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ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY NINE
By Angelo Costadimas, from Hong Kong.
ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY EIGHT
From Rebekah Frumkin’s Socrates and Glaucon on the Home Shopping Network. SOCRATES: So cleanliness is the complete obliteration of dirt, bacteria and unsightly stains. Am I right? GLAUCON: Yes, Socrates. SOCRATES: So to effectively clean, one must also sterilize, as a sterile surface is one that is also not dirty? GLAUCON: Yes, Socrates. SOCRATES: But anContinue reading “ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY EIGHT”
ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY SEVEN
Migizi Pensoneau on the 1491s appearance on The Daily Show. “I think back to the tailgate: the man blowing cigar smoke in my face, the man who mockingly yelled, “Thanks for letting us use your name!”, the group who yelled at us to “go the fuck home,” the little waif who threatened to cut me, theContinue reading “ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY SEVEN”
ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY SIX
Roger Minick’s photographs of tourists of the 1970s and 80s via It’s Nice That. “Previously in my photographic career, when my projects took me into the landscape, I had tended to look on sightseers with disdain, and certainly had never considered them a ‘subject’ I would want to photograph seriously. Yet over the course of those daysContinue reading “ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY SIX”
ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY FIVE
Interview with E. M. Cioran, 1984. You’ve said a number of times, as in Drawn and Quartered, that “we should change our name after each important experience.” After certain experiences. We should change our names right away, but after there’s no point. Because you feel that you’re another individual, that in the end you’ve touched onContinue reading “ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY FIVE”
ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY FOUR
Fan Ho‘s street photography in 1950s Hong Kong.
ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY THREE
by Paula Bonet.
ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY ONE
From a portrait series by Hassan Hajjaj.
ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY
I really loved Boyhood, and really loved this song too.
ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY NINE
Matt Bors, The Nude Selfie Sage.
ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY EIGHT
“The impossible city is a city made of all cities. It is neither a city of the future nor a city of the past. It is a longing for the city. A city of stone and a city of glass. It is a city of spires and transparent abysses. A city of rivers streaming intoContinue reading “ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY EIGHT”
ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY SEVEN
“Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people really talk, make paltry human enterprises seem important. Singers and musicians showContinue reading “ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY SEVEN”
A special request: Support Head & Hands at Ça Marche this year! (#136)
As some of you might know, I’ve recently been honoured to join the Board of Directors of Head & Hands, an organization that has provided essential medical, legal, and social support to Montreal youth since 1970. I’m writing to you because every year the Farha Foundation organizes an incredible 7km walk every September called ÇaContinue reading “A special request: Support Head & Hands at Ça Marche this year! (#136)”
ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY FIVE
Stay humble; the mountains are great.
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