THE ONLY INTERESTING ANSWERS ARE THOSE THAT DESTROY THE QUESTIONS _ Susan Sontag
MAS-Luxe: Tops and Jars for Baccarat, Guillaume Noiseux
Calici Conservatore, Gumdesign
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NEW YORK IS A THEME PARK FOR PEOPLE WITH IQs OVER 108 _ Douglas Coupland
56 Leonard Street, Herzog & de Meuron, sculpture by Anish Kapoor
Sperone Westwater Gallery, Foster and Partners, NYC
BEYOND A CERTAIN POINT THERE IS NO RETURN. THIS POINT HAS TO BE REACHED _ Kafka
Dreaming of Joy, Ran Hwang
Sunflower Seeds, Ai Wei Wei at the Tate Modern
SO LITTLE OF WHAT COULD HAPPEN DOES HAPPEN _ Salvador Dalí
Land of Giants, Choi + Shine Architects (unbuilt)
THE BICYCLE IS THE PERFECT TRANSDUCER TO MATCH MAN’S METABOLIC ENERGY TO THE IMPEDANCE OF LOCOMOTION. EQUIPPED WITH THIS TOOL, MAN OUTSTRIPS THE EFFICIENCY OF NOT ONLY ALL MACHINES BUT ALL OTHER ANIMALS AS WELL _ Ivan Illich, Energy and Equity
Lance Armstrong, Annie Leibovitz
Bicycle Wine Rack, Oopsmark
LE PROBLÈME N’EST PAS DE SAVOIR SI L’HOMME MODIFIERA OU NON LES SYSTÈMES NATURES, MAIS BIEN PLUTÔT COMMENT IL LE FERA _ René Dubos
bouquet, Tokujin Yoshioka for moroso
Nomoli’s Flickr photostream
THE TRUE MAN WANTS TWO THINGS: DANGER AND PLAY. FOR THAT REASON HE WANTS WOMAN, AS THE MOST DANGEROUS PLAYTHING _ Nietzsche
Happy father’s day, Lowe Bull
Sabine and I, Tokyo, Jacob Aue Sobol
BIEN PLUTÔT QU’ANTHROPOMORPHISER L’ANIMAL, L’HOMME A CHOISI LE PLUS SOUVENT DE SE SACRALISER EN S’ANIMALISANT _ Les Yeux ouverts
A visitor looks at Ai Weiwei‘s Circle of Animals Zodiac Heads at Somerset House in London, Andrew Winning (photograph)
Arnold Goron for Isabelle Marant
I COME FROM DETROIT WHERE IT’S ROUGH AND I’M NOT A SMOOTH TALKER _ Eminem
Aluminium foam, OMA for Prada
Colonnade Park, Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance
NOTHING HAS SUCH POWER TO BROADEN THE MIND AS THE ABILITY TO INVESTIGATE SYSTEMATICALLY AND TRULY ALL THAT COMES UNDER THY OBSERVATION IN LIFE _ Marcus Aurelius
Les dessous de la ville, Francis Masse
BY “GUTS” I MEAN, GRACE UNDER PRESSURE _ Ernest Hemingway
Cloud city, Tomas Saraceno
Gaité-Lyrique, Manuelle Gautrand
UNLESS YOU LOVE, YOUR LIFE WILL FLASH BY _ Mrs. O’Brien in the Tree of Life by Terrence Malick
Anish Kapoor au Grand Palais
L’origine du monde, Courbet
C’EST DOUX, LA NUIT, DE REGARDER LE CIEL. TOUTES LES ÉTOILES SONT FLEURIES _ Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Flyfire, SENSEable City Lab + ARES Lab, MIT
Map of Scientific Collaborations, Olivier H. Beauchesne
ARCHITECTURE IS THE ART OF HOW TO WASTE SPACE _ Philip Johnson
Truman show, Peter Weir
SpacePort America, Foster + Partners
IN FACT, IT WILL BE VERY EASY TO CLIMB THE BUILDING BECAUSE OF ITS SHAPE AND ARCHITECTURE _ Alain Robert
skyscraper plates, maxime ansiau
MK40 Tower, dRMM
THE FRONTIERS ARE MY PRISON _ Leonard Cohen
What does China censor online?, David McCandless
Clouds, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec
PLUS NOUS APPROCHONS D’UNE CATASTROPHE, PLUS LA MÉTAMORPHOSE EST POSSIBLE. ALORS, L’ESPOIR PEUT VENIR DU DÉSESPOIR. […] LA MÉTAMORPHOSE PEUT APPARAÎTRE QUAND LA SOLUTION EST INVISIBLE, IMPOSSIBLE AU SEIN DU SYSTÈME EXISTANT ET EXCÈDE LES MOYENS DE SA LOGIQUE, QUAND IL Y A À LA FOIS MANQUE ET EXCÈS; C’EST ALORS QUE L’IMPOSSIBLE EST POSSIBLE _ Edgar Morin
Plants, Giacomo Costa
Floating New Orleans, Kiduck Kim and Christian Stayner, When floodwaters threaten, residents could take refuge in truckable, two-level emergency modules pontooned to float up with rising waters. While solar-powered poles would delineate submerged streets and property lines, the modules would be permitted to drift, tethered to utilities through unfurling umbilicals. As the water level recedes, the modules would settle in a new pattern “and a post-diluvial landscape would emerge,” blurring, they hope, old economic stratifications.
WHATEVER THE MIND OF MAN CAN CONCEIVE AND BELIEVE, IT CAN ACHIEVE _ Napoleon Hill
House of Hackney advertisement, David Dunan and Celestine Cooney
Huis Clos, Amélie Chassary & Lucie Belarbi
PURE AND UNCONDITIONAL HOSPITALITY, HOSPITALITY ITSELF, OPENS OR IS IN ADVANCE OPEN TO SOMEONE WHO IS NEITHER EXPECTED NOR INVITED, TO WHOMEVER ARRIVES AS AN ABSOLUTELY FOREIGN VISITOR, AS A NEW ARRIVAL, NON-IDENTIFIABLE AND UNFORESEEABLE, IN SHORT, WHOLLY OTHER _ Jacques Derrida
Double Happiness, Didier Fiuza Faustino
Before I Die, Candy Chang
THE GREAT QUESTION THAT HAS NEVER BEEN ANSWERED, AND WHICH I HAVE NOT YET BEEN ABLE TO ANSWER, DESPITE MY THIRTY YEARS OF RESEARCH INTO THE FEMININE SOUL, IS ”WHAT DOES A WOMAN WANT?” Sigmund Freud
both anonymous, sometimes it’s almost impossible to find the sources to “pop-ups“
THE REAL VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY CONSISTS NOT IN SEEKING NEW LANDS BUT SEEING WITH NEW EYES _ Marcel Proust
Moonlight rest #1,Tropical Islands, Germany, Reiner Riedler, 2004
Tourists at the Tower of Pisa
THE GEOMETRIC LINE IS AN INVISIBLE THING. IT IS THE TRACK MADE BY THE MOVING POINT; THAT IS, ITS PRODUCT. IT IS CREATED BY MOVEMENT – SPECIFICALLY THROUGH THE DESTRUCTION OF THE INTENSE SELF-CONTAINED REPOSE OF THE POINT. HERE, THE LEAP OUT OF THE STATIC TO THE DYNAMIC OCCURS. […] THE FORCES COMING FROM WITHOUT WHICH TRANSFORM THE POINT INTO A LINE, CAN BE VERY DIVERSE. THE VARIATION IN LINES DEPENDS UPON THE NUMBER OF THESE FORCES AND UPON THEIR COMBINATIONS _ Kandinsky, Point and line to plane, 1926
Jean-Paul, Merci Gustave
Drawing Machine, Joseph.L Griffiths, 2009
WHOEVER CONTROLS THE MEDIA, THE IMAGES, CONTROLS THE CULTURE _ Allen Ginsberg
Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi in the desert (pictures taken of eachother)
Fig. 8 A complex wwwworld, Stéphane Massa-Bidal
WE HAVE ART IN ORDER NOT TO DIE OF THE TRUTH _ Friedrich Nietzsche
The Stockbroker, George Condo
Landscape with Figures, George Tooker
LES AFFAIRES DE DÉSIR ONT LIEU DANS LE NEZ: BUÉE, FUMÉE, ROSÉE, ONDES, PARTICULES, RÉPULSIONS OU ATTRACTIONS INVISIBLES, ODEURS EN CREUX ET LIMAILLE EN L’AIR _ Philippe Sollers
Piggy bank, Nendo
Odor Judge, Nancy Rica Schiff
À CE MOUVEMENT ESSENTIEL DU SPECTACLE, QUI CONSISTE À REPRENDRE EN LUI TOUT CE QUI EXISTAIT DANS L’ACTIVITÉ HUMAINE À L’ÉTAT FLUIDE, POUR LE POSSÉDER À L’ÉTAT COAGULÉ, EN TANT QUE CHOSES QUI SONT DEVENUES LA VALEUR EXCLUSIVE PAR LEUR FORMULATION EN NÉGATIF DE LA VALEUR VÉCUE _ Guy Debord, Société du Spectacle
