“New Year’s Eve Foxfires at the Changing Tree, Ōji” Hiroshige, ca. 1857
☛ Metropolitan Museum of Art: “New Year’s Eve Foxfires at the Changing Tree, Ōji”, Utagawa Hiroshige, ca. 1857. Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, 12 13/16 × 8 5/8 in. (32.5 × 21.9 cm). Rogers Fund, 1925. Accession Number: JP1470. In his book Beyond the Great Wave: The Japanese Landscape Print, 1727-1960, James […]
“Whosoever is delighted in solitude…” Francis Bacon
Thus also the city-state is prior in nature to the household and to each of us individually. For the whole must necessarily be prior to the part; since when the whole body is destroyed, foot or hand will not exist except in an equivocal sense, like the sense in which one speaks of a hand […]
Heidegger and the case of domestic animals
☛ Museo Nacional del Prado: “Perro semihundido” (“The Half-Submerged Dog” also known as “The Dog”), mural painting by Fransisco Goya, 131 cm x 79 cm, between 1819 and 1823. In a piece he wrote for The Guardian in 2003, art critic Robert Hughes (1938-2012) commented Goya’s painting, and described the inscrutable dog’s head, the lonely […]
“We Killed like champions”, Hunter S. Thompson, 1983
☛ The Curse of Lono by Hunter S. Thompson, New York: Bantam Books, 1983, p. 151. Large format retrieved from Baron’s Blog. The photo shows American gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson on the Kailua Pier in Kona, Hawaii (notice the hat). Thompson is standing alongside a 308 pounds marlin he caught while fishing aboard the […]
