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And still I wonder whether it is possible to go any farther...

Paintings by Jens Lausen Title: Frigyes Karinthy via Panther Club and Freaky Fauna "Here I am, at the Thirteenth Latitude of Desolation, the Hundredth Longitude of Shame, the utmost Altitude of t...

1 day ago 1 person likes this

In absolute darkness we brooded on the origin and the destiny of the galaxies, and on the appalling...

Drawings by Virgil Finlay Title: Olaf Stapledon, Star Maker Folkert

3 days ago 1 person likes this

Things separate in order to appear

Music Packaging for Troberg by HelloMe Title: Matthew Sullivan Folkert

4 days ago 2 people like this

The artist is by necessity a collector

Vintage book cover graphics from the collection of Julian Montague Title: Paul Rand "The artist is by necessity a collector; he accumulates things with the same ardor and curiosity [with which] a...

5 days ago 2 people like this

My computer program is like a piano. I could continue to use it creatively all my life.

Early computer animation by John Whitney Previously: Oskar Fischinger On youtube: Catalog, Permutations, Matrix Likely via my friend Alex at Data Garden Will 50 Watts

02 feb 12 5 people like this

Life is a real and autonomous process independent from any specific material manifestation

Quasi-Objects (3d generated videos and prints) by Lorenzo Oggiano ... to stimulate thought and dialogue on the progressive relativisation of natural forms of life as a result of techno-biological evo...

01 feb 12 6 people like this

I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even after its decay

Paintings by Dennis Wojtkiewicz Title: Egon Schiele via Cuded via this isnt happiness Will 50 Watts

31 jan 12 4 people like this

The country habit has me by the heart…

Photographs by Erwan Frotin Title: Vita Sackville-West Atley

30 jan 12 2 people like this

I am not an animal. I am a human being

Photographs by Simen Johan Title: The Elephant Man by David Lynch. Via Animal Rites by Cary Wolfe. Via The Animal That Is by Jdcalkins2001 Folkert

29 jan 12 5 people like this

Malicious Glamour

Late 60s photographs by Franco Rubartelli Title via the tumblr Malicious Glamour Will 50 Watts

27 jan 12 3 people like this

In the living as well as the non-living parts of nature, the trained eye encounters wide-spread evi...

Drawings by Jean-Pierre Hébert Title: Hans Jenny Folkert

25 jan 12 1 person likes this

Without great solitude, no serious work is possible

Photographs by Eric Cahan Title: Picasso Folkert

24 jan 12 2 people like this

By abandoning fantasy for the more pragmatic aspects of building, the profession has lost some of i...

Folkert

23 jan 12 1 person likes this

Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machi...

While on the Suprematism topic kicked off by Atley below: Folkert

23 jan 12 2 people like this

A drop filled with memories

In memoriam: Shigeo Fukuda 1932 – 2009 Atley

23 jan 12 1 person likes this

But to me nothing — the negative, the empty — is exceedingly powerful.

Folkert

23 jan 12 1 person likes this

He spoke of a fourth dimension beyond the three to which our ordinary senses have access.

“I felt only night within me and it was then that I conceived the new art, which I called Suprematism.”—Malevich Atley

23 jan 12 1 person likes this

Empirical investigations of the natural world

Folkert, speaking of magazine covers, I recently ran into these. Atley

23 jan 12 1 person likes this

Everyone is influenced by everybody but you bring it down home the way you feel it.

Folkert

23 jan 12 3 people like this

All this has happened before and will happen again

Atley

23 jan 12

With a caption, however, the photograph can be utilized by the producer/author to tell a completely...

[with apologies for the window resizing on the other end] Folkert

23 jan 12 1 person likes this

This is what we’re talking about. It has nothing to do with art.

Folkert

23 jan 12

The most intense moments the universe has ever known are the next 15 seconds

Graphs: Gallery of the University of Florida Sparse Matrix Collection Title: Terence McKenna Folkert

23 jan 12 1 person likes this

We are as gods and might as well get good at it

Oil paintings by Theo Altenberg Title: Stewart Brand Folkert

23 jan 12 6 people like this

We have to go. I am almost happy here

Illustrations by Magnus Voll Mathiassen Title: Ender Wiggin Via Modcult Atley

23 jan 12 2 people like this

There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars

Graphic design by Tsto Title: Jack Kerouac Folkert

23 jan 12 1 person likes this

Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human...

Paintings by Oliver Vernon Title: Frank Herbert, Dune Atley

23 jan 12 2 people like this

After the commonplaces of everyday life, with their muffled dramas, all my organic expertise for de...

Photographs by Nicolai Howalt Title: J.G. Ballard Atley

23 jan 12 2 people like this

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple

Works by Eben Goff Title: Dr. Seuss Folkert

23 jan 12 1 person likes this

The result of any computation is itself impossible to compute without going through the same sequen...

Generative artworks by Elijah Porter Title: Seth Lloyd Folkert

23 jan 12 1 person likes this

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