The Wreck of Time By Annie Dillard : “Los Angeles airport has 25,000 parking spaces. This is about one space for every person who died in 1985 in Colombia when a volcano erupted. This is one space fo...
“I’m a multimillionaire. I make more money accidentally than most people do on purpose.” - John G. Schwegmann
“Louisiana is the world’s prison capital. The state imprisons more of its people, per head, than any of its U.S. counterparts. First among Americans means first in the world. Louisiana’s incarceratio...
"Most Americans think things are getting worse, and a melange of low-grade magical realism and ironic metafiction are the sugar that make the palliatives go down. We get to choose between sparks ...
“My audience are all complete pissflaps. Have you read my website comments threads? Utter inane gibberish. I would like to train a giant horse to fuck out all their eyes.” Who’s going to say that?...
‘New Chevrolet meets old Cadillac’, 1977 (via Shorpy)
“It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.” - Oscar Wilde
List of inventors killed by their own inventions
"The question of markets is really a question about how we want to live together. Do we want a society where everything is up for sale? Or are there certain moral and civic goods that markets do ...
"Which makes it difficult to make a living, especially if there is a simultaneous increase in photographers who have a money-doesnt-matter attitude and who can afford to live in a garrett because...
The gun and the camera: an historical relationship
"Working with people in uniforms is kind of similar to working with nudes.": Spencer Tunick
"My point is that we dont need you. Thanks to the internet, we can publicize ourselves. Why would we want you?": Susannah Breslin on getting interview requests. Which I wholeheartedly second,...
Nick Knight flower printed by John Driscol, RIP
"Indeed, depictions of women often command the highest prices, whereas works by them do not."
"I stand up and take one single picture. The spell is broken, but I felt very uncomfortable when taking it. Never before and never afterwards did I feel more superfluous as a photographer and, al...
"At 18, you may long to be Damien Hirst when he was 30. But in his 40s, Hirst apparently wishes he was the artist that, who knows, he might have been, had he spent his youth drawing day after day...
Keith Haring, ‘Untitled (For James Ensor)’ 1, 1989
"Art is about beauty. And if we forget about beauty we desecrate the foundations upon which Western art is based."
“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.” - Mark Twain
"The photographic record of the visit has almost destroyed the very notion of actually looking."
Around 3am Stoya started to get a little bratty.
mollycrabapple: Clayton Cubitt shoots me drawing on Stoya. For Stoyaville. Hand because Instagram hates breasts and asses Instagram blames the Apple store policy for the G-rated requirements.
Always lovely working with these troublemakers. mollycrabapple: Clayton Cubitt shoots me drawing on Stoya. For Stoyaville
"Holy calamity scream insanity, all you ever gonna bes another great fan of me!"
"whos going to suffer most for the people with children? The childless."
Saint Veronica, patron saint of photographers and laundry workers, holding up her sudarium with a Decepticon face on it. Brooklyn.
"They want layers and layers of complexity because it’s in complexity that there are loopholes."
Secular cathedral. Brooklyn.
"Im starting to believe that large bureaucracies (corporations or governments) are in fact a new form of artificial life. Where we humans are made of individual living cells, corporations are mad...
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