This was a townscape raised in the teeth of cold winds from the east; a city of winding cobbled streets and haughty pillars; a city of dark nights and candlelight, and intellect.
~ Alexander McCall Smith, The Sunday Philosophy Club Category: Urban Tales I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and the Beatles and Marilyn Monroe and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen - I believe that people are perfectible, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones that look like wrinkled lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and want our water and our women.
~ Neil Gaiman, American Gods Category: Urban Tales I am an invisible man.
No I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allen Poe:
Nor am I one of your Hollywood movie ectoplasms.
I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids
- and I might even be said to possess a mind.
I am invisible, simply because people refuse to see me.
~ Ralph Ellison Category: Selfies Wow, it really snowed last night! Isn't it wonderful? Everything familiar has disappeared! The world looks brand new!
~ Bill Watterson, It’s a Magical World Category: Urban Tales I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree. ~ Joyce Kilmer, Trees & Other Poems Category: Landscape For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche Category: Urban Landscape I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt Category: Classic I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.
~ Neil Gaiman, The Sandman Category: People Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
~ C.G. Jung Category: Creativity At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 p.m.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise Category: Urban Landscape There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.
~ Winston Churchill Category: Urban Tales No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
~ Heraclitus Category: Urban Landscape There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
~ Albert Einstein Category: Urban Tales It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
~ Mark Twain Category: Double Exposures Imagine a city where graffiti wasn't illegal, a city where everybody could draw whatever they liked. Where every street was awash with a million colours and little phrases. Where standing at a bus stop was never boring. A city that felt like a party where everyone was invited, not just the estate agents and barons of big business. Imagine a city like that and stop leaning against the wall - it's wet.
~ Banksy, Wall and Peace Category: Urban Landscape A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
~ Wayne Gretzky Category: Selfies Daido Moriyama, born in Ikeda, Osaka (October 10, 1938), is considered to be one of Japan’s leading figures in photography. He is often labelled as the father of street photography in Japan, but sometimes sarcastically as the master of imperfection. He himself even declared - the stray dog of Tokyo. In 1968, Daido Moriyama became a contributor to a photography magazine Provoke, of only three issues which, however, made the history of photography for the radical photographic content found on its pages and through a unique aesthetic technique of taking grimy but captivating urban images in the famous “are, bure, boke” style (grainy, blurry, out of focus) . Not coincidentally, the magazine’s subtitle read ‘provocative documents for the sake of thought’.
This approach reached its limit in his 1972 book Farewell Photography, in which he set out to “destroy photography”, giving his publisher a mass of damaged negatives and asking him to print them up anyway that suited him. The book title actually summarised an entire, revolutionary photographic upheaval. Contrary to what his fellow American and European photographers were doing with their well-composed, beautifully toned and elegiac pictures, his blurry, grainy, out of focus, starkly contrasted pictures, often unbalanced and even casually framed, were a laugh in the face of what was then traditionally considered a good photograph. ‘Clarity isn’t what photography is about,’ Moriyama objected. “At that time, I was frustrated with everything, including photography – particularly my own. There was a sense of irritation generally in the air, so I just thought ‘let’s completely deconstruct photography.” “The book was incomprehensible to everyone, which was what I intended. But I found that having said farewell to photography, I had nothing to do. So after about a year I started working again but in a completely different way. I started photographing things that are in the DNA of Japan: cherry blossoms and the most beautiful views of Japan as you’d see them in postcards – only I made these images really dark.” For Moriyama, the process of photographing seems to be less about getting the perfect shot or mastering the camera, than about the act of wandering itself. Moriyama received the Infinity Award for Lifetime Achievement from the International Centre of Photography in New York. His controversial book Farewell Photography was published by the Japanese publisher Shain Hyoron-sha, in March 1972, forty-four years ago. Category: Diary In the world of highways, a beautiful landscape means: an island of beauty connected by a long line with other islands of beauty.
~ Milan Kundera Category: Double Exposures Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.
~ Charles de Lint, Moonheart Category: Wings I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.
~ Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn Category: People My project Marathon was featured on MONOVISIONS, online black and white photography magazine. Its mission is to celebrate monochrome visions and discover most amazing photographers from around the world.
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