crooked road

playing tourist

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:42:00 -0400

playing tourist

Photo

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:41:21 -0400

Photo

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:40:50 -0400

LIFE photographer Gjon Mili visited Picasso in 1949. Mili showed...

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:53:00 -0400

LIFE photographer Gjon Mili visited Picasso in 1949. Mili showed the artist some of his photographs of ice skaters with tiny lights affixed to their skates jumping in the dark—and Picasso’s mind began to race. The series of photographs that follows—Picasso’s light drawings—were made with a small flashlight in a dark room; the images vanished almost as soon as they were created. (Picasso: Drawing With Light)

betty boo : doin’ the do

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:20:01 -0400

betty boo : doin’ the do

Max Redinger, 14, who was walking his dog, picked up some anime...

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:20:00 -0400

Max Redinger, 14, who was walking his dog, picked up some anime books and Guitar Hero figures. He said he buys most of his music on iTunes but still likes going to record stores and mentioned that a friend had recently introduced him to an independent shop upstate. “I don’t really buy stuff from it,” Mr. Redinger said, “but it’s a really cool place.”
(Last Virgin Megastore in New York Closes)

airborne toxic event : wishing well

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:02:00 -0400

airborne toxic event : wishing well

"This Court is not aware of, nor has Plaintiff alleged the existence of, any actual fruit referred to..."

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:21:00 -0400

“This Court is not aware of, nor has Plaintiff alleged the existence of, any actual fruit referred to as a “crunchberry.””

- Consumerist Alert: Crunchberries Are Not Real

Ira Glass on patience in creativity.(via)

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:23:00 -0400

Ira Glass on patience in creativity.(via)

the gossip : listen up!

Sun, 10 May 2009 16:02:16 -0400

the gossip : listen up!

The Disposable Memory Project: “we’re leaving...

Tue, 05 May 2009 17:29:00 -0400

The Disposable Memory Project: “we’re leaving disposable cameras around the world. hopefully, people will pick them up, take a few photos and pass them on, eventually returning home - so we can tell their stories.”

"American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it..."

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:34:28 -0400

““American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it’s profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It’s just about sucking everything up. My idea was: Enjoy baking, sell your bread, people like it, sell more. Keep the bakery going because you’re making good food and people are happy.””

- A little reminder about business (via heyitsnoah) (via mikehudack)

Here’s Ian MacKaye’s entire interview. (via tanya77)

“Someone wheatpasted up an image of Jesus on a parking lot...

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:28:00 -0400

“Someone wheatpasted up an image of Jesus on a parking lot wall … They’re treating the street art like it’s some sort of miracle and crowds have “gathered to take pictures, bring flowers and candles and pray.” Most of the people who’ve come across the divinely-inspired vandalism are so thrilled that they want it to be preserved. Click here for more photos of the papery Offspring of David.” (ANIMAL)

"I had these “Whip It” lyrics from my attempt at doing a Thomas Pynchon parody. He did a bunch of..."

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:30:41 -0400

“I had these “Whip It” lyrics from my attempt at doing a Thomas Pynchon parody. He did a bunch of parodies in Gravity’s Rainbow, and I liked them so much that I wanted to do one. So for me, “Whip It” was a parody of the whole Horatio Alger “You’re number one, there’s nobody else like you, you can do it” thing.”

- Devo’s Jerry Casale on De-evolution and the Meaning of ‘Whip It’

rockpile : when i write the book

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:30:07 -0400

rockpile : when i write the book

seven days: gorgeous design blog

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:37:24 -0500

seven days: gorgeous design blog

gomez : see the world

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:36:00 -0500

gomez : see the world

“It’s not where you take things from, it’s where you take them...

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:22:00 -0500

“It’s not where you take things from, it’s where you take them to”
Jean Luc Godard (via)

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Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:21:00 -0500

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"But there was more to being an intellectual than a manner of speaking, more even than making the..."

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:30:00 -0500

“But there was more to being an intellectual than a manner of speaking, more even than making the dean’s list every semester, or spending all your free time at museums and concerts and the kind of movies called “films.” There was learning not to be stricken dumb when you walked into a party full of older, certified intellectuals — and not to make the opposite mistake of talking your head off, saying one inane or outrageous thing after another in a hopeless effort to atone for whatever inane or outrageous thing you’d said two minutes before. And if you did make a fool of yourself at parties like that, you had to learn not to writhe in bed afterwards in an agony of chagrin. You had to be serious, but — this was the maddening paradox — you had to seem never to take anything very seriously”

- Richard Yates, The Easter Parade (via)/(via)

I hope the new Everyman Library edition will get people reading The Easter Parade again. Such a great book: Painfully honest and irrevocably sad.