Welcome to Havisham! Don't turn around, don't drink the water, and don't look the clocks in the eye! You'll probably be fine.
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Each day I read a single page of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. After reading the page I use it as format to create artwork inspired by the words in it. I then scan the sketched page and publish it, along with a brief journal entry and the reading of the page, exactly at 8:40 AM each day, on my local time, the time in the novel when Miss Havisham receives a letter on her wedding day announcing her groom is not showing up. The project started January 7th, 2013 and it will end June 12th, ...
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Benadryl Boy - Heartbreak Town by Dan Stokesโดย Dan Stokes
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Benadryl Boy - Baby by Dan Stokesโดย Dan Stokes
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Benadryl Boy - 3:04AM by Dan Stokesโดย Dan Stokes
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Benadryl Boy - King Boy by Dan Stokesโดย Dan Stokes
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Welcome to Havisham! You can see galaxies from here. Starring ?DAN STOKES (twitter.com/danstkes)?REBECCA DAY (twitter.com/reb_day)with BENJAMIN COOK (twitter.com/benjamin_cook)Theme by JENNIFER WALTON (@the-buffy) Artwork by KAT (instagram.com/katkedi) Edited by DAN STOKES"Strangetown" by JAMES MISSIN…
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Welcome to Havisham! Why didn’t you save me? Follow Havisham Council: twitter.com/HavishamCouncil Starring ?DAN STOKES (twitter.com/danstkes) REBECCA DAY (twitter.com/reb_day) with KEVIN CHEMUKA (https://twitter.com/KChemuka) and OLIVER MOULDEN ?Theme by JENNIFER WALTON (@the-buffy) Artwork by KAT (instagram.com/katkedi) Edited by DAN STOKES…
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Welcome to Havisham! Send in the clowns. And plague control.StarringDAN STOKES (twitter.com/danstkes)?REBECCA DAY (twitter.com/reb_day)Theme by JENNIFER WALTON (@the-buffy)?Artwork by KAT (instagram.com/katkedi)?Edited by DAN STOKES and BENJAMIN COOK (twitter.com/benjamin_cook)?Thanks to EWAN MCINTOSH (twitter.com/Ewan_McIntosh)and MICHAEL DEAN (tw…
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Welcome to Havisham! No matter how close you think you get, it's always in the distance.Follow Havisham Council: twitter.com/HavishamCouncilStarringDAN STOKES (twitter.com/danstkes)REBECCA DAY (twitter.com/reb_day)with EWAN MCINTOSH (twitter.com/Ewan_McIntosh) and FREINDSTheme by JENNIFER WALTON (@the-buffy)Artwork by KAT (instagram.com/katkedi)Edi…
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Welcome to Havisham! Tonight thank God it's them instead of you.Follow Havisham Council: twitter.com/HavishamCouncilStarringDAN STOKES (twitter.com/danstkes)REBECCA DAY (twitter.com/reb_day)with MICHAEL DEAN (twitter.com/FilmmakerMike)Theme by JENNIFER WALTON (@the-buffy)Artwork by KAT (instagram.com/katkedi)Edited by DAN STOKES and BENJAMIN COOK (…
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8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 512 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --Parting has no remedy. You remain silent until you speak, and then the space in your lungs is left empty. We win a victory over nothingness. Nobody cares. If we die in proportion of the words we toss around, then our resting ground is really meaningle…
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8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 511 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --Everything is nothing. No one sees majesty and charm in you and me once the freshness of our bodily youth wilts. People only see indescribable sadness. We become invisible and useless. All this ruin...-- Page read by VANESSA PLACE here: http://goo.gl/…
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8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 510 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --Too much self-contemplation will make you not forget anything in your life. Never mind fretting about the mirrors. You have to be truly perverse to understand goodness, and looking endlessly into your own centrifugal self will get you there, quickly. …
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8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 508 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --Am I an inept artist? No, just dishonest and predictable. There is no secret formula to be an artist, you just have to do a good job at it and share it in the end, that's all. There are no shortcuts. Charlatanism + ecstasy=lazy art, right?-- Page read…
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8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 507 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --We live frugally and then we say goodbye, that's the goal. In reality we always aspire to quit everything, and we repetitively ask for forgiveness. Life says goodbye to us instead. And then we turn to dust. The end -- Page read by CHRIS PARIS here: ht…
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8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 506 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --Waiting with a quivering lip for answers, I melted after a string of non-words. Life is impossible at low temperature, that's why I reached the conclusion that Silence cannot accept normal temperatures and therefore it is doomed to fall.-- Page read b…
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8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 505 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --How smart are you and I? Under duress, we become too obsessed with survival issues, neglecting creativity and love. If we stop analyzing, pondering, figuring out, measuring and weighting every issue we will become smarter. I know, you don't believe me…
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8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 504 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --"It" is that place where things are divided between Blue and Green. When you return to "it", your heart softens. You can eat pizza there all day long. By the way, any pizza is a personal pizza if you try hard and believe in yourself. But you heart is …
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8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 502 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --Let me break down this low murmur for you, so you can explain if you're either a "helper" or a "doer". You see, you think your mental glitch is your bread-and-butter, but you cannot be any more mistaken. You have a high functioning, emotionless intell…
