February 2012
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“We have learnt to discover the beauty of bare stone.”
– Adolf Loos, Architecture, 1910.
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Google Maps: Designing the Modern Atlas. →
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“Hope is a memory that desires.”
– Balzac.
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“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen...”
– Chuck Close, Wisdom.
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Sweet.
How could you bear to live life. Live each and every day full of deceit. Calmness on the surface with an ocean turbulent beneath. How could you not desire death. End, end, end to it. End to this ceaseless struggle for nothing. Not dreams.
January 2012
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Listen to Sharon Van Etten's "Tramp" in its... →
My favorites: Serpents, All I Can, Magic Chords & Ask.
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“What is exterior to a building, becomes interior to the streets.”
– Anastasia Tania
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“Coffee became tied to what I called The Art Life. I loved to go to diners and...”
– Obsessed: Coffee by David Lynch.
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Top five regrets of the dying. →
1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
This was the most common regret of all. When people realise that their life is almost over and look back clearly on it, it is easy to see how many dreams have gone unfulfilled. Most people had not honoured even a half of their dreams and had to die knowing that it was due to choices they had made, or...
“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts...”
– Charles Bukowski
Hierarchy of Genres →
[…] Both emphasized beauty as “something which was directly infused into the mind of man from the mind of God, and existed there independent of any sense-impressions” […]
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A lovely town called Leiden. →
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WatchBrilliant.
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Vincent van Gogh: The Letters →
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December 2011
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“This is a test. Are you going to pass it, or fail it? - Be careful, a lot...”
– Isabelle, The Dreamers (2003)
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“Architecture is a literary form of expression, giving permanence to human...”
– “Ceci tuera cela”. - Victor Hugo
Neil Levine, The Book and the Building: Hugo’s Theory of Architecture and Labrouste’s Bibliotheque Ste-Genevieve
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November 2011
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“From the very beginning of his career as a student he regarded books as the most...”
– William H Pierson, American Buildings and their Architects
Books and architecture, two of my favorite things.
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“Walking, he says, is like sex: “basic, simple, repetitive...”
– The Lost Art of Walking: The History, Science, Philosophy, and Literature of Pedestrianism by Geoff Nicholson
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