Change, according to Hegel, was the rule of life. Every idea irrepressibly bred its opposite and the two merged into a synthesis which in turn produced its own contradiction.
{ Eylül Aslan }
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Beautiful language. I mean for singing purposes.
Thinking about eternity is not simply an esoteric mental exercise. It’s a cure for boredom. […]
Witness the man of stone. It takes an eternity for his eyes to blink even once. He stares at the sun, the moon, and the stars as they pass by turns overhead. One day he crumbles and only a pile of rubble remains. He wasn’t cut out for the eternal.
photos { Nadav Kader }
The People’s Republic of CGI
Photographers: you’re being replaced by software
For the first time in history, photography is about to lose control of its monopoly on affordable, convincing realism and it’s time for us to understand that realism has never been the most important feature of the photograph.
We have to get drunk immediately
In a new study, seniors in a good mood compared fewer options and made worse choices than did those in a bad mood or younger participants.
photos { Todd Fisher | Juergen Teller }
Which dangled at every movement of his portentous frame
New York City agency pushes plan to prevent cyberattacks on elevators, boilers
What would happen if an attacker broke into the network for the industrial control systems for New York City’s elevators and boiler systems and decided to disrupt them?
“You could increase the speed of how elevators go up or down,” says Steve Ramirez, business analyst, analysis and communications in the Office of the CIO of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), which provides public housing for low- to moderate-income families in the five boroughs of the city. And if attackers ever successfully penetrated the network-based industrial control systems (ICS) for the boilers, they could raise the heat levels for municipal boilers, causing them to explode.
photo { Bill Sullivan }
Forgive me an old after-dinner song, which I once composed amongst daughters of the desert
{ Aimée Brodeur | via je suis perdu }
‘Je suis jeune, j’arrive.’ –Alfred de Musset
As you know, the latest generation with a formal name is “The Millennials,” and they are basically the worst, continuing the grand tradition of every new generation being the worst.
photo { Richard Avedon | Murals and Portraits at Gagosian, until July 6, 2012 }
The other members of the crew, Kane, Lambert, Parker, Brett, Ash and Captain Dallas, are dead
{ Bill Henson }
His long preach about woman’s higher functions about girls now riding the bicycle and wearing peak caps
I stopped shaving. Legs, pits, bits – I ceased cultivation and let them revert to a state of nature. (…) I smell exactly the same as I did before. (…) I have changed the way I dress a little.
photo { Edward Weston, Legs, 1934 | Edward Weston, Charis Wilson, 1934 }
related: Edward Weston, Nudes, Oceano Dunes, 1936:
Although Weston preferred an 8 X 10 camera, he made increasing use while in Mexico of his 3-1/4 X 4-1/4 Graflex - hand held even at exposures as long as 1/10 second. To enlarge these negatives on platinum or palladium paper was tedious. An enlarged negative had to be made. First an 8 X 10 inch glass positive was made from the small negative. From this, in turn, he made a new negative, which he then printed by contact. Apparently he never printed by projection -although it was entirely practical to do so with gelatino-bromide papers which were then readily available. On his return to California he abandoned platinum and palladio papers, and settled on glossy chloro-bromide papers — which he invariably printed by contact.
Whore + moron = whoron. Here, I’ll use it in a sentence: ‘Oh look, there’s Kim Kardashian.’
{ The Descriptive Camera works a lot like a regular camera–point it at subject and press the shutter button to capture the scene. However, instead of producing an image, this prototype outputs a text description of the scene. | Matt Richardson, Descriptive Camera, 2012 | thanks Tim }
And therefore cannot have an eternal past
Some scientists argue that the purpose of sleep may not be restorative. In fact, they argue that the very question “why do we sleep?” is mistaken, and that the real question should be “why are we awake?” (…)
The world record for going without sleep is eleven days.
photo { Adrienne Grunwald }
O, wrap up meat, parcels: various uses, thousand and one things.
Definitions of a calorie fall into two classes:
▪ The small calorie or gram calorie (symbol: cal) approximates the energy needed to increase the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 °C. This is about 4.2 joules.
▪ The large calorie, kilogram calorie, or food calorie (symbol: Cal) approximates the energy needed to increase the temperature of 1 kilogram of water by 1 °C. This is exactly 1,000 small calories or about 4.2 kilojoules. It is also called the nutritionist’s calorie.
In an attempt to avoid confusion, the large calorie is sometimes written as Calorie (with a capital C). (…) The gram calorie, however, is too small a unit for use in nutritional contexts. Instead, the kilocalorie (symbol: kcal) or large calorie is used. In this context calorie and kilocalorie are equivalent.
photos { Irving Penn | Oliver Schwarzwald }
He’s as bad as old Antonio. He left me on my ownio.
A new study shows that images of the left side of the face are perceived and rated as more pleasant than pictures of the right side of the face, possibly due to the fact that we present a greater intensity of emotion on the left side of our face.
photos { Rob Steel | Thomas Macker }
