“Alone” — Edgar Allan Poe

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Ornamental Alphabets

8th Century. Vatican

8th Century. British Museum.

8th and 9th Centuries. Anglo-Saxon.

9th Century. From an Anglo-Saxon MS. Battel Abbey.

Continue reading “Ornamental Alphabets”

The Fall of Phaeton — Michelangelo

Young Woman Reading from a Sheet of Paper — Hendrick Terbrugghen

Nightmare — Nicolai Abildgaard

This Coming Fall (Book Acquired, Some Time at the End of October, 2013)

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Matthew Winston’s This Coming Fall. 

Another beautiful little book from Pilotless Press.

Their blurb:

These days it feels like we are living inside a failing machine. Enter the two-room apartment of This Coming Fall, though, and you begin to see just how far things could spin out of control. Walk from one room to the next and back again. Hear each room’s voice. You will soon realize these are the voices not of some dismal future, but of a present still obscured under the noise of our daily lives. But listen closely to the dialogue between them and one starts to resemble the voice of god, the other the voice of the faithful. Listen for long enough, and you will see that it could be the same voice after all, echoing from room to room and back again.

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Read my review of the first Pilotless Press project, The Mundane History of Lockwood Heights.

Watch Wes Anderson’s New Short Film, Castello Cavalcanti

The Art Critics — Gabriel von Max

“The Untidy Man” — Robert Graves

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Loose Company — Dirck van Baburen

Allegory of a Dream — Giorgio Vasari

“My Books” — Jorge Luis Borges

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When the Children Have Gone to Bed — Carl Larsson

“Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short” — Petronius

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Eleven/Twelve/Thirteen

Eleven Heads — Pavel Filonov
Twelve Proverbs — Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Thirteen Rectangles — Wassily Kandinsky

 

Gross World Product — Ron Cobb

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“What Does the Shark Stand For?” — Slavoj Žižek on Jaws and Fascism