Keats spoke of a “negative capability” - a state of being where one becomes a channel for expression - fashioning the self as a channel and a repository of external information. The Internet seems to fulfill a very similar role. This is the goal that I strive for with this blog. Let’s see where this goes.Tumblr (3.0; @ikorkh)http://ikorkh.tumblr.com/“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”<br/><br/> - <em><h1 class="firstHeading" id="firstHeading"><span>Hanlon’s razor</span></h1></em>http://ikorkh.tumblr.com/post/44962423662http://ikorkh.tumblr.com/post/44962423662Sat, 09 Mar 2013 12:19:14 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/afe8b96802b7630503575860a4294b15/tumblr_mijub2lRtr1qac76ro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://scrap.oldbookillustrations.com/post/43614693845/monkeys-always-waited" target="_blank">oldbookillustrations</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><em>From this time the monkeys always waited upon her.</em></p> <p>Walter Crane, from <em>Beauty and the beast picture book</em>, New York, 1911.</p> <p>(Source: <a href="http://archive.org/details/beautybeastpictu00cran" target="_blank">archive.org</a>)</p> </blockquote>http://ikorkh.tumblr.com/post/43655406270http://ikorkh.tumblr.com/post/43655406270Thu, 21 Feb 2013 10:13:35 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/aea8f0572b7d90c0551ef14125f7f276/tumblr_mf557gil6N1qi73s5o1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://ikorkh.tumblr.com/post/43626184155http://ikorkh.tumblr.com/post/43626184155Wed, 20 Feb 2013 21:16:35 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llwykvTyZ01qzy4k7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://gfrancescoa.tumblr.com/post/5933152041" target="_blank">gfrancescoa</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Arvo Pärt</p> </blockquote>http://ikorkh.tumblr.com/post/43626106028http://ikorkh.tumblr.com/post/43626106028Wed, 20 Feb 2013 21:15:21 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0th1lAvsU1rqj2g2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://thephysicalisanillusion.tumblr.com/post/36223613746" target="_blank">thephysicalisanillusion</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://darvinoglu.tumblr.com/post/19230099538/alexander-rodchenko-hanging-construction-1920" target="_blank">darvinoglu</a>:</p> <p>Alexander Rodchenko, <br/>Hanging Construction, 1920</p> </blockquote>http://ikorkh.tumblr.com/post/43626077083http://ikorkh.tumblr.com/post/43626077083Wed, 20 Feb 2013 21:14:54 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/6b53090d4e5ccea8208561eff6b0463a/tumblr_mijvxve5xk1qzw5wjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://www.iheartmyart.com/post/43617665299/yang-yongliang-the-day-of-perpetual-night-2012" target="_blank">iheartmyart</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.yangyongliang.com/video/60.html" target="_blank">Yang Yongliang</a>, The Day of Perpetual Night, 2012 <br/>(via <a href="http://www.thisiscolossal.com/page/2/" target="_blank">Colossal</a>)</p> </blockquote>http://ikorkh.tumblr.com/post/43626049969http://ikorkh.tumblr.com/post/43626049969Wed, 20 Feb 2013 21:14:28 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/ad82ecb4ef95a8eb006983cf88d28334/tumblr_mhzfzsqJiQ1qgwmzso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://www.iheartmyart.com/post/43617790159/websterandstevens" target="_blank">iheartmyart</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><em><strong>© <a href="http://www.burnedshoes.com/tagged/webster+and+stevens" target="_blank">Webster & Stevens</a>, ca. 1919, <a href="http://www.retronaut.com/2013/02/cedar-mill-seattle/" target="_blank">Stacks of lumber drying, Seattle</a></strong></em></p> <p>The Cedar Lumber Manufacturing Company’s mill, located just west of the Ballard Bridge, was the largest in Ballard. At the mill, logs were cut into lumber which was then dried for at least nine months before being sold. The stacks of drying lumber were over 50 feet high. In 1958, these stacks caught fire and burned. Ballard residents remembered the huge blaze for many years. (<a href="http://content.lib.washington.