Canada, Ontario, toronto

Burliegh falls, ontario

ROM, bloor st, ontario

Downtown, toronto

personality disorder

People have an inflated sense of their own importance and a deep need for admiration. Those with narcissistic personality disorder believe that they're superior to others and have little regard for other people's feelings. But behind this mask of ultra-confidence lies a fragile self-esteem, vulnerable to the slightest criticism.

There is also the success oriented narcissist. She will be your friend and keep you close to her as long as you are useful. Once you do not have anything more to offer and she has taken all they wanted from you, you are history. You are no longer desired, wanted, or sought.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_and_Narcissus

infinite number

Anyone who has not spent the last ten years on a desert island, has at least once heard of “the multiverse”, or parallel universes. As many of us have seen, parallel words, in theory, are worlds very similar to ours, with little (or in some cases, large) changes or differences. The multiverse theory speculates that there could exist an infinite number of these alternate realities. 
What’s the point? In a parallel reality you have already killed the dinosaurs, and you are lying under the ground at a depth of eight feet (because that’s what happened there.) In the other you might be a powerful dictator. In another you might never have even been born since your parents never met. Now that’s a memorable image.

At the very origin of art there existed the tendency of the imagination to struggle upward out of nature into spirituality. But, as yet, the struggle consisted in nothing more than a yearning of the spirit, and, insofar as this failed to furnish a precise content for art, art could really be of service only in providing external forms for mere natural significations, or impersonal abstractions of the substantial inner principle which constitutes the central point of the world.

 Stendhal syndrome, Stendhal's syndrome, hyperkulturemia, or Florence syndrome is a psychosomatic disorder that causes rapid heartbeat, dizziness, fainting, confusion and even hallucinations when an individual is exposed to an experience of great personal significance, particularly viewing art.[1] The term can also be used to describe a similar reaction when confronted with immense beauty in the natural world.

LOBO-tomia

“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”

 ― Charles Bukowski

the last refuge

“Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.” ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

art for the day

Last days of july-2014

HDR-Ontario

I dropped out of the Communism class because of lousy Marx.

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the gap

minnow lake

dock, six-mile lake

sign

art, show, selfies,

HD-florida

florida, everglades

Chokoloskee island

Pine scrub land everglades

into a thin, web-like crack

there was a song i heard when i was in los angeles by a local group. the song was called "los angeles" and the words and images were so harsh and bitter that the song would reverberate in my mind for days. the images, i later found out, were personal and no one i knew shared them. the images i had were of people being driven mad by living in the city. images of parents who were so hungry and unfulfilled that they ate their own children. images of people, teenagers my own age, looking up from the asphalt and being blinded by the sun. these images stayed with me even after i left the city. images so violent and malicious that they seemed to be my only point of reference for a long time afterwards. after i left.” ― Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero

While taking a piss in the men's room, I stare into a thin, web-like crack above the urinal's handle and think to myself that if I were to disappear into that crack, say somehow miniaturize and slip into it, the odds are good that no one would notice I was gone. No...one...would...care. In fact some, if they noticed my absence, might feel an odd, indefinable sense of relief. This is true: the world is better off with some people gone. Our lives are NOT all interconnected. That theory is a crock. Some things truly do not NEED to be here.” ― Bret Easton Ellis, American PsychOooo

3- HD- Quebec City, trip 2009

east ,old city,

wall, gate to old city

the icon of the city

The Ugliest Man~2~ Flies of the Marketplac

The Ugliest Man**Zarathustra enters a valley where no animals live and encounters the "ugliest man"—the man who killed God. Though he is momentarily stunned by pity, Zarathustra overcomes his pity and returns to his senses. The great pity people feel for the ugliest man's suffering offends his sense of shame. He killed God because God could see everything and know everything about him, and most of all because God felt pity. As with the others, Zarathustra directs the ugliest man to his cave.~~f.n.

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer

The summer’s flower is to the summer sweet, 
Though to itself it only live and die, 
But if that flower with base infection meet, 
The basest weed outbraves his dignity: 
For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; 
Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. 
~ws

..... the Flies of the Marketplace~Those who pander to the masses earn fame and popularity, but true change and influence is silently dictated by the overman and the creator. Such creativity demands isolation from the meddlesome crowds.~~f.n.

 In the world even the best things are worthless without those who represent them: those representers, the people call great men.
Little, do the people understand what is great—that is to say, the creating agency. But they have a taste for all representers and actors of great things.
Around the devisers of new values revolveth the world:—invisibly it revolveth. But around the actors revolve the people and the glory: such is the course of things.
Spirit, hath the actor, but little conscience of the spirit. He believeth always in that wherewith he maketh believe most strongly—in himself!

They flatter thee, as one flattereth a God or devil; they whimper before thee, as before a God or devil; What doth it come to! Flatterers are they, and whimperers, and nothing more.

KAN u dig it..............

Venice

selfie

florida-humidity 90%

The extent of ...........

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.” ― Confucius

PIKs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matlacha,_Florida

drink the

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lovers key State Park, Florida

salvations

“There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy” ― Henry Miller

{goin to Forida tomorrow, back in july}

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“Life is a predicament which precedes death.” ― Henry James

born lost

“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.” 

― John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley: In Search of America

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thinking of.............................?????????????

“How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.” ― William Faulkner

live out loud

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.” ― Émile Zola

“Like most others,"

“Like most others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser. I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I shared a dark suspicion that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between these two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary

Kosmic law

“There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.” ― G.I. Gurdjieff

“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.” ― Aldous Huxley

“And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are "happy," O God, in fact it was Irwin Garden once warned me not to think the madhouses are full of "happy nuts." (p. 200)” ― Jack Kerouac, Big Sur

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My words

“You had better run from me. My words are fire.” ― Rumi, The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

“My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.” 

― Rumi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBCOAGDiW-E

What’s the answer?

“Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?”

“Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again.

“No, I give it up,” Alice replied: “What’s the answer?”

“I haven’t the slightest idea,” said the Hatter” 

― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland