GoGetGone

[getgonemag]

three days & hitching's the scheme. found a nice cruiser frame ditched in the bushes & rebuilt it. it's blue, and the brand's apollo, so i'm calling it moon mission. i rock it (rocket?) all over town. it's amazing how easy it is to live off the streets here. so far i've got a whole new wardrobe (snazzy checkerboard vans kicks, jeans, swanky shirts & american apparel hoodies, skirts, & nearly a calf-length leather coat…but it was too small). the moon bike, some art supplies, & all the food you could ever need. live two lives. it's like holding your arms out, walking backward across the burrard bridge late at night. fence, fence, fence, and then….black water. "we'd rather you didn't, but we'll drive you to the very last stop, and if you get out and walk without looking back, we'll understand."

[getgonemag]

If you think about it, there's all kinds of strange behaviors in the world around us. Think about something like mountaineering and mountain climbing. If you read books of people who climb mountains, difficult mountains, do you think that those books are full of moments of joy and happiness? No, they are full of misery. In fact, it's all about frostbite and difficulty to walk and difficulty of breathing—cold, challenging circumstances. And if people were just trying to be happy, the moment they would get to the top, they would say, 'This was a terrible mistake. I'll never do it again.' (Laughter) 'Instead, let me sit on a beach somewhere drinking mojitos.' But instead, people go down, and after they recover, they go up again. And if you think about mountain climbing as an example, it suggests all kinds of things. It suggests that we care about reaching the end, a peak. It suggests that we care about the fight, about the challenge. It suggests that there's all kinds of other things that motivate us to work or behave in all kinds of ways.

Dan Ariely

[sidgray-blog]

post-park snuggle. yes, we both got chilly, and yes, we both put on sweaters.

[getgonemag]

@rawmeatwar and jack after a long day in the wild...

[lindsey-shea]

[guernicamag]

I don’t know if it’s patriarchy or my deeply ingrained stripper instinct to please, but seeing a 65-year-old man working his fingers to the bone for chichi hipsters moving into Venice Beach and snapping up the real estate, a 65-year-old man with three ex-wives (one used to be a ballerina) and a kid he never spoke to growing weed someplace up in Humboldt County—well, if you care about that man, you want to see that man get laid. I’m not sure why sex is sometimes a gift we want to confer on those we love, but it is.

The Loneliest and Saddest Kind by Ruth Fowler - Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics (via guernicamag)

[getgonemag]

Compositions /COMPOSITIONS/ By Sidsel Christensen Published by NABROAD/ Norwegian Collaborative Organisation for Contemporary Art Abroad 2013; 'Compositions' is a result of new work commissioned by Berwick Upon Tweed Film & Media Arts Festival and NABROAD, with support from the Royal Norwegian Embassy and Arts Council England.

[getgonemag]

Write Your Own Ticket:

Amtrak has begun offering "writers’ residencies" to, well, writers – long roundtrip rides aboard Amtrak trains dedicated solely for the purpose of writing.  After New York City-based writer Jessica Gross took the first "test-run" residency, traveling from NYC to Chicago and back, Amtrak confirmed that it is indeed planning to turn the writers' residencies into an established, long-term program, sending writers on trains throughout its network of routes. I wish Amtrak had residencies for writers,” Gross tweeted her mutual wish for an Amtrak-sponsored writing experience. And though such lofty fantasies often die unrealized, by the grace of some transportation-and-prose-loving god, Amtrak actually responded to Gross on Twitter, and liked the idea. 

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Anselm Kiefer - The Renowned Orders of the Night (1997)

[getgonemag]

It’s not about what’s lasting or permanent, it’s about individual voices coming together for a moment. And that moment lasts the length of a breath.

[adamisinky]

Perfection Printing Press No. 605 mounted on a cherry base

Chase size: 1 and 5/8 x 2 and 3/4 

Wilkins Toy Company, Keene, New Hampshire

"Perfection. A lightweight self-inking toy press, often light blue in colour. A number still survive. The catalogue of 1911 showed five models. The first two were described as ‘patented 10 March, 1908’, the others as ‘patent applied for’."

- Personal Impressions, The Small Printing Press in Nineteenth-Century America, Elizabeth M. Harris 

[subtilitas]

Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk - Jektvik ferry quay rest area, Rødøy 2010. At night, the rest area serves as a beacon for arriving ships. Via, photos (C) Magne Myrvold.

[getgonemag]

Ben Blanchard: 'Kinky Tiger?'

[getgonemag]

I got the kind of sins that cancel hers out.

Josh Hopkins

[getgonemag]

From The Vault: Pocket Inventory

pocket inventory: broken vitamin b, cigarette butt, hairpins, chewbacca lego figurine, dime, receipt, $210, buchu, mini-lighter, old bottom bracket race, right contact, twine, .22 bullet. 

(7/3)

[lilibaba]

[getgonemag]

why not? 

[nprfreshair]

Author and artist Tomi Ungerer broke the rules of American children’s literature in the 1950s and ’60s. He and longtime friend Maurice Sendak [Where the Wild things Are] were told that their work was too frightening for children. Ungerer doesn’t mind scaring kids because he believed in their ability to cope and adapt to life’s difficulties. Today on Fresh Air he explains the difference between fear and anxiety:

To be scared is one thing; anxiety is another one. … If you are in a battle and you have bombs and bullets and shrapnel and everything is going up in the air, that’s why you can be scared. But it doesn’t really compare to the anxiety. You see, the anxiety … is something much deeper in a way, because it sticks to you all the time. Are we going to make another day? Are we going to be arrested? … It’s all the impending menace, you know, all the time, all the time. And that’s anxiety. I find anxiety worse than fear.

photo by Stephan Vanfleteren via Tomi Ungerer

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[getgonemag]

Iceland 2012  |  Victor Eredel

so much time spent running from winter and now i stumble on these desolate photos and long for it. maybe this is next.