“Meditations” ―Marcus Aurelius, April 26, 121 CE - March 17, 180 CE

“When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you.”

“Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story” ―Chuck Klosterman, 2005

London

💀 🌳 ⚰️ ―everyone you know & love #GoT @gameofthrones

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And Barbara Bloom’s immersive installation Planned Abandon—which looks like the waiting room in an embassy’s visa office, complete with tourism posters and not-so-subtle terrorism warnings—will be revived in its entirety for the first time since 1984.

While the 1980s may have been idiosyncratic and highly specific in many ways, the revivification of works like Bender’s, Bloom’s and Wodiczko’s proves that there’s plenty in “Brand New” that’s still timely, even over 30 years later.

Functioning as weights for floors mats, objects of this type were made of bronze and shaped like bears, dragons, sheep, or tortoises

This metal pair, modeled as crouching deer and inset with large spotted shells, must have been highly valued for its new and innovative design.

The style apparently continued in the Han dynasty (206 BCE - 220 CE) since several sets of similar weights were excavated from Han tombs.

“Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.” ―Adam Smith

“Madness” ―Muse

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek0SgwWmF9w

Armor ―Made of hand-cut, polished limestone plates fastened together with copper wire, this armor was not intended for actual use, though its form does emulate the overlapping, plated leather makeup of real Qin armor.

Archaeologists estimate that each garment took over 300 hours to construct.

Weighing nearly forty pounds with about 700 individual pieces, the armor was designed to cover the shoulders, torso, and abdomen.

Helmet ―Comprised of roughly 75 limestone plates connected with copper wire, this helmet would have covered the head, leaving openings only for the eyes, nose, and mouth.

“Are You With Me” ―Lost Frequencies, 2014

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjHMDlAPMUw

“I wanna dance by water ‘neath the Mexican sky 🌌

Drink some Margaritas by a string of blue lights 🍹

Listen to the Mariachi play at midnight 🎸

Are you with me, are you with me?” 🎶

@shakeshack ―I have other highlights, but I don’t disagree 👌

“The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.” ―Edith Södergran

“To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.” ―Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Beneath Your Beautiful” ― @labrinth @emelisande 2012

youtu.be/bqIxCtEveG8

“Would you let me see beneath your beautiful

Would you let me see beneath your perfect

Take it off now boy, take it off now boy

I wanna see inside” 🌇

Today’s diary 📔

I just discovered there’s a sequel to “Predator”

I watched it 🤔

“Ready For It” ―Taylor Swift, 2017

youtu.be/wIft-t-MQuE

“In German, we don’t say ‘Happy New Year,’ we say ‘Guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr,’ which roughly translates to ‘A good slide into the new year’ and may all your wishes come true.”

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Time to get away on a little trip out west to visit a part of Canada I have never been to and meet some of my wife's extended family whom I have never met. It'll be the first big trip for the Maxxum 9 sporting the 50/1.7, 28/2.8, and 17-35/2.8-4. Also along for the ride is the Olympus XA and Sony a6000. Film includes 2x Rollei RPX 25, 1x Rollei Retro 80s (which is why the red filter is around), Derev Pan 200, and 2x of Lomography Potsdam 100!

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Barbara Kruger was particularly adept at lifting the language of advertising, having started her career as a graphic designer for Condé Nast, and going on to develop a signature fine art style that served as anti-advertising. In her works, bolded copy atop surreal black and white photos broadcasts grim anti-establishment slogans, such as “You rule by pathetic display” stamped over an image of a knife being rinsed in a glistening jet of water in her “Untitled (You Rule By Pathetic Display).” Kruger is one of the marquee names in this exhibit, and as such her works that co-opt advertising have in turn been co-opted for the signs and materials advertising Brand New.

“A Room of One's Own” ―Virginia Woolf, 1929

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The Brisbane Festival is on at present so we went to see the 10 minute water and light show on the Brisbane River at South Bank on Tuesday night. Taken with Apple iPhone 8+

The show tells a traditional story of the dreaming serpent that wove the river into being and created the life blood of the city of Brisbane.

