David Hockney, Pearblossom Hwy., 11 - 18th April 1986, #2, 1986

Charon taken by New Horizons on 14 July 2015

Pluto taken by New Horizons on 13 July 2015

Pablo Picasso & Gjon Mili, Light Drawings, 1949

How Is Your Heart? by Bukowski

during my worst times
on the park benches
in the jails
or living with
whores
I always had this certain
contentment-
I wouldn't call it
happiness-
it was more of an inner
balance 
that settled for
whatever was occuring
and it helped in the
factories
and when relationships 
went wrong
with the 
girls. 
it helped 
through the
wars and the
hangovers
the backalley fights
the 
hospitals. 
to awaken in a cheap room
in a strange city and
pull up the shade-
this was the craziest kind of
contentment

and to walk across the floor
to an old dresser with a 
cracked mirror- 
see myself, ugly,
grinning at it all. 
what matters most is
how well you 
walk through the
fire.

Royal Academy of Arts: Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei, Study of Perspective - Tiananmen, Bejing, China, 1993-2005

"Jacqueline Roque (24 February 1927 – 15 October 1986) is best known as the muse and second wife of Pablo Picasso. Their marriage lasted 11 years until his death, during which time he created over 400 portraits of her, more than any of Picasso's other loves." ~ Wikipedia

Pablo Picasso, Femme assise (Jacqueline), 1962

Werner Knaupp, Westmännerinseln, 2011

Konstantin Kalynovych, Museum of Clouds, 2000

Joseph Cornell: Wanderlust

Joseph Cornell, Untitled (Tilly Losch), 1935 - 1938

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Into My Arms

Born this day

"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly." ~ Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka, The Thinker, 1913

Viktor Oliva , The Absinthe Drinker, 1901

Died this day

Jesus and Mary Chain, Darklands

Nevermind by Leonard Cohen

The war was lost
The treaty signed
I was not caught
I crossed the line

I had to leave
My life behind
I had a name
But never mind

Your victory
Was so complete 
That some among you
Thought to keep

A record of
Our little lives
The clothes we wore
Our pots our knives 

The games of luck
Our soldiers played
The stones we cut
The songs we made

Our law of peace
Which understands
A husband leads
A wife commands

And all of this
Expressions of
The High Indifference
Some call Love

The High Indifference
Some call Fate
But we had Names
More intimate

Names so deep
and Names so true
They're lost to me
And dead to you

There is no need
That this survive
There's truth that lives
And truth that dies

There's truth that lives
And truth that dies
I don't know which
So never mind

I could not kill
The way you kill
I could not hate
I tried I failed

No man can see
The vast design
Or who will be
Last of his kind

The story's told
With facts and lies
You own the world
So never mind

Francis Bacon, Figure with Meat, 1954

John Minihan, Francis Bacon & William Burroughs, 1989

Dorothy, Gun in my Hand, 2014

16 Horsepower, Brimstone Rock, 1997

John Singer Sargent, Orestes Pursued by the Furies, 1921