Albert Camus, The Rebel

“Man can allow himself to denounce the total injustice of the world and then demand a total justice which he alone will create. But he cannot affirm the total hideousness of the world. To create beauty, he must simultaneously reject reality and exalt certain of its aspects. Art disputes reality, but does not hide from it.”

Word of the day.

Escapism:
1-mental diversion by means of entertainment or recreation, as an "escape" from the perceived unpleasant or banal aspects of daily life.

2-The tendency to escape from daily reality or routine by indulging in daydreaming, fantasy, or entertainment

Music Moment

Ladyhawke - My Delirium
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11/26/2010

PHOENIX - House of Blues, Orlando.

-beautiful, amazing, resplendent, mesmerizing.

vivre sa vie.

Dunning–Kruger effect

The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which an unskilled person makes poor decisions and reaches erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to realize their mistakes.[1] The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average, much higher than it actually is, while the highly skilled underrate their abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority. This leads to the situation in which less competent people rate their own ability higher than more competent people. It also explains why actual competence may weaken self-confidence: because competent individuals falsely assume that others have an equivalent understanding. "Thus, the miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others."[2]

Suren Manvelyan

http://www.photographyserved.com/Gallery/Your-beautiful-eyes/428809

thoughts

Slumprincess, buddles of hugs & kisses. Cry fox, cry. Darling.

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A poet stuck between Heaven and Hell - can't burn out without having been on fire.

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... why not? Let's see how much more criticism and hypocrisy one person can handle.

Clifford Geertz- about the self.

" a bounded, unique, more or less integrated motivational and
congitive universe, a dynamic center of awareness, emotion,
judgment, and action organized into a distinctive whole and set
contrastively both against other such wholes and against a social
and natural background."

quote

"“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.""

— Comedian : Bill Hicks

My Mind

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...Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... Stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to "walk about" into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, then what more do you want?

KANDINSKY 1910

St augustine-sarasota.

The World As I See It, by Albert Einstein.

"How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people -- first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving...

"I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals that have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed empty to me. The trite objects of human efforts -- possessions, outward success, luxury -- have always seemed to me contemptible.
"My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude..."

"My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. It is an irony of fate that I myself have been the recipient of excessive admiration and reverence from my fellow-beings, through no fault, and no merit, of my own. The cause of this may well be the desire, unattainable for many, to understand the few ideas to which I have with my feeble powers attained through ceaseless struggle. I am quite aware that for any organization to reach its goals, one man must do the thinking and directing and generally bear the responsibility. But the led must not be coerced, they must be able to choose their leader. In my opinion, an autocratic system of coercion soon degenerates; force attracts men of low morality... The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.
"This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds: it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity. In this sense, and only this sense, I am a deeply religious man... I am satisfied with the mystery of life's eternity and with a knowledge, a sense, of the marvelous structure of existence -- as well as the humble attempt to understand even a tiny portion of the Reason that manifests itself in nature."

Floppies painting

Leaf Carving

New emerging art that is done on the leaves of the china tree, which originates in Pakistan - India and China.

The process involves using tools to remove the outer layer of the leaf without damaging the veins.

HOW GLORIOUS.

NEW found tresors

(Picture below: Ellen Von Unwerth) Wine, Sex & Music...What else could you ask for ?

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Photographer Mike Bailey Gates

A mix of dark fantasy & divine reality.. and he's only a teenager.

http://mikebaileygates.com/fantasy.html

Hotel Chevalier - Short movie.

It would be nice to run away to the city.

Part 1 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI8EOZk3W_8

Part 2 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzztEWKRuj0

Chad Moore

Nudity - Romance - A certain amount of alcohol and shots of unusual beauty.

http://www.thesethingshappensometimes.com/

Definition of the day.

A Libertine: A soul who is free from restraint of social norms and religious morals. One who lives a life with no restrictions.

Now it's time to pick.

02/17/2010 From SAN FRANCISCO

Girls - Lust For Life

Basically how im feeling

tuesday night - 02/09/2010 blues

[ M I N D F U N K. go away ! ]

Temple Grandin.

"Nature is crual, but we don't have to be." "We raise them for ourselves the least we can do is owe them some respect."

Here's a thought:

I am not the person I was when I was a child, I am not the person who I will be in the future nor am I the person I am now.

I am french, american, bretonne, polish, russian.
I am all of this and more.
I am a humain being, a global citizen.
I am everyone and no one all at once.



And I feel perfect.