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✖ Via Matt Robinson: Superheroes in the Recession

Artist’s statement:

“This photography project looked at childrens’ dream jobs, projecting the current employment problems onto one of the few timeless themes throughout childrens’ fantasies; Superheroes.”

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Godzilla Haiku : no 7

“Loving Godzilla 17 syllables at a time.” By SamuraiFrog

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✖ Via Diabologum: musical arrangement for an excerpt of Jean Eustache’s film La Maman et la putain (1973)

About Diabologum:

“Diabologum is a french band from the 90’s, they released 3 LP’s and several Ep’s between 1993 and 1998. Their 3 albums were radically different, the first one was an arty lofi collage of sounds and songs, the second was a collection of Rock-pop song, the third was their manifesto: noise rock and cold hip hop. The band split in 1998, the last show was in NY Knitting factory. Today the members have other musical projects : Experience, Programme, Nonstop, Panti will, the Overnight Project, Kapla…”

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✖ Via James Cohan Gallery: Simon Evans, “Symptoms of Loneliness”, pen, paper, scotch tape, correction fluid, 28 1/2” X 39 3/8”

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✖ Via Comics: Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz (Original publish date Feb. 14, 1963)

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The problem with loners is that they’re never alone.

✖ Via Boy Meets Girl, Leos Carax, 1984

Watch the sequence here (quote @ 6:30). Read an article by The New York Times about this film.

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Broadbent: … I find the world quite good enough for me - rather a jolly place, in fact.
Keegan (looking at him with quiet wonder): You are satisfied?
Broadbent: As a reasonable man, yes. I see no evils in the world - except of course, natural evils - that cannot be remedied by freedom, self-government and English institutions. I think so, not because I am an Englishman, but as a matter of common sense.
Keegan: You feel at home in the world then?
Broadbent: Of course, Don’t you?
Keegan (from the very depths of his nature): No.

✖ Via John Bull’s Other Island by Bernard Shaw, 1904, Act IV §ii.

This is the epigraph for Colin Wilson’s 1956 book The Oustider [Amazon]. I first learn about Wilsom’s book via Another Nickel In The Machine

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✖ Via LIFE - Hosted by Google: Time Cover, Sept. 15, 1961 : J. D. Salinger

“J. D. Salinger, who was thought at one time to be the most important American writer to emerge since World War II but who then turned his back on success and adulation, becoming the Garbo of letters, famous for not wanting to be famous, died Wednesday at his home in Cornish, N.H., where he had lived in seclusion for more than 50 years. He was 91.”

From The New York Times, “J.D. Salinger, Literary Recluse, Dies at 91” by Charles McGrath, Jan 28, 2010

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✖ Via Richard Barnes Photography: Unabomber Site (Montana)

Artist statement (here):

“Unabomber: Ted Kaczynski, our home grown philosopher/terrorist, serving life in prison for crimes either committed out of dedication to a cause, or madness or both, had not only been extracted from his rural home but the home itself has been incarcerated. The cabin was shipped across the country to be used as evidence in his trial. My work looks at historical and contemporary artifacts (in this case the cabin and its site), and using the imagery and methods of architecture /archaeology it attempts to bridge the gap between the banal and the extraordinary, the cult of celebrity and the seductiveness of the infamous. This work was exhibited at the Henry Urbach Gallery in New York in January 1999, traveled to the Triannual of Photography in Hamburg, Germany in May of 1999 and was the subject of a one person exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art in August of 2000.”

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The finding, published in the December issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, suggests that loneliness is not a character trait, as in “that person is such a loner,” but more of a state such as hunger, which evolved as a cue to motivate our ancestors to go find food. “We’re fundamentally a social species so we need others with whom we can cooperate and work,” Cacioppo said. As such, loneliness may have been a cue to look out for anyone who might ostracize you, he added.

✖ Via LiveScience: “Loneliness Spreads Like a Virus” By Jeanna Bryner, Senior Writer, Dec. 1st, 2009.

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