I wanted something anti-authority, but I suppose the mouth idea came from when I met Jagger for the first time at the Stones’ offices. I went into this sort of wood-panelled boardroom and there he was. Face to face with him, the first thing you were aware of was the size of his lips and his mouth. —John Pasche, designer of Rolling Stones, “Tongue and Lips” logo

I wanted something anti-authority, but I suppose the mouth idea came from when I met Jagger for the first time at the Stones’ offices. I went into this sort of wood-panelled boardroom and there he was. Face to face with him, the first thing you were aware of was the size of his lips and his mouth.

—John Pasche, designer of Rolling Stones, “Tongue and Lips” logo

The presence of the humming machine filled with various kinds of bubbly sugar water and chemicals doesn’t surprise me. I immediately understand the purpose of the stacked cups and plastic lids displayed in half-open cannisters.  It all makes sense.  I tear open the plastic wrapping that sheathes a plastic straw without having to think about it.  My fingertips know how to find the seam along the side in the same way they did when I was a small child. The aisles of brightly colored snack food, the soft classic rock, the containers of putrefying cow milk perspiring in an ice filled tray:  I can navigate all of it with ease.  But the best part is the feeling of walking up to the cash register with enough money in my pocket and smiling behind my thousand yard stare knowing that i get to go home, turn up the A/C, and create other realities.

The presence of the humming machine filled with various kinds of bubbly sugar water and chemicals doesn’t surprise me. I immediately understand the purpose of the stacked cups and plastic lids displayed in half-open cannisters.  It all makes sense.  I tear open the plastic wrapping that sheathes a plastic straw without having to think about it.  My fingertips know how to find the seam along the side in the same way they did when I was a small child. The aisles of brightly colored snack food, the soft classic rock, the containers of putrefying cow milk perspiring in an ice filled tray:  I can navigate all of it with ease.  But the best part is the feeling of walking up to the cash register with enough money in my pocket and smiling behind my thousand yard stare knowing that i get to go home, turn up the A/C, and create other realities.

I believe in nonviolent disruption as one of the most effective ways of waking people up. Waking up is the equivalent of disconnecting from the Matrix.  It usually happens in fits and starts, in a process that can be drawn out over years, or even lifetimes.  But eventually you take the plunge and become born again into a world of pure potentiality.  Everything becomes very flat and clear—like you’re standing in a desert.Abundance, Beauty, Peace.  It feels so good to believe a new story about yourself. 

I believe in nonviolent disruption as one of the most effective ways of waking people up. Waking up is the equivalent of disconnecting from the Matrix.  It usually happens in fits and starts, in a process that can be drawn out over years, or even lifetimes.  But eventually you take the plunge and become born again into a world of pure potentiality.  Everything becomes very flat and clear—like you’re standing in a desert.

Abundance, Beauty, Peace.  It feels so good to believe a new story about yourself. 

A lot of fiction is born in train stations and airports—places where we tell stories to pass the time while we wait. Highway rest-stops, a shady tree, a side street half hidden by the rush of the avenue —we think it’s about going somewhere but our journeys instead lead us in-between.

A lot of fiction is born in train stations and airports—places where we tell stories to pass the time while we wait. Highway rest-stops, a shady tree, a side street half hidden by the rush of the avenue —we think it’s about going somewhere but our journeys instead lead us in-between.

BRANDTRUEBOY represents a new way of being, based on the new personalization of the moving image. Everyday people are stars, and everyday people who are cool or talented are megastars and everyday people who are cool and talented and more than mostly made-up are insta-legends.

BRANDTRUEBOY represents a new way of being, based on the new personalization of the moving image. Everyday people are stars, and everyday people who are cool or talented are megastars and everyday people who are cool and talented and more than mostly made-up are insta-legends.

beautifulurself: untitled by sleep, dream on Flickr. As wild as it sounds I’ve discovered a way in which to “see” the invisible—it’s like unearthing a half covered circle by leaving it where it is and imagining its missing piece… Something’s shifted—the feedback loop between my gaze and the world has been closed and amplified.  It’s no longer that the sun shines on me it’s that I express its light and warmth.  I’m a poetic extension of the sun—like a ray of light shining through dust particles or a puddle of water that slowly vanishes over the course of a leisurely lunch...

beautifulurself:

untitled by sleep, dream on Flickr.

As wild as it sounds I’ve discovered a way in which to “see” the invisible—it’s like unearthing a half covered circle by leaving it where it is and imagining its missing piece… Something’s shifted—the feedback loop between my gaze and the world has been closed and amplified.  It’s no longer that the sun shines on me it’s that I express its light and warmth.  I’m a poetic extension of the sun—like a ray of light shining through dust particles or a puddle of water that slowly vanishes over the course of a leisurely lunch...

The voice inside that I remember from when I was a child is back—for many years it was a scattered, garbled frequency but now I can feel it coursing through my body.  There is the sense of following a story that is already written…many aspects are like being a child again…the sense of wonder in the everyday…the feeling of fearlessness. 

The voice inside that I remember from when I was a child is back—for many years it was a scattered, garbled frequency but now I can feel it coursing through my body.  There is the sense of following a story that is already written…many aspects are like being a child again…the sense of wonder in the everyday…the feeling of fearlessness. 

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