Archive for the 'Melancholia' Category

Postsecret: I started a group on YouTube called: Sublimate this!
Here is the description that I wrote up:
A group for those of us finding physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical or artistic moments of transcendent greatness on YouTube. Themes may include (But are certainly not limited to): subtext, quiet reflection, self-consciousness and unself-consciousness, introspection, beauty … 

Too much time’s your problem Catullus. That’s it:too much time. You loll in a bath of too muchtime, and time brings death to a king, they say, anddeath to a kingdom.                    – G.V. Catullus – exerpt from Poem 51 (trans. David Wray)

A couple weeks ago, I accidentally researched my family crest. It seems that I thought I was typing my name into a form but my cursor had moved and I was actually typing my name into the Google search box. Fair enough. Anyway, the resulting search revealed the image above — a stained glass depiction [...]