"Tommy Makem was
an Irish soul singer,
and souls don't die."
Cullen's statement
in picture form:
E is for Everlast
Scene from "Million Dollar Baby"
Friday, August 3, 2007
Friday August 3, 2007
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Saturday, July 30, 2005
Saturday July 30, 2005
Born today: Laurence Fishburne
Matrix
“The nine-fold square has centre, periphery, axes and diagonals. But all are present only in their bare essentials. It is also a sequence of eight triads. Four pass through the centre and four do not. This is the garden of Apollo, the field of Reason, sheltered by the Gate from the turmoil of the Delta, with its endless cycles of erasure and reinscription. This is the Temple of Solomon, as inscribed, for example, by a nine-fold compartmentation to provide the ground plan of Yale….”– Architects John Outram Associates
on work at Rice University
on work at Rice University
Yale Daily News, Jan. 11, 2001:
“When New Haven was founded, the city was laid out into a grid of nine squares surrounded by a great wilderness.
Last year History of Art Professor Emeritus Vincent Scully said the original town plan reflected a feeling that the new city should be sacred.
Scully said the colony’s founders thought of their new Puritan settlement as a ‘nine-square paradise on Earth, heaven on earth, New Haven, New Jerusalem.'”
“Real and unreal are two in one:
New Haven
Before and after one arrives….”
— Wallace Stevens,
“An Ordinary Evening in New Haven,’ XXVIII
Saturday July 30, 2005
Born today: Arnold Schwarzenegger
Staircase
Frame not included in
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
"…Mondrian and Malevich are not
discussing canvas or pigment or graphite
or any other form of matter.
They are talking about
Being or Mind or Spirit.
From their point of view, the grid
is a staircase to the Universal…."
— Rosalind Krauss, "Grids"
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Saturday July 30, 2005
Born today: Hilary Swank
E is for Everlast
"The grid is a staircase to the Universal."
— Rosalind Krauss
"To live is to defend a form."
— attributed to Hölderlin
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