US Marines take a last look at a pin-up girl before landing on the Japanese held island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll on November 20th of 1943.

Scrape the surface of language, and you will behold interstellar space and the skin that encloses it.

- Velimir Khlebnikov

Fiona Apple //  Seattle 1997-03-21,

Fallen Angels, Wong Kar Wai, 1995

He who hates himself is not humble.

Snowflake on a crow’s wing

Hope is the normal form of delirium

“We have no wish to enter into the kingdom of heaven, for we have become men, so we want the earth!”

—F. Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Part Four, “The Ass Festival,” §2 (edited excerpt).

The one that stands alone

And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn’t enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies. I’ve never been able to kill myself.

- Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

Debbie Harry from Blondie

Jiro Takamatsu, Slack of Net.

Exercising his love of risk in stylised performance.