In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
-S. Beckett
I enjoy collecting various things.
Finding the method within the madness. Cheap thrills and Fine art. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Postmodern relic.
Yes! You know what it is, don't you boy? Shall I tell you? It's the least I can do. Steel isn't strong, boy, flesh is stronger! Look around you. There, on the rocks; a beautiful girl. Come to me, my child... That is strength, boy! That is power! What is steel compared to the hand that wields it?
As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me. (Psalms 18:44)
Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me. (Psalms 36:11)
But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared. (Psalms 130:04)
They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations. (Psalms 72:05)
Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man. (Psalms 60:11)
Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt. Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame... (Psalms 70:02-03)
Give to them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavors: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert. (Psalms 28:04)
Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who is devoted to thy fear. (Psalms 119:38)
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. (Psalms 119:105)
- Blades that fit the No.3 handle.
I'd like to meet:
Brilliance. Co-conspirators. Accomplices. Subjects. Active minds. Able bodies. Lucian Freud.
Music:
Classical, Opera, Rock, Soul, Industrial/ Electronica, Latin Folk Ballads, Jazz/ Bossa Nova, Disco, Hip Hop/ Rap/ Reggaeton, Country, Noise/ Atonal, Spoken Word, Silence, damn near everything. Any Baroque harpsichord. Everything needs more harpsichord. The piano is my favorite instrument. I'm really partial toward Russian composition.
Books:
Politics, Art History, Classic Literature, Existentialist Literature, Advertising/ Design/ Marketing/ PR, Psychology/ Sociology/ Anthropology- The Chicago Manual of Style
Authors: Camus, Maupassant, Beckett, Faulkner, Thompson, Itten, Kafka, Oates, Wilde, Jung, Perls, Janov, Ballard, etc. etc. etc.
Artists: Bellmer, Mondrian, Borofsky, Hirst, Bourgeois, Arbus, Helmut Newton, Tingueley, Malevich, Beuys, Paik, Heartfield, Warhol, Erte, Moore, Noguchi, Jiang, Eames, Gruau, Van der Rohe, Judd, etc. etc. etc.- I also have a particular weakness for Italian Baroque, 17th c. Spanish vanitas and Rococo.
Periodicals: Fast Company, Inc, Wall St. Journal, HOW, Communication Arts, GD USA, all sorts of various swatchbooks and Graphis Annuals.
Heroes:
It's getting faster - - moving faster now - - - it's getting out of hand - - -
Those who promote education and advocate US educational reform. Any number of artists whose work exemplify the vanitas genre. Shameless deconstructionists. Those who boldly traverse the existential dilemma.
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.
-G.S. Patton
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