Notes from a pad in Oslo
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20040429 Last Words & Suicide Notes And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead. - Nicolas-Sebastien Chamfort, French writer, d. 1794 Suicide note. Frances and Courtney, I'll be at your altar. Please keep going Courtney, for Frances for her life will be so much happier without me. I LOVE YOU. I LOVE YOU. - Kurt Cobain, musician, d. April 8, 1994 Suicide note. Goodbye, everybody! - Hart Crane, poet, d. April 27, 1932 Last words as he jumped off the cruise ship Orizaba. His body was never found. To my friends: My work is done. Why wait? - George Eastman, inventor, d. March 14, 1932 Suicide note. Goodbye, my friend, goodbye My love, you are in my heart. It was preordained we should part And be reunited by and by. Goodbye: no handshake to endure. Let's have no sadness -- furrowed brow. There's nothing new in dying now Though living is no newer. - Sergei Esenin, Russian poet, d. Dec. 28, 1925 Written in his own blood, and given to a friend the day before he hanged himself. When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one. - Charlotte Perkins Gilman, writer, d. August 17, 1935 Suicide note. As an advocate for the right-to-die, Gilman committed suicide on August 17, 1935 by taking an overdose of chloroform. She "chose chloroform over cancer." All fled -- all done, so lift me on the pyre; The feast is over, and the lamps expire. - Robert E. Howard, writer, d. June 11, 1936 Suicide note. And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living colour, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide. - Chris Hubbock, newscaster, d. 1970 Shot herself during broadcast. Don't worry, it's not loaded. - Terry Kath, rock musician, d. January 23, 1978 Suicide playing Russian roulette. They tried to get me -- I got them first! - Vachel Lindsay, poet, d. December 4, 1931 Suicide by drinking Lysol. I must end it. There's no hope left. I'll be at peace. No one had anything to do with this. My decision totally. - Freddie Prinze, comedian, d. January 29, 1977 Suicide note. Dear World, I am leaving you because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool -- good luck. - George Sanders, British actor, d. April 25, 1972 Suicide note. When I am dead, and over me bright April Shakes out her rain drenched hair, Tho you should lean above me broken hearted, I shall not care. For I shall have peace. As leafy trees are peaceful When rain bends down the bough. And I shall be more silent and cold hearted Than you are now. - Sara Teasdale, poet, d. 1933 Suicide note to her lover who left her. To Harald, may God forgive you and forgive me too but I prefer to take my life away and our baby's before I bring him with shame or killing him, Lupe. - Lupe Velez, actress, d. December 13, 1944 Suicide note. The future is just old age and illness and pain... I must have peace and this is the only way. - James Whale, film director, d. May 29, 1957 Suicide note. I don't believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time. - Wendy O. Williams, punk rock performer, d. April 6, 1998 Suicide note. I have a feeling I shall go mad. I cannot go on longer in these terrible times. I shan't recover this time. I hear voices and cannot concentrate on my work. I have fought against it but cannot fight any longer. - Virginia Woolf, author, d. March 28, 1941 Suicide note. 
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 20040426 
The Art of Joachim Luetke
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20040420  The goal of the Degree Confluence Project is to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections on Earth, and post photographs of each location on the World Wide Web. Precise confluence location is determined using Global Positioning System receivers. The number of primary confluences is 41,253 (roughly 360 squared divided by pi) -- this is the same number of total square degrees on a sphere astronomers use to specify constellation areas. This number is obtained by filtering the 360 x 180 possible intersection points into primary and secondary confluences in such a way that there are not too many primary confluences near the poles. Only confluences on land are included in the project. Since the ocean area of the Earth is 71%, this leaves roughly 12,000 points to be photographed. Many confluence points north and south of 49 degrees are arbitrarily declared unofficial. Nevertheless, volunteer explorers, especially in Europe, continue to add both official and unofficial confluence points.
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20040416 New exhibits at ZoneZero  AIDS in Zimbabwe by Kristen Ashburn  Brahmaputra by Shahidul Alam  The Total Sum of Solitudes by Don Gregorio Anton
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Every minute I was there, I wanted to flee. I did not want to see this. Would I cut and run, or would I deal with the responsibility of being there with a camera? - James Nachtwey.
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20040413 
Kurt Wenner | Master Street Painter
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