Posts tagged Honesty

My Ethos:

Make every action pure in its intention and deliberate in its nature.

~ü

Dignity is only comfortable if it’s coupled with honesty. ~ü [Image: Ivan Kramskoy Portrait of a Woman (1883)]

Dignity is only comfortable if it’s coupled with honesty.

~ü

[Image: Ivan Kramskoy Portrait of a Woman (1883)]

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Solitude allows you to be naked in your thoughts. ~ü [Image: Serge Ivanoff Nude in Front of a Mirror (1945)]

Solitude allows you to be naked in your thoughts.

~ü

[Image: Serge Ivanoff Nude in Front of a Mirror (1945)]

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Wabi Sabi - The Art of the Understatement [Image: Sinnen Snow (2010)]

Wabi Sabi - The Art of the Understatement

[Image: Sinnen Snow (2010)]

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Secrets have a mistaken sense of dignity.  Because secrets have to be exclusionary by their very essence people take pride in the secrets that they know.  Mystery is dignified.  Secrets are selfish.  I try not to keep them. ~ü [Image by ck/ck]

Secrets have a mistaken sense of dignity.  Because secrets have to be exclusionary by their very essence people take pride in the secrets that they know.  Mystery is dignified.  Secrets are selfish.  I try not to keep them.

~ü

[Image by ck/ck]

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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
Dag Hammarskjold

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A blank canvas, page or screen is just a lesson that the artist will soon learn and the audience will soon experience.  The more honest, the more the both will gain.  ~ü [IMAGE: Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tree of Codes, - a is a collection of die-cut pages from his favorite book, Bruno Schulz’s The Street of Crocodiles. Made as an exploration of “the pages’ physical relationship to one another” and the die-cut technique, Foer attempts to create a meaningful narrative with an existing text. - (via Visual Editions)]

A blank canvas, page or screen is just a lesson that the artist will soon learn and the audience will soon experience.  The more honest, the more the both will gain. 

~ü

[IMAGE: Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tree of Codes, - a is a collection of die-cut pages from his favorite book, Bruno Schulz’s The Street of Crocodiles. Made as an exploration of “the pages’ physical relationship to one another” and the die-cut technique, Foer attempts to create a meaningful narrative with an existing text. - (via Visual Editions)]

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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Bertrand Russell

mythologyofblue

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
William Faulkner

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Front row: A.G. Nikolayev; Y.A. Gagarin; “Vostok” chief designer S.P. Korolioff; training director Karpov; parachute trainer N.K. Nikitin.Back row: P.R. Popovich; G.G. Nelyuboff; G.S. Titov; V.F. Bykovsky. It is a well known fact that, at the beginning of the space race, the Soviet authorities refused to admit failure in their manned missions. They made great efforts to hide any trace of those pilots or cosmonauts that either perished or were, in some other way, disgraced. The first series of pictures presented here are known as the “Sochi” photographs, because they were taken at the Black Sea resort of Sochi in May of 1961, shortly after the successful orbital flight of Yuri Gagarin. The picture with the six cosmonauts has been released in at least four versions, three of which were notable for the absence of one of the cosmonauts, airbrushed into oblivion by the state censors. The missing cosmonaut has been identified as Grigory Grigoryevich Nelyuboff. The current story from Moscow is that Nelyuboff was expelled from the cosmonauts’ corps for bad behavior (apparently he got into a fight). He fell into disgrace and committed suicide in 1966. via The Lost Cosmonauts - Erased from memory

Front row: A.G. Nikolayev; Y.A. Gagarin; “Vostok” chief designer S.P. Korolioff; training director Karpov; parachute trainer N.K. Nikitin.
Back row: P.R. Popovich; G.G. Nelyuboff; G.S. Titov; V.F. Bykovsky.

It is a well known fact that, at the beginning of the space race, the Soviet authorities refused to admit failure in their manned missions. They made great efforts to hide any trace of those pilots or cosmonauts that either perished or were, in some other way, disgraced.

The first series of pictures presented here are known as the “Sochi” photographs, because they were taken at the Black Sea resort of Sochi in May of 1961, shortly after the successful orbital flight of Yuri Gagarin.

The picture with the six cosmonauts has been released in at least four versions, three of which were notable for the absence of one of the cosmonauts, airbrushed into oblivion by the state censors. The missing cosmonaut has been identified as Grigory Grigoryevich Nelyuboff. The current story from Moscow is that Nelyuboff was expelled from the cosmonauts’ corps for bad behavior (apparently he got into a fight). He fell into disgrace and committed suicide in 1966.

via The Lost Cosmonauts - Erased from memory

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