December 2010
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NG: Time Will End in Five Billion Years,... →
Ker Than for National Geographic News Published October 28, 2010
Our universe has existed for nearly 14 billion years, and as far as most people are concerned, the universe should continue to exist for billions of years more.
But according to a new paper, there’s one theory for the origins of the universe that predicts time itself will end in just five billion years—coincidentally, right...
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If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was...
– F Scott Fitzgerald
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I want to grow in a garden, I want to have the sun, I want to eat and drink and...
– (Carlos Kleiber, to Leonard Bernstein)
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Never pause again to stare at them. Photographs are dangerous, you must never...
– Vitaliano Trevisan (from a short story entitled Vol 1. in collaboration with a body of photos from Italian photographer, Guido Guidi)
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Hirst also describes another painting assistant who was leaving and asked for...
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This is my good buddy Martha’s animation class video, she’s a second year MFA at Penn. She is pretty fab, and a fab artist, and check it out she can do fab animations too. I think this is completely hilarious, and charmingly simple and frank. I’m so over overdone flash animations. I much prefer the little wiggles and squiggles of hand drawn goodness. Go Martha!
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Berlin Wall Scored for Sound
Terry Fox, 1980-1982
Terry Fox was DAAD scholarship holder in Berlin in 1980/81. His studio in ‘Künstlerhaus Bethanien’ in the city’s Kreuzberg district offered him a view over a large section of the Berlin Wall: ‘I saw the way it divided streets, squares and even houses. I decided to draw up a soundscape, a score, a type of audible geography of this structure. I labelled...
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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a...
– William S Boroughs
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