“It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.”
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Custom Smoker, Braindead Brewing, Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
Monster
Tag Archives: Deep Ellum
Behold the Hands
“Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.”
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Tatoo Shop Storefront, Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
It’s Fleeting, and It’s Temporal
I remember as a kid having a balloon and accidentally letting the string go and watching it just float off and into the sky until it disappeared. And there’s something about that, even, that feels very much like what life is, you know, that it’s fleeting, and it’s temporal.
—-Pete Docter
Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
Better They Should Enjoy Their Temporary Lives
“What action would not be futile, when a man could look upon his own aged, yellowed skull? Better they should enjoy their temporary lives, while they still had them to enjoy.”
― The Skull
Smoker Trailer(detail), Braindead Brewing, Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
Happy Robot
“When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
Braindead Brewing, Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
Glowed With Pink Charcoals
“Her cheeks glowed with pink charcoals.”
― From the Dust Returned
Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
A Depth To Which Divers Would Find It Difficult To Descend
“There, at a depth to which divers would find it difficult to descend, are caverns, haunts, and dusky mazes, where monstrous creatures multiply and destroy each other. Huge crabs devour fish and are devoured in their turn. Hideous shapes of living things, not created to be seen by human eyes wander in this twilight. Vague forms of antennae, tentacles, fins, open jaws, scales, and claws, float about there, quivering, growing larger, or decomposing and perishing in the gloom, while horrible swarms of swimming things prowl about seeking their prey.
To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible point of view. The submarine gulf is analogous to the realm of night and dreams. There also is sleep, unconsciousness, or at least apparent unconsciousness, of creation. There in the awful silence and darkness, the rude first forms of life, phantomlike, demoniacal, pursue their horrible instincts.”
― The Toilers of the Sea
Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
Frequently There Must Be A Beverage
“Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: Frequently there must be a beverage.”
― Without Feathers
Mural (detail), Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
A Flower That Was In Bud Only Yesterday
“It’s so curious: one can resist tears and ‘behave’ very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer… and everything collapses. ”
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Mural (detail), Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
A Bird’s Building Its Own Nest
“There is some of the same fitness in a man’s building his own house that there is in a bird’s building its own nest. Who knows but if men constructed their dwellings with their own hands, and provided food for themselves and families simply and honestly enough, the poetic faculty would be universally developed, as birds universally sing when they are so engaged? But alas! we do like cowbirds and cuckoos, which lay their eggs in nests which other birds have built, and cheer no traveler with their chattering and unmusical notes. Shall we forever resign the pleasure of construction to the carpenter?”
― Walden
Awakening, Part of the Traveling Man series of sculptures, Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
The Traveling Man Sculptures of Deep Ellum Celebrate Their 10th Anniversary
Travelling Man… and a jet, Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
Travelling Man – sculpture east of Downtown Dallas
Bike Riders under the Travelling Man
Travelling Man, Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
Tourists reflected in a metal bird. Travelling Man Sculpture, Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
The Travelling Man (two versions)
Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
Bill Chance 