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=%2Fimlsmohai&CISOPTR=5351&DMSCALE=100&DMWIDTH=700&DMHEIGHT=884.47653429603&DMMODE=viewer&DMFULL=1&DMX=0&DMY=0&DMTEXT=&DMTHUMB=0&REC=8&DMROTATE=0&x=516&y=368" target="_blank">+</a>)</p> <p>(via <a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://www.burnedshoes.com/post/42818132351/websterandstevens" target="_blank">burnedshoes</a>)</p> </blockquote>http://ikorkh.tumblr.com/post/43626043117http://ikorkh.tumblr.com/post/43626043117Wed, 20 Feb 2013 21:14:22 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/19ea6420676e5d8387bd15e0a01b6fb2/tumblr_miiccc0vKy1qzy2a4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Ah. How I wish it was summer again. But first, some spring is in order.</p>http://ikorkh.tumblr.com/post/43553125576http://ikorkh.tumblr.com/post/43553125576Tue, 19 Feb 2013 23:19:24 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/21f3e8090db60126882e63ab9f378706/tumblr_mfzvq2bzxx1rw2xdwo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://ikorkh.tumblr.com/post/43546681429http://ikorkh.tumblr.com/post/43546681429Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:11:20 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/1f059d480b2e5fd7a863e5907fb5cfa5/tumblr_mgfigtwerC1qzi9p6o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/5113f6bec79d57280e92df235e06b122/tumblr_mgfigtwerC1qzi9p6o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/67529c0b5858d43ff516ffcb51216344/tumblr_mgfigtwerC1qzi9p6o3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://definitelydope.tumblr.com/post/41799807279/by-matt-mawson" target="_blank">definitelydope</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.behance.net/gallery/Crossing-Queensboro-Bridge-New-York-City/393307" target="_blank">By Matt Mawson</a></p> </blockquote>http://ikorkh.tumblr.com/post/43546677778http://ikorkh.tumblr.com/post/43546677778Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:11:17 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/edca90e01b216d26771cde69718bd795/tumblr_mi07vryq1Z1rk0hzvo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://thegiftsoflife.tumblr.com/post/42747967730" target="_blank">thegiftsoflife</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>k<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ianlayzellphotographs/6973274651/" title="Keeping Watch. By Ian Layzell" target="_blank">eeping Watch. By Ian Layzell</a> by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ianlayzellphotographs/" target="_blank">IANLAYZELLUK</a> on Flickr.</p> </blockquote>http://ikorkh.tumblr.com/post/43546674671http://ikorkh.tumblr.com/post/43546674671Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:11:14 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/c3d46c7efb730acc6e83640c86732c66/tumblr_mfi48vTtWu1qcet82o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://lawhimsy.tumblr.com/post/40097857340/chrissy-piper-journal-la" target="_blank">lawhimsy</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Chrissy Piper Journal ~ La</p> </blockquote>http://ikorkh.tumblr.com/post/43546671072http://ikorkh.tumblr.com/post/43546671072Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:11:11 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/69a4b2ac20ff4571a6c8817e7ed7db40/tumblr_mii6at2rMu1qzy2a4o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/a067666ff892695769601e19bd200008/tumblr_mii6at2rMu1qzy2a4o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/f6c761fb6bf2f5afb94557508b56cddc/tumblr_mii6at2rMu1qzy2a4o3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/f2d7928ea13e9bc21575b4da149046ac/tumblr_mii6at2rMu1qzy2a4o4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Abandoned structures around the world. Gothic, meet Steampunk, meet post-apocalyptic. You will all get along splendidly.</p>http://ikorkh.tumblr.com/post/43546525104http://ikorkh.tumblr.com/post/43546525104Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:08:00 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/d6f158487f535c40d29c011b4007fd0b/tumblr_miadpvsbUa1rsmqf9o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/a9d3f851adcb9d1ac98d81daa9a32d12/tumblr_miadpvsbUa1rsmqf9o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://artinfilms.tumblr.com/post/43183753971/top-alatriste-2006-directed-by-agustin-diaz" target="_blank">artinfilms</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Top: <em>Alatriste</em>, 2006. Directed by  <strong>Agustín Díaz Yanes</strong>.