42 million beats

The approximate number of heartbeats a person will have in one year. Who's counting?

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Pierre Coulibeuf - Balkan Baroque (1999)

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“People want to know so much. All this time, this wanting to know. Where does it lead? Nowhere.” -Robert Frank. 

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London - October 8, 1940.

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Poul Andersen, Empreintes (Footprints), Suède, c. 1960

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From Ana Maria Maiolino’s series Lifeline (via here)

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Ana Maria Maiolino. 

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“I want to say something about bad writing. I'm proud of my bad writing. Everyone is so intelligent lately, and stylish. Fucking great. I am proud of Philip Guston's bad painting, I am proud of Baudelaire's mamma's boy goo goo misery. Sometimes the lurid or shitty means having a heart, which's something you have to try to have. Excellence nowadays is too general and available to be worth prizing: I am interested in people who have to find strange and horrible ways to just get from point a to point b.” ― Ariana Reines

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Where is the Friend’s House? Abbas Kiarostami. 1987

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When the child was a child, It threw a stick like a lance against a tree, And it quivers there still today.

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Portrait of Antonietta Gonzales by Lavinia Fontana. 1595. 

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Portrait of Antonietta Gonzales

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Gregory Crewdson. Untitled. 1998

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Chair for the Mineral Room. Marina Abramovic

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William Kentridge

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Sumerian votive figures. Abu Temple at Tell Asmar, present day Iraq, gypsum marble, ca. 2,750-2,500 B.C.E.

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El Anatsui Group Photo Wood Variable Dimensions 1987