Jean-Paul Sartre. 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980. Born this day.

Existentialism Is a Humanism. These lecture notes had a huge influence on me in my teens.

Daniel Arsham, Eyes, 2010

Alejandro Jodorowsky, The Holy Mountain, 1973

Andrei Tarkovsky, Stalker, 1979

Nick Veasey

Jose Luis Barcia Fernandez, iPhone Photography Awards, 2014 Photographer of the Year, 2nd Place

John Thomson, Chinese Man of the Labouring Class, c.1874

Love Will Tear Us Apart by Ian Curtis

When routine bites hard,
And ambitions are low,
And resentment rides high,
But emotions won't grow,
And we're changing our ways,
Taking different roads.

Then love, love will tear us apart again.
Love, love will tear us apart again.

Why is the bedroom so cold?
You've turned away on your side.
Is my timing that flawed?
Our respect runs so dry.
Yet there's still this appeal
That we've kept through our lives.

But love, love will tear us apart again.
Love, love will tear us apart again.

You cry out in your sleep,
All my failings exposed.
And there's a taste in my mouth,
As desperation takes hold.
Just that something so good
Just can't function no more.

But love, love will tear us apart again.
Love, love will tear us apart again.
Love, love will tear us apart again.
Love, love will tear us apart again.

Pablo Picasso, Bulls Head, 1942

“Jeff is like the man who fell to earth, who, in this grotesque time of art flippage and speculative mania, is either the icing on the cake or some kind of Piketty-esque harbinger of the return of Brecht’s ‘making strange.’ Or a glitteringly bent version of that alienated vision. He brings the cake and lets them eat it.” ~ Barbara Kruger in Jeff Koons Is Back!

Jeff Koons, Popeye, 2009-2011 (sold for $28.2 million)

“Capitalism has survived communism. Now, it eats away at itself.” ~ Bukowski

"Capitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy" ~ David Korten

"Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world."

"Some people fear genetic modification, which is not very sound, because we’ve been genetically modifying plants and animals for a long time. Long before we called it science, people were selecting the best breeds." ~ source

Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman Borlaug

Endeavour docked to the International Space Station. Picture taken by Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli from the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft on the 23rd May 2011.

Pre-Winter Storm, Southwestern Australia. Taken from the International Space Station on 29th March 2014.

Dariusz Zawadzki, I’ll Give You My Angel

Zdzisław Beksiński, Untitled, 1984

Egon Schiele, Male Nude with Red Cloth, 1914

NASA physicist Harold White and artist Mark Rademaker design a FTL spaceship.

IBM Data Centre from the 1960's

Photo by George Dunbar