“Mamihlapinatapai is a word from the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego, listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as the “most succinct word”, and is considered one of the hardest words to translate. It describes “a look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire but which neither one wants to start.” ( via)
72 Pencils by Gary Hart.
unable to build
a soft moment to share
I dig up earth
from under my fingernails
the grit of work
layer by layer
Journal | Victoria, BC | 2009
The 3-D-T”s - via Mogadonia.
I see this other race of individuals ransacking the universe, turning everything upside down, their feet always moving in blood and tears, their hands always empty, always clutching and grasping for the beyond, for the god out of reach: slaying everything within reach in order to quiet the monster that gnaws at their vitals. I see that when they bellow like crazed beasts and rip and gore, I see that this is right, that there is no other path to pursue. A man who belongs to this race must stand up on the high place with gibberish in his mouth and rip out his entrails. It is right and just, because he must! And anything that falls short of this frightening spectacle, anything less shuddering, less terrifying, less mad, less intoxicated, less contaminating, is not art. The rest is counterfeit. The rest is human. The rest belongs to life and lifelessness.
Henry Miller / Tropic of Cancer ( via )
Botlek - scha duw (ba-dam tsiii) - 2008 - wall painting.
The Living Klein Bottle House of Time, 1978 by Paul Laffoley.
“In mathematics, the Klein bottle is a certain non-orientable surface, i.e., a surface (a two-dimensional manifold) with no distinct “inner” and “outer” sides. Other related non-orientable objects include the Möbius strip and the real projective plane. Whereas a Möbius strip is a two-dimensional surface with boundary, a Klein bottle has no boundary. (For comparison, a sphere is an orientable surface with no boundary.)”
Winter is icummen in,
Lhude sing Goddamm.
Raineth drop and staineth slop,
And how the wind doth ramm!
Sing: Goddamm.Skiddeth bus and sloppeth us,
An ague hath my ham.
Freezeth river, turneth liver,
Damn you, sing: Goddamm.Goddamm, Goddamm, ‘tis why I am, Goddamm,
So ‘gainst the winter’s balm.Sing goddamm, damm, sing Goddamm.
Sing goddamm, sing goddamm, DAMM.
Ancient Music - Ezra Pound ( via )
The almost photo realistic Magical Landscapes of Michael Kraehmer.
Dada-Messe, Raoul Hausmann, 1920. ( via )
PETMAN :
“PETMAN is an anthropomorphic robot for testing chemical protection clothing used by the US Army. Unlike previous suit testers, which had to be supported mechanically and had a limited repertoire of motion, PETMAN will balance itself and move freely; walking, crawling and doing a variety of suit-stressing calisthenics during exposure to chemical warfare agents. PETMAN will also simulate human physiology within the protective suit by controlling temperature, humidity and sweating when necessary, all to provide realistic test conditions. “
Mount a couple of machine guns on that puppy and it’s all, “Hello, Skynet!”
THE COSMONAUT OF THE EROTIC FUTURE
“Today the painter of space must, in fact, go into space to paint, but he must go there without trickery or deception, and not in an airplane, nor by parachute, nor in a rocket: he must go there on his own strength, using an autonomous, individual force; in short, he must be capable of levitation.”
~ Yves Klein ( via )
Image of two fliers of the 8th Bomber Command clad in high altitude flying clothes incl. sheepskin coats & helmets, oxygen masks and sunglass goggles, at airdrome in southern England. September 1942.
Dada’s Girl - The Photomontages of Hannah Höch
“YOU CANNOT LOSE YOUR MIND, WHICH IS YOUR GROUND OF BEING.
HOWEVER, IT IS QUITE POSSIBLE YOU MAY LOSE YOUR BRAIN ”
- Synaptic Stimuli
