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Quotes — January 2012

Abyss

"What's the first thing you notice in a place? it's not because it has nice curves or proportions, it is if their are people in it or not. If you go into an empty restaurant you don't think if it is beautiful or not, you think if it is safe to eat at.

The derelict place is caught between meaningless and meaningful.

Its about letting go, first it's slow, you only notice it in the eyebrow, the walk, the speech, then the body sinks and goes down the ground, and gravity takes hold.

At first you don't notice it, at first it's too slow.

It's like you can't move it now, you can't do anything, it'll do something by itself later, all you can do is be around something, I dont know what to do, I don't know how to handle this I have no idea, I guess in a while I could just get up.

It's broken down as your routine, as your habits, it's the way you see yourself everyday, it's all you built up around to keep your body and the things around you the same everyday. And when one of those things stops working,

Everything shifts. "
Transcript from "Abyss" by Knut Asdam

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Quotes — November 2011

Extraterrestrial skies

"The 'sky' of a world refers to the view of outer space from its surface. This view varies from world to world for many reasons. The most important factor in the appearance of a world's sky is the world's atmosphere, or the lack thereof. Depending on the atmosphere's density and chemical composition, a world's sky may be any number of colors. Clouds may or may not be present and they may also be noticeably colored. Another factor is the astronomical objects that may appear in a world's sky, such as the Sun, stars, moons, planets, and rings."

Uncited extract from "Extraterrestrial skies" via Wikipedia

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Notorious B.I.G

"Relax and take notes."

Dead Wrong — Notorious B.I.G, 1999

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Quotes — October 2011

Matilda McQuaid

"Indeed Mies seems to have been inspired by photographs of American skyscrapers when they were still under construction, a stage that he felt revealed "the bold constructive thoughts, and then the impression of the high-reaching steel skeletons is overpowering."

Envisioning Architecture: Drawings from The Museum of Modern Art, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2002, p. 50

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Barack Obama

"This sculpture, massive and iconic as it is, will remind them of Dr. King’s strength, but to see him only as larger than life would do a disservice to what he taught us about ourselves."

"It is precisely because Dr. King was a man of flesh and blood and not a figure of stone that he inspires us so."

President Obama's remarks at the dedication of the newest addition to Washington’s collection of solemn memorials, via the Newyorker

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David Thorn

"David, what are you doing?"
"Reading a book, what are you doing?"
"Baking cookies."

Advert for David Thorn's book, 2011

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