A machine for recording lost faces.

Balzac the phenomenon

"He sometimes puts me in mind of those etchers who are never content with the acid's bite, and transform the main scratchings on the copper into veritable ravines."

Baudelaire on Balzac.

The Art of Life

The art of life consists in the creation of an original and unique self; and this is something that the simplest mind can achieve.

John Cowper Powys

Behold, nature unveiled....

Animism is the belief that inanimate objects are sentient beings. Let us be clear that it differs from totemism.

The extravagence

Michael Kimmelman, in The Accidental Masterpiece, calls the work of Chardin 'extravagant understatement'.

DaDa Notes5

In the midst of the Great War, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, while writing the play 'L'Empereur de chine' a piece known for its 'premeditated aggression', was working at a desk job informing families of the death of their family members in battle.

('Dada', Leah Dickerman).

a diary of traces # 17

A small article in yesterday's newspaper reminds us of the fading importance of hosptality. In today's world we travel too fast and too insecurely to take advantage of the ancient art of hospitality to strangers.

Lost inventions ~1

The Dandy Horse

Invented by Baron Karl Drais in the early 19th century, this was reputedly the first two wheeled, human powered vehicle, or velocipede.



According to Wikipedia, Buster Keaton used a model reconstructed especially for him on the film 'Our Hospitality'.

The invention of haste.

'Zero' brand guns, shoot it out in a minimal universe.