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“Some years ago, a child was asked
whether he liked radio or television best. The boy
said radio, because the pictures were better.”

— Jack Gilbert, from “A Man in Black and White”

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“That same evening, all the participants got envelopes with a demarcated route, a detailed description of the dreams they were supposed to have at individual stages of the journey, and individual tasks. Immediately it became obvious that the warnings of the Grand Master’s emissary were not just empty phrases. Without those warnings, the tasks would have made everyone wonder. I will cite just a few: One Bicyclist, for example, was to buy ten grams of hashish in a certain street from a certain man in Istanbul, and then to smoke it during the month of September in room 213 of the ‘Paris Hotel’; another, on the other hand, was ordered to buy an old house in Smyrna, to renovate it, furnish it and then give it to a third Bicyclist who was to arrive in Smyrna on August 15 in order to set that same house on fire during the night of the 16th and 17th; one was actually supposed to open a fabric store in Athens, and another to become a chef at the residence of the British ambassador in Ankara.” - Svetislav Basara, The Cyclist Conspiracy (photograph via neoretro)

“That same evening, all the participants got envelopes with a demarcated route, a detailed description of the dreams they were supposed to have at individual stages of the journey, and individual tasks. Immediately it became obvious that the warnings of the Grand Master’s emissary were not just empty phrases. Without those warnings, the tasks would have made everyone wonder. I will cite just a few: One Bicyclist, for example, was to buy ten grams of hashish in a certain street from a certain man in Istanbul, and then to smoke it during the month of September in room 213 of the ‘Paris Hotel’; another, on the other hand, was ordered to buy an old house in Smyrna, to renovate it, furnish it and then give it to a third Bicyclist who was to arrive in Smyrna on August 15 in order to set that same house on fire during the night of the 16th and 17th; one was actually supposed to open a fabric store in Athens, and another to become a chef at the residence of the British ambassador in Ankara.”

- Svetislav Basara, The Cyclist Conspiracy

(photograph via neoretro)

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“We are all individual music cultures, using patchworks of compiled sounds stitched into a cultural quilt to help keep us warm. But we are restless sleepers; from time to time we throw off the covers, change the linen…”

— Subcultural Sounds by Mark Slobin

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“Doffing the ego’s
safe glory, he finds
his naked reality.”

— Dag Hammarskjöld

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iheartmyart: Matthew Lyons, Illustration for The Daily, 2011

iheartmyart:

Matthew Lyons, Illustration for The Daily, 2011

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Skógafoss - South Iceland (by sigmund jähn)

Skógafoss - South Iceland (by sigmund jähn)

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“I feel as though I have lived many lives, experienced the heights and depths of each and like the waves of the ocean, never known rest. Throughout the years, I looked always for the unusual, for the wonderful, for the mysteries at the heart of life.”

— Leni Riefenstahl

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Norman Duenas

Norman Duenas

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Some Other Time
Bill Evans

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“Let yourself become living poetry.”

— Rumi, from “Soul Houses”

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