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Bridle’s work is complete - Neuaesth is totally art establishment now:

Artist Howard Hodgkin is pictured holding the first painting he created in 1949, the only one he will keep for himself.

And I will attempt a respectful recreation of that painting for you all.

I was only looking for a multi-tool, honest.

new-aesthetic:

SOG Flash II Knife With Digi Camo & Half Serrated Blade From SOG Specialty Knives & Tools, via Rod.

Er, christ: battle axe, with prominent manufacturer branding.

Periodically persistent relationships:

slavin:

[…] They keep track of what bottle belongs to whom by writing your name on it — in Japanese — and for years now, I’ve wondered just what’s written there. Tonight, we were with Kevin C., who speaks Japanese, and he finally told me what’s written on my bottle. KEVIN’S FRIEND KEVIN.

Soaring as high as the eagles

(Source: kenyatta)

new-aesthetic:

… you get a ghost dog.

Gerhard Richter’s destroyed paintings.

“However, the evidence of the works he destroyed constitutes something of a separate, secret museum […] There is also another painting of a war scene, though this one assumes the form of a comic strip.”

via Mildly Diverting.

I’d guess the Andrée expedition was one of the sources for Simon Ings’s excellent novel Dead Water, in which cavitation, turbulence, water circulation, piracy and sea containers.

Cf Akira Lippit’s Atomic Light (Shadow Optics)

(Source: hirmes)