ian van ness

I’ve known how to be alone for most of my life. It’s...

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:58:24 -0400

I’ve known how to be alone for most of my life. It’s not always easy, but it is unlike anything else out there, and a necessity for introspection and self-exploration. It wasn’t until E explained to me that the majority of people were too interested with themselves to care to even notice or think about “that person standing over them by themselves alone, not even checking their phone as if to signal to others ‘oh hey, people like me. I’m just here waiting.’”, that I finally “got it.”

“I’m learning.”(photo)

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:40:00 -0400

“I’m learning.”

(photo)

“My Beach” - Human Highway

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 07:09:00 -0400

“My Beach” - Human Highway

You switch on for the city Long gone from the city Come on...

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:30:00 -0400

You switch on for the city
Long gone from the city
Come on strong winds move on
You belong in the city
I’m wrong for the city
Switch on a sad song when I’m gone

So long.

“Switched On” - Islands

What would you say you believe in?

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:09:33 -0400

What would you say you believe in?

"If we do not want to live meaninglessly, then we need to give ourselves over sometimes to the time..."

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:04:14 -0400

“If we do not want to live meaninglessly, then we need to give ourselves over sometimes to the time of inwardness and contemplation, to empathy and aesthetic wonder. We need to mull and muse, to reflect on our experience and interpret it… We need occasionally to go with the flow.”

- Eva Hoffman, ‘Time’

Boys do cry - even if it takes years. (via thisisindexed)

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:21:27 -0400

Boys do cry - even if it takes years.

(via thisisindexed)

I was delighted by the “hidden track” on Four...

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:56:00 -0500

I was delighted by the “hidden track” on Four Tet’s latest, “There is Love in You”. The voice is instantly recognizable as that of Lightspeed Champion, an artist I was introduced to via E, via our mutual affection for Emmy the Great. Looking forward to his upcoming album, with an untouched/unremixed version of this track (especially now that he lives locally in Brooklyn).

“it’s better to fly /

and never reach the sky //

every second that you run away /

makes me miss you more and more //

i miss you /

i miss you”

**UPDATE** Album version is absolutely NO different than the Four Tet version. Oh well.

"Mr. Fox: Mole! What d’you got? Mole: I can see in the dark. Mr. Fox: We can use that. Rabbit?..."

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:05:57 -0500

“Mr. Fox: Mole! What d’you got?
Mole: I can see in the dark.
Mr. Fox: We can use that. Rabbit?
Rabbit: I’m fast.
Mr. Fox: Badger?
Badger: Demolitions expert.
Mr. Fox: What? Since when?”

- Despite my own “heart-on-sleeve” way of life, there is always more left to discover about one other, and sometimes it’s the timing of when it all comes pouring out that makes all the difference.

“A half-drawn shade” and “the thing about life...

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:30:00 -0500

“A half-drawn shade” and “the thing about life is that it goes on”: two stand-out holiday “gifts”.

Balance.

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:18:36 -0500

Balance.

"I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice..."

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:32:00 -0500

“I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the sky looks. The color of white paper. The way people walk. Doorknobs. Everything. Then I get used to the place and I don’t notice those things anymore. So only by forgetting can I see the place again as it really is.”

- David Byrne, in 1986’s “True Stories”, a film that he wrote, starred in, and directed.

We watched at Zoya’s on Halloween, her dressed as Oregon Trail, Evan as himself, and E and I as nouveau réalisme. Naturally.

‘we fell asleep in the middle of the fury’ sleigh...

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:50:00 -0500

‘we fell asleep in the middle of the fury’

sleigh bells - ring ring

"Not every clocktick needs a martyr."

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:26:00 -0500

“Not every clocktick needs a martyr.”

- John Woods

Particularly appropriate, I feel, in the day and age of GTD, TODO apps, and the general weight and constant pressure of time. Unstructured time is infinitely valuable for us all - for recharging, regeneration, and personal growth.

It's the only place I know how to bear

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:00:00 -0500

Thirteen years ago this morning I walked into my parents’ bedroom on an overcast and somewhat rainy Tuesday morning to find my Mother in bed, lying lifelessly still.

I froze that day, a state of mind that I’ve existed in ever since. That is until this time last year, when I finally exhaled, or perhaps more fittingly, inhaled, and came to see that my life’s journey hasn’t taken me all that far: I have not yet fully left home. In what is supposed to be the life and dreams of every teenager, and despite moving away and living in three different cities, drastic changes would be needed for me to even think of crawling mercilessly forward. So here I go.

Untitled

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:58:00 -0500

Scott: Where do you get these artsy tweets and away msgs?
Ian: My mind.
Ian: Or drugs.
Ian: Your call.
Scott: The union of both?
Ian: Well, so actually, I stare at the drugs and wonder what I would think I would think if I was ever on them.

"The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective..."

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:42:00 -0400

“The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.”

- Naked Lunch, William S Burroughs

This dude was on(to) something.

bloodisthenewblack: Pandora’s box. If you gotta run, run from...

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 11:05:00 -0400

bloodisthenewblack:

Pandora’s box.

If you gotta run, run from hope.

The Cloud Project Seeding clouds with tasty nanoparticles to...

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:02:00 -0400

The Cloud Project

Seeding clouds with tasty nanoparticles to make ice cream flavored snow!

"You cannot create experience. You must undergo it."

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:49:00 -0500

“You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.”

- Albert Camus, French author, philosopher and Nobel prize-winning journalist