"Therefore, for your sake, I think it wise you follow me: I will be your guide, leading you, from here, through an eternal place where you shall hear despairing cries and see those ancient souls in pain as they bewail their second death." ~ Dante

Gustav Klimt, Tod und Leben, 1915

And one by his protégé.

Egon Schiele, Girl with Green Pinafore

Dash Snow died 3 years ago today. 2007 New York Magazine profile. New York Times obituary. The infamous Polaroid gallery.

Chuck Close, Self Portrait, 1968

"One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things." ~ Henry Miller

"We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing." ~ Charles Bukowski

British Museum in Google Maps on Android.

You can see the Rem Koolhaas DNA in the work of Zaha Hadid.

"I write books to relieve myself of pain. That’s the prime motivator to write. Period." ~ Bret Easton Ellis

"The most distinguishing feature of the man was his Mohawk hairstyle, which was raised with the help of a "hair gel" of plant oil and pine resin, imported from south-western France or Spain. This may attest to trade between Ireland and southern Europe in the fourth and third centuries BC, before Roman influence was brought to bear on the Celts of Iberia and Galicia (Spain). This could also suggest that he was wealthy, as few others would have been able to buy imported cosmetics."

Brian Fallon's other band.

Easing into Monday.

Watching Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line.

"By the final cut, all footage of the performances by Billy Bob Thornton, Martin Sheen, Gary Oldman, Bill Pullman, Lukas Haas, Jason Patric, Viggo Mortensen and Mickey Rourke had been removed."

"The Thin Red Line has become an English figure of speech for any thinly spread military unit holding firm against attack. The phrase has also taken on the metaphorical meaning of the barrier which the relatively limited armed forces of a country present to potential attackers.

Philippe Halsman & Salvador Dalí , In Voluptas Mors, 1951