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spleencave: Kiki Smith, Two Brains, Lithograph, 1994

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 11:56:19 -0400

spleencave:

Kiki Smith, Two Brains, Lithograph, 1994

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Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:14:36 -0400

alucinaconplanear: kiki smith

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 09:51:20 -0400

alucinaconplanear:

kiki smith

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Wed, 05 Sep 2012 08:52:20 -0400

tetedecaboche: 0625-1610 ¬ linda vachon / tête de caboche

Sun, 02 Sep 2012 12:37:41 -0400

tetedecaboche:

0625-1610 ¬

linda vachon / tête de caboche

felixinclusis: belaquadros: Catrin Arno

Sun, 02 Sep 2012 12:37:26 -0400

felixinclusis:

belaquadros: Catrin Arno

"What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on..."

Sun, 02 Sep 2012 08:10:25 -0400

“What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.”

- Carl Sagan (via anozira)

Kindles, stay away :)

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Sun, 02 Sep 2012 08:09:42 -0400

escapeintolife: It was a long walk

Sat, 01 Sep 2012 08:20:30 -0400

escapeintolife:

It was a long walk

samsaranmusing: Some of the more common mudras used in...

Sat, 01 Sep 2012 08:14:47 -0400

samsaranmusing:

Some of the more common mudras used in meditation.

workman: wasbella102: © Zhang Xu / Intentionaly illegible or...

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 09:28:49 -0400

workman:

wasbella102:

© Zhang Xu / Intentionaly illegible or ‘loose’ calligraphy. 800 CE

samsaranmusing: This is a virus known as a bacteriophage. It...

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 09:27:50 -0400

samsaranmusing:

This is a virus known as a bacteriophage. It has no senses, no brain, no nervous system in fact it is merely a molecular hypodermic needle for injecting its DNA into a bacteria so the bacteria will produce more of the virus. It doesn’t eat. It doesn’t excrete. It has no respiration and no way of replenishing its energy. It is just a protein shell with some coiled DNA inside it. Yet it can seek out a bacteria in three dimensional space identify it as prey, latch on, and invade.

How does it find a bacteria, latch on and make the decision to invade that cell?

The answer is consciousness. It, unlike a mineral, is aware that it is something other than what is surrounding it. It moves and acts with a purpose. It unlike an inanimate thing such as a salt crystal, has a fundamental awareness of its own existence, its location and its purpose. Why is this significant? It proves that consciousness is not created by the brain. It exists as a force or an energy. Thus, since energy cannot be created or destroyed then it is immortal. Then the consciousness you possess is not your own it is part of this greater whole. In this sense you too are immortal.

explore-blog: The relationship to handcraft is a beautiful one....

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 19:40:06 -0400

explore-blog:

The relationship to handcraft is a beautiful one. You are related bodily to a solid block of metal letters, to the weight of the trays, to the adroitness of spacing, to the tempo and temper of the machine. You acquire some of the weight and solidity of the metal, the strength and power of the machine. Each triumph is a conquest by the body, fingers, muscles. You live with your hands, in acts of physical deftness. You pit your faculties against concrete problems. The victories are concrete, definable, touchable. A page of perfect printing. You can touch the page you wrote. We exult in what we master and discover. Instead of using one’s energy in a void, against frustrations, in anger against publishers, I use it on the press, type, paper, a source of energy. Solving problems, technical, mechanical problems. Which can be solved.

Anaïs Nin operating her handpress, 1942