Kyle Thomas Hemingway: The ephemera edit
An ongoing digital archive of 1,399 items (and counting) proving that I read, I saw, and I actually paid attention.
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Chris Burden, Urban Light, 2008 -
“Both the Parthenon and Cinderella Castle try to physicalise myths, a means of building legacy that manifests as a fairytale and influences our perspectives of reality. It’s rare to find these kinds of wild optical manipulations employed in contemporary buildings, but it’s all too easy to see a similar desire to push a narrative through colossal and eye-catching buildings.”
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Anders Zorn, Isabella Stewart Gardner in Venice, 1894 -
Curtain call at Here Lies Love -
Curtain call at Here We Are -
Curtain call at Merrily We Roll Along -
Curtain call at The Full Monty -
Curtain call at POTUS -
“Tackiness may require unabashed love, but it also rewards those who get the references—and the current mood. As Karl Lagerfeld once proclaimed, ‘Trendy is the last stage before tacky.’ The tack-o-meter is constantly adjusting. It moves with the times, chewing up the past to recalibrate our present tastes.”
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“Can I offer you a roll? Or the chilling tale of how I lost my daughter?”
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“I know only that we cannot hide from our ghosts, whether they are real or not, we must make our peace with them, and live life somehow.”
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The band plays -
Curtain call at A New Brain -
George L.K. Morris, Configuration, 1936 (sculpture, left); Fresco, c. 1941 (right) -
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Curtain call at Escape to Margaritaville -
“Humans have only one ending. Ideas live for ever.”
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Guadalupe Maravilla, Mariposa Relámpago, 2023 -
“Recently, the New York Times published a story about BLAU International’s headquarters in Berlin. We only realized how much it must have struck a chord with the readers when the Times subsequently posted one image from the story on their Instagram account. ‘Is it a magazine—or is it a cult?’ was one of the more frequently asked questions the readers seemed to have, the most probable answer being: both.”
