September 2009
“Enter an unlikely Internet fame winner: Zoe Keating. Keating is an avant garde...”
– Web Fame that Actually Translated to a Career (via yvynyl) (via ronenreblogs)
Wikipedia: Kurt Vonnegut →
merlin: inky:
In his book Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction, Vonnegut listed eight rules for writing a short story:
Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
Every sentence must...
“Margaret Livingstone, a neuroscientist at Harvard and author of Vision and Art,...”
– Unlocking the Mysteries of The Artistic Mind | Psychology Today
And they are after the difference between art and kitsch:
“The interesting thing about kitsch is that it often looks like art,” explains Ramachandran. “But it’s not art, because it doesn’t trigger the...
“Whether or not you write well, write bravely”
– Bill Stout (via quote-book) (via vonnnegut)
Youth, naked in caves →
Flavorwire profile of Ryan McGinley; there are pictures, but the headline above, which they used in their newsletter is much more effective I think. Ryan shoots Nudes in Caves (and with shoots I mean photographs, sheez.)
“Painting is a lot like fishing. Stick your brush in the water and wait. Hope for...”
– Press release for Peres Projects upcoming exhibition in Berlin for Joe Bradley.
Peres Projects always has the best press releases. I actually have a feeling about what the show is going to be like and I feel better because my brain didn’t just get attacked by a thesauraus. (via hydeordie)
“There is something wrong, irresponsible and mindless about color; something...”
– Ad Reinhardt, 1960 (via claytoncubitt)
Watchotto-obrien:
NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), the first graduate school for alternative media, brings together artists, musicians, geeks, seven different types of nerd and assorted weirdos, and challenges them to do amazing things with technology. During our visit we saw a piano that gets you drunk, a drum machine made from automatic car locks, two different painting robots,...
Palm Springs wants to fill vacant storefronts with... →
hydeordie:
Eager to safeguard its image as an upscale tourist resort, Palm Springs is prescribing art therapy as a partial cure for downtown shops caught up in the economic doldrums. The city is expected to adopt a plan requiring vacant stores to hang paintings or photographs of old Hollywood movie stars, or come up with their own picturesque remedies to head off creeping blight in the city...
vvat.ch →
Did you guys see this website I made that generates diptychs based on images on a tumblr that I made? (read the statement) I added a tumblr that displays actual instances of the diptychs and thet lets you submit your own. So get on it.
If one feels one could live without writing, then... →
via dailymeh: long, but still too short. Book on the wishlist.
Maybe you’ve already read Rainer Maria Rilke’s letters to a young poet, written in the beginning of the 1900s. Some of them, I think, are dense and full of ideas that hang too loosely together to be useful. But they also contain wisdom. Maybe it isn’t strange that I find it hard to understand what he’s trying to tell the young poet,...
