crooked road

“Reclaimed Cleveland is leading an effort to salvage...

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:34:00 -0500

“Reclaimed Cleveland is leading an effort to salvage lumber from local structures and give it a new life as well designed home furnishings and accessories. We are also working with a local non-profit, Towards Employment, to train ex-offenders in home salvage and give them skills and a new start in the construction trades.” (via)

"… in reality, the likelihood of reaching the pinnacle of capitalist society today is only marginally..."

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:03:55 -0500

“

… in reality, the likelihood of reaching the pinnacle of capitalist society today is only marginally better than were the chances of being accepted into the French nobility four centuries ago, though at least an aristocratic age was franker, and therefore kinder, about the odds. It did not relentlessly play up the possibilities open to all those with a take on the future of the potato crisp, and so, in turn, did not cruelly equate an ordinary life with a failed one.

Our era is perverse in passing off an exception as a rule.

”

- Alain de Botton: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (via)

Spike Jonze presents Mourir Auprès de Toi: a stop-motion film...

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:52:00 -0400

Spike Jonze presents Mourir Auprès de Toi: a stop-motion film set inside the Paris bookstore Shakespeare and Company (and a volume of Moby Dick.) —via openculture

“Because I had dropped out and didn’t have to take...

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:14:00 -0400

“Because I had dropped out and didn’t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class. I learned about serif and sans-serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac…

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” (Steve Jobs)

Photo

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:27:49 -0400

chris whitley : serve you

Mon, 01 Aug 2011 17:49:13 -0400

chris whitley : serve you

"The next real literary ‘rebels’ in this country might well emerge as some weird bunch of..."

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 09:22:00 -0400

“The next real literary ‘rebels’ in this country might well emerge as some weird bunch of anti-rebels, born oglers who dare somehow to back away from ironic watching, who have the childish gall actually to endorse and instantiate single-entendre principles. Who treat of plain old untrendy human troubles and emotions in U.S. life with reverence and conviction. Who eschew self-consciousness and hip fatigue… Real rebels, as far as I can see, risk disapproval.”

- David Foster Wallace (libraryland)

[harvard square may fair, 2011]

Sun, 01 May 2011 13:22:00 -0400

[harvard square may fair, 2011]

[ireland: june 2002] “In 1929 the British Broadcasting...

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:43:00 -0400

[ireland: june 2002]

“In 1929 the British Broadcasting Corporation decided to start broadcasting “live silence” in memory of the dead instead of just halting transmission for two minutes every day; it was important, it was felt, to hear the rustle of papers, the singing of the birds outside, an occasional cough. As a BBC spokesman put it, with rare wisdom, silence is “a solvent which destroys personality and gives us leave to be great and universal.” It permits us, in short, to be who we are and could be if only we had the openness and trust. A chapel is where we hear something and nothing, ourselves and everyone else, a silence that is not the absence of noise, but the presence of something much deeper: the depth beneath our thoughts.” (Utne)

new site, for a daily photo

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:24:00 -0500

new site, for a daily photo

[saratoga springs: dec 2010]

Mon, 27 Dec 2010 11:56:00 -0500

[saratoga springs: dec 2010]

"there is this brilliant neuroscientist named V. S. Ramachandran, who wrote a book called Phantoms in..."

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 10:07:31 -0500

“there is this brilliant neuroscientist named V. S. Ramachandran, who wrote a book called Phantoms in the Brain. He was very interested in people with phantom-limb pain, and he had one patient who had lost his hand from the wrist down, but the guy’s sensation was not only that the hand was still there, but that it was in a painful fist that kept clenching. Ramachandran built a box, with a mirror and two holes in one side. When the guy put his arms in, he saw the one hand reflected. When he opened the hand, he saw it open and it was like the missing hand was unclenching. It fixed his phantom-limb sensation. That’s what I think images do; that’s what the arts do. In the course of human life we have a million phantom-limb pains—losing a parent when you’re little, being in a war, even something as dumb as having a mean teacher—and seeing it somehow reflected, whether it’s in our own work or listening to a song, is a way to deal with it.””

- Lynda Barry

blind boys of alabama : people get ready

Thu, 25 Nov 2010 13:14:55 -0500

blind boys of alabama : people get ready

[martha’s vineyard: oct 2010]

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:29:00 -0400

[martha’s vineyard: oct 2010]

The Mighty Explorers : (You Froze the) O-Rings of My Heart

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:10:00 -0400

The Mighty Explorers : (You Froze the) O-Rings of My Heart

Tarkovsky Films Now Free Online

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 01:53:00 -0400

Tarkovsky Films Now Free Online:

“Ingmar Bergman went so far as to say, ‘Andrei Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream.’ And Akira Kurosawa acknowledged his influence too, adding, ‘Every cut from his films is a marvelous image in itself.’ Tarkovsky’s seven feature films often grapple with metaphysical and spiritual themes, using long takes, slow pacing and metaphorical imagery.”
View select Tarkovsky films online here.

[arlington, ma: june 2010]

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 16:37:00 -0400

[arlington, ma: june 2010]

[walden pond: april 2010] “This curious world we inhabit...

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:33:00 -0400

[walden pond: april 2010]

“This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.” -Henry David Thoreau

Elvis Costello : Beautiful

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:06:00 -0400

Elvis Costello : Beautiful

"There is much humour in Ozu’s films, but they are most profoundly marked by an atmosphere of..."

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:37:00 -0500

“There is much humour in Ozu’s films, but they are most profoundly marked by an atmosphere of bitter-sweet melancholy … life, inevitably, is full of loss and disappointments, but there is beauty even in sadness. Japanese have an aesthetic expression for this: mono no aware, the tears we shed over the transience of things. It is hard to translate precisely into English, and is frequently cited as a kind of definition of Japanese culture, but it is something all of us can feel.”

- Yasujiro Ozu: an artist of the unhurried world

crooked road

“Reclaimed Cleveland is leading an effort to salvage...

"… in reality, the likelihood of reaching the pinnacle of capitalist society today is only marginally..."

Spike Jonze presents Mourir Auprès de Toi: a stop-motion film...

“Because I had dropped out and didn’t have to take...

Photo

chris whitley : serve you

"The next real literary ‘rebels’ in this country might well emerge as some weird bunch of..."

[harvard square may fair, 2011]

[ireland: june 2002] “In 1929 the British Broad­casting...

new site, for a daily photo

[saratoga springs: dec 2010]

"there is this brilliant neuroscientist named V. S. Ramachandran, who wrote a book called Phantoms in..."

blind boys of alabama : people get ready

[martha’s vineyard: oct 2010]

The Mighty Explorers : (You Froze the) O-Rings of My Heart

Tarkovsky Films Now Free Online

[arlington, ma: june 2010]

[walden pond: april 2010] “This curious world we inhabit...

Elvis Costello : Beautiful

"There is much humour in Ozu’s films, but they are most profoundly marked by an atmosphere of..."

[ireland: june 2002] “In 1929 the British Broadcasting...