Karlsruhe/Munich, Germany

Stuhlhockerbank is a series of seating for public spaces that approach users and viewers in an extraordinary way… more here.

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David is back in Italy… after a two-year trip to the United States—corporate sponsors are acknowledged. For comparison, see a photo of David taken just over two years ago, here.

(This was sent to me individually by several friends in Europe, so I know it really must be true (-:  Le David de Michelangelo est de retour en Italie après 2 années passées aux USA—merci aux sponsors…

Blame it on Movember… what’s a typophile to do? 

(thanks to Ian McCausland for the photos)

—Bertrand Russell

Honolulu, Hawaii

Artist and designer Won Park creates incredible origami pieces using only one dollar bills. A typical sheet of paper used for origami is square but he has adapted his folding technique to bills that are rectangular… his creations are made strictly by folding—no cuts, no glue, no tape, and no instructions. See more of his value-added creations here.

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—Benjamin Franklin

São Paulo, Brazil

Ronald Kapaz has sent me yet another of his lovely sketches on “questioning…” keep them coming, my friend!

These are fun… (source).

This is rich indeed… holiness has its own simplicity!

(original source unknown)

I love, and collect, and often share wise words and quotations. The following showed up a while back as I was rummaging through some paper-stacks that lay relatively undisturbed for years in my somewhat-organized home library…

I quote others only the better to express myself.

—Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

—Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)

We are no more than God’s imagination about himself.

—Thomas Mann (1875-1955)

The world is a tragedy to those who feel,

but a comedy to those who think.

—Horace Walpole (1717-1797)

A child of five would understand this.

Send someone to fetch a child of five!

—Groucho Marx (1890-1977)

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

—Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

To him who is in fear, everything rustles.

—Socrates (469 BC-399 BC)

Education is when you read the fine print.

Experience is what you get if you don’t.

—Pete Seger (1919—  )

He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.

— Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Everything has been thought of before—

the problem is to think of it again.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

There is no such thing as a pretty good omelette.

—French proverb

Many a scarecrow serves as a roost of the enlightened crow.

—(unknown)

The man who can’t visualize a horse

galloping on a tomato is an idiot.

—André Breton (1896-1966)

Please feel free to share with me the quotations that touch your own soul, tickle your fancy, or blow your mind, OK? You can contact me here.