SEM images of novel Cu2O (copper oxyde) microcrystal morphologies.
SEM images of novel Cu2O (copper oxyde) microcrystal morphologies.
Excerpts from “De Divina Proportione - Libellus in tres partiales tractatus divisus” - by Luca Paciolli - 1497.
The complete book here:
http://issuu.com/paciolo-dannunzio/docs/de_divina_proportione_01
"There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night."
- Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus, translation by Justin O’Brien (via frenchtwist)
(via fuckyeahexistentialism)
The Apollonian, orrrr something. Rod steel, plaster casts, burlap, and wax casts. The sculptural half of a two part multi-media installation.
In the Birth of Tragedy (which is all about art so it’s relevant ok, not just Marina making masturbatory Greek philosophy references all right), Nietzsche describes a binary of forces that allow for artistic creation, and he describes them as embodied in the notion of the ‘Apollonian’ and the ‘Dionysian.’ The Apollonian force represents light, reason, dream states, and is manifest in “static sculpture and traditional materials.” The Dionysian force is of course intoxication, wine, and ego disassociation, and is manifest in drunken revelry, orgiastic frenzies, music and the temporal arts, and constitutes the choral portion of the Greek tragedy.
I wanted to make shit that represented this dichotomy for kicks…so what’s not represented here is my Dionysian audio portion that’s not quite resolved yet but when it is will be a garage band atmospheric synthesis of ego destruction, group sex audio recordings, and drunken jam sessions. This sculptural part is just imagery from my dreams composed in an aesthetically metric/harmonious way out of traditional materials, i.e., the Apollonian. herpa derp
Same situation with these Young Stache-less Nietzsche prints — available on grey and white 100% cotton patches [soon]. I think I prefer the cut-along-the-mandorla modification, it fixes something off about the composition. It’s a little bit small, but still works as a bayd ayss back patch, to go along perfectly with all your other stupid suburban white kid patches on yr vintage denim jacket.
“[T]hey say that Midas, after hunting, asked his captive Silenus somewhat urgently, what was the most desirable thing among humankind. At first he could offer no response, and was obstinately silent. At length, when Midas would not stop plaguing him, he erupted with these words, though very unwillingly: ‘you, seed of an evil genius and precarious offspring of hard fortune, whose life is but for a day, why do you compel me to tell you those things of which it is better you should remain ignorant? For he lives with the least worry who knows not his misfortune; but for humans, the best for them is not to be born at all, not to partake of nature’s excellence; not to be is best, for both sexes.’ …It is plain therefore, that he declared the condition of the dead to be better than that of the living.” –Aristotle, Eudemus (354 BCE)
Antinatalism; the Wisdom of Silenus. Woodcut in litho ink, on japanese paper and cotton jersey patches.
The cut is based roughly on a drawing by the Italian Renaissance artist Giulio Bonasone, depicting the above myth. I’ll be adding the patches soon to my website, it’s hard to see in the picture but the prints on grey cotton are double process two toned and the white is the single black process.
Kate MacDowell
Stolen 1 & 2, 2012
Lucyna Kolendo
Camera Obscura, 2012
guys look i made a nietzsche playlist instead of writing my nietzsche final
1. Also Sprach Zarathustra Op. 30 — Philharmonia Orchestra (Richard Strauss)
2. God is Dead? — Black Sabbath
3. Nietzsche — Judas Iscariot
4. Das Rheingold, WWV 86a, Scene 4 — Richard Wagner
5. Stronger — Kanye West
6. Nietzsche — Her Parents
7. The Birth of Tragedy — Destroyer 666
8. Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Overture — Richard Wagner
9. Survival of the Fittest — Mobb Deep
10. Antichrist Superstar — Marilyn Manson
11. Ride the Lightning — Metallica
12. Die Walkure — Richard Wagner
13. Darkness of Christ — Slayer
14. Nietzsche — The Dandy Warhols
15. Ecce Homo — Titus Andronicus
16. Nietzsche with a Pizza — Skin Yard
17. Suburban Nietzsche Freak — Fuck Dress
18. Gott ist tot — Das Ich
19. [God just] Died in Your Arms — Cutting Crew
20. Nietzsche’s Madness — Living Sacrifice
21. Human all too Human — Destroyer 666
22. Nietzsche’s Eyes — Paula Cole
(Source: Spotify)
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Seascapes, 1980-93 (via fieldmouse)
- Caribbean Sea, Jamaica
- Sea of Japan, Hokkaido
- Tasman Sea, Ngarupupu
- Black Sea, Ozuluce
- Red Sea, Safaga
- Tyrrhenain Sea, Scilla
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(via fuckyeahexistentialism)
Francis Bacon, Figure with Meat
(Source: postmancheval, via ossacoxae)
"We live today not in the digital, not in the physical, but in the kind of minestrone that our mind makes of the two."
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MoMA’s Paola Antonelli, mastermind of Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects, at a recent TED salon titled “Design Is Everywhere.” (via explore-blog)
^ a good talk.
