BEATNIK INDUSTRIES, a BREAD
BOWL of IMAGES and GENERIC ASPIRIN
July 20th, 2010 | by nick | published in On the Nature of Things.
photographed in Washington, D.C., on July 18, 2010
Judd Herbert, Metatheatre 2, concentrates on the duplicity inherent in theatrical discourse as “combining overt mimetic representations of the story with covert performative and metadramatic clues pointed to its own operations at the risk of undermining or at the very least problematizing the fable.” In the simplest cases [...]
April 27th, 2010 | by nick | published in On the Nature of Things.
photographed over Miami, Florida on April 9, 2010
… In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such a Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds [...]
April 13th, 2010 | by nick | published in On the Nature of Things.
photographed near Choc Beach, St. Lucia on April 8, 2010
I met Jack Kennedy in November, 1946. We were both war heroes, and both of us had just been elected to Congress. We went out one night on a double date and it turned out to be a fair evening for me. I seduced a girl [...]
April 1st, 2010 | by nick | published in On the Nature of Things.
photographed off the California coast on June 12, 2009
The bird in its flight without the help of the wind drops half the wing downwards, and thrusts the other half towards the tip backwards; and the part which is moved down prevents the descent of the bird, and that which goes backwards drives the bird forwards.
When [...]
March 22nd, 2010 | by nick | published in On the Nature of Things.
photographed in Centennial, Colorado on July 20, 2007
Bob Meeks, who would be 88 now, told me once that down in Frio County the life of a cowboy was more drudgery than excitement. The only fun in it, he reckoned, was giving the women hell on Saturday night–if you could find one. No, the old pastimes [...]
December 18th, 2009 | by nick | published in On the Nature of Things.
photographed in Cheyenne, Wyoming on September 28, 2006
Medea: Jason, I crave thy pardon for the words I spoke, and well thou mayest brook my burst of passion, for ere now we twain have shared much love. For I have reasoned with my soul and railed upon me thus, “Ah! Poor heart! Why am I thus [...]
December 6th, 2009 | by nick | published in On the Nature of Things.
photographed in New Orleans, Louisiana on October 4, 2006
To fix the signs in terms in the expansion of a determinant of any order, the notion of an inversion is introduced. If, in an arrangement of positive integers, a greater precedes a less, there is said to be an inversion. Thus in the order 12543, [...]
December 2nd, 2009 | by nick | published in On the Nature of Things.
Heidelberg, Germany. September 25, 2009.
The American psychologist James, and the Danish psychologist Lange, independently of each other, put forward this theory in the early eighties of the last century, and it has since remained a great topic for discussion. According to the theory, the emotion is the way the body feels while executing the [...]
November 11th, 2009 | by nick | published in On the Nature of Things.
Schloß Heidelberg, Germany. September 25, 2009.
“Do you feel strong enough to tell us your story?” asked Captain Simon.
“I am strong enough,” said Professor Sherman, “and I want to first of all thank you three gentlemen for your kind attention. But, gentlemen,” he exclaimed, “as an honorary member of the Western American Explorers’ Club in San [...]
November 6th, 2009 | by nick | published in On the Nature of Things.
Outside Golden, Colorado. October 12, 2007.
The Western American Explorer’s Club, in the city of San Francisco, was honored as it had never been honored before in the first week of October 1883 by being promised to be first to hear the details of an unexplained, extraordinary adventure; the biggest news story of the year, the [...]
October 23rd, 2009 | by nick | published in On the Nature of Things.
London, England. September 30, 2009.
These extensions of the activities of the state involved a parallel organisational development. The other side to the social citizenship that Marshall advocated was the rise of bureaucratic organisation in both the corporation and the state. It was the massive scale of the new national projects, bringing the same organisational principles [...]
October 10th, 2009 | by nick | published in On the Nature of Things.
Sioux City, Iowa. October 9, 2009.
As reported in the Seattle Times: Twenty years ago … passengers and crew aboard United Airlines flight 232 from Denver to Chicago heard a loud midair blast at the rear of the plane. The engine mounted in the tail of the DC-10 had exploded at 37,000 feet.
With two good engines [...]
September 18th, 2009 | by nick | published in On the Nature of Things.
Amsterdam, Holland. Early 2001.
A: Absorbed in our discussion of immortality, we had let night fall without lighting the lamp, and we couldn’t see each other’s faces. With an off-handedness or gentleness more convincing than passion would have been, Macedonio Fernández’ voice said once more that the soul is immortal. He assured me that death of [...]
September 3rd, 2009 | by nick | published in On the Nature of Things.
Entrance to the Blue Ridge Parkway, Virginia. October 17, 2007.
But when the social bond begins to be relaxed and the state weakened, when private interests being to make themselves felt and small associations to exercise influence on the state, the common interest is injuriously affected and finds adversaries; unanimity no longer reigns in the [...]