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Parents say N, Children do Y

Fri, 03 May 2013 12:56:22 +0100

Parents say N, Children do Y

Mirar o rio, que é de tempo e água, E recordar que o tempo é...

Fri, 03 May 2013 11:43:16 +0100

Mirar o rio, que é de tempo e água,
E recordar que o tempo é outro rio,
Saber que nos perdemos como o rio
E que passam os rostos como a água.
E sentir que a vigília é outro sonho
Que sonha não sonhar, sentir que a morte,
Que a nossa carne teme, é essa morte
De cada noite, que se chama sonho.
E ver no dia ou ver no ano um símbolo
Desses dias do homem, de seus anos,
E converter o ultraje desses anos
Em uma música, um rumor e um símbolo.
E ver na morte o sonho, e ver no ocaso
Um triste ouro, e assim é a poesia,
Que é imortal e pobre. A poesia
Retorna como a aurora e o ocaso.
Às vezes, pelas tardes, uma face
Nos observa do fundo de um espelho;
A arte deve ser como esse espelho
Que nos revela nossa própria face.
Contam que Ulisses, farto de prodígios,
Chorou de amor ao avistar sua Ítaca
Humilde e verde. A arte é essa Ítaca
De um eterno verdor, não de prodígios.
Também é como o rio interminável
Que passa e fica e que é cristal de um mesmo
Heráclito inconstante que é o mesmo
E é outro, como o rio interminável.

ARTE POÉTICA – Jorge Luís Borges
Tradução de Rolando Roque da Silva

To gaze at a river made of time and water
And remember Time is another river.
To know we stray like a river
and our faces vanish like water.
To feel that waking is another dream
that dreams of not dreaming and that the death
we fear in our bones is the death
that every night we call a dream.
To see in every day and year a symbol
of all the days of man and his years,
and convert the outrage of the years
into a music, a sound, and a symbol.
To see in death a dream, in the sunset
a golden sadness—such is poetry,
humble and immortal, poetry,
returning, like dawn and the sunset.
Sometimes at evening there’s a face
that sees us from the deeps of a mirror.
Art must be that sort of mirror,
disclosing to each of us his face.
They say Ulysses, wearied of wonders,
wept with love on seeing Ithaca,
humble and green. Art is that Ithaca,
a green eternity, not wonders.
Art is endless like a river flowing,
passing, yet remaining, a mirror to the same
inconstant Heraclitus, who is the same
and yet another, like the river flowing.

………………………………………

Contempler le fleuve fait de temps et d’eau
Et se souvenir que le temps est un fleuve aussi,
Savoir que nous nous perdons comme fait le fleuve
Et que les visages passent comme l’eau.

Sentir que la veille est elle aussi un sommeil
Qui rêve de ne point dormir, et que la mort
Que craint notre chair est cette même mort
Qui vient chaque nuit, qu’on appelle sommeil.

Voir dans le jour, dans l’année un symbole
Des jours de l’homme et de ses ans ;
Convertir l’outrage des ans
En une musique, un bruit, un symbole.

Voir le sommeil dans la mort, dans le couchant
Un or triste, telle est la poésie
Qui est immortelle et pauvre. La poésie
Revient comme l’aurore et le couchant.

Parfois, le soir, un visage
Nous regarde du fond d’un miroir :
L’art doit être comme ce miroir
Nous dévoilant notre propre visage.

On raconte qu’Ulysse, rassasié de prodiges,
Pleura d’amour en retrouvant son Ithaque
Verte et humble. L’art est cette Ithaque
Riche d’une verte éternité, non de prodiges.

Il est aussi comme le fleuve sans fin
Qui passe et qui reste, toujours le cristal d’un seul
Inconstant Héraclite, qui est toujours le même
Et autre pourtant, comme un fleuve sans fin.

………………………………………

Image: Letha Wilson. Reverse Colorado Rip, 2010. Xerox transfer, graphite, C-print on cut paper, 22 x 22 x 3 inches

Text: Borges, Jorge Luis. “The Art of Poetry.” New Directions Publishing Corporation, New York, 1988.

Four thousand years of world history (Infography).

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 23:36:00 +0000

Four thousand years of world history (Infography).

Flux Typography Collection

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:51:50 +0000

Flux Typography Collection

I read where I am.

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 17:21:00 +0000

I read where I am.

typography history: I took this picture at the letterpress...

Fri, 04 May 2012 18:35:08 +0100

typography history:

I took this picture at the letterpress workshop I’ll be attending weekly from now on. These cases are a tiny sample of all the fonts available.

[Elzévir (by Mitternacht)]

Showing: David Shrigley – ‘Brain Activity’ @ Hayward Gallery...

Wed, 02 May 2012 08:12:00 +0100

Showing: David Shrigley – ‘Brain Activity’ @ Hayward Gallery (Part I) | (via Arrested Motion)

A Brief History of the ‘Marber Grid’ – The layout that changed...

Wed, 02 May 2012 07:06:00 +0100

A Brief History of the ‘Marber Grid’ – The layout that changed book design forever

. (via The History of the ‘Marber Grid’ - The Book Design Blog)

Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita gets a new cover treatment — via...

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 10:52:11 +0100

Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita gets a new cover treatment — via Imprint-The Online Community for Graphic Designers

Don't Overthink It: 5 Tips for Daily Decision-Making :: Tips :: The 99 Percent

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:32:02 +0100

Don't Overthink It: 5 Tips for Daily Decision-Making :: Tips :: The 99 Percent

graphicalhouse: Really interesting Twitter/Mapping related...

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:36:02 +0100

graphicalhouse:

Really interesting Twitter/Mapping related story over at Design is Blank.

Light threads from window by Le Creative Sweatshop

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 22:16:48 +0100

Light threads from window by Le Creative Sweatshop

Jaime Davidovich — Henrique Faria Fine Art Gallery — NY, USA |...

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:49:00 +0100

Jaime Davidovich — Henrique Faria Fine Art Gallery — NY, USA | Flickr – Condivisione di foto!

“Improved Design for Modern Man” byBoris...

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:04:19 +0100

“Improved Design for Modern Man” byBoris Artzybasheff

The Incomplete Enchanter Boris Artzybasheff

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:36:05 +0100

The Incomplete Enchanter

Boris Artzybasheff

Ephemeral Portraits Cut from Layers of Wire Mesh by Seung Mo...

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 01:32:36 +0100

Ephemeral Portraits Cut from Layers of Wire Mesh by Seung Mo Park | Colossal

Word as Image, Ji Lee (by PenguinGroupUSA)

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:28:35 +0100

Word as Image, Ji Lee (by PenguinGroupUSA)

Eskimos using homemade trampolines to celebrate the end of...

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 07:24:55 +0100

Eskimos using homemade trampolines to celebrate the end of whaling season. Location: Point Hope, AK, US Date taken: 1965 Photographer: Ralph Crane (via LIFE - Hosted by Google)

erwan-soyer: Exposition “Parallèle” du 5 au 30 Avril 2012 à la...

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:35:11 +0100

erwan-soyer:

Exposition “Parallèle” du 5 au 30 Avril 2012 à la Librairie “Un jardin de Livres”
3 rue Ferdinand Fabre à Montpellier

Startups, This Is How Design Works – by Wells Riley

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 07:59:45 +0100

Startups, This Is How Design Works – by Wells Riley