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The highest form of worship, he said, is the remix: ‘You use other people’s works to make something better.’
Spiritual leader of Sweden’s Missionary Church of Kopimism Isak Gerson, as reported by Rollo Romig (via newyorker)
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Found a handwritten transcription of section 34 of Emerson’s Self Reliance, given to me by my friend Erin Lee about 7 years ago, which seems to have borne a fair amount of relevance and truth in my life since, and may continue to:

“If our young men miscarry in their first enterprises they lose all heart. If the young merchant fails, men say he is ruined. If the finest genius studies at one of our colleges, and is not installed in an office within one year afterwards, in the cities or suburbs of Boston or New York, it seems to his friends and to himself that he is right in being disheartened and in complaining the rest of his life. A sturdy lad from New Hamsphire or Vermont, who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not “studying a profession,” for he does not postpone his life, but lives already. He has not one chance, but a hundred chances.”

Robert Mapplethorpe, from Yimmy Yayo

Robert Mapplethorpe, from Yimmy Yayo

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Chores | Seth Brundle | from the Monster Ballads compilation

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A group of friends from Louisiana came together to record monster-themed songs for this compilation. My contribution is Seth Bruder, a short tune about the scientist who transformed into The Fly (Cronenberg 1986 version). 

weareconstance: PDF of the original catalogue for Five From Louisiana, an exhibition organized by curator Bill Fagaly at the New Orleans Museum of Art in 1977. The group show included work by Lynda Benglis, Tina Girouard, Richard Landry, Robert Rauschenberg, and Keith Sonnier. The catalogue, which first appeared as a supplement to the Times-Picayune on January 30, 1977, featured essays by Tennessee Williams and Calvin Tomkins, as well as artist interviews conducted by Liza Béar, Philip Glass, and Calvin Harlan.  

weareconstance:

PDF of the original catalogue for Five From Louisiana, an exhibition organized by curator Bill Fagaly at the New Orleans Museum of Art in 1977. The group show included work by Lynda Benglis, Tina Girouard, Richard Landry, Robert Rauschenberg, and Keith Sonnier.

The catalogue, which first appeared as a supplement to the Times-Picayune on January 30, 1977, featured essays by Tennessee Williams and Calvin Tomkins, as well as artist interviews conducted by Liza Béar, Philip Glass, and Calvin Harlan.  

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Lots of charming illustration on this fellow’s blog.

Lots of charming illustration on this fellow’s blog.

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