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Friedrich Nietzsche on the role/appeal of the satyr chorus in Greek tragedy:
[T]he satyr was the primordial image of man, the expression of his highest and strongest emotions, as an inspired reveller, enraptured by the approach of the god, as a sympathetic companion, in whom the suffering of the god was repeated, as a messenger bringing [...]
I know it’s deeply uncool, like liking Dave Eggers. But, it’s time to come clean: I really enjoy Shepard Fairey’s sensibilities. His early stickers (which he describes as an “experiment in phenomenology“) were all over the place when I lived in San Diego off-and-on during the Nineties, so slapping one on my car when I [...]
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The Unicorn Tapestries
Capturing the Unicorn: How Two Mathemeticians Came to the Aid of the Met
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When the Depression hit I was taken out of private school and put into public school. So I had a new set of friends to bring home to have a look at whatever my father was. These were the [...]
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(Click on the paintings for larger versions. More about the paintings: Waterhouse, Dali.)
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It could be said that the typical World Wide Web surfer today, sitting alone in front of a PC screen, is increasingly a monad with no direct windows onto reality, encountering only virtual simulacra, and yet immersed more than ever in a global [...]
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Why the Apocalypse is a Bad Model for Understanding the Future
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“Libera Me” [6th movement of the Requiem in D minor by Gabriel Fauré, 1877. Daniel Barenboim, conductor. 5.9 Mb file. Translation] [Deleted]
Maoist propaganda posters are OK, and Soviet Constructivist posters are pretty damn rad (and the continuing influence of these two styles of art was apparent pretty recently). But image for image, nothing surpasses the unsettling and sublimely beautiful aesthetics of Polish movie posters.
Polish movie posters
More Polish movie posters
Yet more Polish movie posters
Sweet Jesus, more Polish [...]
Sancto Iohannes Coltranus,
ora pro nobis peccatoribus
nunc et in hora mortis nostræ.
Amen.
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A clarinet quartet playing themes from Super Mario Bros.:
A bassoon quartet playing themes from Super Mario World and Super Mario Bros.: