The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
 Friedrich Nietzsche (via quietude13)
Source: quietude13
5/22/13 — 11:06pm
If one calls bricolage the necessity of borrowing one’s concept from the text of a heritage which is more or less coherent or ruined, it must be said that every discourse is bricoleur.
Jacques Derrida, “Sign, Structure, and Play” from Writing and Difference, 1978  (via icancauseaconstellation)
Source: nickkahler
5/15/13 — 9:58am
phillipstuerzl: Vitruvian Legoman

phillipstuerzl:

Vitruvian Legoman

Source: queenharedesign
High-res 5/13/13 — 1:54pm
Color is life; for a world without color appears to us as dead. Colors are primordial ideas, the children of light.
Johannes Itten (via design-is-fine)
5/6/13 — 5:31pm
design-is-fine: Johannes Itten, Colour Sphere in 7 Light Stages and 12 Tones, 1921 Johannes Itten was one of the main pedagogical forces behind the Bauhaus and taught a foundation course in craft through the study of color and form. He originally trained as an elementary teacher before moving on to painting and color theory. During his studies of education and psychoanalyses, Itten began forming his unique theories on the creative spirit and how best to nurture it. A particular influence was Friedrich Frobel, “the inventor of Kindergarten”, whose pioneering ideas included young children’s desire for creative expression and the natural tendency to learn through play. At the time, this was considered groundbreaking pedagogy.

design-is-fine:

Johannes Itten, Colour Sphere in 7 Light Stages and 12 Tones, 1921

Johannes Itten was one of the main pedagogical forces behind the Bauhaus and taught a foundation course in craft through the study of color and form. He originally trained as an elementary teacher before moving on to painting and color theory. During his studies of education and psychoanalyses, Itten began forming his unique theories on the creative spirit and how best to nurture it. A particular influence was Friedrich Frobel, “the inventor of Kindergarten”, whose pioneering ideas included young children’s desire for creative expression and the natural tendency to learn through play. At the time, this was considered groundbreaking pedagogy.

High-res 5/6/13 — 5:27pm
hadrian6: Corinthian column. architectural details.engraving. Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Italian. 1720-1788. http:hadrian6.tumblr.com

hadrian6:

Corinthian column. architectural details.engraving. Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Italian. 1720-1788.

http:hadrian6.tumblr.com

Source: hadrian6
High-res 5/4/13 — 10:33pm
sisterwolf: Compass Rose via

sisterwolf:

Compass Rose

via

Source: sisterwolf
High-res 5/4/13 — 10:26pm
My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.
Friedrich Nietzsche (via hellanne)
Source: hellanne
5/4/13 — 3:15pm
nevver: Beware

nevver:

Beware

High-res 5/2/13 — 12:18am
Sag mir, wie du feierst – und ich sage dir, wer du bist.
Oskar Schlemmer (via design-is-fine)
5/1/13 — 10:08pm
The “re-” gestures—such as reblogging and retweeting—have become cultural rites of cachet in and of themselves. If you can filter through the mass of information and pass it on as an arbiter to others, you gain an enormous amount of cultural capital. Filtering is taste. And good taste rules the day: Marcel Duchamp’s exquisite filtering and sorting sensibility combined with his finely tuned taste rewrote the rules.
Kenneth Goldsmith, Why Conceptual Writing? Why Now? (via untilasinglesolitonsurvives)
Source: denzilposada
4/30/13 — 12:15am

aparthistorystudy:

The Dome of Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore (aka Florence Cathedral) (1419-1436) - Filippo Brunelleschi

Early Renaissance, Florence, Italy

Source: aparthistorystudy
4/29/13 — 7:07am
nevver: “The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.” — Noam Chomsky

nevver:

“The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.” —
Noam Chomsky

4/28/13 — 11:16pm
drawingdetail: Pantheon, Rome. AD 118-28. Isometric drawing and section. Source: Christian Norberg-Schulz, Meaning in Western Architecture.  New York: Praeger Publishers, 1975, p. 103.

drawingdetail:

Pantheon, Rome. AD 118-28. Isometric drawing and section. Source: Christian Norberg-Schulz, Meaning in Western Architecture.  New York: Praeger Publishers, 1975, p. 103.

Source: drawingdetail
High-res 4/24/13 — 11:45pm
speciesbarocus: Cesar Cesariano - Facade and section of Milan Cathedral. Woodcut from his edition of Vitruvius’ Architectura (1521).

speciesbarocus:

Cesar Cesariano - Facade and section of Milan Cathedral.

Woodcut from his edition of Vitruvius’ Architectura (1521).

High-res 4/24/13 — 9:08am