If Looks Could Kill - Graphic Art & Design

Found this analogy interesting: “The meaning of life. A unified field theory. The big reason why.”

The earth, he’d say, is just a big machine. A big processing plant. A factory. That’s your big answer. The big truth.

Think of a rock polisher, one of those drums, goes round and round, rolls twenty-four/seven, full of water and rocks and gravel. Grinding it all up. Round and round. Polishing those ugly rocks into gemstones. That’s the earth. Why it goes around. We’re the rocks. And what happens to us - the drama and pain and joy and war and sickness and victory and abuse - why, that’s just the water and sand to erode us. Grind us down. To polish us up, nice and bright.

Quotes from The Maxx (animated) by Sam Kieth that I couldn’t find elsewhere on the web:
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Julie: “Right now, you wait.”
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Sara: (reading poster) “And the day came, when the risk to remain closed in a bud, became more painful, than the risk it took to blossom.”

Click here for a 1998 Playboy article on legendary pin-up queen, Bettie Page. It’s a fascinating read and offers her point of view in contrast to the recent accounts in print and film.

Also, this contains an image of Bettie Page circa 1998. I had always been curious, since she was so careful about keeping her face hidden in shadows during interviews and not allowing pictures. I purposely didn’t post it for those who would rather not be disillusioned.

Bettie Page Quotes from the Interview, for the attention-span impaired:

• “I tried to imagine the camera was my boyfriend and I was entertaining him, with poses to please him.”
• “This new book by Foster says Bettie Page threatened people with a .22 at Bible Town. That is a lie. I did have a .22 for protection, but whatever Foster has heard from the police, it never left my dresser drawer.”
• “God approves of nudity. Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, they were naked as jaybirds.”

“You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you’re satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you’ve got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you’re trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.“

This is especially relevant right now. I don’t want to become trapped in my lovely nest, the possession of what I’d once thought I’d possess. Why do you? This theme, she’s-a recurring. *shakes head in disbelief*

Anyway, getcha some Fight Club quotes here.