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Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948) [Germany] — ‘Merz Collage - Tell’, 1920. Cut, printed and painted papers, newsprint and transparent paper on card (40.5x36.5 cm).

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Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948) [Germany] — ‘Häuser und Bäume in Sellin’, 1923. Card, paper and wood on paper laid down on the artist's mount (31.7 x 22.1 cm).

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snoopy of the day

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Open Eye Cafe

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Helen Levitt.  New York City, 1939.  

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Arko Datto

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Reuben Wu's SIREN

Along the Lake Michigan shoreline, Reuben Wu created a unique confluence of light shows over the water last summer. Known for creating light paintings in dramatic landscapes using drone-mounted lasers, his ongoing series SIREN marks a new direction of illuminated “aeroglyphs,” which transcend their original geometries to open up into more fluid shapes.

“This series captures ephemeral, curtain-like structures that hover delicately in space, shaped by their environment rather than imposing upon it,” Wu says. The cascading white forms mimic the lake’s rolling waves and, on this particular evening amid a Perseids meteor shower, the surprise appearance of the northern lights.

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New York City

Photo: Dieter Krehbiel

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eye liner

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1998

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Town scene in the Montmartre neighbourhood of Paris

French vintage postcard

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November 7, 2001

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"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back."

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

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bunny head postcard, 2001