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I know friends, that I have included many quotes, which of course, you don't have to read. I do sincerely believe with all my heart that war is the problem not the solution. We need to come to the table and work out our differences with dignity, compassion, understanding, knowledge and the real will for peace and to avoid physical pain at all costs. I believe and hope that this work to be a powerful message in that direction.
The sky takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the colour that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again.
Ram Charan
There is no blue without yellow and without orange.
Vincent Van Gogh
Orange is the color of the sun. It is vital and a good color generally, indicating thoughtfulness and consideration of others.
Edgar Cayce
Orange strengthens your emotional body, encouraging a general feeling of joy, well-being, and cheerfulness. Orange vibration foods are: oranges, tangerines, apricots, mangoes, peaches and carrots.
Tae Yun Kim
Orange is the happiest color.
Frank Sinatra
Orange is the color of positive thinking and optimism.
Remez Sasson
Orange is a color of liberation, from the pains of hurtful love and inner insecurities. To channel orange is to truly be free, to be you.
Frank Ocean
Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.
Martin Amis
It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.
Baudouin I
War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.
Norman Cousins
Wars never hurt anybody except the people who die.
Salvador Dali
Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build the big bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks.
Bob Dylan
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
Aldous Huxley
The first casualty, when war comes, is truth.
Hiram Johnson
The belief in the inevitability of war is a self-fulfilling prophecy... We need an alternative vision, to see the world as one, as interconnected.
Dennis Kucinich
The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.
Douglas MacArthur
The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.
Gene Roddenberry
Preparedness for war is an incentive to war, and the only hope of permanent peace is the systematic and scientific disarmament of all the nations of the world
Anna Howard Shaw
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Another great loss in the world of contemporary literature- Martin Amis.
Amis was one of a group of young rebellious British authors that emerged into the literary world in the late 1970s. Along with his close friends Christopher Hitchens, Salman Rushdie and Ian McEwan, they blazed a trail of gritty, realistic and often unpleasant journalism and story telling for the next several decades.
Amis was the son of literary giant Sir Kingsley Amis and followed in the footsteps of his brilliant but erratic father as a very successful author.
He wrote 15 novels, amongst them Money, London Fields, Yellow Dog, Lionel Asbo: State of England and Inside Story. He also wrote a number of short story collections and non-fiction books.
Ironically, he died of esophageal cancer, the same disease that killed his close friend Hitchens in 2011. Amis' writing was witty, entertaining and sometimes eye-opening yet was always a pleasure to read. He will be missed.
Kath Talent (Keiths wife) walking down the Portabello Road with the baby - old student shot
Textures not Photoshopped by the way: used crushed tissue paper under the enlarger. Old-skool Textures you could say, if you were inclined to say that sort of thing..
Fell in love with this hooked rug today . . .
Click on the image below for more information on this beautiful find!
“Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.”
~ Martin Amis ~
928 about John Updike. And 9,785 by John Updike. (More, if I could find several apparently-lost volumes. If I lent you an Updike at some point, you've had it too long and I would like it back now please.*)
To be able to count the number of pages of Updike that litter my house is possible only because I gave up cigarettes last year, and subsequently too my subscription to the New Yorker, because without smoking-and-reading time on the porch, my magazines were piling up unread. But while it lasted, how wonderful a surprise it always was, no matter how frequent, to flip open a fresh issue and find the name of my favorite author atop a long article somewhere toward the back, and wonder if he were the anonymous writer of a short piece nearer the front.
To Dick Cavett, in 1992, Updike remarked: "Now waves of disgust come over me when I see all the books I've written, but I can't make myself stop. I'm like that serial killer out in Chicago years ago who scrawled in the bathroom, 'Will somebody please stop me.'"
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Update! on March 25, 2012: I found the missing books! They were in the attic, along with another couple hundred rogue volumes by various authors. They are The Centaur, Marry Me, The Music School, Of the Farm, Roger's Version, S., and Too Far to Go. If I'd been able to find them while I was rounding up Updike for this photo, I'd've had to title it "12,490 Pages." Not counting the fact that I actually had TWO copies of Roger's Version in the attic, somehow. ("12,844 Pages"?)
