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Otium est pulvinar diaboli
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Untitled (detail) - Pinot Gallizio (1959)
“The patented society, conceived and based on simple ideas, on elementary gestures of artists and scientists reduced to captivity like fleas by ants, is about to end; man is expressing a collective sense and a suitable instrument for transmitting it in a potlatch system of gifts that can only be paid for by other poetic experiences.”
Pinot Gallizio
Opaque Transparency
The Obama administration will protect a court filing that reveals conversations Dick Cheney had with top officials over the Bush administration’s response to “Plamegate.” The information, derived from interviews between Cheney and special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, was kept private during the Bush administration, and now the Obama administration has agreed that it should not be disclosed out of fears that it will discourage future public officials from holding similar interviews. But the document could shed more light on Cheney’s role in the Valerie Plame case, in which the CIA spy was outed in the press, setting off a scandal. The document is said to reveal conversations between Cheney and top officials about Bush’s mention of uranium in a speech on Iraq and conversations between Cheney and Scooter Libby, who was convicted of obstruction of justice over the Plame case only to have his sentence commuted by the president. As for Plame, Assistant Attorney General David Barron said Cheney discussed “the appropriate response to media inquiries about the source of the disclosure.”
Read it at The Washington Post
apsies: A US soldier carries a stuffed toy to give to an Iraqi child as he goes on a last mission before the US pulls out from all Iraqi towns and cities. Pictures of the Week - TIME
Terrifying and sad at the same time.
“People ask me, ‘What are you, Mr. Tichý? Are you a painter, a sculptor, or a writer?’ I reply, ‘You know who I am? I am Tarzan in retirement.’
I am a prophet of decay and a pioneer of chaos, because only from chaos something new emerge.
I cut a lens out of Plexiglas wiyh a knife, ground the lens, made a camera of wood and cardboard, and took pictures with that. Of course it worked. When I do something, it has to be precise. Truly, the lens was not precise, but maybe that’s where the art is… Then I grind the lens with various types of sandpapers, first coarse sandpaper, then finer and finer, until you can see through it beautifully. And then what? It needs to be polished, that isn’t a problem. You take toothpaste, mix it with cigarette ash, and then you polish it. And that’s what I photographed with.
I didn’t choose anything. I looked under the enlarger and whatever seemed like the world to me, I printed. But what is the world? Everything that is, that is the world. Whatever seemed like the world to me, I printed. That’s all.”
Fantoft Stave Church
Bergen, Norway
My ancestral homeland is soooo beautiful.





