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« I don't know, so maybe I'm not »

post a comment | posted Aug 3

 

« I don't know, so maybe I'm not » the T-shirst said. Had it been another time or place, I probably would've chuckled and moved on. But I was on Bourbon Street when this postmodern homage to Descartes's proclamation, "I think, therefore I am" app...

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No method

post a comment | posted Jul 4

 

There is no method, except to be very intelligent.
-- T.S. Eliot

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Sarasate

post a comment | posted Jun 29

 

Sarasate plays its own Zigeunerweisen...

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Not-So-Recent Blog Posts

The Song of Wandering Aengus

post a comment | posted Jun 26

 

I went out to the hazel wood,
Because a fire was in my head,
And cut and peeled a hazel wand,
And hooked a berry to a thread;
And when white moths were on the wing,
And moth-like stars were flickering out,
I dropped the berry in a stream
And...

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A monster made of eyes

post a comment | posted Jun 16

 

« But I shall not grow too old to see enormous night arise,
A cloud that is larger than the world
And a monster made of eyes. »

- G. K. Chesterton

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Heliocentrism is Devil

post a comment | posted Jun 15

 

This is a fantastic satire about creationism : heliocentrism-is-an-atheist-doctrine

I just love this.

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Elegance, perversity and formal perfection

post a comment | posted Jun 14

 

Erwin Olaf will be exposed in 2008 in FotoMuseum Antwerp.

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La Berma

post a comment | posted Jun 12

 

« Phèdre, la Scène de la Déclaration, la Berma, avaient alors pour moi une sorte d'existence absolue. Situées en retrait du monde de l'expérience courante, elles existaient par elles-mêmes, il me fallait aller vers elles, je pénétrais d'el...

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An erotics

post a comment | posted Jun 11

 

« In place of a hermeneutics, we need an erotics of art. » wrote Susan Sontag in Against Interpretation.

And that's precisely what I am looking for my activity as a photographer : an erotics.
Neither an aesthetics nor an hermeneutics, neither...

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Inferno XV

post a comment | posted Jun 9

 

« Ora cen porta l'un de' duri margini;
e 'l fummo del ruscel di sopra aduggia,
sì che dal foco salva l'acqua e li argini. » -- Dante, Inferno XV

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