Astronomical archive
Time based analogue photography
Entanglements of matter and meaning.
Karen Barad, Meeting The Universe Halfway, 2007.
All the books I finished in 2012.
Pictured:
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway (re-read)
The Learners - Chip Kidd
Money - Martin Amis
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov - Anton Chekhov (tr. P&V)
Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller (re-read)
Travesties - Tom Stoppard
Metropole - Ferenc Karinthy
Inherent Vice - Thomas Pynchon
Coriolanus - William Shakespeare
"Family Happiness" / "Happily Ever After" - Leo Tolstoy
The Living End - Stanley Elkin
Uncle Vanya - Anton Chekhov
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
Austerlitz - W.G. Sebald
Selected Stories - Flannery O'Connor
Wise Blood - Flannery O'Connor (re-read)
Rabbit, Run - John Updike
Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson
O, How the Wheel Becomes It! - Anthony Powell
The Aeneid - Virgil
The Stranger - Albert Camus (re-read)
The Early History of Rome (Books I-V) - Titus Livy
Cultural Amnesia - Clive James
Rome and Italy (Books VI-X) - Titus Livy
An Open Book - Michael Dirda
Metamorphoses - Ovid (tr. Mandelbaum)
The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
King Lear - William Shakespeare (re-read)
Chess Story - Stefan Zweig
Bartleby & Co. - Enrique Vila-Matas
Seven Pleasures - Willard Spiegelman
The Emigrants - W.G. Sebald
Fifth Business - Robertson Davies (re-read)
The Manticore - Robertson Davies
World of Wonders - Robertson Davies
World War Z - Max Brooks
Journey Into the Past - Stefan Zweig
How the End Begins - Ron Rosenbaum
Selected Stories - Stefan Zweig
The Silence of Trees - Valya Dudycz Lupescu
Night Train - Martis Amis
1984 - George Orwell (re-read)
Not pictured:
Darkness Visible - William Styron
Solaris - Stanislaw Lem
Take Time for Paradise - A. Bartlett Giamatti
I Totally Meant To Do That - Jane Borden
The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
Sea, Swallow Me - Craig Gidney
Capital - John Lanchester
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym - Edgar Allan Poe
For a writeup about the whole shebang, check out Another Year, In the Books, at Virtual Memories! And go listen to The Virtual Memories Show!
Astronomical archive
Entanglements of matter and meaning.
Karen Barad, Meeting The Universe Halfway, 2007.
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Georgian London has many nooks and crannies left which account for immense charm: no les charming is such pretence with a Classic flavour! Or, might it had to do with the Straights of Gibraltar? - a kind of English pun!
LITERARY ASSOCIATIONS:
There was a pub on this site since 1733. Dickens novel "A Tale of Two Cities", written in 1859 mentions this pub. A century later, in the 1970's this was a popular meeting place for the Soho writers Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Julian Barnes and for the editors of the New Review, which at that time had offices in the nearby nr 11, Greek Street.
Clive James named his second book of literary criticism (At The Pillars Of Hercules) after it, apparently because that was where most of the pieces within it were commissioned, delivered or written.
Astronomical archive
Hawking understood black holes because he could stare at them. Black holes mean oblivion. Mean death. And Hawking has been staring at death all his adult life. Hawking could see.
Martin Amis, Night Train, 1997.
For Baudrilland the actual photographs are beside the point. It is what precedes them that counts in his eyes- the mental event of taking a picture.
Sylvere Lotringer, The Piracy of Art, 2008.
Astronomical archive
Hawking understood black holes because he could stare at them. Black holes mean oblivion. Mean death. And Hawking has been staring at death all his adult life. Hawking could see.
Martin Amis, Night Train, 1997.
For Baudrilland the actual photographs are beside the point. It is what precedes them that counts in his eyes- the mental event of taking a picture.
Sylvere Lotringer, The Piracy of Art, 2008.
