June 2008
“One ought, each day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a...”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (via mascarah)
Sadly,
jakoblodwick: many people walk around haunted by a guilt for a world of abundance that they did not create. It’s the paradox of choice (80 brands of toothpaste on the shelves, no means of picking) on a life-sized scale. If you can do anything, if you are blessed with a life in a country where food and shelter are a given, then you are cursed with the responsibility of choosing for yourself what...
May 2008
“It’s the 21st century, there’s not going to be a year in which it’s harder to...”
– Cory Doctorow (via poortaste) (via marco)
Displacements
vruz: via dembot: Displacements is an immersive film installation. “An archetypal Americana living room was installed in an exhibition space. Then two performers were filmed in the space using a 16mm motion picture camera on a slowly rotating turntable in the room’s center. After filming, the camera was replaced with a film loop projector and the entire contents of the room were...
jakoblodwick: syntheticpubes: Just had a band recommended to me by a friend. Went to Hype Machine to check them out, but no luck—all tracks unplayable. Found some on YouTube, but I can’t let the whole page of search results play consecutively like on HM. Guess that means I’m going to have to find and pirate their whole goddamn discography and not feel bad about it because they backed me into...
Twitter's controversy over Terms of Service... →
creativesage: A summary of Ariel Waldman’s TOS case with Twitter—I’m sure there will be other instances like this, unfortunately, and social networks need to be better prepared to handle them effectively in a… I thought this was a performance art piece. Social commentary. He used the service for a while before he decided to incorporate it in his work. He was cordial up to that point. Her...
Psychiatric Drug Ads from the (Dystopian &... →
bradfidler: The short story: To the right is a screenshot from an ad for psychiatric medication, about fifteen years into a very terrible future. Click here or the image to view the…
“If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally...”
– Henry Miller Quotes (via bluechameleon)
them and us
yesyes: they were all out on the front porch talking: Hemingway, Faulkner, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Hamsun, Wally Stevens, e.e. cummings and a few others. “listen,” said my mother, “can’t you ask them to stop talking?” “no,” I said. “they are talking garbage,” said my father, “they ought to get jobs.” “they have jobs,” I said. “like hell,” said my father. “exactly,” I said. just then Faulkner...
“When we build, let us think that we build for ever. - John Ruskin”
– (via ecar)
“The soul selects its own society.”
– Emily Dickinson (via beenthinking)
Cities and Ambition →
mygoodeye: Paul Graham offers a nuanced comparison of what life is like in different American cities, mainly focusing on New York, the bay area and the Boston area. Reading the essay really made me think about how much I have been influenced by New York. I have always noticed that I enjoy every peaceful break I get from the city (I spend more than half my weekends away from it), though I get...
