crooked road

For serious graphic designers, Letraset was the Adobe of the...

Thu, 10 May 2012 11:15:10 -0400

For serious graphic designers, Letraset was the Adobe of the Seventies. Here’s a look at two of the company’s catalogs from 1970 and 1973. (CreativePro)

‘Dare Wright: The Lonely Doll’ - March 29 to April...

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:35:00 -0400

‘Dare Wright: The Lonely Doll’ - March 29 to April 28 (via)

"Tax collectors contended that Ms. Storey, who is a practicing lawyer when she is not making..."

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:54:00 -0400

“Tax collectors contended that Ms. Storey, who is a practicing lawyer when she is not making documentary films, was engaged in a hobby, not a business, because she enjoyed filmmaking, and wasn’t turning a profit, despite some considerable efforts to do so. That contention sent shivers through the ranks of documentary filmmakers, many of whom are in the same boat much of the time.”

- Documentary Filmmaker Wins Against I.R.S., Which Saw Her as a Hobbyist

Heading back in a week for more work on Bordermind. Can’t...

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:41:00 -0400

Heading back in a week for more work on Bordermind. Can’t wait to get back to the desert.

bordermind:

Began filming in Arizona and New Mexico on April 6.

"Many films diminish us. They cheapen us, masturbate our senses, hammer us with shabby thrills,..."

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:18:00 -0400

“Many films diminish us. They cheapen us, masturbate our senses, hammer us with shabby thrills, diminish the value of life. Some few films evoke the wonderment of life’s experience, and those I consider a form of prayer. Not prayer “to” anyone or anything, but prayer “about” everyone and everything. I believe prayer that makes requests is pointless. What will be, will be. But I value the kind of prayer when you stand at the edge of the sea, or beneath a tree, or smell a flower, or love someone, or do a good thing. Those prayers validate existence and snatch it away from meaningless routine. (Roger Ebert)”

hi-rise bakery, cambridge

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 12:37:02 -0400

hi-rise bakery, cambridge

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Sun, 25 Mar 2012 12:36:00 -0400

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Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:13:00 -0500

(via)

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

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:03:00 -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

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

Audio

Mon, 01 Aug 2011 17:49:00 -0400

"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)

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

[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. He was very interested in people..."

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 10:07:00 -0500

“there is this brilliant neuroscientist named V. S. Ramachandran. 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]

crooked road

For serious graphic designers, Letraset was the Adobe of the...

‘Dare Wright: The Lonely Doll’ - March 29 to April...

"Tax collectors contended that Ms. Storey, who is a practicing lawyer when she is not making..."

Heading back in a week for more work on Bordermind. Can’t...

"Many films diminish us. They cheapen us, masturbate our senses, hammer us with shabby thrills,..."

hi-rise bakery, cambridge

Audio

(via)

"… 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...

Photo

Audio

"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...

Photo

[saratoga springs: dec 2010]

"there is this brilliant neuroscientist named V. S. Ramachandran. He was very interested in people..."

blind boys of alabama : people get ready

[martha’s vineyard: oct 2010]

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