The story goes thus. Rich New Yorkers on vacation in Florida bring back alligators as pets. The pets grow from being cute to frightening in a very short while. They are flushed down the toilet. Some survive in the vast fetid darkness of New York’s sewer system. They grow, and they spawn. And now there is a breed of blind albino alligators, strangers to light and sun, occupying their own niche in the intestinal ecosystem of the city’s sewers.
All kinds of immigrants flourish in New York…
(via sewer gas by anand vivek taneja | thestate)
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The New Aesthetic: The New Aesthetic tumblr is now closed.The New Aesthetic project was...
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The New Aesthetic tumblr is now closed.
The New Aesthetic project was begun one year ago by James Bridle on May 6th, 2011, with a blog post at RIG London, and continued with a series of talks and discussions, online and offline. Many thanks to all of those who have participated in and…
a neat year huh. this is the perfect end
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In On the Theory and Play of the Duende, Lorca identifies three forms of inspiration: the muse, the angel and the duende. Of these, the duende is the form most identified with death. It is variously understood as a visceral realization of mortality, a primal charismatic force that inhabits the performer, and the most authentic, heightened expression of human feeling. It’s there in the motions of bullfighters and flamenco dancers; as well as in the “black sounds” of Leonard Cohen or swampy blues or sullen Bay Area punk. Or in Goya’s bitumens and the frenzied Sufi mystics’ cries of ‘Allah! Allah’ which whirls into the ‘Olé!’ of the bullfight, and might be one and the same. Raw and fragile, and a little crushed. As described by Lorca, it is ‘the buried spirit of saddened Spain,’ and ‘all that has dark sounds, has duende.’
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The New Aesthetic Revisited: The Debate Continues! | The Creators Project
I also recently wrote something at the Creators Project. It’s about duende and the New Aesthetic, and also about Woody Allen, Kim Jong Il, Tumblr, object-oriented ontology, and breaking the fourth wall.
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