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“ ‘Truth is stranger than fiction’, as the old saying goes. When I watch a documentary I can’t help crying and then think to myself ‘Fiction can’t compete with this.’ But when I mentioned this to a veteran Manga artist friend of mine, he said ‘Fiction brings salvation to characters in stories that would otherwise have no salvation at all.’ His words strengthened the conviction of my manga spirit.”
– Arakawa Hiromu, 2005 (Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 12)
Diagrams from a thirteenth-century version of the Ars Notoria.
““Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences. (Roy Ascott’s phrase.) That solves a lot of problems: we don’t have to argue whether photographs are art, or whether performances are art, or whether Carl Andre’s bricks or Andrew Serranos’s piss or Little Richard’s ‘Long Tall Sally’ are art, because we say, ‘Art is something that happens, a process, not a quality, and all sorts of things can make it happen.’ … [W]hat makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside you — so the value of the work lies in the degree to which it can help you have the kind of experience that you call art.””
— Brian Eno (via jessiethatcher)
The books one writes - past and present and future - are they not trying to say the same thing: Dear friend, from my life I write to you in your life? What a long way it is from one life to another, yet why write if not for that distance, if things can be let go, every before replaced by an after.
Yiyun Li, Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life
Fady Joudah, from Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance; "Horses"
[Text ID: My heart's a doe's. A doe's made for running away.]
"space does for comics what time does for film" from understanding comics + "…you've got 4 elements of the novel… time space character and event… on succession, time unfolds so slowly which means you dont get a lot of consequence of action, you just cant because of the way that time moves, but you do get a lot of play before something happens. … characters have time for something. … [in succession] they have all the time in the world to backstab each other, they have all the time in the world to fuck up their own plans and the people closest to them … but they have very little time to come together" (~12:00) + "writers who come to comics from prose often say its really constricting... trying to do a cliffhanger every 20 pages, or trying to put in action every 20 pages" (~15:25)
Mathematical Spirals
According to Wikipedia, a spiral is a curve which emanates from a central point, getting progressively farther away as it revolves around the point (similar to helices [plural for helix!] which are three-dimensional). Pictured above are some of the most important spirals of mathematics.
Logarithmic Spiral: Equation: r=ae^bθ. I must admit that these are my favorite! Logarithmic spirals are self-similar, basically meaning that the spiral maintains the same shape even as it grows. There are many examples of approximate logarithmic spirals in nature: the spiral arms of galaxies, the shape of nautilus shells, the approach of an insect to a light source, and more. Additionally, the awesome Mandelbrot set features some logarithmic spirals. Fun fact: the Fibonacci spiral is an approximation of the Golden spiral which is only a special case of the Logarithmic spiral.
Fermat’s Spiral: Equation: r= ±θ^(½). This is a type of Archimedean spiral and is also known as the parabolic spiral. Fermat’s spiral plays a role in disk phyllotaxis (the arrangement of leaves in a plant system).
Archimedean Spiral: Equation: r=a+bθ. The Archimedean spiral has the property that the distance between each successive turning of the spiral remains constant. This kind of spiral can have two arms (like in the Fermat’s spiral image), but pictured above is the one-armed version.
Hyperbolic Spiral: Equation: r=a/θ. It is also know as the reciprocal spiral and is the opposite of an Archimedian spiral. It begins at an infinite distance from the pole in the center (for θ starting from zero r = a/θ starts from infinity), and it winds faster and faster around as it approaches the pole; the distance from any point to the pole, following the curve, is infinite.
Camille Rankine, from "History", Incorrect Merciful Impulses
guy who conceives of every doorway he walks through as entering something and never exiting and he constantly feels like he is proceeding deeper and wishing he could get back to the start
Dark apparition by The Phantom Painter.
love this piece by Javier Pérez titled ‘Carroña’. Ten stuffed crows carefully placed on a shattered red chandelier to look as if they were feasting on a dead animal.
Ed Ruscha, I Was Gasping for Contact, 1976
"the war of vaslav nijinsky" by frank bidart
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