Astronomical archive
Entanglements of matter and meaning.
Karen Barad, Meeting The Universe Halfway, 2007.
My second New York Observer cover is on the newsstands today. Thanks again to Super Design Director Ivy Simones, who is all around awesome to work with. They were pretty specific this time around what they wanted. The cover article deals with the famous British author Martin Amis moving to Brooklyn. They interviewed several other New York authors and asked them what they thought of this move (hint: most of them don't like him). Behind the fence, from left to right are authors Jonathan Ames, Jonathan Safran Foer and Jennifer Egan.
Photograph © Beowulf Sheehan/PEN American Center. All rights reserved. Please contact media@pen.org for usage and rights.
This is from the one and only time I ever saw U2. It's a promotional sticker that was given away at the concert hall and in record shops at the time. I'd gone to see the band on the strength of the Martin Hannett produced "11 O'clock Tick Tock" single that hade been released on Factory Records and that I had acquired. I recall not being very impressed by the band but nonetheless bought their 'War' album a couple of weeks or so later. Apart from 3 "Joshua Tree" singles (which I bought for their Anton Corbjin sleeves) it's the only album by them that I ever bought. Never have been a fan of their "stadium rock" nor of that oaf, Bono and his preening and posturing-flag-waving-oh-so-politically-correct bullshit.
An enduring Italian restaurant on King's Road - old fashioned and with an interior of the 60s. Much frequented for its reasoneble prices. It has a history related to the 'hip' period of King's Road. When he was eighteen, young Martin Amis was frequenting the place which was a stone throw from the Pheasantry. At that time, he wrote, he was : " mincing up and down King's rd in skintight velves and grimy silk scarves and haunting a coffee bar called the and smoking hash(then costing £8 an ounce) and trying to pick up girls".
Segundo número, abril de 2010, de la edición española de Harper's Bazaar.
La modelo Vlada Roslyakova (Women Management) fue fotografiada por Nico el 22 de diciembre de 2009. Lleva vestido de Givenchy.
Estilista: Claudia Englmann. Maquillaje: Juergen Braun (Artists). Peluquería: Nicolas Jurnjack (Management Artists). Manicura: Brenda Abrial (Jedroot). Realización de Juan Cebrián.
Herman Wouk, still alive after more than 1990 years on this planet...
From The Week, 11 January 2014. Article © Martin Amis, 2014. All rights reserved.
Lee Upton, professor of English and writer-in-residence, introduced Martin Amis.
Lafayette presented “An Evening with Martin Amis” Feb. 26 in Colton Chapel. Called “Britain’s greatest living English author” by some and “the current father of English letters” by others, Amis is the author of 13 novels, two collections of stories, five collections of non-fiction, and a memoir. Amis read from and discussed his work, as well as the life of the late Christopher Hitchens, and engaged in a question-and-answer session hosted by President Daniel H. Weiss.
Chuck Zovko / Zovko Photographic LLC
February 26, 2013
Martin Amis reads from his work.
Lafayette presented “An Evening with Martin Amis” Feb. 26 in Colton Chapel. Called “Britain’s greatest living English author” by some and “the current father of English letters” by others, Amis is the author of 13 novels, two collections of stories, five collections of non-fiction, and a memoir. Amis read from and discussed his work, as well as the life of the late Christopher Hitchens, and engaged in a question-and-answer session hosted by President Daniel H. Weiss.
Chuck Zovko / Zovko Photographic LLC
February 26, 2013
Photograph © Beowulf Sheehan/PEN American Center. All rights reserved. Please contact media@pen.org for usage and rights.
"For those thousands in the south tower, the second plane meant the end of everything. For us, its glint was the worldflash of a coming future."
— Martin Amis (1949- ) "Fear and Loathing," The Guardian (September 18, 2001)
Image: [It started out a beautiful day, not a cloud in the sky] Aerial view of Ground Zero, in lower Manhattan, New York City (September 17, 2001) Photograph by Chief Photographer's Mate Eric J. Tilford
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