Jack London

"The man who dreams of artistry, and yet thinks it is necessary for someone else to lick him into shape, is a man whose art is doomed to mediocrity. If you're going to deliver the real goods, you've got to do your own licking into shape. Buck up ! Kick in ! Get onto yourself ! Don't squeal ! Don't tell me, or any other man how good you consider anything you've done, and that you think it is as good as somebody else's. Make your work so damned well better that you won't have time or thought to compare it with another man's mediocrity."

New Project / Call for entries

paperheart.org/imtoosad
flickr post

Thank you, Belle & Sebastian

1. Century of Fakers



2. Desperation Made A Fool Of Me

Group show opening March 8 in LA

foreverisnotlongenough.com

Appropriation

Ava Kaufman / Trisha Baga

Ava Houston


There's No 'I' In Trisha

Five Minutes

1. "What a sad and sham game is played by those who speak of a supremely cunning Master, in order to present the image of themselves as rigorous, incorruptible and 'pessimist' thinkers."
-- Gilles Deleuze

2. “Do not weep. Do not wax indignant. Understand.”
-- Baruch Spinoza

3. A poster for a project I am doing next week. More later.

Okay

My laptop was just stolen out of my studio.
Everything I made since I got here is lost.

They didn't even bother to take the charger or my headphones that were attached, they just ripped them out and took off. My studiomate was not even a drywall partition away listening to music at the time. Three people to a room, and my studio was not visible from the main hall. Someone had to sneak in and look around. I was gone an hour to go to my first class.

Don't feel sorry for me.
I am stronger than you think.

I'm not afraid

1. REM Imitation of Life (2001)



2. Bas Jan Ader All is Falling (1970)

Paolo Virno

"We are poorest of the animals in relation to our lack of specialized instincts and lack of a precise, determined environment. In general, culture, society, conceals, hides this condition, creating forms of specialization for the non-specialized animal and creating artificial environments for the animal that has no environment. Then, we say that culture and society hide distinctive aspects of human nature."