Showing posts with label 1950s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1950s. Show all posts
19 February 2013
09 January 2013
Words of Smoking Writers : Chomsky, Crumb, et al...
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say somthing true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune. -Noam Chomsky |
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| What the hell is this?? Who can tell me?? Does anybody know?? How can I find out more about it?? One thing's sure: the human mind can't "know" it...why does one want to "know"?? -Robert Crumb |
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| Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. -Jean Paul Sartre |
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| There is a way to master silence Control its curves, inhabit its dark corners And listen to the hiss of time outside -Paul Bowles |
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| A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. -Rudyard Kipling |
24 July 2012
14 June 2012
Sound and Vision
Members of a Polka Band at the Gibbon Ballroom in Minnesota in the 1950s. Courtesy of the U.S. National Archives.
19 April 2012
Sea of Love : Jacques-Yves Cousteau
"The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish"
"Sometimes we are lucky enough to know that our lives have been changed, to discard the old, embrace the new, and turn headlong down an immutable course"
"A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it"
12 April 2012
31 January 2012
20 December 2011
21 November 2011
11 October 2011
07 October 2011
16 February 2011
Vintage Experiments on the Blind!
HDV absolutely loves these photographs, taken sometime in the mid to late fifties in Austria. It appears as if they are doing sensory experiments on the blind, but we would really love to hear what the original hypotheses were being tested here. Make up your own!
29 December 2010
Cosmic Knight | Isaac Asimov
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
-Isaac Asimov
10 August 2010
Perfect From Now On | Fifties Future Frames
every thousand yearsthis metal sphere
ten times the size of Jupiter
floats just a few yards past the earth
you climb on your roof
and take a swipe at it
with a single feather
hit it once every thousand years
'til you've worn it down
to the size of a pea
yeah I'd say that's a long time
but it's only half a blink
in the place you're gonna be
where you gonna be
where will you spend eternity
I'm gonna be perfect from now on
I'm gonna be perfect starting now
stop making that sound
stop making that sound
I will say I forgot
but it was only yesterday
and it's all you had to say
-Randy Described Eternity (Perfect From Now On, 1997) Built to Spill
04 August 2010
Milk into Milk | Experimental Alchemy with Harry Smith
22 July 2010
03 August 2009
Ad Week | When Your Child Needs GLASSES
This informative pamphlet answers such questions (usually asked by parents) as:
"Are glasses really necessary?"
"Why is it so many children are now wearing glasses, when in former years this was not so?"
"Are eyes becoming worse?"
"What can be done to prevent this situation?"
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