Inspiration – Non Omnis Moriar

constantia — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 19:10:22 +0000

I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.

Rabbit! Rabbit! Rabbit!

constantia — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:33:36 +0000

Zelko Nedic, wet plate collodion, tintype.

La Evolución de Hombre

constantia — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:31:43 +0000

La Evolución de Hombre. Miguel Calderón, 1995.

constantia — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 04:02:51 +0000

“Wonder had gone away, and he had forgotten that life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other.”

― H.P. Lovecraft, The Silver Key

constantia — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 06:23:06 +0000

What we call the beginning is often the end
And to make and end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from. And every phrase
And sentence that is right (where every word is at home,
Taking its place to support the others,
The word neither diffident nor ostentatious,
An easy commerce of the old and the new,
The common word exact without vulgarity,
The formal word precise but not pedantic,
The complete consort dancing together)
Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning,
Every poem an epitaph. And any action
Is a step to the block, to the fire, down the sea’s throat
Or to an illegible stone: and that is where we start.

For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
And next year’s words await another voice.

– Excerpts pulled from T.S. Eliot’s Little Gidding

Neil Gaiman’s Advice for Aspiring Artists

constantia — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 22:28:47 +0000

constantia — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 21:09:07 +0000

We’re seduced early on by the notion that everybody’s got a novel in them and so on and so forth. And that is very probably true. But the fact is that the only way to be certain of whether there’s a novel inside you is to sit down with a pen in your hand one day and start to do it. – Clive Barker

Apache Dance from Monmartre Madness

constantia — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:51:34 +0000

Wish the sound was better in this clip.