January 2010
51 posts
“Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate...”
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Looking on Google Street View at the former address of a restaurant you went to in a city you visited years ago that since closed.
“We are increasingly fluent in images with no handhold, images freighted with all...”
– Roberto Bolaño, 2666
(via jimsligh)
encapsulates the tumblr experience quite nicely
“Average weekly income for a visual artist: £521 (average figure based on highest...”
– Don’t give up the day job - how artists make a living | Culture | The Guardian
how is that even possible? was the sample size 500 artists including damien hirst? (£521 =$840)
“When it comes to discussing art, the adjective ‘poetic’ makes me want to run...”
– Frieze Magazine | Archive | Archive | Poor.Old.Tired.Horse.
Some of the best essays and criticism right now. Just click on anything Dan Fox has written
“So pretension is a form of pretending, and pretending can be productive. I...”
– Frieze Magazine | Archive | Class Act
“Manovich has argued that time itself changes in the digital age, it ceases to be...”
– Ars Combinatoria: Or, Hegel’s Logic as Chronotope for the Digital Age « orbis mediologicus
“Remember, we did not yet have the frustrating separation of sound definition...”
– Interview with Laurie Spiegel | tokafi.com
“It is ironic—no it’s actually tragic—that the man who proved himself to be a...”
– One Year: Storyteller-in-Chief: News Desk : The New Yorker
“Instruments sound interesting not because of their sound but because of the...”
– On gospel, Abba and the death of the record: an audience with Brian Eno | Interview | Music | The Observer
WatchHarvest by Alunda Kyrkokör (2009) on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
“Funny people drink too much. They squander their money. They use drugs. They’re...”
– Why Some Comics Aren’t Laughing at Jay Leno (Essay) - Speakeasy - WSJ
“It’s assumed, I think, that if you’re a woman designer you must be designing...”
– The designers behind Rodarte : The New Yorker
“Originally producers Martin Jurow and Richard Shepherd had picked John...”
– Breakfast at Tiffany’s (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Most educated people are aware that we are the outcome of nearly 4 billion years...”
– The Catastrophist - The Atlantic (January/February 2010)
“All this ambivalence, expressed in her high-drama prose, can be a lot to handle....”
– Elizabeth Gilbert’s marriage memoir “Committed,” review : The New Yorker
“Wired: How wired are Icelanders?
Björk: Very. Iceland has always been mad for...”
– Feature Jun 1998 Wired interview w/ Bjork
“The park admits the wind,
the petals lift and scatter
like versions of myself...”
– Rachel Wetzsteon, Poet of Keen Insights and Wit, Dies at 42 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com
“So here’s my resolution: I will wake up some Saturday or Sunday this year, I...”
– Staff List: New Year’s Resolutions — The Bygone Bureau