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beautifultype: The history of typography, stop motion by Ben...

Thu, 09 May 2013 16:29:13 -0400

The history of typography, stop motion by Ben Barrett-Forrest (Forestmedia.org)

"Definitely an up-do. Maybe like a kind of messy bun. I’m thinking—and stop me if this doesn’t make..."

Wed, 08 May 2013 08:00:20 -0400

“Definitely an up-do. Maybe like a kind of messy bun. I’m thinking—and stop me if this doesn’t make any sense—but a kind of homesteader vibe? Like a kind of “Little House on the Prairie,” “I’m gonna stand my ground and don’t mess with me or my kin” kind of deal? But, like, sexy. Like, it basically says, “I’ve got a ton of stuff to do, like shuck corn, and muck out a barn, but I’ve still managed to retain a femininity that glints in the most attractive and unexpected ways.” Like, picture a lady standing in a field with her dress flapping nobly in the wind, and maybe she’s holding a basket of wheat and squinting into the distance, and she’s like, Oh man, when is he gonna return, because I’ve borne so much already? Except I don’t want to look all weathered, just, like, super pretty but also like I have a ton of inner reserves? Does that make any sense? No?”

- Emma Rathbone, “My Wedding Hair”

mcnallyjackson: Just a reminder! Great cover. newyorker: Cover...

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 23:07:47 -0500

mcnallyjackson:

Just a reminder! Great cover.

newyorker:

Cover of the Nov. 12, 2012 issue. Click-through for the story behind “Undeterred,” the cover, from artist Adrian Tomine: http://nyr.kr/Tk81uN

museumuesum: Alfredo Jaar Lament of the Images, 2002 The work...

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 23:19:39 -0400

museumuesum:

Alfredo Jaar

Lament of the Images, 2002

The work is a metaphor for the blindness in our society. I think we live in a great paradox today. On the one hand we are bombarded by thousands of images, but on the other hand it has never before been so controlled, be it by the government or by a certain part of the private sector. Therefore, I believe that we have lost the ability to see and be moved by images. Nothing moves us anymore, nothing has any meaning. My work is a kind of poetic meditation about the power of images.

In the first room there are 3 stories to read, then you go through a labyrinth and reach another hall with a glistening light that blinds you. In another sense it is like the request “let there be light”, like an appeal to clarify this situation.

"you owe it to yourself to experience the sewing machine whirr of a camera turning over, the smell of..."

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 01:12:27 -0400

“you owe it to yourself to experience the sewing machine whirr of a camera turning over, the smell of the stock when you load it, and that weird magical thrill when you get it back from the lab and realize you’ve got an image.”

- Rian Johnson (via bitdepth)

superawesomeshop: nokkasili, on Tumblr

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:48:57 -0400

superawesomeshop:

nokkasili, on Tumblr

"When you’re habituated to constant stimulation, when you lack it, you sort of don’t know what to do..."

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:02:18 -0400

““When you’re habituated to constant stimulation, when you lack it, you sort of don’t know what to do with yourself …,” he said. “When we aren’t used to having down time, it results in anxiety. ‘Oh my god, I should be doing something.’ And we reach for the smartphone. It’s our omnipresent relief from that.””

- Have smartphones killed boredom (and is that good)? - CNN.com

"It’s extremely difficult for people to remake themselves, particularly if they’ve got husbands and..."

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 09:41:09 -0400

“It’s extremely difficult for people to remake themselves, particularly if they’ve got husbands and wives, jobs, children. It’s very, very difficult to throw everything up and embark on a completely new reappraisal of yourself. But, I think, sooner or later, all of us have to do that. Mostly I think we do it vicariously, by reading novels, by going to films and so on.”

- J.G. Ballard (via bitdepth)

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Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:45:14 -0400

"People will write me, and I know that they’re like a bug that walked into your apartment off the..."

