Erwin Kneihsl - Untitled (Sea), 2010
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Ofra Lapid - Broken Houses (2010)
A series of small-scale models based on photographs of ruined homes the artist found on the web by an amateur (unnamed) photographer.
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"His biographers recount that when the poet Paul Celan was four years old, he took a notion to make up his own fairy tales. He went about telling these new versions to everyone in the house until his father advised him to cut it out. ‘If you need stories the Old Testament is full of them.’ To make up new stories, Celan’s father thought, is a waste of words… Perhaps poets are ones who waste what their fathers would save."
Anne Carson, Economy of the Unlost (via invisiblestories)
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Jealous (adj.)
…Among the ways to express this in other tongues are Swedish svartsjuka, literally “black-sick,” from phrase bara svarta strumpor ”wear black stockings,” also “be jealous.” Danish skinsyg ”jealous,” literally “skin-sick,” is from skind “hide, skin” said to be explained by Swedish dialectal expression fa skinn ”receive a refusal in courtship.”
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(Source: h-o-r-r-e-u-r, via gothicrealm)
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While the most famous images to come out of the Great Depression, such as Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant Mother” photographs, seem to have been focused on the people upon whom the Depression came crashing down, the prominent images of our tough times seem to focus on the buildings hardest hit. Whereas those Depression-era images force us to see the human struggle, some have argued the images of today, ubiquitously known as “ruin porn,” allow the viewer to disconnect the human consequences from these dilapidated and abandoned buildings. Keep reading.
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