November 2011
2 posts
“Open to them your hand to the shore, watch them walk into the sea.
Press upon...”
– Shake Prayer
Opening for chapter 21 from Reaper’s Gale, by Steven Erikson
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September 2011
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August 2011
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June 2011
33 posts
How to Photograph the Entire World: The Google...
bremser:
Doug Rickard, Helena-West Helena, Arkansas, 2008
The drum machine arrived in popular music in the late 1970’s. By 1983, only a few years later, after 50,000 years of live human drumming, mainstream audiences had fully embraced this sound in hits like “Rockit.” Just as remarkable, Herbie Hancock was able to pioneer both acoustic jazz and a song created with electronic drums.
A similar...
“The issue of, ‘Where’s my round of applause?’ or ‘Where’s the reflected glory?’...”
– Conscientious | Charlotte Cotton in conversation with Aaron Schuman (via photographsonthebrain)
“But seriously, if there’s a trend in Life’s selections it seems to be toward...”
– B: Institutionalized (via photographsonthebrain)
“What makes the Anthony Weiner story somewhat unique and thus worth discussing...”
– Glenn Greenwald, Salon (via iteeth)
“Not all drugs are good. Some of them are great.”
– Bill Hicks (via claytoncubitt)
“Of all lies, art is the least untrue.”
– Gustave Flaubert
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urbanautica: BRYAN FORMHALS →
urbanautica:
1. Your images show the desire not to forget, to rake up what it is best, to breath the air without too much suspicion, to look for the fun of watching or being surprised. What made you closer to photography?
«That’s an interesting observation. I started making photographs about a year after I…
Naomi Klein on how corporate branding has taken... →
claytoncubitt:
“Though it’s too soon to issue a verdict on the Obama presidency, we do know this: he favours the grand symbolic gesture over deep structural change every time. So he will make a dramatic announcement about closing the notorious Guantánamo Bay prison – while going ahead with an expansion of the lower profile but frighteningly lawless Bagram prison in Afghanistan, and opposing...
“Robert Frank was a one-man revolution. Before him pictures for the most part...”
– from “10 Oeuvres Aspiring Photographers Should Ignore” (via itsjanna)
May 2011
69 posts
RUNNING WITH THE BOYS →
lumor:
Read, think, discuss.
Transparency 2.0 →
thebrightcontinent:
If you haven’t already, read Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s heated altercation with journalist Ian Birrell on Twitter. It’s a remarkable example of how technology can pry open heretofore opaque systems.
“There are hordes of these people like him out there, you photo people, and if I...”
– Colin Pantall’s blog: Random Conversations #3: Self Promotion (via photographsonthebrain)
Writers and Readers Must Fight Against Publishing... →
claytoncubitt:
“Because the only way we can get on with our business is if we finally bury publishing’s corpse and rechannel the energy we’ve spent propping it to build something new. Something that serves the needs not of editors, or marketers, or publishers, or shareholders, or the culture industry, but of writers and readers, who together are recto and verso of the literary community, which...
