June 2008
“It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for...”
– Nick Hornby (via scout)
Gun Camera Adds Graffiti to Other People's Photos... →
shadowfirebird:
‘The device has a slave unit on top which is triggered when it sees a flash fire. This triggers his own flash, which fires through the back of the camera, through a film slide containing his slogan and then on and out through the lens at the front. This works because a camera is pretty much a projector in reverse. And because the light-graffiti is fired at the exact same moment...
“My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what...”
– John Lennon (via livejamie)
“In art there is only one thing that matters: what cannot be explained.”
– Georges Braque (via hydeordie) So true. To me the definition of art is that it communicates strongly without a predefined meaning. (Sort of. If you know what I mean. To be put more eloquently someday when I have time to really think this true. It’s in my head, just not in words).
“His nose looked broken, like a boxer’s. He had dyed hair and cheap shoes, like a...”
– Art dealer Laszlo von Vertes describing the man who bid $95 million to purchase Picasso’s Dora Maar au Chat at Sotheby’s.
(via overthenet via peterstichbury via hydeordie)
Urgent Jeff Koons Buy Alert !!! -... →
If $30,000 is beyond your budget then you might like to consider another Koons edition in the form of a towel being sold by the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art in conjunction with their Koons retrospective. This limited edition towel which features the same image as the AFTAM print is an edition of 2000, is 100% cotton and measures 60″x70″. According to the Chicago Museum website, “This edition...
“To believe, in the polyphonic era, that words in a certain order induce...”
– Words of mouth | Review | guardian.co.uk Books
Not in the prose
coffeehousejunkie via adpulp:
Long but entertaining and informative interview with Cory Doctorow. One… (kottke.org)
One of the things I’ve noticed about writing every day is that there are days when writing that page feels like flying. Like the hand of God reached down and touched my keyboard, and every word is just pure gold. And then there are days that I feel I’m writing absolute, totally...
Art or Idiocy?
hydeordie:
“Another odd note is that both the Celmins and the Twombly aren’t offensive. At least in a moral sense, they do not depict any hot button topics like a Mapplethorpe, Serrano or Ofili. What is so crazy is how reductive or abstract art work can still draw so much ire and hate from people. Barnett Newman is the most defaced artist in the world. Why is this? What is it about a minimal...
“It’s a good thing Anais Nin wasn’t a blogger, or instead of a steamy tale of...”
– Alt Text: Secrets of the 7 Basic Blog Posts (via anspik)
Books as infoporn: 50 books i read more than ones from coupland.com
“Don’t be fooled by its juvenile source material — an American adaptation of a...”
– Khoi on Speed Racer: Subtraction: Go Speed Racer Go