December 2011
48 posts
November 2011
33 posts
“Overall, I think it’s a good time to have a girl in the 21st century because...”
– Louis C.K. (via Briana Mowrey)
“The social role fulfilled by the belief in genius exerts a number of...”
– “The Sexual Politics of Genius,” by Moon Duchin, December 2004
This paper felt like a slow-burning epiphany. Once encoded in words, our ideas about the world take on a life of their own; Duchin’s argument helped me unravel some received wisdom about the life of the mind that I’ve never been...
Mercedes-Benz made a terrifying interactive short...
killscreendaily:
In Mercedes’ dystopian vision, we will all be blurs being sent nowhere, trapped in a pixelated dungeon of our own design. Luckily, you can be saved by driving a Mercedes. Or something.
Play the game at Mercedes-Benz’s official UK site. Fair warning, they’re going to try to trick you into giving them your phone number.
-Drew Millard
[via]
so good
“After Orwell Brownell married Michael Pitt-Rivers in 1958, and had affairs with...”
– Sonia Brownell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
quite an impressive list of love affairs
“How identity is manufactured has always interested me from the first time that I...”
– Deyan Sudjic returns to Belgrade after 25 years | Art and design | The Observer
“the real narrative of the story is the apparent complete erosion of thresholds...”
– Revolving Doors: The Architecture of Corporate Media - Op-Ed - Domus
WatchHyper Geography (2011) (by Joe Hamilton)
“Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life,” he said. “If you cannot...”
– The Fierce Imagination of Haruki Murakami - NYTimes.com
