Monday, August 19, 2024
I mean, there’s some small amount of papyrus scrolls that were recovered that are thousands of years old, because they were deep inside a pyramid and weren’t affected by moisture. But other than that, it’s really got to be in a clay tablet or chiseled. So, the vast majority of stuff was not chiseled because it takes a while to chisel things.
— Elon Musk, "Elon Musk: Neuralink and the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #438"
Sunday, August 18, 2024
THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO ME
— Printed title on blue binder that @soulellis's Uncle Darrell is holding up in a photo, via @soulellis
Saturday, August 17, 2024
Photography's documentary legacy also raises ethical dilemmas for any practitioner. By purveying a seemingly direct vision of truth, the photographer invades dangerously on a subjects privacy. A sketch artist sitting next to Walker Evans on the subway would not have suffered the same anxieties over legal retribution. Unlike painters, photographers are required to obtain releases.
— Arthur Lubow, Diane Arbus
Friday, August 16, 2024
Nancy made an impression [a rubbing] of Diane's small hand on a piece of paper. The pangs of the process and residual proof when it was over seemed to lift Diane's mood. She had felt something and she left behind some physical evidence that she existed.
— Arthur Lubow, Diane Arbus
Thursday, August 15, 2024
A forgotten archive of reversals stands behind the vast majority of images and texts produced in modern history.
— Jennifer L. Roberts, "Jennifer L. Roberts on Printmaking"
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
She was also aware that her project was singular. She didn't want to air it until she thought it was complete. "I always thought that I'd wait until I'm ninety to have a show or write a book, because I figured that I was good for only one shot, and I wanted to wait until I had it all done" she said.
— Arthur Lubow, Diane Arbus
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
Statue of Joseph Mikulec, depicted holding his autograph album on his shoulder, and Viktor Šimunić, mayor of Oroslavje, Croatia. The original album featured here and in all the news reports is for sale at Raab.
— Image caption, raabcollection.com, "This Discovery Has Inspired a Country"
Monday, August 12, 2024
BIG X,
little X,
what begins
with X?
— Dr. Seuss’s ABC: An Amazing Alphabet Book!
Sunday, August 11, 2024
Subjectivity is the precondition for knowledge: the self who knows.
— Lorraine Daston & Peter L. Galison, Objectivity via @wendiyan
Saturday, August 10, 2024
I wanna smell our son.
— Lily
Friday, August 9, 2024
Away, we're bound to go.
— The Men of The Robert Shaw Chorale, "Shenandoah"
Thursday, August 8, 2024
And then I remember I was very successful at summer camp.
— Sid
Wednesday, August 7, 2024
What the photographer saw and the homeowner intended were not the same.
— Arthur Lubow, Diane Arbus
Tuesday, August 6, 2024
Early in his childhood in Deep Gap, Watson was struck by an illness that restricted the blood flow to his eyes, resulting in his blindness at an early age. As a child, he was surrounded by music and was given a new harmonica every Christmas.
— About Doc Watson on Spotify
Monday, August 5, 2024
A DRAWING THAT LOOKS LIKE LANGUAGE
— @zakjensen
Sunday, August 4, 2024
"I think it's a secret probably for everybody's pictures, that your own pictures mean more to you than they mean to anybody else." She said... A viewer standing in front of the photograph would have his own relationship with it, imbibing some of its mysteries, but for him it could only be an evocation, not a souvenir.
— Arthur Lubow, Diane Arbus
Saturday, August 3, 2024
THE EXACT LOCATION OF THE HANGING IS ONE OF HISTORY'S UNCERTAINTIES. OTHER PLACES HAVE BEEN CITED, BUT A BRITISH OFFICER'S DIARY INDICATES THE ROYAL ARTILLERY PARK NEAR THE DOVE TAVERN ON THE OLD POST ROAD, NOW THIRD AVENUE WHERE IT INTERSECTS 66TH STREET.
— Plaque about Nathan Hale on 1110 3rd Ave
Friday, August 2, 2024
The meaning of the work is not embedded in the object, but in the relationship between object and collector. As a collector, I do not display things that I don't like, but liking is connected to my self-image and how I wish to display myself to others through my possessions. Part of the value of these works is linked to the characteristics of the artists and the stories that the objects call forth. The works are authentic because of the biographical contours of their creators—life stories of diference that infuse the content of the work.
— Gary Alan Fine, Everyday Genius: Self-Taught Art and the Culture of Authenticity
Thursday, August 1, 2024
Arbus was good at personalized presents too, but Israel's, in addition to affirming the intimacy of friendship, implied a comprehension that bordered on partnership. It was a form of inspired matchmaking, the pairing up of an artist with a sympathetic predecessor, and it contributed to his charismatic pull in which he made the beneficiary of his attention feel truly understood.
— Arthur Lubow, Diane Arbus
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
She kept saying to me "the more specific you are, the more general it'll be."
— Arthur Lubow, Diane Arbus
