Monday, April 24, 2023
One of book artist @bdenzer ‘s definitions for a book is—this is not a direct quotation—“a gathering of things that are the same.”* And so today I present a book of lilacs.
— @brevigrapher
Sunday, April 23, 2023
He drew laughs with a story about a small railroad he had bought in Colorado. When he inspected it, he saw trains busily rolling in and out of the switchyard. He later learned the bustle was all for show. “I thought it was doing a big business,” he said. “Afterward, I learned they had kept the freight back a week to impress me."
— Greg Steinmetz, American Rascal: How Jay Gould Built Wall Street's Biggest Fortune
Saturday, April 22, 2023
o wait it’s called roney island!!
— Lian on name of pizza from Pizza Marvin*
Friday, April 21, 2023
But it's a fact that many of the films you've seen tonight could never have been made otherise. Or if otherwise—well, they might have been better. But certainly, they wouldn't have been mine.
— Orson Welles via Barbara Leaming, Orson Welles: A Biography
Thursday, April 20, 2023
It's very much against my principles to tell a cast of people what I intend a picture or play to be like, because it sometimes turns out to be something else and they shouldn't catch you making a mistake. That's one reason. And the second is, they're all thinking about themselves anyway, so talk about them. Don't talk about the grand canvas.
— Orson Welles via Barbara Leaming, Orson Welles: A Biography
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
