunts Point and East New York. I am a white banker walking around with an expensive camera, often ‘til 4 in the morning, and I have not been robbed, jumped,…
1 tag
July 2012
7 posts