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8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 502 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --Let me break down this low murmur for you, so you can explain if you're either a "helper" or a "doer". You see, you think your mental glitch is your bread-and-butter, but you cannot be any more mistaken. You have a high functioning, emotionless intell…
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8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 501 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --There are two kinds of people in this life: people to pee in the shower and people who eat in public while lying to others. Don't 'please' or 'thank you' them. Both have their souls in skin and bones. What else could be expected? When your friends act…
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8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 499 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --My muse went away to a distant place. I will be a little worthier of you now and a little less worried about my own unity. I will finally unlearn all my hobbies. I know the answer already: stop making the world better.-- www.HavishamHour.com ©2014 Jul…
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8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 498 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --It's always been hard to be bohemian. Is it harder now? Does art matter anymore? Does reading matter anymore? We want to be digitally liked. We stray away from reality and don't feel sorry about it. Who can survive this? I'm going to take a shower now…
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8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 497 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --Quit pretending you're weaker than you are. What are you ashamed of exactly? When you fill better after being ill you will be thankful. It happens all the time. You will then forget what you went through. It happens all the time.-- www.HavishamHour.co…
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8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch - of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --Is he the right man? I'm ashamed to answer him. If he would solve every single problem he would not be any less worried. However, nothing can be really solved anymore. So he's not really suffering from having problems: he is the problem.-- www.HavishamH…
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8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 494 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --Me: What do eyes make you think of? You: Time, Anemia, ghosts.Me: You are not special, the world doesn't owe you anything.You: My eyes are still adjusting.--www.HavishamHour.com ©2014 Julio Panisello. The Havisham Hour will end in 19 days.…
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8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 492 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --Attention please! Distraction has broken into your dwelling and and has taken everything: your pretty emotions, your inherited opinions, your creativity savings, the sheets, your scattered appreciation for beauty. Note: You will not be able to leave a…
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8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 491 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --A few years ago we could die without exceeding the minimum of vulgarity that seems indecorously unavoidable right before passing. But today that tiny level of vulgarity before passing is not kept to a minimum anymore, it has become its own single real…
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8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 490 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --How long until you become something different than what you are not? Let me interrupt your search for that someone among strangers who has gone deeper than you. Don't go to them, don't kiss their hand, don't talk. They haven't really gone deeper, they…
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8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch - of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --I sometimes struggle with the words "I am". What's the real point of their existence? When you turn the worst point of your self-pity, you start realizing of your true and ultimate duty in life: analyzing your own demise and determining how quickly you …
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8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 487 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --Reality is really illogical, morality cannot be saved. I don't want to leave it to others to determine what is wrong from what is right, I want others to determine what is harmful from what is not. We can put it off but not put it away.-- www.Havisham…
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8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 485 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --I have never deserted you. The fact is that Death, the experience of nothingness, ultimately shows up under a ridiculous spotlight and takes you away. What does it really mean? I doubt my last words will be "I never complain". We always complain, we b…
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8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 484 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --The world doesn't care what you think or what you do. It's not that people are mean, everyone is busy. Instead of pushing out petitions for attention out in the cold, dusty night, why don't you simply enjoy the freedom you get from within the obscurit…
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8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 482 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --Thinking is not action on its own. Thinking about thinking doesn't lead anywhere. Thinking about feeling is not going to be able to bend the past out of its eternal shape. Stop justifying yourself and start creating your own pictures.-- Visit www.Havi…
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8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 481 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --We're infatuated with Beginnings and Eternity and forget that everything ends. The End is closer than it may appear. Against the anxiety of nothingness we speak very little and we listen to question marks. But the bottom line is that everything ends.-…
