🔵 An infinite midnight sails against the rotation of Earth
The vessel doesn't need to be perfect. The vessel needs to be strong enough to survive the descent. That's it. Everything beyond that threshold is dwarf vanity.
"For me, that’s pretty much it: waking up and being excited and curiously restless to face the day ahead, and being very present with that day, and then going to bed feeling like it actually happened, that the day was lived. There’s nothing more than that, really."
Shakespeare, Velazquez, and Kubrick share the ability to look their audience—essentially their market—directly in the eye and show them something they would not otherwise see: themselves, as perceived through the eyes of someone whose deepest loyalty lies with the artwork. This position makes the artist neither an ally nor an enemy, but something... See more
"the mountings effectively decouple movements of the engine from those of the wheels"
make the interaction between (electrical components) so weak that there is little transfer of energy between them, especially to remove unwanted AC distortion or oscillations