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bukowskeet: Candy Chang - Sidewalk Psychiatry (2008)

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 12:56:34 -0500

Candy Chang - Sidewalk Psychiatry (2008)

Grammar with David Foster Wallace

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 22:41:31 -0500

You have been entrusted to feed your neighbor’s dog for a week while he (the neighbor) is out of town. The neighbor returns home; something has gone awry; you are questioned.

“I fed the dog.”

“Did you feed the parakeet?”

“I fed only the dog.”

“Did anyone else feed the dog?”

“Only I fed the dog.”

“Did you fondle/molest the dog?”

“I only fed the dog!”

From D. T. Max’s biography of David Foster Wallace, Every Love Story is a Ghost Story.

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Sun, 14 Oct 2012 04:28:04 -0400

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Wed, 10 Oct 2012 10:23:53 -0400

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Tue, 09 Oct 2012 15:59:20 -0400

"Emily Dickinson grabbed every conceivable scrap of paper for her stationary. She wrote poems on the..."

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 17:36:49 -0400

“Emily Dickinson grabbed every conceivable scrap of paper for her stationary. She wrote poems on the backs of party invitations, bills, recipes, shopping lists, food wrappers(think the chocolate bar wrapper made famous by Joseph Cornell) — the kinds of paper that seem to “grow” on any kitchen counter. She’d use these scraps to capture a poetic idea that had skidded into the imagination. When my hands are busy grating nutmeg or scrubbing the stove my mind roams broadly and I receive what feel like “gifts” of ideas (Buddhists would call that “naturally occurring wisdom”). In Emily’s case, what rose up might be a great poem. So she gathered up even those fragments of ideas for poems and jotted them on the backs of those fragments of paper collecting by her pantry board.”

- Gathering up the Fragments: Recipe Poems by Emily Dickinson « Four Pounds Flour

"Thinking about the relation of comedy to prose fiction, he says that the best jokes and the best..."

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:21:25 -0400

“Thinking about the relation of comedy to prose fiction, he says that the best jokes and the best short stories both leave out important information but evoke it “in such a way as to cause a kind of explosion of associative connections.””

- David Foster Wallace and the Comedy Nerd | Splitsider

List of Artworks Destroyed in the 9/11 World Trade Center Attack...

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:34:35 -0400

List of Artworks Destroyed in the 9/11 World Trade Center Attack / wtc (via wtc | HTMLGIANT)

visual-poetry: “this is a poem” by gastão de magalhães (1975)

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:22:51 -0400

visual-poetry:

“this is a poem” by gastão de magalhães (1975)

lake shawnee amusement park

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 16:19:33 -0400

lake shawnee amusement park

"He proposes “that art is a form of communication that co-evolves with its evaluation.” Take Mozart:..."

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:16:31 -0400

“He proposes “that art is a form of communication that co-evolves with its evaluation.” Take Mozart: he transformed the formulas of classical music so skillfully that he changed the musical tastes of his audience. In turn, as Mozart’s patrons flocked to his concertos and operas, they influenced his compositions. The result was “an ongoing aesthetic process which is the co-evolution or the historical entrainment of production and evaluation.” Art is, Prum says, “a kind of dance.””

- Yale Alumni Magazine: ornithologist Richard Prum (Nov/Dec 2011)

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Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:52:39 -0400

A billion stars in one image. We’ve seen some pretty...

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:49:47 -0400

A billion stars in one image. We’ve seen some pretty beautiful images of stars, novas, and dust before, but, for the first time ever, science has squeezed that many stars into one shot. And in science, firsts count. To get all those stars, researchers had to combine infra-red images from two different telescopes located in different hemispheres. You’re looking at the Milky Way galaxy’s plane, by the way. Vast, isn’t it? “This incredible image gives us a new perspective of our galaxy, and illustrates the far-reaching discoveries we can make from large sky surveys,” agrees researcher Dr Nick Cross. (via One Billion Stars; A New High for Autism Diagnoses - Technology - The Atlantic Wire)

telemachy: from the PRESS RELEASE (1999) project, where a...

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:08:56 -0400

telemachy:

from the PRESS RELEASE (1999) project, where a London gallery “corrects” language in art show announcements “grammatically and theoretically.” An example of what a recent Triple Canopy essay calls “International Art English”

"There is simply no allegorical, edifying or fully-formed way to show completely senseless acts of..."

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 16:03:47 -0400

“There is simply no allegorical, edifying or fully-formed way to show completely senseless acts of violence. The narrative always skids right up to the point where the young man, who was so much like other young men, begins assembling a small armory. After the jump, a story that had been told in the fraudulent math that tries to balance a recognizable, human childhood with an incomprehensible, inhuman act, switches over to the fractured language of the newscast: helicopter images, computer re-enactments, grainy home videos, 911 calls, yearbook photos, the shots of children who could be our children crying in small huddles outside the crime scene. After two years of reading, watching and listening to pretty much everything about Cho Seung-Hui, I realized, with a thin flare of defeat, that the distance between us could never be measured, at least not in any instructive way.”

- Violence and Making Sense | The Awl

And Dali made a cookbook.

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 12:58:31 -0400

And Dali made a cookbook.

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Wed, 08 Aug 2012 10:42:32 -0400

indubio: National Geographic 1939

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 15:33:17 -0400

indubio:

National Geographic 1939

i never thought that looking at a painting like this would ever...

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:08:00 -0400

i never thought that looking at a painting like this would ever compel me to cry.

areaofinterest:

Michael Chase

i am so excited about this blog. About: A series of photographs...

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 23:05:35 -0400

i am so excited about this blog.

About:

A series of photographs depicting meals from novels. More to come.

All images © Dinah Fried

fictitious-dishes:

The Catcher in the Rye
This photograph depicts a scene from J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, in which Holden Caulfield stops at a drug store and orders a cheese sandwich and a malted after a very bad date.