Kev Rantala

“Everybody in this academy, Shadowhunters and mundanes, people with the Sight and without it, every one of them is looking to be a hero. We are all hoping for it, and trying for it, and soon we will be bleeding for it. You’re just like the rest of us, Si. Except there’s one thing about you that’s different: We all want to be heroes, but you know you can be one. You know in another life, in an alternate universe, however you want to think of it, you were a hero. You can be one again. Maybe not the same hero, but you have it in you to make the right choices, to make the big sacrifices. That’s a lot of pressure. But it’s a lot more hope than any of the rest of us have. Think about it that way, Simon Lewis, and I think you’re pretty lucky.”
― Cassandra Clare, Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy

“Новое искусство воз- никнет где-то на стыке технологий осознанного сна и гипноза. Художник будущего будет писать человеческие жизни. А потом предлагать – или заставлять других пережить во сне созданный им скрипт, превращая его в полноценный чувственный опыт. Грань между искус- ством и жизнью исчезнет полностью. Мало того, художник сделается подобным Богу. Он сможет решать, что, как и когда произойдет со зрителем, упаковывая в этот принудительный рисунок даже то, что кажется индивидууму всплесками его свободной воли...”
― Виктор Пелевин

“after having, for instance, reproduced in a picture the right shoulder or the right ear of a figure, we deem it totally vain and useless to reproduce the left shoulder or the left ear. We do not draw sounds, but their vibrating invervals. We do not paint diseases, but their symtoms and their consequences.”
― F.T Marinetti

“«Once, I went to this little meeting of Microsoft kids. Like, this high-school trip thing, but it was very exclusive. We met the world’s greatest Futurist there. Dr Gustav Y. Svante. Nobody knows who he is. That’s why he’s the world’s greatest Futurist. He told us... He said that the future was already here, but nobody listens to the future. The future is all around us, but we don’t see the future yet. We don’t hear it or see it, so we can’t tell it.”»”
― Bruce Sterling, Love is Strange