Jay Mug: Ira Glass to all beginners …
May not want to hear it, but it’s the best advice.
Salon: Can bells and whistles save the book?
“What matters is not the story on the page — or the screen — but the story in your head. Interactive baubles pull a reader’s attention back to the screen, serving as a reminder of the thing you want to go on forgetting: the fact that all of this is just made up, words on a page. Some enhanced e-book publishers have cottoned onto this problem and as a result they’ve moved away from inserting video or clickable illustrations into their books, and in new directions.” And yet ... the newer generations absorb information and ‘story’ in fundamentally different ways, don’t they? They live with multitasking and distraction and construct coherent narratives. I like this article, but can’t completely buy into it.
NY Times: For Founders to Decorators, Facebook Riches.
iainclaridge.net: Leica love.
All other cameras are merely poseurs.
Motoriginal: 1 of 2 SC Atlantics.
I love Bugs.
Flavorwire: The 20 Most Beautiful Bookstores in the World.
Salon: Stories don’t need morals or messages.
“The weakness of this approach to fiction should be obvious: If what you really want is a set of fortifying maxims, why bother with stories about feckless romances or foolish kings? Why not just go straight to the self-help section — the secular equivalent of the sermon — as so many American readers already do?” As a character in John Fowles The Magus expresses (and I paraphrase), why sit through a couple of hundred pages of dreck for one threadbare moral? Why not read autobiographies instead and find out how real people accomplished great things?
It’s a question I ask myself over and over and over again.
The Art Newspaper: Earliest copy of Mona Lisa found in Prado.
Hey, wow. She’s not a dowager.
paranoias.org: Waiting, by Leah Beach.
“These are photographs of patients living with Alzheimer’s disease at an assistant living in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.None of these images were staged and are simple observations of the patients in the Alzheimer’s wing ...” See my link of earlier today.
Jan Avendano: Phantom Tollbooth Infographics.
Interesting use of infographics.
ArtDaily: Ten fantasy portraits by Tiepolo shown for the first time at Fundación Juan March.
Conceptual art, from the 1700’s? Sign me up.
Discover: Ebooks - More Boon to Literacy Than Threat to Democracy.
Another opinion countering Franzen’s interview of a day or so ago.
New Scientist: Self-portraits of a declining brain.
“’It sounds awful,’ Gentleman told me, ‘but in cases like these, you really hope that the patient themself loses understanding as quickly as possible, because to be in a body whose brain is failing and still have insight into what is going on must be simply horrendous.’ The works on display indicate that Utermohlen did not have even this small mercy.” God.
Telegraph.UK: London Art Fair 2012: in pictures.
I haven’t seen a bunny in curlers since Looney Tunes.
Guardian.UK: Carol Ann Duffy is ‘wrong’ about poetry, says Geoffrey Hill.
“What Professor Duffy desires to do I believe – and if so it is a most laudable ambition – is to humanise the linguistic semantic detritus of our particular phase of oligarchical consumerism. And for the common good she is willing to have quoted by the Guardian interviewer several lines from a poem by herself that could easily be mistaken for a first effort by one of the young people she wishes to encourage.” Ouch. One has to admire an eloquent takedown.
Another Something & Company: The Inaugural Sartorialist Lunch.
The video’s very nicely done. Thanks to a tag at the end, I find these folks did it. They’ve got good shooters and good people in post, IMHO. They’re a breath of fresh air in fashion vids, I have to tell you. Great to see some proper vid-chops.
InspireFirst: The Vintage Acme Catalog,
The Acme Catalog of Wile E. Coyote. Fun.
benhammer.de: Twins by Martin Schoeller.
The same, yet different.
The Millions: Seven Reasons to Read A Dance to the Music of Time.
The Atlantic: The Gmail Logo Was Designed the Night Before Gmail Launched.
If ad-agencies barred last-minute creative sessions, there’d be many fewer logos around.
Canon DLC: Environmental Portraits with Speedlites, Tutorial Series.
OHWOW Gallery: The fall, the ball, the wall.
Nope, residents of NM don’t have to travel to LA to see artwork in this style. Just go over to a neighbor’s, or downtown, to see a bad application of synthetic stucco. If not applied perfectly, pinholes develop which collect water, and then the synthetic starts to bag and sag with captured liquid, soaking the interior walls ... and ... you get the picture.
A Continuous Lean: New York-Idlewild to Stockholm-Arlanda c. May 1959.
“Nick DeWolf spent nearly his entire life carrying around a camera and documenting the places he went and the things he saw. The scale and scope of this is incredible, especially when you consider it was all done in a time before digital photography.” Wow. Here’s the Flickr stream, too. Favorite that one!
Guardian.UK: ‘The surrounding modern buildings show no respect for the Tower of London’.
“Whoever allowed this to be put up should be shot, and one day I assume it will be taken down.” I know that sentiment.
My Modern Met: Redesigning Old Military Airplanes.
Okay, this is causing me major personal issues. I love old airplanes. I love art. I don’t know if I can stand painting old airplanes ... I can appreciate it, but I love the design of old airframes more, I think. Perhaps if they didn’t obscure all the beautiful swoops and curves ... ?