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 18:40:35 -0400

“People will write me, and I know that they’re like a bug that walked into your apartment off the street; you’re like, “I understand this is not the general consensus. It’s not an infestation going on; it’s just some random person.” But I’m just fascinated with the culture of commenting.”

- Jen Kirkman in an interview with the AV Club

"Always remember: If you’re alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just..."

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 16:50:15 -0400

“Always remember: If you’re alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who’s going to know?”

- Julia Child in Esquire

"NYT: If you could meet any writer, dead or alive, who would it be? What would you want to know?..."

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 16:32:00 -0400

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NYT: If you could meet any writer, dead or alive, who would it be? What would you want to know?

Ira Glass: Edgar Allan Poe. I don’t have a question, but dude just seems like he could use a hug.

”

- Ira Glass in the NYTimes

"I don’t believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective..."

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 16:25:00 -0400

“I don’t believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke. Pedophilia is a pleasure a person should have guilt about. Not chocolate.”

- Ira Glass in the NYTimes

livelymorgue: Mar. 31, 1946: Children peeked through an opening...

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 21:08:26 -0400

livelymorgue:

Mar. 31, 1946: Children peeked through an opening in a door at Madison Square Garden for a preview of the circus where, as an article dated April 5 reported, “there were 150 breathless moments at the daring of the young men and women of the flying trapeze, the charging, rearing and racing horses, the sparking costumes of many colors.” Photo: Ernie Sisto/The New York Times

"But having grieved before, I remember now that this is what grieving is. This stop-start running and..."

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:26:58 -0400

“But having grieved before, I remember now that this is what grieving is. This stop-start running and remembering; the sudden urge to connect and be human again, and the forgetting—the weird, almost chemical amnesia, that separation from the self: that little demon in you that keeps going, keeps wanting to live, to push on and push it out of you.”

- John Hodgman on David Rakoff’s passing from his Tumblr post

"Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel I’ve accomplished something, learned something, become..."

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:55:00 -0400

“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel I’ve accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on… Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it’s a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it’s a way of making contact with someone else’s imagination after a day that’s all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.”

- Nora Ephron in I Feel Bad About My Neck, via an e-mail from my Mom

wnycradiolab: Caren Alpert takes pictures of food. Lately,...

Sat, 14 Jul 2012 15:55:33 -0400

wnycradiolab:

Caren Alpert takes pictures of food. Lately, she’s been taking close-ups…like, really, really close-up. The series is called terra cibus, and you can read more about it here or here.

(Images above are: shrimp tail, chocolate cake, sun-dried tomato, purple onion, and, of course, cake sprinkles)

"I get real scared if I open someone’s refrigerator and there’s nothin’ but skim..."

Sat, 07 Jul 2012 20:13:01 -0400

“I get real scared if I open someone’s refrigerator and there’s nothin’ but skim milk, fat-free dressin’, light sour cream, and low fat mayonnaise, because it tells me that person doesn’t like to cut loose, ya know?”

- Paula Deen, Kitchen Wisdom and Recipe Journal

"Don’t take cookin’ too seriously, girl. Life gets hard soon as we walk out our door;..."

Sat, 07 Jul 2012 20:11:04 -0400

“Don’t take cookin’ too seriously, girl. Life gets hard soon as we walk out our door; cookin’ should not be hard. …when all is said and done, the bottom line is that your best dishes are the uncomplicated dishes you yourself like, not those you’re trying to impress people with.
But what if you get in there and you do ruin a meal? Well, it ain’t the end of the world and hopefully it ain’t your last meal. Throw it in the trash and order takeout.”

- Paula Deen, Kitchen Wisdom and Recipe Journal

Rob Delaney: On Depression & Getting Help

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 07:02:50 -0400

Rob Delaney: On Depression & Getting Help:

This was originally posted February 26, 2010.

I deal with suicidal, unipolar depression and I take medication daily to treat it. Over the past seven years, I’ve had two episodes that were severe and during which I thought almost exclusively of suicide. I did not eat much and lost weight during…