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8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 480 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --We were collectors, now we're hoarders. We mince junk indiscriminately and leave it unmasked, scattered. On our graveyard shift we sit by a conveyor belt that has no beginning and no off switch. The only thing we're worried about is that our melted br…
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8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 479 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --Is there pleasure in doing things without preparation? I am too heedful to the future to have any amount of estimable unconsciousness. The eternal cycles grind on. Hope turns arid. No one likes to be unprepared.-- Visit www.HavishamHour.com to learn m…
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8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 477 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --It becomes the decision of a lifetime when we are about to let go of our worldly possessions. It feels like a tragic sacrifice. We can't stop serving our things with all our heart. We're unable make a distinction between them and their owner, us. Let …
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8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 476 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --We lack an accurate sense of size and space between us and the rest of the world. Things seem too much, too big, too overwhelming. We feel we won't last long in our own distortion, that we cannot do better than go. People teach us how to size an place…
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8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 475 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --Are you afraid to think of the future? Would you like to know how to dismiss it? I think you should quit being preoccupied with Astrology. Astrology always points at you in the face and tells you how physically and mentally tiny you are, and that you …
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8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 474 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --You will be so lonely. You think you're going to inherit someone's possessions, you know it for a fact. But people don't need you because they love you, they love you because they need you. Your disfigured reality is not accurate. You should leave soo…
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8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 473 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --We shouldn't spend too much time memorializing past instants, like those moments when we resolve that our heart should be forever sickened when we let go of something or someone. That's how you get stuck.-- Visit www.HavishamHour.com to learn more abo…
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8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 472 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --Self-contempt wrecks everything, turns people into ruins, causes decay. Unfortunately self-content is eternal, the more you try to diminish it the bigger it grows. It always comes back until it dies with you. It precedes your death actually, perhaps b…
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8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 471 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --I'm worried about forgetting. What matters are not places or moments, just how graceful you remain until time makes repugnance to people melt away. You must remember to keep great constancy in being affectionate though, otherwise your wet and decayed …
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8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 470 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --How can you distinguish between being under water and being above water? You can't if you're compulsively busy. You can't if you mitigate and desensitize the few spare moments where you find yourself with nothing to do and no one to talk to. You can't…
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8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 468 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --You only say "I didn't give up" after you actually give up. Are you in danger? Of course not, you had no choice but to offer yourself as a victim, and that's all right. We all try to hold time still at some point or another, even though time doesn't s…
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8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --What's the difference between sleeping with the clothes you wore through the day, and changing your clothes before falling asleep? We stubbornly refuse to deal with reality until reality surrenders to us and gives us what we think and believe belongs to u…
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8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 463 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --Why should I bother? What is the meaning of all this? Why should I raise questions? It would be better if I would continue burying my emotions under layers of undisturbed expression, composed, contented, submissive, alone, in the company of ridiculous…
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8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 461 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --(In) Excuse me, are we a little boat? (Out) Never! (In) My mom says it won't last. (Out) Everybody knows that! (In) Is this a trick? (Out) I need some beauty before I die. In and out, in and out, in and out.-- Visit www.HavishamHour.com to order fine …
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8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 459 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --The solitary side effects under the direct sun: rebirth, stillness, depth, serenity, pause, nourishment, privacy, release, growth, thoughtlessness, life. It all lasts an instant, we make last an instant.-- Visit www.HavishamHour.com to order fine prin…
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8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 457 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --The times I feel I will fall in sick precisely when my responsibility is indispensable. Ideas may seem more useless than things, but they hold the same power to wear you and tear you. When you think you may get sick, you get sick.-- Visit www.Havisham…
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