A series of quotes that suggest a funny/interesting frame within which to project our experiences of the place we are in and a part of;. ..I guess inspired by Chris that found this amazing poster from the worlds fair. An amazing beautiful two-colour poster, and a beautiful posts in general of yesterdays action..
"To be moderne is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world - and, at the same time, that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are. Modern environments and experiences cut across all boundaries of geography and etnicity, of class and nationality, of religion and ideology.: in this sense, modernity can be said to unite all mankind. But it is a paradoxical unity, a unity of disunity: it pours us all into a maelstroem of perpetual disintegration and renewal, of struggle and contradiction, of ambiguity and anguish." (Berman:1982 s. 15)
MOSES: "When you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way through it with a meat ax. I'm just going to keep right on building. You do the best you can to stop it." http://www.metrojacksonville.com/photos/index.php?level=picture&id=1917 (R. Samuel:2007 s. 290)
MOSES: "Am I not the man who blotted out the Valley of Ashes and gave mankind beauty in its place?" http://www.alamedainfo.com/New_York_Worlds_Fair_1964_Unisphere_02.jpg (R. Samuel:2007 s 312)
"Robert Moses..whose career in modern public life streched from the early 1910s to the late 1960s, who is probably the greatest creator of symbolic forms in twentieth century new york, whose constructions had a destructive and disastrous impact on my early life, and whose specter still haunts my city today." (Berman:1982 s. 289)
AS HIS SECRETARY, WHO LOVED HIM, SAID: "Moses loved the public but, and this i have been thinking about, forgot the people" http://www.metrojacksonville.com/photos/thumbs/lrg-1921-robert-moses.jpg (Berman:1982 s. 304)
"... it must also be noticed that the artist were first - here, as elsewhere, unacknowledged legislators of the world. Their initiatives showed that obscure and decaying old places could turn out to be - or could be turned into - remarkable public spaces"...."they would find (the potential to move twentieth century hearts and minds) in a place where very few of the modernists of the 50'ies would have dreamt of looking for it: they found it in the everyday life of the streets." (Berman s.314)
Quotes from: "all that is solid melts into AIR", Marshall Berman 1982 and "End of the Innocence", Lawrence R. Samuel, 2007)
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