Wednesday, April 19, 2023
The biography is twice as interesting if I am friends with the biographer. It becomes a dialogue of a certain kind, a drama between two people. You're not inserting yourself, you are admitting—which is always a tremendously good formula in any art form, I think—the limitation of the form.
— Orson Welles via Barbara Leaming, Orson Welles: A Biography
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
Antony Gormley, 'Field', 1989-2003
— @elephantmagazine
Monday, April 17, 2023
When restless he would doodle on a notepad, mostly triangles or spider webs that suggest nothing more than impatience.
— Kenneth Whyte, Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times
Sunday, April 16, 2023
Following are a number of eagles from the Miami (OH) Valley Quiltmakers, 1890-1914
— @buttflincher
Saturday, April 15, 2023
“When asked how such a young service member could have had access to highly sensitive documents, the Pentagon spokesman, Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder, said it was the nature of the military to trust its very young service members with high and sometimes grave levels of responsibility, including high levels of security clearance,” the AP reported on Thursday.
“We entrust our members with a lot of responsibility at a very early age. Think about a young combat platoon sergeant, and the responsibility and trust that we put into those individuals to lead troops into combat,” Ryder said.
— John Hayward, "Everything You Need to Know About the Alleged Pentagon Leaks," Breitbart
Friday, April 14, 2023
Things that seem slight when they were made do not always turn out that way in the long run, when thinking people who sweat the details are the ones making them.
— Christopher Bonanos, Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous
Thursday, April 13, 2023
The Photo League's members tended to intellectualize their work. And even though his photographs consistently reflected many of the League's activist ideals, he was (perhaps owing to his lack of formal education, perhaps to his streetwise cynicism) suspicious, even dismissive, of those who claimed they were doing something for the greater good. “Messages?" he once told his friend Peter Martin. “I have no time for messages in my pictures. That's for Western Union and the Salvation Army."
— Christopher Bonanos, Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous
Wednesday, April 12, 2023
It was a lesson that applied to his own life. "If you can get the audience to pull for you, you'll always win," Ailes wrote. "After all, audiences are just like you. They're human. They care. They're sympathetic. They're supportive. The audience wants you to succeed.... An awareness of your own vulnerability and the vulnerability of others will make you a better and more human communicator."
— Gabriel Sherman, The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News – and Divided a Country
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
Repetition, Herschensohn wrote, is "the oldest and most effective propaganda technique."
— Gabriel Sherman, The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News – and Divided a Country
Monday, April 10, 2023
"The difference between pros and amateurs is that pros play hurt," he once said.
— Gabriel Sherman, The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News – and Divided a Country
Sunday, April 9, 2023
The apparent authenticity of the documents, however, is not an indication of their accuracy.
— "Leaked Pentagon Documents Reveal Secrets About Friends and Foes," The New York Times
Saturday, April 8, 2023
In its lawsuit, Getty argued that Stable Diffusion diluted the value of the Getty watermark by incorporating it into images that ranged “from the bizarre to the grotesque.”
— Image caption, "Can We No Longer Believe Anything We See?," The New York Times
Friday, April 7, 2023
Everybody at this table will be forgotten as soon as our time on this cold spinning rock is over.
— Matt Damon, Air
Thursday, April 6, 2023
What would it mean for the pioneers to leave? And if they moved, it was not just the uncertainty of where to go and what to do, but also the feeling that they would never again own something.
— Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
Wednesday, April 5, 2023
For insulation, newspapers were pasted to the walls, some nesters even arranged the papers in neat horizontal rows so they could read the fading news stories.
— Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
Tuesday, April 4, 2023
The continuing relevance of baseball comes from its ability to represent, like movies or theater, a relatable glimpse into the everyday drama of being human.
— Steve Kettmann, "Major League Baseball Has Unleashed a Faster, Freer Version of Itself. You’ll Need to Pay Attention.," The New York Times
Monday, April 3, 2023
No amount of money can buy you a better two-by-four than the one that's also in the crappiest house in town.
— Paul Andersen
Sunday, April 2, 2023
And the bouillabaisse we didn’t get to have.
— Christian Bale, Amsterdam
Saturday, April 1, 2023
The purpose of Stonehenge is lost to us. There will always be debate about its meaning.
— Wall text at Stonehenge
Friday, March 31, 2023
Established here in 1263, Balliol is one of the oldest Oxford colleges
— Sign outside of Balliol
