January 2010
34 posts
“A 16-year-old girl pulled from the rubble more than two weeks after a deadly...”
– Haiti Takes the Measure of the Task of Rebuilding - NYTimes.com
“Remember this - I never suggested that change would be easy, or that I can do it...”
– SoTU
Calder in Bloom
“An interviewer once asked Alexander Calder if he ever felt sad. ‘When I think I might start to,’ he replied, ‘I fall asleep.’”
—Peter Schjeldahl
excerpt
“…it seems like the big distinction between good art and so-so art lies somewhere in the art’s heart’s purpose, the agenda of the consciousness behind the text. It’s got something to do with love. With having the discipline to talk out of the part of yourself that can love instead of the part that just wants to be loved.”
—David Foster Wallace
in case you were wondering
how many times I’ve locked myself out of my office so far this semester, the answer is two. This is actually below the pace of last semester’s lock-outs, so I’m feeling pretty good about it.
The Book Club With Just One Member - NYTimes.com →
Sacred Songs And DJs: New Classical CDs : NPR →
“The children cut bittersweet vine to make wreaths, splashed in puddles, and, in...”
– Forest Kindergarten at Waldorf School in Saratoga Springs - NYTimes.com
“Thus, it intrigues me that some of Foust’s poems are exceptionally tight: for...”
– Constant Critic | Ray McDaniel
I want to think more about this.
“On January 1 a giant space object blotted out our view of Epsilon Aurigae, a...”
– Yearlong Star Eclipse May Help Solve Space Mystery
Relampago del Catatumbo | , Venezuela | Atlas... →
“Ondaatje is one of the few living writers who seem to visualize history itself...”
– The territory behind - The Boston Globe
Carrot, Dill & White Bean Salad Recipe - 101... →
This American Infographic →
I don’t know if I like this. Sure, graphics are cool, but don’t statistics, even in beauteous graphical representation, simplify the nuance of TAL stories—the nuances you hear through tone of voice, and pauses, and music, and juxtaposition of detail?
Emperor's Castle amazing papercraft
ironyislet:
Geoff at BLDGBLOG writes:
For his student thesis project at the Bartlett School of Architecture, Thomas Hillier produced an immersive narrative world, complete with origami-filled hand-cut book pages and an elaborate model of the story’s architectural landscape. Hillier’s project was called The Emperor’s Castle and it was inspired by the work of Japanese printmaker Hiroshige.
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Op-Ed Columnist - The Happiest People -... →
The Minimalist - Preparing Simple Bean Dishes That... →