“Sometimes reality is too complex. Stories give it form.” - Jean Luc Godard
Artwork by Marina González Eme
“Everything in the [media art industrial complex] is unusual. It’s like hot plasma. It changes so damn fast.” - Rene Pinnell
Artwork by Abu Bakarr Mansaray.
"[The news] is like that friend you have — who always sees the worst in everything. You go out for coffee and feel empty afterward. Finally, you stop going. So what would be better? I make the case for routinely and systematically reporting out hope, agency and dignity in every story." — Amanda Ripley https://www.amandaripley.com/blog/i-have-a-secret-i-hid-it-for-years
“The ratio of CEO pay to average worker pay was 25:1 in 1960. Today it’s 320:1.” - Lynn Forester de Rothschild, Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/15/business/lynn-forester-de-rothschild-corner-office.html
Illustration by John Holcroft
“What if we are wrong about climate change, and we create a better world for nothing?” - Anonymous
“Your intuition and your intellect should be working together, making love. That’s how it works best.” Madeleine L’Engle
Photo by http://photocosma.net/.
“We have a memory cut in pieces. And I write trying to recover our real memory, the memory of humankind. But the human rainbow had been mutilated by machismo, racism, militarism and a lot of other isms, who have been terribly killing our greatness, our possible greatness, our possible beauty.” - Eduardo Galeano
“The middle of the road is a good place to get run over.” - Anonymous
“Our attention spans are now thought to be less than that of a goldfish - eight seconds.” - Sandi Mann
Illustration by Ture Ekroos
Journalism is printing something that someone does not want printed. Everything else is public relations. — George Orwell
www.etsy.com/listing/1756964083/george-orwell-1984-wall-art-dystopian
Words and images of others I find idiocyncratic, intriguing and inspirational.
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