Inspirations

a vessel, an instrument

I am a channel, a vessel, an instrument for life to flow through. For humanity, for action, for existence, for ideas, for love, for opposition, for force, for thoughts. These things are not mine or created by me. At best I, as in my ego and my physical body, am a filter. Some things can flow through uncensored and unabridged with resonant clarity, while others are distorted or even corrupted before their expression.

Interesting...
– via Madonna

recent sparks of inspiration at the start of november

• scene of a long haired guy in a coat arriving at a boy's (peanut) moment of death in a forest
• white adidas gazelles
• cute blond boys
• acceleration and resonance
• curiousities: kant's moral philosophy, camus, susan sontag
• inspiration lost: philosophy of knowledge (ugh, boring)

the flâneur

"Flâneur is a French term used by nineteenth-century French poet Charles Baudelaire to identify an observer of modern urban life. Baudelaire identified the flâneur in his essay The Painter of Modern Life (1863) as the dilettante observer. The flâneur carried a set of rich associations: the man of leisure, the idler, the urban explorer, the connoisseur of the street. Such a figure can be seen featured in many impressionist paintings."
– via Tate