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from the series ‘Local Color’ by Sean Stewart

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:08:53 +0000

from the series ‘Local Color’ by Sean Stewart

from Big Mouth

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:30:23 +0000

from Big Mouth

Brief Interview #30 read by David Foster Wallace

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:49:28 +0000

Brief Interview #30 read by David Foster Wallace

(via picturesthatlooklikethis)

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:02:21 +0000

(via picturesthatlooklikethis)

Andy Kaufman on Letterman

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:39:54 +0000

Andy Kaufman on Letterman

"Dylan did with singing what Brando did with acting. He busted through the artifice to get to the..."

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:57:21 +0000

“Dylan did with singing what Brando did with acting. He busted through the artifice to get to the art. Both of them tore down the prissy rules laid down by the schoolmarms of their craft, broke through the fourth wall, got in the audience’s face and said, “I dare you to think I’m kidding.””

- Bono on Bob Dylan

Godard’s Intertitles

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:14:00 +0000

Godard’s Intertitles

Video

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:47:32 +0000

"I’m astounded whenever I finish something. Astounded and distressed. My perfectionist instinct..."

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:46:45 +0000

“I’m astounded whenever I finish something. Astounded and distressed. My perfectionist instinct should inhibit me from finishing; it should inhibit me from even beginning. But I get distracted and start doing something. What I achieve is not the product of an act of my will but of my will’s surrender. I begin because I don’t have the strength to think; I finish because I don’t have the courage to quit. This book is my cowardice.”

- Text 152 of Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet

Scarlet Letter cover by Ruben Toledo

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:57:36 +0000

Scarlet Letter cover by Ruben Toledo

Design workshops at the Domaine de Boisbuchet

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:24:00 +0000

Design workshops at the Domaine de Boisbuchet

"Burning draft cards isn’t going to end any war. It’s not even going to save any lives...."

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:49:00 +0000

“Burning draft cards isn’t going to end any war. It’s not even going to save any lives. If someone can be more honest with himself by burning his draft card, then that’s great; but if he’s just going to feel more important because he does it, then that’s a drag.”

- from an interview with Bob Dylan

Alice in Wonderland

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:46:00 +0000

Alice in Wonderland

"I don’t know if Bob Dylan and Tom Waits are as authentic as I think they are. Perhaps they’re not...."

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:22:00 +0000

“I don’t know if Bob Dylan and Tom Waits are as authentic as I think they are. Perhaps they’re not. Sometimes you start thinking that maybe Britney Spears or someone like that who’s doing exactly what they want to do in the way that they best know how is more authentic than any of those people you could mention.”

- Jack White speaking at Trinity College (via NME)

"Thanks to their decreased brainpower, people aren’t diverted from the main business of life by..."

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:16:00 +0100

“Thanks to their decreased brainpower, people aren’t diverted from the main business of life by the hobgoblins of opinion anymore.”

- Kurt Vonnegut in Galápagos

"There’s nothing wrong with being interested in stuff thats interesting and attractive [i.e.,..."

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:08:00 +0100

“There’s nothing wrong with being interested in stuff thats interesting and attractive [i.e., television and mass culture]. What most of us have in common are our very most base, uninteresting, selfish, stupid interests: physical attractiveness, sex, a certain kind of easy humor, vivid spectacle — I mean that stuff that I will immediately look at and so will you. The things that make us interesting and unique and human — those interests tend to be wildly different between different people.”

- David Foster Wallace on what makes television so broadly appealing

the gimmicks of american apparel vs. the gimmicks of urban outfitters

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:24:00 +0100

the gimmicks of american apparel vs. the gimmicks of urban outfitters:

by Brandon Scott Gorrell (via his tumblr)

"[W]hile you are free to stare at a blank ream of paper for 1000 hours, your publisher will only..."

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:15:00 +0100

“[W]hile you are free to stare at a blank ream of paper for 1000 hours, your publisher will only laugh [if you do]. Jeff Koons can have his interns paint his ideas, John Cage can sit in front of a piano for 4 minutes and 33 seconds, but writers lack the auspices of conceptual absence. Even conceptual writing requires that slow painful aggregate of words, one at a time, making something from nothing. Every word is work. There is no short cut.”

- Jimmy Chen on the difference between conceptual writing and other types of conceptual art

“Kseniya Simonova won Ukraine’s Got Talent 2009...

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:31:00 +0100

“Kseniya Simonova won Ukraine’s Got Talent 2009 competition with her dramatization of Germany’s invasion of Ukraine during WWII, performed with sand on a giant lightbox.” (via kottke)

a photographic topography

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:23:00 +0100

a photographic topography