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De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period

acquisitons

private eye

my collection of vintage frames

ten days

counter

"the problem lies with the fact that they (and i, if i'm honest) belong to what i like to call the 'cut and paste' generation; they see something they like, cut it, and paste it onto their naively diverse cultural image/agenda over and over again ad nauseam. this results in what is, concerning the most hipsterish of hipsters, absolute slavery to capitalism (plus complete ignorance/unawareness of this problem)."

-Dominic

"how can a can of soup be turned into art?... only people who embrace consumerism can see art in a soup label."

via

Nothing is the only truth. The universe came from nothing, all matter is essentially nothing (depending on what quantum physicist you believe) and eventually the universe will annihilate itself. Existence is nothingness feeding back upon itself.

-alaric

It used to be that intellectuals created things. Now they form clubs that share the same arcane lingo, worship at the same idols, pray to the same superstitions. There is no ineffable law-of-nature that decrees a mind must be a product of the age in which it resides. It is simple to work outside of paradigms, to invent new meanings that did not exist and are not stamped with approval. There is no law of conservation of energy when it comes to thinking. A thought does not have to be the bastard child of an ideology.......The University has incubated a certain typeface of mind. It is one indentured to citation, the approbations of authorities, and slavishness to the ideas in vogue. I think even clever young people, aspirant writers, poets, artists and the like, fall into the webs of trendiness they think they are hacking through as jungle vine with a machete. It is this coyish build of mind, this ineffectual nature and reliance on moot causes, that is seeding a generation of intellectuals who will all be equally impotent with the problems they pretend to face.

The image of the solitary thinker, alone before his system, is one that has been lost to the mob and to fashionable slogans. But every valuable idea, even many that have been disinherited from their meanings and made into slogans, are usually put forth by people working outside the fabric of illusions communities of people can weave.

-Rational Ivan