June 2011
3 posts
May 2011
2 posts
““I want to have experiences. I’m so tired of preparing for life: I want to live...”
– W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage (via nerdhermit)
April 2011
1 post
January 2011
4 posts
in the fade: there's no such thing as an inanimate... →
inthefade:
give life to everything.
I restock forms at work by putting the newer forms under the old ones because I would feel bad if the older ones never got used.
There is a box of cookies in my pantry that no one is going to eat and I have given that box of cookies emotions and now it says things like “please don’t throw me away without anyone even having tasted me.”
A coffee cup wonders...
Crashingly Beautiful: Welcome →
crashinglybeautiful:
if you believe nothing is always what’s left after a while, as I did, If you believe you have this collection of ungiven gifts, as I do (right here behind the silence and the averted eyes) If you believe an afternoon can collapse into strange privacies - how in your backyard, for example, the shyness of flowers can be suddenly overwhelming, and in the distance the clear...
.../miscellaneous: Sentences on Conceptual Art -... →
matt-niebuhr:
Sentences on Conceptual Art, by Sol LeWitt in verbatim: (numbers 1-9 of 35)
Sentences on Conceptual Art, by Sol LeWitt in verbatim: (numbers 1-9 of 35)
1. Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic can not reach.
2. Rational judgements repeat rational judgments.
3. Irrational judgments lead to new experience.
4. Formal art is...
December 2010
3 posts
November 2010
3 posts
uncertaintimes:
Instead of looking at the screen, what I want to do is to turn around and look the other way. When we look the other way what we see is a little hole at the top of the wall with some light coming out. That’s where I want to go. I want to steal the key to the projectionist’s booth, and then, when everybody has gone home, I want to break in. ~ Jacques Vallée
via TDG
October 2010
6 posts
“I often think of the day when the Guggenheim will finally close down for dearth...”
– benjamin buchloh
Watchwow. haven’t watched the simpsons in a dog’s age, but this intro from last night storyboarded by Bansky is startling.
via The Daily What
August 2010
3 posts
“My feeling about technique in art is that it has about the same value as...”
– John Barth
June 2010
3 posts
May 2010
3 posts
April 2010
3 posts
“Learn to say “Fuck You” to the world once in a while.
You have...”
– Sol LeWitt’s admonition to Eva Hesse, read earlier today and it made my mouth hang open in recognition.
“People believe in the reality of photographs, but not in the reality of...”
– Duane Michals, Real Dreams, 1976.
March 2010
2 posts
“I don’t feel very able to say something about the world, about outside,...”
– Michael Ackerman
February 2010
2 posts
One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, “This end is more important than the other.” After twenty years I learned to write directly in ink. Recently, when David Tudor returned from Europe, he brought me a German pencil of ...
January 2010
2 posts
“The Snow we two once
looked at together - has it
fallen again this year?”
– Matsuo Bashō (via frost-at-midnight) (via crashinglybeautiful)
December 2009
8 posts
a timely find, as i’ve just decided to read all of Nabakov over the next year (in chronological order, even!)
pinkhotel:
“Listen: I am ideally happy. My happiness is a kind of challenge. As I wander along the streets and the squares and the paths by the canal, absently sensing the lips of dampness through my worn soles, I carry proudly my ineffable happiness. The centuries will roll by,...
“When you start working everybody is in your studio—the past, your friends,...”
– John Cage, cited by Philip Guston, ‘The Philadelpia Panel’
Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Rules For Writing Fiction
trickbop:
ilovereadingandwriting:
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 do one of two things — reveal character or advance the action.
Start as close to the end as possible.
...
“It takes an enormous act of violence to begin something.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, “The Young Workman’s Letter”
(via @parisreview)
(via langer)
“And be sure of this, I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and...”
– Jack Kerouac, 1968, Paris Review.
Couldn’t have said it better myself Jack.
(via pinkhotel)
Paste Magazine November 2009 →
love the mountain man, and how the 2008 williamsburg is really some NYC kid that went to portland for a week, then b(r)ought back portland-chic to NYC.
November 2009
5 posts
