Snap Happy

The politics of life.

There's a politic in every conversation we have, every deal we make, every face we kiss.

Contempt and (self) adoration

Installation, by Barbara Kruger.

Art can have the ability, through visual, verbal, gestural, and musical means, to objectify one's experience of the world: to show and tell, through a kind of eloquent shorthand, how it feels to be alive.

Power, Cultures and the World of Appearences

Who speaks? Who is silent? Who is seen? Who is absent?

There's something about categorizing things, about putting things in their place. Maybe its about setting things straight, putting first things first.

On both an emotional and an economic level, images have the power to make us rich or poor.

Catch 22

Used to own this, now someone owes it to me...


There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, that specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane, he had to fly them. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of the clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.

"That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed.

"It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka replied.