triumph of a heart

Settling in Under the Roof of Possibility, part 1

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:10:53 -0500

I want to be in the rooms where you were
before I knew you.

Nevermind making tea. Tell me
were there dormers and deep sills?

Did the closed door close up snug
or scrape on the floor?

Cold in winter, was it?

I want you to lie down in the past
and wait for me there.

On a rainy day back then, I’ll go through the cupboards
arrange our lives as they should have been.

Light a fire. Burn the rubbish.

(Anne Compton)

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Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:31:17 -0500

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Gin Blossoms, Til I Hear it From You (My life right now,...

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:47:51 -0500

Gin Blossoms, Til I Hear it From You

(My life right now, exactly.)

"Craft, for me, has always been only to maintain trust. It’s like having a spiritual experience...."

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:51:49 -0500

“Craft, for me, has always been only to maintain trust. It’s like having a spiritual experience. You’re asking people to go along with this type of abstraction of communication, and you never want them to feel let down.”

- Jeff Koons on perfection

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Mutsumi Makino

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:56:20 -0500

Mutsumi Makino

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Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:30:24 -0500

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Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:28:21 -0500

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Plaque by Jenny Holzer, (via presidents) I love Jenny Holzer,...

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:47:50 -0500

Plaque by Jenny Holzer, (via presidents)

I love Jenny Holzer, Martin Firrell, Ed Ruscha … everyone from the ‘epigram school’ of contemporary art. Mostly because I love words.

Van Halen-Dreams (Blue Angels) Sometimes, when I do interviews...

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:16:50 -0500

Van Halen-Dreams (Blue Angels)

Sometimes, when I do interviews with myself in my head it’s like this:
“What inspires you?”
and I want to say ridiculous, abstract things like “The flight paths of stunt jetpilots set to Van Halen.”

This video never really fails to lift my spirits.

la laverie automatique

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:54:57 -0500

la laverie automatique

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Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:23:56 -0500

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858

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:53:13 -0500

858

863

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:48:41 -0500

863

VACO ABBERO | JESS ATKINSON

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:13:30 -0500

VACO ABBERO | JESS ATKINSON

Our True Intent Is All for Your Delight: The John Hinde Butlin’s...

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:35:22 -0500

Our True Intent Is All for Your Delight: The John Hinde Butlin’s Photographs

John Hinde’s photographs of Butlin’s holiday camps in their heyday in the 1960s made innovative use of colour and elaborate staging, presenting a glorious Technicolor world where holidaymakers could escape the grey everyday reality of their working lives.

“As with all Hinde imagery, the Butlin’s photographs show an idealised view of the world and, after the passage of time, acquire the power of a lost dream. The most remarkable thing of all is that the photographs were painstakingly produced not for any aspirational ideas or as great art, but as humble postcards to sell for a few pence to holidaymakers.” - Martin Parr

La Rosa Hotel Ever since I learned about the history of this...

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:57:00 -0500

La Rosa Hotel

Ever since I learned about the history of this phrase I’ve become absolutely obsessed with it. It’s been used as a slogan for holiday camps, but comes from a sonnet said by Quince in A Midsummer Night’s Dream:

If we offend, it is with our good will
That you should think we come, not to offend,
But with good will to show our simple skill:
That is the true beginning of our end.
Consider then, we come - but in despite
We do not come - as minding to content you;
Our true intent is all for your delight:
We are not here that you should here repent you.

"Despite the difficulties of my story, despite discomforts, doubts, despairs, despite impulses to be..."

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:21:52 -0500

“Despite the difficulties of my story, despite discomforts, doubts, despairs, despite impulses to be done with it, I unceasingly affirm love, within myself, as a value. Though I listen to all the arguments which the most divergent systems employ to demystify, to limit, to erase, in short to depreciate love, I persist: “I know, I know, but all the same…” I refer the devaluations of a lover to a kind of obscurantist ethic, to a let’s-pretend realism, against which I erect the realism of value: I counter whatever “doesn’t work” in love with the affirmation of what is worthwhile.”

- Roland Barthes, semiotician
A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments

Toulouse-Lautrec

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:50:49 -0500

Toulouse-Lautrec

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Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:27:48 -0500

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Elmgreen & Dragset, Powerless Structures, Fig. 122 (Two...

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:36:53 -0500

Elmgreen & Dragset, Powerless Structures, Fig. 122 (Two doors)
Wood, paint, steel chains, door handles