Rules for Students and Teachers, from John Cage

[Image: A white piece of paper that seems to have been crumpled, folded, and unfolded many times. The following text is typed on it.]
“Merce Cunningham Studio, 55 Bethune Street NYC, NY 10014
10 Rules for Students and Teachers, from John Cage
Rule 1: Find a place you trust, and then, try trusting it for awhile[sic].
Rule 2: (General Duties as a Student) Pull everything out of your teacher. Pull everything out of your fellow students.
Rule 3: (General Duties as a Teacher) Pull everything out of your students.
Rule 4: Consider everything an experiment.
Rule 5: Be Self Disciplined. This means finding someone wise or smart and choosing to follow them. To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self disciplined is to follow in a better way.
Rule 6: Follow the leader. Nothing is a mistake. There is no win and no fail. There is only make.
Rule 7: The only rule is work. If you work it will lead to something. It is the people who do all the work all the time who eventually catch onto [sic] things. You can fool the fans — but not the players.
Rule 8: Do not try to create and analyze at the same time. They are different processes.
Rule 9: Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It is lighter than you think.
Rule 10: We are breaking all the rules, even our own rules and how do we do that? by leaving plenty of room for “x” qualities.
Helpful Hints: Always Be Around. Come or go to everything. Always go to classes. Read everything you can get your hands on. Look at movies carefully and often. SAVE EVERYTHING, it may come in handy later.”

Cristian Vogel - Enter The Tub (Strike138)

“At first I remained outside; then, as rescuers ran into the theater and began to bring out ridiculous things, old sofas and the like, I also went over through the dark vestibule and up the grand staircase. Above was the fire. The flames were already beginning to enter the corridor through the loges from the auditorium. Suddenly a loge door flew open crackling, then a second, then a third. The huge auditorium stood open. The entire chamber is a whirlwind of glowing dust, one single, red sea of light in which vibrating atoms of fire waft upward, undifferentiated elements, not flames. These become thicker only on the periphery where the fire breaks hissing through the silk curtains of the loges and licks the roof of the corridor with long tongues. In the gallery of busts the oeil-de-boeuf windows fall clattering one after the other and a fleeting light from a flame falls on Houdon’s Voltaire, who views the wreckage ironically.”

[Journey to the Abyss: The Diaries of Count Harry Kess ler, 1880–1918 ]

If you swap Lionel in 2008 for Charlie Chaplin in 1915 then you probably couldn't tell the difference.

An excellent bit of video editing has made late night clubber 'Lionel' look like a black and white star of the silver screen! http://www.kontraband.com/videos/13217/Silent-Easy-Lionel

Possession: A Romance

For Isobel Armstrong


When a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that
he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to its fashion and material, which
he would not have felt himself entitled to assume, had he professed to be
writing a Novel. The latter form of composition is presumed to aim at a very
minute fidelity, not merely to the possible, but to the probable and ordinary
course of man's experience. The former—while as a work of art, it must
rigidly subject itself to laws, and while it sins unpardonably so far as it may
swerve aside from the truth of the human heart—has fairly a right to present
that truth under circumstances, to a great extent, of the writer's own choosing
or creation. . . . The point of view in which this tale comes under the
Romantic definition lies in the attempt to connect a bygone time with the
very present that is flitting away from us.
—NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Preface to The House of the Seven Gables


And if at whiles the bubble, blown too thin,
Seem nigh on bursting,—if you nearly see
The real world through the false,—what do you see?
Is the old so ruined? You find you're in a flock
O' the youthful, earnest, passionate—genius, beauty,
Rank and wealth also, if you care for these:
And all depose their natural rights, hail you,
(That's me, sir) as their mate and yoke-fellow,
Participate in Sludgehood—nay, grow mine,
I veritably possess them—. . .

And all this might be, may be, and with good help
Of a little lying shall be: so Sludge lies!
Why, he's at worst your poet who sings how Greeks
That never were, in Troy which never was,
Did this or the other impossible great thing! . . .
But why do I mount to poets? Take plain prose—
Dealers in common sense, set these at work,
What can they do without their helpful lies?
Each states the law and fact and face o' the thing
Just as he'd have them, finds what he thinks fit,
Is blind to what missuits him, just records
What makes his case out, quite ignores the rest.
It's a History of the World, the Lizard Age,
The Early Indians, the Old Country War,
Jerome Napoleon, whatsoever you please.
All as the author wants it. Such a scribe
You pay and praise for putting life in stones,
Fire into fog, making the past your world.
There's plenty of 'How did you contrive to grasp
The thread which led you through this labyrinth?
How build such solid fabric out of air?
How on so slight foundation found this tale,
Biography, narrative?' or, in other words,
'How many lies did it require to make
The portly truth you here present us with?'
—Robert Browning
from "Mr Sludge, 'the Medium' "

[PNR003] Pluie/Noir - Year One Compilation

Структура фэшн-рынка. Какую одежду мы покупаем?

Мировой фэшн-рынок состоит из дизайнерских брендов и брендов массового рынка, различающихся по цене, стилю и статусу потребителей, приобретающих данный продукт. По самой простой классификации существует одежда класса luxury (люкс), premium (высокий), middle-up (выше среднего), middle (средний) и mass-market (ниже среднего).

На современном фэшн-рынке пока не существует единой четкой классификационной системы. Многие понятия являются «плавающими». Однако, значительная часть исследователей и практиков данной рыночной ниши, придерживается следующей логической структуры формирования категорий одежды, (или категорий брендов) на фэшн-рынке:

Amber Heard

Desigual

Desigual Huesca
31V2137 \ 74,00 €
Desigual women’s Huesca dress from the Sex line. A true classic if ever there was one. Galactic and floral shapes are combined in this long-sleeved dress.

• 55% COTTON 45% VISCOSE

"Stoker"

Stoker (2013)
quotes:
India Stoker: He used to say, sometimes you need to do something bad to stop you from doing something worse.
India Stoker: My ears hear what others cannot hear; small faraway things people cannot normally see are visible to me. These senses are the fruits of a lifetime of longing, longing to be rescued, to be completed. Just as the skirt needs the wind to billow, I'm not formed by things that are of myself alone. I wear my father's belt tied around my mother's blouse, and shoes which are from my uncle. This is me. Just as a flower does not choose its color, we are not responsible for what we have come to be. Only once you realize this do you become free, and to become adult is to become free.

Boo