</p> <p>Bottom: <em>The Surrender of Breda</em> by <strong>Diego Velázquez</strong>. Oil on canvas, 1635.</p> <p><em>Alatriste</em> is a film based on Arturo Pérez-Reverte’s book series, <em>The Adventures of Captain Alatriste</em> and featuring Viggo Mortensen<em>.</em> It’s set in XVII century Spain and it looks as if Diego Velazquez were the director of photography! Throughout the film there are various references to different paintings by Velázquez, including <em>Las Meninas</em> and his portrait of Francisco de Quevedo. If the work of Velazquez and other baroque painters were used to further tie the fiction with the period and place it’s set in, it worked wonders. </p> <p>I found it a visually stunning film that, unfortunately, drags the story for too long. But as an art historian, the Spanish baroque references were a pleasure. </p> </blockquote>http://ikorkh.tumblr.com/post/43202284683http://ikorkh.tumblr.com/post/43202284683Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:25:20 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/8cdcd0bf667bc01714fccf0208a0e334/tumblr_mh96cjHZHP1r52he3o1_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/7408bfaa4910c653e09a6a4eb3dea781/tumblr_mh96cjHZHP1r52he3o2_500.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/26947ab044886fece29fddffffca1b5e/tumblr_mh96cjHZHP1r52he3o3_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/48d58d48e42e353327fff105a673e3ca/tumblr_mh96cjHZHP1r52he3o4_500.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/5fd6febdd64d808b17c4c77400cf17cb/tumblr_mh96cjHZHP1r52he3o5_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/3a6c4da91b924046b7f5f015a9d2ce25/tumblr_mh96cjHZHP1r52he3o6_500.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/1787d5f610cb068710a3c4ff6099fa49/tumblr_mh96cjHZHP1r52he3o7_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/1bc5eb3f7746ca0974adb57ad4b25712/tumblr_mh96cjHZHP1r52he3o8_500.gif"/><br/> <br/><blockquote> <p><em>“It’s true to life.”</em></p> <p><em>“And art?”<br/></em></p> <p><em>“It isn’t art.”<br/></em></p> <p><em><strong>Caravaggio (Derek Jarman, 1986)</strong><br/></em></p> </blockquote>http://ikorkh.tumblr.com/post/43202274936http://ikorkh.tumblr.com/post/43202274936Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:25:12 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxe1bgC3Hy1r9e0ppo1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://ikorkh.tumblr.com/post/42487065841http://ikorkh.tumblr.com/post/42487065841Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:22:16 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljpyt75MUU1qb8vzto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://missfolly.tumblr.com/post/4762724149" target="_blank">missfolly</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><em>The metal braguette (some fashions are simply ridiculous : )</em></p> </blockquote>http://ikorkh.tumblr.com/post/42487046780http://ikorkh.tumblr.com/post/42487046780Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:21:57 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/36dc6774ea17b9024eb9ba0015197b7c/tumblr_mepj3yMhIl1rkruyjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://ikorkh.tumblr.com/post/42487029449http://ikorkh.tumblr.com/post/42487029449Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:21:39 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/ea2e00e3a5020fd8bd6f3fa81bbd97e0/tumblr_mhdp6oES1p1qj0nrio1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://fritzundco.tumblr.com/post/41774220095/christer-stromholm-arles-1949-c-christer" target="_blank">fritzundco</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Christer Strömholm: “Arles”, 1949<span class="copyright" id="gal_copyright">  |  © Christer Strömholm/Strömholm Estate</span></p> </blockquote>http://ikorkh.tumblr.com/post/42486999793http://ikorkh.tumblr.com/post/42486999793Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:21:08 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/3bd15df2d1dca9d1b150e8892519cdb5/tumblr_mh936t2jT01qbsg6oo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://ikorkh.tumblr.com/post/42486920975http://ikorkh.tumblr.com/post/42486920975Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:19:47 -0800