Claire | October 29, 2010
50-foot wide sculpture made up of 1,600 lightbulbs, creating an illusion of shadows crossing it….absolutely breathtaking. Jim Campbell shied away from specificity or close-up in this “homage to the light-bulb”, making sure that the images that appear in the lightbulbs are vague, blurry, leaving the magic to the imagination – art with liquid edges.
Claire | October 24, 2010
They lie in parallel rows, on ice, head to tail, each a foot of luminosity barred with black bands, which divide the scales’ radiant sections like seams of lead in a Tiffany window. Iridescent, watery prismatics: think abalone, the wildly rainbowed mirror of a soapbubble sphere, think sun on gasoline. Splendor, and splendor, and not [...]
Claire | October 22, 2010
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Claire | October 19, 2010
Found online. Professor: You are a Christian, aren’t you, son? Student: Yes, sir. Professor: So, you believe in God? Student: Absolutely, sir. Professor: Is God good? Student: Sure. Professor: My brother died of cancer, even though he prayed to God to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But [...]
Claire | October 17, 2010
I do this periodically…I hate deleting text messages but my phone only holds 30, so I periodically go through and type up the good ones/the ones not deleted yet. “So, in other words, you’ll wait for me? How romantic..and you’re certain I’m not imposing on your schedule?” – N “HIII it was good seeing you [...]
Claire | October 16, 2010
It has often occurred to me that the best thing about being in a relationship would be, not the excitement, or the romance, or even the friendship, but rather the companionship. Which is a word very similar to friendship but not quite – because even friendship is something that, most of the time, must be [...]
Claire | October 7, 2010
It’s taken almost two weeks for my new apartment to finally start feeling homey. But it’s finally happened, and my mood has risen accordingly. I’ve realized that my relationship with food is rather like a game – like trying to feed a particularly tempestuous horse. At first my body rejects food. Then it accepts a [...]
Claire | October 6, 2010
“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.” -C.S. Lewis
Claire | October 2, 2010
What an absolutely fantastic ad. The stunning shots, the soft light used, the simple, poignant story…I’m in love
