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Kit·blog — All work no play makes food chain a dull thing

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:02:20 +0200

Khao Lak, Phang Nga province, Thailand. © Cristian ·Kit· Paul. Click here or on the image to enlarge.

Digitally speaking—if you'll excuse my lexical cruelty—in a world of app stores and game console wars, of crashing satellites and getting photos sent directly from Mars to your phone, of hysterical Facebook addiction and Twitter lunch menu broadcasts, this kid is Mowgli.

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Kit·blog — In pale light, in frozen time

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 15:43:48 +0200

Singapore. © Cristian ·Kit· Paul. Click here or on the image to enlarge.

“Home is not where you live, but where they understand you," it's said.

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Kit·blog — A barely noticeable breeze of years coming and going

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 03:58:33 +0200

Singapore. © Cristian ·Kit· Paul. Click here or on the image to enlarge.

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Kit·blog — Welcome aboard my time machine—let's go kill some regrets

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:55:35 +0200

Hua Hin © Cristian ·Kit· Paul. Click here or on the image to enlarge.

Get ready, we're leaving at midnight, controls are set to years and years ago. We'll fire up the neons in the dark to lure regrets closer and hunt the brightest, most beautiful ones with iron harpoons. Drag them ashore back to the present and kill them with knives. We'll sell their skins to the best listener.

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Kit·blog — I blinked and missed the very moment when this world got old

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:32:44 +0200

Marrakech. © Cristian ·Kit· Paul. Click here or on the image to enlarge.

I am fascinated by those lonely men taking care, without any help from anyone else, of the remote places where this world ends and the other world begins. Half guardians, half stalkers, priest-thieves of the Zone¹ where strange happenings occur, they'll watch but won't tell when you pass by that you're a mere mortal in the land of inexplicable.

¹ I'm talking about Strugatsky brothers' Roadside Picnic and Tarkovsky's Stalker.

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Kit·blog — There are only two ways to live your life; one is as though nothing is a miracle

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 14:20:56 +0200

Edinburgh © Cristian ·Kit· Paul. Click here or on the image to enlarge.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

— Albert Einstein.

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Kit·blog — Must fear thieving, wealth from unclean sources, lying, treachery and vice

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 08:55:53 +0200

Marrakech. © Cristian ·Kit· Paul. Click here or on the image to enlarge.

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Kit·blog — Awash with the sundown

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 09:50:40 +0200

Hua Hin. © Cristian ·Kit· Paul. Click here or on the image to enlarge.

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Kit·blog — Move brazenly and conquer a lie

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:50:15 +0200

Monte Carlo © Cristian ·Kit· Paul. Click here or on the image to enlarge.

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Kit·blog — He dreamed he escaped once, so they broke his limbs

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:52:05 +0200

Marrakech. © Cristian ·Kit· Paul. Click here or on the image to enlarge.

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Kit·blog — The wise said there'll be mighty wizards hidden amongst the ordinary men

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:31:44 +0200

Copenhagen. © Cristian ·Kit· Paul. Click here or on the image to enlarge.

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Kit·blog — I've seen poetry soaking everything, like rain

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:39:20 +0200

Copenhagen. © Cristian ·Kit· Paul. Click here or on the image to enlarge.

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Kit·blog — Stay foolish

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:18:17 +0200

I don't have many heroes in my adult life. I find it hard to aspire to or identify with whatever guidance artists have to offer, save for some rather rare moments of blinding insight. And, unfortunately, I have close to zero affinity with sports people.

Except the one-of-a-kind friend I started a company with, Steve Jobs was the only relevant figure capable to directly inspire my work and deepen my vision, day in, day out.

And Steve is gone now.

There are two of his sayings I'm thinking about the most. The first one I find useful every single day—"real artists ship"—talking is irrelevant, only doing matters. As a coincidence, I learned about his passing last night, while working feverishly until the light of dawn.

The second one—"stay hungry, stay foolish"—I am trying to learn, yet I'm mostly failing—it's so fucking hard to stay young, keep your heart vulnerably alive and cling to that state of graceful emergency. I promise I'll try harder, Steve.

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Kit·blog — Object NGC 66 is a peculiar galaxy in the constellation Cetus

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:11:44 +0200

Anyway.

There are 66 books in the Bible—editor needed. 66 is a sphenic number, a triangular number, a hexagonal number, and a semi-meandric number—obviously. The atomic number of dysprosium is 66, if you love lanthanides—I adore lanthanides. The international dialing code for Thailand is 66—hi there, Bradut! In his Sonnet 66 Shakespeare criticizes three things: general unfairness of life—check, societal immorality—check, and oppressive government—crummy not oppressive, Mr. Shakespeare. Just crummy.

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Kit·blog — Going on 9

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:06:44 +0200

Started in 2003, this blog turns 8 years old today, going on 9.

If blog years are anything like dog years, Kit·blog is rather old. Lately it rarely speaks, actually, beside those cryptic picture headlines. Don't get mad about that. Silence gets golden with age, it seems.

It still has pretty good eyes though, wisely and lovingly inspecting that coarse film grain.

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Kit·blog — The ultimate miracles are made of dirt

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 09:45:30 +0200

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