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Photographer Unknown, Leather and Metal
“[…]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue center light pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
—Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Photographer Unknown, (The Square of Photons Illuminates You! )
Photographer Unknown, (Live Not On Evil)
Photographer Unknown, (Slumber and Dream)
“Endings are abstruse, mystic and unreal. They are but depleted beginnings purposed to be substituted with newer ones.A transition of outlook and time, similar to our differing moods before and after slumber. Before the act we witness an exhaustion, a sulkiness but on gaining consciousness, we’re rejuvenated and good humored. The wakefulness is the new beginning whereas the tension the disturbance we perceive each night is the weariness of the beginnings, of each day.
So there never really is an end, all that there are are beginnings.Beginnings which are promising, which offer hope, which have a new leash on life, which neither denounce nor belittle rather soothe and console by reconstructing the broken pieces of yesterday, mending them and reinforcing them with courage and beauty like never before.”
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Photographer Unknown, (The Pierced Raven)
Photographer Unknown, (Bee, Skull and Two Pink Roses)
Dreadlocks: Julian Estaban
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Mitch Cullin, Title Unknown, (Tiger’s Roar)
Born and raised in the American Southwest, Mitch Cullin is an artist based in Los Angeles. His books have been published internationally, including the novels “A Slight Trick of the Mind” and “Tideland”, both of which were brought to the screen by directors Bill Condon and Terry Gilliam, respectively. With his photographs having appeared as artwork on several book covers, his images have also been exhibited in both New Mexico and Texas.
Having turned his full attention back to photography, Mitch Cullin is currently putting together a series of photo essays that have been developed over the past years, among them “Man Facing Away” and a return to his earlier images from “West Texas Footnotes”. He also continues to work on projects with his partner, the mixed media artist Peter I. Chang.
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Frank Marando, “Portrait of Jake Bass”
Medusa
“He certainly seemed to have all the qualities of a gentleman, but the interesting kind who knows exactly when to stop behaving like one.”
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Photographer Unknown, (Straps and Skull)
Photographer Unknown, (What is Life Without Honor)
‘Nitobe Inazo, “Bushido: The Soul of Japan”, 1905, G.P. Putnam’s Sons
The Eight Virtues are: Rectitude or Justice; Courage; Benevolence or Mercy; Politeness; Honesty and Sincerity; Honor; Loyalty; Character and Self-Control.
“The sense of Honor, a vivid consciousness of personal dignity and worth, characterized the samurai. He was born and bred to value the duties and privileges of his profession. Fear of disgrace hung like a sword over the head of every samurai … To take offense at slight provocation was ridiculed as ‘short-tempered.’ As the popular adage put it: ‘True patience means bearing the unbearable.” – Nitobe Inazo, Bushido: The Soul of Japan, Chapter 8, “Honour”
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Sanity
“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
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