A Length of Taupe

Diego Velazquez “Rokeby Venus”

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:39:04 +0900

Diego Velazquez “Rokeby Venus”

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Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:37:25 +0900

“even time is sold out when to the public’s...

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 22:32:32 +0900

“even time is sold out when to the public’s “wow” and “shhh” out of a black top hat a tailed magician is pulling new york out by the ears of skyscrapers”
- Valzhyna Mort, “New York”
(translated by Frank Wright)

"‘…although sooner or later I’m bound to commit the vulgarity of writing stories.’"

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 22:30:55 +0900

“‘…although sooner or later I’m bound to commit the vulgarity of writing stories.’”

- Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives (via fwriction)

“The insane, on occasion, are not without their...

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 19:52:16 +0900

“The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms.”

- Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

“the thing I came for: the wreck and not the story of the...

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:15:14 +0900

“the thing I came for:

the wreck and not the story of the wreck

the thing itself and not the myth”

- Adrienne Rich, “Diving Into The Wreck”

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Sun, 12 Jun 2011 21:58:33 +0900

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Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:09:35 +0900

ver2go: The chief Raoni cries when he learns that brazilian...

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 12:25:47 +0900

ver2go:

The chief Raoni cries when he learns that brazilian president Dilma released the beginning of construction of the hydroelectric plant of Belo Monte, even after tens of thousands of letters and emails addressed to her and which were ignored as the more than 600 000 signatures. That is, the death sentence of the peoples of Great Bend of the Xingu river is enacted. Belo Monte will inundate at least 400,000 hectares of forest, an area bigger than the Panama Canal, thus expelling 40,000 indigenous and local populations and destroying habitat valuable for many species - all to produce electricity at a high social, economic and environmental cost, which could easily be generated with greater investments in energy efficiency.

(from pop-culture silhouettes)

Tue, 31 May 2011 15:05:40 +0900

(from pop-culture silhouettes)

“When Zelda Sayre and I were young, the war was in the...

Mon, 30 May 2011 19:42:06 +0900

“When Zelda Sayre and I were young, the war was in the sky”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Your life is a painting in a dark museum And sometimes...

Mon, 30 May 2011 19:26:32 +0900

“Your life is a painting in a dark museum

And sometimes you examine it closely”

- G. Apollonaire, “Zone”

(painting by Gorky)

Marilyn Monroe reading Ulysses

Wed, 25 May 2011 12:39:38 +0900

Marilyn Monroe reading Ulysses

“and then in Harbin I knew how to behave it was glorious...

Tue, 24 May 2011 23:08:21 +0900

“and then in Harbin I knew

how to behave it was glorious that

was love sneaking up on me through the snow

and I felt it was because of all

the postcards and the smiles and kisses and the grunts

that was love but I kept on traveling”

- Frank O’Hara

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Tue, 24 May 2011 22:14:12 +0900

“Oh Salvador Dali, of the olive-colored voice!I do not...

Tue, 24 May 2011 11:18:51 +0900

“Oh Salvador Dali, of the olive-colored voice!
I do not praise your halting adolescent brush
or your pigments that flirt with the pigment of your times,
but I laud your longing for eternity with limits.”

- Federico Garcia Lorca, “Ode To Salvador Dali”

“If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss...

Mon, 23 May 2011 07:07:17 +0900

“If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars”

- Tagore

“The most complete and multi-articulated hallucination...

Wed, 18 May 2011 07:23:44 +0900

“The most complete and multi-articulated hallucination that ever existed.”

- Hugo Von Hofmannsthal on Balzac

(Auguste Rodin’s “Balzac”)

“The only true travelers are those who leave for the sake...

Wed, 18 May 2011 07:18:58 +0900

“The only true travelers are those who leave for the sake of leaving”

- Baudelaire

Gustave Dore, “Andromeda”, 1869

Tue, 17 May 2011 06:44:28 +0900

Gustave Dore, “Andromeda”, 1869