“Syd is 25 now, and worried about getting old. “I wasn’t always this introverted,” he says, “I think young people should have a lot of fun. But I never seem to have any.” Suddenly he points out the window. “Have you seen the roses? There’s a whole lot of colours.” Syd says he doesn’t take acid anymore, but he doesn’t want to talk about it… “There’s really nothing to say.” He goes into the garden and stretches out on an old wooden seat. “Once you’re into something…” he says, looking very puzzled. He stops. “I don’t think I’m easy to talk about. I’ve got a very irregular head. And I’m not anything that you think I am anyway.”
- From Mick Rock’s final interview with Syd in Rolling Stone, Dec 1971
It may be proposed that the context, or surrounding, of art is more potent, more meaningful, more demanding of an artist´s attention, than the art itself. Put differently, it´s not what the artist touches that counts most. It´s what he doesn´t touch.
“The unicorns were the most recognisable magic the fairies possessed, and they sent them to those worlds where belief in the magic was in danger of failing altogether. After all there has to be some belief in magic – however small – for any world to survive”.
Terry Brooks, The Black Unicorn
Portrait of Salvador Dalí for LIFE magazine by Philippe Halsman in a »making of« version: this version has a wider crop than the published version, showing the assistant holding the chair, the prop that lifts the stool, and the piano wires used to hold the picture and the easel in place (in fact the frame on the easel is still empty). Wet spots from some of the many previous attempts (28 in total … that’s 84 thrown cats) can also be seen on the floor.
Am 5. September 1977 wurde Hanns-Martin Schleyer in Köln entführt. Drei Sicherheitsbeamte sowie der Fahrer wurden erschossen. Das Foto zeigt drei Polizeibeamte, die am Tatort die Leiche eines der Opfer untersuchen. Im Hintergrund steht Schleyers Mercedes.
RAF-Geisel Hanns Martin Schleyer am 13.10.1977
RAF-Geisel Hanns Martin Schleyer am 13.10.1977
Hanns-Martin Schleyer als Corpsstudent in Heidelberg.
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The Chosen Few MC started around 1959 in Los Angeles California. The Founding members were: Lionel, Lil Frank, Roger, Hawk, Slim, Shirly Bates, and Champ. These Brothers all Rode Full Dress Harleys & Chopped Dressers. The Purpose of the Club was to Ride and Enjoy the New Black Biker Set in Los Angeles & Oakland California.
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Leni Riefenstahl pictures of Mick Jagger for the Sunday Times Magazine in 1974
Muñca pure, muñca pacchato,
majjhe muñca, bhavassa pāragū.
Sabbattha vimuttamānaso,
na punaṃ jātijaraṃ upehisi.
Audio: http://host.pariyatti.org/dwob/dhammapada_24_348.mp3
Let go of the past, let go of the future,
let go of the present, and cross over to the farther shore of existence.
With mind wholly liberated,
you shall come no more to birth and death.
Dhammapada 24.348
http://tipitaka.org/romn/cscd/s0502m.mul23.xml#para348
Translated from Pali by Acharya Buddharakkhita
… Jean-Pierre Léaud, Chantal Goya, Claude Jade Jean
Claude Lévi-Strauss (Brussels, 28 November 1908 – Paris, 30 October 2009)
A dense column of smoke rises more than 60,000 feet into the air over the Japanese port of Nagasaki, the result of an atomic bomb, the second ever used in warfare, dropped on the industrial center August 8, 1945, from a U.S. B-29 Superfortress.
“Basically, I’m not interested in doing research and I never have been. I’m interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing.”
Mitch Corber, “Corber/Jolson goes to Harlem,” Performance, 1974
Waiters in the Grand Hotel Dining Room watching Sonja Henie ice skating. St. Moritz 1932 – Alfred Eisenstaedt.
Sonja Henie during one of her skating routines for International Pictures’ »It’s A Pleasure«.
