Screwing things up is a virtue. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.
| —Robert Rauschenberg (via girlwithneonshoes) |
It was only later that I realized the value of being bored was actually pretty high. Being bored is a kind of diagnostic for the gap between what you might be interested in and your current environment. But now it is an act of significant discipline to say, “I’m going to stare out the window. I’m going to schedule some time to stare out the window.” The endless gratification offered up by our devices means that the experience of reading in particular now becomes something we have to choose to do.
| —Clay Shirky, “How Will We Read”. (via tobia) |
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When I was young there were beatniks. Hippies. Punks. Gangsters. Now you’re a hacktivist. Which I would probably be if I was 20. Shuttin’ down MasterCard. But there’s no look to that lifestyle! Besides just wearing a bad outfit with bad posture. Has WikiLeaks caused a look? No! I’m mad about that. If your kid comes out of the bedroom and says he just shut down the government, it seems to me he should at least have an outfit for that. Get a look! I’m not judging what they do; I hope they don’t shut me down.
Damien Hirst
Loving in a World of Desire
MDF, steel, air blower, beach ball
98.5 x98.5 x32 in.
1996
What? watwatwat?
At first I was pleasantly surprised how different this is from his other work
Then I thought ‘this must mean that Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons order their ideas from the same Art Idea Catalogue’! (Which made me think there somewhere is a IDEA, you know, like IKEA, where high profile artists can shop for generic-but-still-kind-of-designer ideas. And would I love to have that catalogue. And then, well, I should probably make that myself… mmh, OK.
“That wasn’t too easy”
I don’t know what good composition is…. Sometimes for me composition has to do with a certain brightness or a certain coming to restness and other times it has to do with funny mistakes. There’s a kind of rightness and wrongness and sometimes I like rightness and sometimes I like wrongness.
| —Diane Arbus |
