Babylon Must Fall

The Decline of Western Civilization reimagined by Martin Sprouse

Let Them Eat Jellybeans! reimagined by Dave Scott Schwartzman

Only The Strong

Zog Nit Keyn Mol

"Dying with arms is more beautiful than without."

74 years ago today the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began. 750 Jewish urban warriors fought back and were able to hold their ground for nearly a month against Nazi Germany's effort to transport the remaining population to the Treblinka death-camp.

Wistfulness Unto Death

"The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd — The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul's consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are."

Photograph by Lee Greenfeld © 2017

Words by Fernando Pessoa from The Book of Disquiet, 1920s

Lastingness

"Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it. French hoard it. Italians squander it. Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Do you know what I say? I say time is a crook."

Photograph by Robert Cappa

Quote from Beat The Devil, 1953

Legend At Large

Glenn O'Brien

Rest In Peace

Secret Garden

"When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself."

Photograph by Lee Greenfeld © 2017
Words by Ernest Hemingway from A Moveable Feast, 1964

Don’t Die Before You’re Dead

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Rest In Peace

"We were a fad for some, some we offended with our fame. But we set you free, you envious insulters. Let them hiss, that we are without talent, Sold out and hypocrites, It makes no difference. We are legendary, Spat upon, but immortal!"