Another Jigger Of Rye

Images I used in the story I just finished. Sometimes I actually...

Images I used in the story I just finished. Sometimes I actually use Tumblr for productive means as well as mindless image trawling. Only sometimes mind. Still, very useful creative/reference tool when you use it for the right reasons.

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"Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences...."

""Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences. (Roy Ascott's phrase.) That solves a lot of problems: we don't have to argue whether photographs are art, or whether performances are art, or whether Carl Andre's bricks or Andrew Serranos's piss or Little Richard's 'Long Tall Sally' are art, because we say, 'Art is something that happens, a process, not a quality, and all sorts of things can make it happen.' … [W]hat makes a work of art 'good' for you is not something that is already 'inside' it, but something that happens inside you — so the value of the work lies in the degree to which it can help you have the kind of experience that you call art.""

- Brian Eno (via jessiethatcher) (via notational) (via absolumentmoderne)

bendiswordsforpictures:  'Treat writing as if it was a...

bendiswordsforpictures: 

'Treat writing as if it was a God, as if it were some immensely powerful deity that you had to appease, that you had to do your very best work for, that nothing other than your best would be good enough…' - Alan Moore

Canon F-1, 1971 Character in story I'm writing is using...

Canon F-1, 1971

Character in story I'm writing is using this camera, which was once her father's. 

"However much one cursed at the time, one realized afterwards that one had been in contact with..."

"However much one cursed at the time, one realized afterwards that one had been in contact with something strange and valuable. One had been in a community where hope was more normal than apathy or cynicism, where the word 'comrade' stood for comradeship and not, as in most countries, for humbug. One had breathed the air of equality. I am well aware that it is now the fashion to deny that Socialism has anything to do with equality. In every country in the world a huge tribe of party-hacks and sleek little professors are busy 'proving' that Socialism means no more than a planned state-capitalism with the grab-motive left intact. But fortunately there also exists a vision of Socialism quite different from this. The thing that attracts ordinary men to Socialism and makes them willing to risk their skins for it, the 'mystique' of Socialism, is the idea of equality; to the vast majority of people Socialism means a classless society, or it means nothing at all."

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Orwell, Homage to Catalonia, p 104.

(via differentclasswar)

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"What we ask of writers is that they guarantee the survival of what we call human in the world where..."

"What we ask of writers is that they guarantee the survival of what we call human in the world where everything appears inhuman; guarantee the survival of human discourse to console us for the loss of humanity in every other discourse and relationship. And what do we mean by human? Whatever is temperamental, emotional, ingenuous, and not at all austere. It is very hard to find someone who believes in the austerity of literature, superior to and opposed to the false austerity of language that runs the world today."

- The Literature Machine, Italo Calvino

"The animated cartoon has a lot to teach the writer, above all how to define characters and objects..."

"The animated cartoon has a lot to teach the writer, above all how to define characters and objects with a few strokes. It is the art of metamorphosis (the great theme of novels)."

- The Literature Machine, Italo Calvino

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"Literature is a search for the book hidden in the distance that alters the value and meaning of the..."

"Literature is a search for the book hidden in the distance that alters the value and meaning of the known books."

- The Literature Machine, Italo Calvino

"The main thing in a narrative is not the explanation of the extraordinary event, but the order of..."

"The main thing in a narrative is not the explanation of the extraordinary event, but the order of things that this extraordinary event produces in itself and around it; the pattern, the symmetry, the network of images deposited around it, as in the formation of a crystal."

- The Literature Machine, Italo Calvino

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Classic Ballroom Dances

Grandmothers who wring the necks
Of chickens; old nuns
With names like Theresa, Marianne,
Who pull schoolboys by the ear;

The intricate steps of pickpockets
Working the crowd of the curious
At the scene of an accident; the slow shuffle
Of the evangelist with a sandwich-board;

The hesitation of the early morning customer
Peeking through the window-grille
Of a pawnshop; the weave of a little kid
Who is walking to school with eyes closed;

And the ancient lovers, cheek to cheek,
On the dancefloor of the Union Hall,
Where they also hold charity raffles
On rainy Monday nights of an eternal November.

- Charles Simic

 

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"I close my eyes in order to see."

"I close my eyes in order to see."

- Paul Gauguin 

"People say they need to express their emotions. I'm sick of that. Photography doesn`t teach you to..."

"People say they need to express their emotions. I'm sick of that. Photography doesn`t teach you to express your emotions it teaches you to see."

- Berenice Abbott  (via daniellegreenphotography)

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"The camera makes each moment atomic. It is a view of the world which denies interconnectedness,..."

"The camera makes each moment atomic. It is a view of the world which denies interconnectedness, continuity, but confers on each moment the character of a mystery."

- On Photography, Susan Sontag