AugustAug 3 Friday 07
« I don't know, so maybe I'm not »
« 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" appeared on a young man …
JuneJun 29 Friday 07
Sarasate
JuneJun 26 Tuesday 07
The Song of Wandering Aengus
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 caught a little …
JuneJun 16 Saturday 07
A monster made of eyes
« 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
JuneJun 15 Friday 07
Heliocentrism is Devil
This is a fantastic satire about creationism : heliocentrism-is-an-atheist-doctrine
I just love this.
JuneJun 14 Thursday 07
Elegance, perversity and formal perfection
Erwin Olaf will be exposed in 2008 in FotoMuseum Antwerp.
JuneJun 12 Tuesday 07
La Berma
« 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'elles ce que je …
JuneJun 11 Monday 07
An erotics
« 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 beauty nor truth. …
JuneJun 9 Saturday 07
Inferno XV
« 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
JuneJun 8 Friday 07
Why I did it.
Why have I open an account here?
The public reasons are : I found the design fantastic. It seems to attract creative and out-of-the-box people. Orkut and other cheap social sites seem to be empty and disappointing nutshells. I shall have a practical opportunity to …