May 2013
28 posts
We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn...
– Buckminster Fuller I really needed to read this. —TO (via tobia)
The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have...
– Oscar Wilde (via schaumann)
Trinity term
essaycrisis:
The first few weeks
Now
Tom and I have just been hanging from the stairwell banisters for about half an hour like bats.
Isn’t it true that you start your life a sweet child, believing in everything...
– Jack Kerouac (via itsabsolutleynothing)
Don’t Learn How To Code, Learn How To Make Things →
You know what is fun? Making things. Turning a spark of creative insight into a thing that you can show people — a thing that people can use and from which they can derive some iota of pleasure or utility. Start with a simple website. Basic HTML and CSS. No product is too small. In fact, the opposite is true. If you don’t know how to build the first version of your product in a weekend — a...
had such a lovely dayy, had a great tute with the one and only martina scary Russian artist, then went punting in the sunshine. Just finished installing my work at a warehouse cycled back to find mum had posted me a kitkat. sweet times.
An eternal question about children is, how should we educate them? Politicians...
– Thomas Moore (via wavesinspiral)
April 2013
39 posts
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Today the promise of an infinite future holding the results of our work has lost...
– Boris Groys ‘Comrades of Time’
Shall we artists quarrel with those who need to wait for the weight of...
– Barnet Newman ‘The ideographical picture’
Took less than three hours to
- run into a Conservative Association member, have a ferocious conversation about living on less than £50 a week…his argument ‘a box of cereal is only two quid.’ okay
-receive some expected slander about studying fine art which of course ‘isn’t a real subject’.
-drink three pints of pimms and get stupidly drunk in the middle of...
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Thus contemporary art can be seen as art that is involved in the reconsideration...
– Boris Groys ‘Comrades of Time’