“Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
Adolphus Hotel
Dallas, Texas
“If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse… but surely you will see the wildness!”
― Pablo Picasso
Downtown Dallas, Texas
He who can stroll by his fellow man deep in need without batting an eyelash, like a ghost passing through a shade, proves not only a miserable human being, but also possesses a great power, a person that can do anything they want.
—-Armando Vitalis, From Hell’s Heart I Stab At Thee
Belo Garden Park
Dallas, Texas
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”
― Albert Einstein
Downtown Dallas, Texas
“In my father’s last letter he said that the world is run by those willing to take the responsibility for the running of it. If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
Downtown Dallas, Texas
“When I ask how old your toddler is, I don’t need to hear ’27 months.’ ‘He’s two’ will do just fine. He’s not a cheese. And I didn’t really care in the first place.”
― George Carlin
Sculptureson the exterior of the Adolphus Hotel, Dallas, Texas
Photograph taken during the Dallas Photo Walk.
I was walking through downtown Dallas with a group of folks doing a photo walk – everybody with their cameras dangling, strolling, shooting – when on a bench in Main Street Garden Park I saw a tattered spiral notebook. I picked it up and saw that it was full of writing.
There wasn’t much time, everyone else was moving on – so all I could do is skim through. It was full of nice handwriting – page after page of misery and despair set down in cursive. I briefly thought of taking it with me so I could read it completely – maybe learn something.
But I didn’t. That didn’t seem right – the owner might come back for it. So I snapped a quick photo of the first page and set it back on the bench, exactly where it was.
First page of notebook found in Main Street Garden Park, Dallas, Texas
Full Sized Version of the Photo on Flickr
9/22/2015
6:00 PM
I am at Austin Street Shelter, I’ve been here since March 23 with a couple of detours. They say it will be at least 6 more months before I get an apt. I hope this works out. I’m tired. I’m old.I need a place to call my own. I’m not interested in any relationship with men ever again. I’m thinking I might buy a trailer. I’m gonna start saving all I can…
You can’t do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.
—-John Singer Sargent
Deep Ellum
Dallas, Texa
“I come to a red light, tempted to go through it, then stop once I see a billboard sign that I don’t remember seeing and I look up at it. All it says is ‘Disappear Here’ and even though it’s probably an ad for some resort, it still freaks me out a little and I step on the gas really hard and the car screeches as I leave the light.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero
Invasion Car Show
Deep Ellum
Dallas, Texas
“Butterflies are not insects,’ Captain John Sterling said soberly. ‘They are self-propelled flowers.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
Parking Day
Main Street
Dallas, Texas
Bill Chance 