Curtain, Daniel Arsham
Corezone is a closed ceramic space, where one can place their thoughts, feelings, emotions. An attempt to fulfill emotional needs by the means of an object, a try to withhold immaterial being in a material space, Corezone Design
SO THE PROVERBIAL FLAP OF THE BUTTERFLY’S WINGS CAN NOW TRAVEL THROUGH THE SOCIAL MEDIASPHERE IN TRUE REALTIME – IN THE PAST, THE OTHER HALF OF THE WORLD COULD GO TO SLEEP AND TAKE A BREAK. NOW THAT IS NO LONGER THE CASE _ John Maeda (about twitter)
Jacques Derrida on twitter
Speech Bubbles, Philippe-Parreno
A ROUGH OR FRAGMENTED GEOMETRIC SHAPE THAT CAN BE SLIP INTO PARTS, EACH OF WHICH IS (AT LEAST APPROXIMATELY) A REDUCED-SIZE COPY OF THE WHOLE _ Benoît Mandelbrot (on fractals)
Chernobyl, Jaime Pitarch
Stuhlhockerbank, Yvonne Fehling & Jennie Peiz
SUPERFLUITY COMES SOONER BY WHITE HAIRS, BUT COMPETENCY LIVES LONGER _ William Shakespeare in The Merchant of Venice
Vaso in resina flessibile bianco e transparente, Gaetano Pesce
Family Chairs, Junya Ishigami
IL Y A UN PLAISIR MYSTÉRIEUX DANS LE FAIT DE DÉTRUIRE _ Jorge Luis Borges
A German student who, in 1982, felt so threatened by Barnett Newman’s Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue IV (1966-7) in Berlin’s National galerie that, in an act of fury, he struck it with his fist and foot, finally spat at it, and subsequently claimed that Newman, had he been alive, would in some sense have shared his opinion: ‘I feel that now, for the first time, the picture is really complete, because of what I have done.’ (Daniel Birnbaum)
George Washington Shipwrecked, Valerie Hegarty
I AM SENSIBLE OF THE VELOCITY OF THE MOMENTS, AND ENTERING THAT PART OF MY HEAD ALERT TO THE MOTION OF THE WORLD I AM AWARE THAT LIFE WAS NEVER PERFECT, NEVER ABSOLUTE. THIS BESTOWS CONTENTMENT, EVEN A FEARLESSNESS _ Harold Brodkey
Blow Away vase, Front
Lathe Table, Sebastian Brajkovic
I BLUR THINGS TO MAKE EVERYTHING EQUALLY IMPORTANT AND EQUALLY UNIMPORTANT. I BLUR THINGS SO THAT THEY DO NOT LOOK ARTISTIC OR CRAFTSMANLIKE BUT TECHNOLOGICAL, SMOOTH AND PERFECT. I BLUR THINGS TO MAKE ALL THE PARTS A CLOSER FIT. PERHAPS I ALSO BLUR OUT THE EXCESS OF UNIMPORTANT INFORMATION _ Gerhard Richter
Gymnast Turnerin, oil on canvas, Gerhard Richter
Devil W, ash and oil on canvas, Marc Séguin
FOR SOMEONE WHO LIKES TATTOOS, THE MOST PRECIOUS THING IS BARE SKIN _ Cher
Rick Genest
Tattooed Man, Felice Beato
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