forest architecture

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the misfits

Ever hear the story about the city man out in the country?  He sees this fella sittin' on his porch, so he says "Mister...  ...could you tell me how I can get back to town?" The fella says "No."  "Well, could you tell me how to get to the post office?" The fella says "No."  "Well, do you know how to get to the railroad station?" "No."  "Boy," he says, "you sure don't know much, do you?"  The fella says "Nope. But I ain't lost."

the misfits

fantastic film written by arthur miller and directed by john huston. featuring clark gable, marilyn monroe and montgomery clift

whilst the film was being made a number of magnum's photographers were on set. a collection of the photos can be seen here

photograph by ernst haas

photograph by ernst haas

photograph by eve arnold

photograph by erich hartmann

photograph by dennis stock

alexander calder

carlos vilardebos 1961 film of alexander calders circus performance piece

improvised prison tools

saw

narcotics cache

rope 

dumbell

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all photographsby marc steinmetz

marcel duchamp

'the creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and this adds to the creative act'

-marcel duchamp

mimbres pottery

http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/files/mimbres.htm

from the book 'mimbres painted pottery by j.j brody

'a picture starts as nothing and becomes a microcosm, a model universe that has its own physical and structural laws. so long as it exists it transcends whatever aesthetic values motivated its producer or affected the judgement of contemporary or later uses. at different times and places it can be appreciated, disliked or ignored. the only permanent and universal message it can possibly carry and the only key available to objective understanding of it, are embodied in the peculiar logic of its forms and structure'

-j.j brody

drawings of louise bourgeois

from the book 'drawings and observations' by louise bourgeois with lawrence rinder.

'i am more interested in the form and in the abstract quality of the drawing than in the subject. we are not talking here about the recording of emotions, the recording of motives. what we are talking about is a recording of lines and shapes; that is everything. the subject is only ;all our subjects are the same;anything i say would apply to any of us. so its not a mystery. the mystery resides in what you do with it'

-louise bourgeois

ledger drawings of zotom

bodys isek klingelez

adam curtis

adam curtis blog containing his films

lead figures

Scrimshaw