“As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. ... You perceive what you are, what you lack, what you could be.” Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet
Fiona Tribe
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I do think people really need to start believing again that good things can happen - otherwise life is just one painful retreat after another.
Given the fuckery we're up against, I think we're all doing pretty great.
Last week was Matt Madden week in my intro to making course, where we talk constraints & look at Matt's brilliant 99 Ways to Tell a Story, and then Ss add their own additional page to the book! Some sweet ones from this class! Popup! Fisheye, contrast, diff style each pane, swapped w/water bottle
#FourPhotosOneMonth September 2026 The windmill and the moon. The puddle. Silence... and more silence.
This report was published last year in The Australian Design Review and I had no idea because I’m not on LinkedIn. I don’t cope well with being seen so finding out a year later worked well.
Some of my favourite lazy snaps of everyday Footscray, Melbourne, Australia.
It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be.
Lookin' at ur department website, noticin' that 80% are men over 60, knowin' that you just denied tenure to four young non-white scholars. Meanwhile, you're *all* burning out your mid-career women.
Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls. Bergman's Dreams - An Original Video Essay. youtu.be/JFQtlSvdWxQ
Being still while everything else around you is shifting is its own kind of movement. It is not “doing nothing”. It is “being still”.
The wind is banging on the door and rattling my windows, like a history that won’t go away.
The wind delivers sidewalk conversations to my bedroom window.
I got up with the rain to make tea in his kitchen. The dog appeared in the doorway.
“Having a million opinions about everything comes cheap and easy, whereas actually doing something can cost you quite a lot.” – the late writer, Gary Indiana [via @parisreview.bsky.social]
It's a goddamn shame that "whelm" basically has the same meaning as "overwhelm."
Much of what I have done is left unfinished.
Laying blame for what are clearly structural issues at the feet of individuals is a particularly cruel form of societal control.
Frances Benjamin Johnston Trade School. Brick laying 1899-1900
I worked outside in the dappled sun today. The fragments of a new piece …
I wonder how much it cost Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen to license this William Eggleston photo for a full-color, double-page spread, mentioning The Row only in microscopic type on the back corner, in today's Times
In the early part of the 20thC, the Swiss artist Hans Emmenegger began making recurrent themes of enigmatic, dark forest interiors, exploring the optical effects of light and colour. This work was painted in 1933.
