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Love tends to drift into my life as the wind through a window, ineluctably settling against my skin. Always sudden, no matter the time. Always warm, no matter the season

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Nobuyoshi Araki, 1994

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Joseph Rodriguez documented the world outside his taxi during the 70s and 80s.

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“There is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity… If I want to be secure, that is, protected from the flux of life, I am wanting to be separate from life. Yet it is this very sense of separateness which makes me feel insecure. To be secure means to isolate and fortify the “I,” but it is just the feeling of being an isolated “I” which makes me feel lonely and afraid… To put it still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet.”

— Alan Watts

[h/t Quidnunc]

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Mary Binney Wheeler 1975 South Asia

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Ana Mendieta, Body Tracks, 1974,

still from super-8mm film transferred to high-definition digital media, colour, silent, Courtesy Galerie Lelong, New York

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Mark Rothko, c. 1964, in his studio, East Hampton

Photo Hans Namuth, Courtesy Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona.

(Here's something most of you have not seen)

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Jackson Pollock photographié par Hans Namuth dans son atelier, 1950.

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Happy Birthday, Kaoru Abe (阿部薫, Abe Kaoru)

One of the greatest avant-garde jazz musicians of all time, who sadly died from Bromisoval overdose in 1978 at the age of 29. Check out his long solo sax improvisations which are truly mind-blowing.