It's all about havin' FUN at The Pickers Retreat -- a family friendly weekend event with bands of bluegrass, old-timey, country, folk and Cajun varieties. Plamer, Alaska, July 15th - 17th 2022.

Shot with iPhone 8 on July 15, 2022.

“What if it's the there

and not the here

that I long for?

The wander

and not the wait,

the magic

in the lost feet

stumbling down

the faraway street

and the way the moon

never hangs

quite the same.”

“Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series” ―Tyler Knott Gregson, 2014

The Highly Unprofessional BBQ Team

Photographed at Smokin in Steele

Steele County Fairgrounds

Owatonna Minnesota

“Life's Little Instruction Book: 511 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life” ―H. Jackson Brown Jr., 1991

محمد المنسي قنديل, انكسار الروح

🇺🇸

@centrolinadc @citycenterdc “Imajica” 🐙

“Breathe” ―Anna Nalick, 2005

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdRHSuPxgXo

“Two AM and she calls me ‘cause I’m still awake,

Can you help me unravel my latest mistake,

I don’t love him, winter just wasn’t my season

Yeah we walk through the doors, so accusing their eyes

Like they have any right at all to criticize, hypocrites,

You’re all here for the very same reason” 🎶

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During this time period, artists also began to incorporate commercialized images into their work, using their ubiquity in order to communicate a message. An example of this can be seen through artist Julia Watchel’s work, specifically her painting entitled “Love Thing”.

“The greeting cards expressed ideas that often carried racist, sexist, and classist messages. I put a spotlight on how these images, which might usually be taken for granted, are not natural,” Watchel said. “By putting the two images of the objectified women next to each other, I was attempting to show how we are positioned as voyeurs to these images and perhaps become inconspicuously complicit in our gaze.”

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“Breathe” ―Anna Nalick, 2005

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdRHSuPxgXo

“Two AM and she calls me ‘cause I’m still awake,

Can you help me unravel my latest mistake,

I don’t love him, winter just wasn’t my season

Yeah we walk through the doors, so accusing their eyes

Like they have any right at all to criticize, hypocrites,

You’re all here for the very same reason” 🎶

―the “Miles to Go Before I Sleep” series 2️⃣

“Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation” ―Michael Pollan, 2013

Used for holding food, this deep bronze vessel - with is round metal body, square rim, and looped handles - reflects the nomadic style of objects from the Central Asian steppes and northern Shaanxi Province.

In the early to middle Warring States period (475-221 BCE), the Yan'an region was the frontier of the Wei state. Its people resided along with the Di nomads sharing its southern border with Qin.

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Christian Boltanski’s “Monument” marks the destiny of Jewish children during World War II by mounting their portraits on metallic boxes illuminated by naked bulbs, an installation that is simultaneously serene and morbid, while the large floor sculpture “Abbottabad” by Ping revisits the compound where Osama bin Laden hid for years before he was discovered and eventually killed.

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The cultural, social and political influences behind the pieces at the Hirshhorn are fascinatingly varied; in Abbottabad (2013), Ping has recreated the compound – a large floor sculpture made from ceramics, soil and plants – where Osama bin Laden hid for years before he was discovered and killed.

www.cnn.com/2013/09/09/world/death-of-osama-bin-laden-fas...

Daffodils, if I am not mistaken? Palmer, Alaska

Shot with iPhone 8 on May 1, 2022.

“The Hypothetical Girl” ―Elizabeth Cohen, 2013

“The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful it would not be worth knowing, and life would not be worth living. I am not speaking, of course, of the beauty which strikes the senses, of the beauty of qualities and appearances. I am far from despising this, but it has nothing to do with science. What I mean is that more intimate beauty which comes from the harmonious order of its parts, and which a pure intelligence can grasp.” ―Henri Poincaré, Science and Method

―are all the best restaurants tucked into alleys now? @reverie_restaurant

“You Got Me” feat. Jill Scott ―The Roots, 1999; why’d y’all go w/ Erykah Badu for the music video? ‍♀️

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJCHeEQV454