February 2012
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There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable...
– Ayn Rand
I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
– Robert Frost
via Jonathan Carrol
Got my jacket and took the stairs three at a time, straight out to the nearest...
– William Gibson: Wintermarket
I saw the best minds of my generation… writing spam filters
– Neal Stephenson, Getting Big Things Done, Solve For X, February 2, 2012
via The Technium
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January 2012
5 posts
Sackgasse. Dead end. Abstellgleis. Abgehängt. Überholt, nutzlos, veraltet. Jeder eingebildete Vorsprung sinnlos verschenkt. Eingerostet in bedeutungslosen Routinen, einen ziellosen Optimismus wahrend, nur um einen weiteren Tag über die Runden zu bringen. Der Traum vom Neuanfang, irgendwo, irgendwas, irgendwer- nur nicht hier, das, ich - und selbst dieser Traum eine abgenutzte...
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For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early...
– The curious case of Benjamin Button
Man kann wild werden wie ein tollwütiger Hund, wie alles gekommen ist. Man kann...
– Captain Mike (via circusriot)
December 2011
15 posts
saakaldt-foto asked: I see! A shame, the camera looks great and would have loved to try it out. Very well, Impossible Project it is. Nice blog btw!
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My dear X,
Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the...
– Christopher Hitchens, Letter to a young Contrarian
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Uniforms →
“Ein-form” nennt man´s was sie tragen: möge es nicht “Ein-form” sein, was sie damit verstecken!
( Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra.)
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Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
– Albert Camus (via p-ostmortem)
Albert, get yourself a coffee. Or two. In a nice Parisian Cafe´. On a beautiful day in spring. The first really warm day after the grey winter. Lean back on that chair. Watch the girls walk by. Look at the first green leaves unfolding, on that Trees, watch the perfect...
November 2011
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If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it’s as...
– Richard Avedon (via wolf189)
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Socializing is as exhausting as giving blood. People assume we loners are...
– Anneli Rufus
(via najmetender)
Also: People are such a bunch of assholes. (via solipsism)
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Schöner Artikel von Martenstein →
Quite elaborate thoughts about the “Mainstream”. In German.
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For some years now, i got the idea for a story, something i think about sometimes when lying awake, waiting for sleep, which centers about some guy in a interstellar war, maybe in the warhammer 40k universe, who works in a huge ammunitions-transporter, a starship, filled to the top with ammunition, on its way to a “hot” landing zone, to re-supply the troops there. Soemhow this idea has...
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
– William Gibson
.. art is not, like science, a logic of references but a release from reference...
– Joseph Campbell, Primitive Mythology, P. 42
I am one of the searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not...
– James Kavanaugh, There Are Men Too Gentle to Live Among Wolves
via: Jonathan Carroll