YOUTH FOREVER

it's not what you lost, but it's what you find.

2011 vs 1720 (pick the flowers, young children...)

it's not what you lost, but it's what you find.



images.
1. ERIK WYSOCAN
(A Vase of Flowers and Two Plums on a Marble Tabletop, A Vase of Flowers and Two Plums on a Marble Tabletop)
2. "Painted on all surfaces with exquisite floral still lifes, this extremely rare cabinet on stand epitomizes the highest quality among painted furniture in Holland and England of this period."
via Koller Auctions. Unknown cabinet maker.... 1700 1720 circa




partial lyrics by ellie goulding.
















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black botany
1851 and 2008


















black botany

1. Frederick Crook, 1851, steel
2. Paul Morrison, Industrial powder coated
marine aluminum and galvanized steel, 2008





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There are people who have no joy in viewing – who have no joy in life, perhaps. I think people don’t observe enough. I’m a great believer in observation. My first passion in life was astronomy......


I don’t see anger as the only driving force for change – concentration can be an equally powerful state of being.


- Wolfgang Tillmans



image via Sarah Jones.
the rose gardens.

quotes from wolgang tillmans via here....










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remembering new york

lazy
afternoon
with the
national,
high violet

(image de rijke/ de rooij)

"Sorrow found me
when I was young
Sorrow waited,
sorrow won.”

Sorrow, High Violet...

Matt Berninger’s notebook of lyrics
for The National
(via nytimes.. here..)





“High Violet” is the National’s latest album for their time.
It’s the world according to a man who isn’t getting any younger,
mostly wants to be a good father and husband and employee and friend —
and might be happy, but for all that resistance he thinks he keeps tamped in his own head.

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He used to be the Great White Hope, the hero of his own box-size living room.
Now he’s got a kid on his shoulder, lives on coffee and cut flowers while thinking about clearing out of the Silver City and going back to Ohio where life is simpler —
until you get there and remember why you left."












(luisa lambri, here..)






"i think the kids are in trouble
i do not know what all the troubles are for
give them ice for their fevers you're the only thing i ever want anymore
we'll live on coffee and flowers try not to wonder what the weather will be
i figured out what we're missing
tell you miserable things after you are asleep."

conversation 16








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read full
article here.


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flowers
for
the
weekend.














































flowers for the weekend.

1 Robert Mapplethorpe, go here..
2 Twin Spaceships blog! go here!
3 Caro Niederer





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a 2nd look.

power,
lies,
flowers,
&
corruption.

Henri Fantin-Latour
1836-1904
"roses"



""When I found out I was working on an album called Power, Corruption and Lies , I felt drawn towards history. I went to the National Gallery in search of an image of a kind of Machiavellian character but in the end I gave up because everything I saw seemed too obvious, too cliche.

In the gift shop, I picked up this postcard by Henri Fantin-Latour. The person I was with asked if I was thinking of that for the cover and I said "no, of course not," and then…"

Peter Saville, designer.
















1879, oil on canvas.

























Power, Lies, and Corruption
New Order, 1983





"From my head to my toes From the words in the book I see a vision that would bring me luck From my head to my toes To my teeth, through my nose You get these words wrong You get these words wrong Everytime You get these words wrong I just smile

But from my head to my toes From my knees to my eyes Everytime I watch the sky For these last few days leave me alone But for these last few days leave me alone Leave me alone Leave me alone"






New Order, 1983










and finally flowers by David Hockney.

-- -- -- power, lies, flowers, and corruption -- -- -- -- -- -- --

fact:
flowers
can make
a room.











































flowers for an imaginary room.

1. jay isaac
2. glen gouldberg
3. weird friends tumbler!

black & white : flowers & leaves

1. david hockney, black tulips
2. christopher wool, 1994
3. leaves, unknown

Nori Noda
(above images)

Sculptural forms. Energetic balance.. Life forces. Temporary. Fleeting.
See his work here..

Mr Noritaka Noda studied graphic design in Japan and in the United States. Being inspired with the use of dried flowers in his projects, he began to be interested in designing using fresh floral materials - leading him to study Japanese floral design (Ikebana) and western floral design in New York and Japan.


Maxim Velcovsky
"Catastrophe"

porcelain, dust, and found objects.
found it here....





patterson beckwith
photographer... see more of his work here..