“Only artists, and especially those of the theater, have given men eyes and ears to see and hear with some pleasure what each man is himself. Only they have taught us to esteem the hero that is concealed in everyday characters and to view ourselves as heroes. Without this art, we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is most vulgar and closest at hand appear as if it were reality itself. Similarly, the religion that made men see the sinfulness of every single individual taught man to see himself from a distance as something past and whole.”

—The Gay Science

Gorgon, Pierre Amédée Marcel-Bérnneau (1902)

Evening view looking west of Lower Manhattan’s Financial District skyline, from St. George Hotel in Brooklyn. Fall, 1963.

Carrying a Telescope Aloft : Carried by a balloon the size of a football stadium, ASTHROS will use a telescope to observe wavelengths of light that aren't visible from the ground. (via NASA)

Mies van der Rohe - Werkbund Exhibition - 1927

When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.

Atsuko Tanaka, Untitled, 1961

“June, July, August. Everything wrong, and nowhere to go.”

- Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems