Why do we collect things? Is it for inspiration? Is it to satisfy personal aesthetics? Is it based on a need to inspire recollection? Is it to show individualism? Or, perhaps in extreme cases, is it to engage the collector in a form of worship that functions as a security measure in the event of [...]
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The ubiquity of Helvetica as a clean, modern answer to post industrialism has not overshadowed the necessity of your existence for the everyday working person. Salud. Nazdarovia. Probst. Here’s to another 100 years of Hobo.
1. Andrew Wyeth and John Updike seemed to have a preternatural communion with the fundamentals of their art. Updike apparently brokered a separate and special understanding with the English language. Wyeth seemingly could will individual bristles to do his bidding in a brutally unforgiving medium awash with chance and accident. 2. Both were, fundamentally, sophisticated [...]
