December 2008
“[It’s] superficial to understand the journal as just a receptacle for...”
– Susan Sontag on journaling, in her journal.
89.3 The Current and the Mysterious Non-Expanding... →
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Artzilla →
“Artzilla.org is dedicated to the development of experimental browser software. Artistic add-ons get rejected on common extension hosts (“useless art”). We collect and exhibit creative works, share code and tutorials (wiki.artzilla.org), and publish news from the scene. The artzilla.org Team is happy to see that more and more artists use add-ons as their media for artistic...
Seattle, Minneapolis most literate of big cities →
"Personal Helicon" by Seamus Heaney
As a child, they could not keep me from wells
And old pumps with buckets and windlasses.
I loved the dark drop, the trapped sky, the smells
Of waterweed, fungus and dank moss.
One, in a brickyard, with a rotted board top.
I savoured the rich crash when a bucket
Plummeted down at the end of a rope.
So deep you saw no reflection in it.
A shallow one under a dry stone ditch
Fructified like...
My Kid Took These →
“My 3 year old son loves to take photos. I will often give him my camera and set him loose to explore. I am always amazed by the results. Not because of the quality of the photos but because of the unique way a 3 year old looks at the world. This site is a showcase of these photos and a window into the perspective of a child.”
Do something new every three years. →
“The first year after arriving to your new assignment was terrifying and exhilarating. It was a vertiginous learning curve, but you could ask dumb questions without fear and note that the emperor has no clothes.”
"The Pine Pinwheel" by J.A. O'Sullivan →
Print it out if you can. (PDF download)
The year 2008 in photographs (Part 1) →
Part 2 and Part 3 are also up.
Day’s a’breakin’…
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St. Paul 'church lunch' has got some soul →
“You live in a deranged age—more deranged than usual, because despite great...”
– Walker Percy, Lost in the Cosmos (via viz)
“Forget the past and live the now, right now”
– Words of wisdom from THE_REAL_SHAQ
New Yorkers Love Bauhaus →
seascape →
Wendy Mukluk, 2001
Oxford Researchers List Top 10 Most Annoying... →
“The terrifying problem is that a one-man blog cannot begin to do the necessary...”
– Andrew Sullivan, “Read all about it: newspapers are done for”
Madison: 1915 vs. 2007 →
“Sure. You got it, bub. I can tell. You didn’t think you could. But you can,...”
– Robert the blind man, in Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral”
“RECHANNELING DESTRUCTIVE IMPULSES IS A SIGN OF MATURITY”
– Jenny Holzer (on Twitter)
“Mummy, mummy, please can I phone the pirates for you?”
“No.”...”
– A 12-year-old girl gets through to Somali pirates.
Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar 2008 →