Moscow 1931

 

http://englishrussia.com/2013/01/03/moscow-1931-in-color/

Restonic

Restonic Mattress Fabric Design, 1950's

The Street

This is how we do it in Pittsburgh

The Inner Ear

"Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity."
-Edwin Land

Photography

Yoga

The Inner Ear

"...the concentrated effort of writing poetry is a spiritual activity which makes one completely forget, for the time being, that one has a body."
-Stephen Spender

Green Mansions

W.H. Hudson, 1916

Random House, 1944

Illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer

 

 

photography

The Inner Ear

"The painter paints as if in urgent need to discharge himself of his sensations and his visions."
-Picasso

Mayakovsky's Daughter

"My son, Roger is an intellectual property lawyer. When he first went to Russia, he wanted to explain to Russians that their greatest resource was intellectual, not oil and gas." 
-Patricia Thompson, Mayakovsky’s daughter
http://rbth.ru/

On Sale Now

The Inner Ear

"No society can exist without expressing its ideas, and no culture and no ethics can survive without participation of the artist who cannot be bribed."
-Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Card

The Inner Ear

The poet "must never respect tradition above his intuitive self."

-Amy Lowell

Printing Press

from "3200 Old-Time Cuts and Ornaments"

Dover

Minneola, N.Y, 2001

Stoned Ape Theory

Alex Grey

http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2014/01/stoned-ape-theory-might-be-more-than-just-stoner-logic/

Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art

James Hall

Harper & Row

New York

1979

 

 

 

"... what the ordinary traveller with an interest in art and a modicum of curiosity requires is a book which will tell him the meaning of subjects which every amateur would have recognized from the middle ages down to the late eighteenth century... If we do not know what a picture or series of pictures represents, our attention soon wanders, and our so-called 'aesthetic experience' is curtailed.

-from the introduction by Kenneth Clark

The Inner Ear

"One line is given to the poet by God or by nature, the rest he has to discover for himself."
-Stephen Spender

Listen

 

http://www.kvrx.org/

The Inner Ear

"Beautiful as the chance meeting upon a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella."
-Lautreamont

Design

The Inner Ear

"I am for those who have never been master'd,
For men and women whose tempers have never been master'd,
For those whom laws, theories, conventions, can never master."
-Walt Whitman, By Blue Ontario's Shore

Listen

http://www.indie1031.com/

 

The Inner Ear

"He who without the Muses' madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make him anything fit to be called a poet, finds that the poetry which he indites in his sober senses is beaten hollow by the poetry of madmen."
-Plato



In Search of Duende

Federico Garcia Lorca

New Directions

1998



"While the poet wrestles with the horses in his brain and the sculptor wounds his eyes on the hard spark of alabaster, the dancer battles the air around her, air that threatens at any moment to destroy her harmony or to open huge empty spaces where her rhythm will be annihilated."

 

The Inner Ear

"He who works with his hands is a laborer.
He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.
He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist."
-St. Francis of Assisi

The Street

Cologne, Germany                                                               M. Hill 2012

The Inner Ear

"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication."
 -Friedrich Nietzsche
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