February 2012
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“I look at the internet as the new radio. I look at the radio as gone. […] Piracy...”
– Neil Young (via wreckandsalvage)
January 2012
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“An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own...”
– J.D. Salinger, Franny & Zooey. Salinger died two years ago today. (via doubledaybooks)
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Watchpoptech:
This past June, artist and educator Jer Thorp organized the Eyeo Festival, a gathering of coders, data visualization pros, designers and artists. Today, his talk from the Festival, in which he focuses on two of his current projects, was posted online:
First: Project Cascade, a real-time analytic tool built to examine how New York Times content is shared through Twitter. Second: His...
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December 2011
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“When you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than...”
– _why, (via David Tate/robertogreco/wreckandsalvage)
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annotations asked: I was thinking of that poem! Sort of. Only in the sense that it describes--in part--the interest of convex mirrors. Curves!
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“Maybe ‘I downloaded but didn’t share’ will be the new ‘I...”
– Andy Baio, “No Copyright Intended”
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Watchprocesses:
7088:
simultaneously entertained and pissed
oh my god.
AND THIS MUSIC.
“Keep a door to irony open at all times / when challenged, back out through it”
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“Not quite so. Christo works an average of 14 hours a day – seven days a week....”
– Sort of a response to my last post — Christo and Jeane-Claude’s website has a special section called “Most Common Errors.” Above quote is a response to “The easy life of an artist.”
Bad At Sports: What does it mean to be an artist at the end of the day? What does that mean?
David Shrigley: Um ... it means that you don't have to have a job, basically.
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November 2011
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The Pumpkins of Kane Street →
These are right across the BQE from us — en route to the Bergen St. F/G stop. One of the simple pleasures of last autumn was watching the slow transformation of these pumpkins from adorable halloween decoration to grotesque horror movie prop.
Link via Ariel
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