Quote
January 20, 2012
"Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."

— from On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Quote
January 20, 2012
"The arts are more dangerous [than other professions] because they require sensitivity to a large extent…If you go too far you can pay a price — you can be too sensitive to live in this world."

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Quote
January 20, 2012
"‎This idea to create something is not my aim. To be different is a negative motive, and no creative thought or created thing grows out of a negative impulse. A negative impulse is always frustrating. And to be different means ‘not like this’ and ‘not like that.’ And the ‘not like’—that’s why postmodernism, with the prefix of ‘post,’ couldn’t work. No negative impulse can work, can produce any happy creation. Only a positive one."

— Eva Zeisel, on innovation

Video
January 16, 2012
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BTS of Tone & Vinny shooting part of a music vid for Melo-X.
Never a dull moment at the loft ;)

Part of Eddie Pages’ 1 minute video challenge! 

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Quote
January 16, 2012
"Love is functional passion, not exaggerated emotions"

— Mike Martinez (friend of Ed Pages)

Photo
January 16, 2012
Really great collection of oddball antiques from Steve Erenberg. On the lighter side, I especially like this assortment of eyewear, but the museum section has some brilliant masks and various head contraptions. Erenberg also has a reasonably priced selection of antique lighting for sale, along with some other knickknacks that are certainly out of my price range, but fun to look at nonetheless.

Really great collection of oddball antiques from Steve Erenberg.

On the lighter side, I especially like this assortment of eyewear, but the museum section has some brilliant masks and various head contraptions.


Erenberg also has a reasonably priced selection of antique lighting for sale, along with some other knickknacks that are certainly out of my price range, but fun to look at nonetheless.

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Video
January 14, 2012

I guess the girl can edit…

The R’s - Rudy

Performed Live at the Loft.

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Photoset
January 14, 2012

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Quote
January 14, 2012
"Nobody actually wants to grow up. We just want the freedom to use our youth."

— anonymous 

Text
January 14, 2012
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repose

that aftershave you wore,

clinging to the prickles of your chin,

the channels at the corners of your eyes, 

the strength in your legs, 

the olive of your arms, 

the thin red dash that was your smile

and my naivety, 

to think that things would always smell the same,

taste the same, 

feel the same, 

stay the same as in the blink of this moment 

when our skin was younger,

and our time was new,

and all we had was time, when time is really nothing in itself at all.



the channels have deepened,

spilling over with sweat,

saline, warm and familiar,

to swim in them is to accept death,

but our last breath holds for years,

and my naivety has grown,

as has yours,

to softly accept dying together,

as our elasticity wanes.

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