Wednesday, December 7, 2022
Artists constantly bring images of celebrities into their work as a recognizable entry point for viewers to take an interest in their practice.
— Brad Troemel, "CELEBRITY ART REPORT"
Tuesday, December 6, 2022
Do they make an ai generator but for music? Like if I wanted to listen to Baa Baa Black Sheep by Raffi in the style of Slipknot?
— @benjibours
Monday, December 5, 2022
A good thing will sell itself.” Ford declared. “We must make good things in this country, and not do too much talking about them. You've just got to let people know where to get them, and that's all.”
— Steven Watts, The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century
Sunday, December 4, 2022
Regional Piece
— Title of work by Ree Morton, ICA Boston
Saturday, December 3, 2022
It's mostly for the typing.
— M (probably paraphrased)*
Friday, December 2, 2022
Tonight, Gary Lezak gave his final weather forecast here at KSHB 41. Thank you for a great 30 years. We will miss you.
— @kshb41
Thursday, December 1, 2022
Whole idea of pointing at things, which is everything the camera does.
— Brian*
Wednesday, November 30, 2022
When Sweden plays against Denmark, the scoreboard will display SWE-DEN. The unused letters remaining are DEN-MARK.
— @pablo_chilenga via @jalejandro
Tuesday, November 29, 2022
think of how few quarters get to do this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
— @annierau caption on @theaustinweber TikTok video of a quarter rolling down an extended tape measure to hit a small bell
Monday, November 28, 2022
I've always said that though, like we do these searches in FBI, houses and stuff like that, if someone just got like a box load of like 10 terabyte drives and just encrypted them. Oh my God you know how long the FBI would spin their wheels trying to get that data off there. It would be Insane.
— Chris Tarbell, "Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road | Lex Fridman Podcast #340"
Sunday, November 27, 2022
Did you know that Nicole Kidman has a very impressive coin collection?
— @moneymuseumboston
Saturday, November 26, 2022
“They weren't interested in anything except efficiency of production,” he noted. “They wouldn't talk dollars and cents at all. They talked in terms of the minutes that the thing cost.”
— Steven Watts, The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century
Friday, November 25, 2022
On August 8, 1913, one of the most celebrated photographs in American industrial history appeared in papers all over the country under a compelling headline: “The Most Expensive Picture That Was Ever Taken.” Ford amassed twelve thousand of his sixteen-thousand-strong workforce in a large open area outside the Highland Park factory—the factory had to be closed for two hours to do this, hence the expense.
— Steven Watts, The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century
Thursday, November 24, 2022
Heart and soul
— E singing*
Wednesday, November 23, 2022
Where did you find Lily?
— E*
Tuesday, November 22, 2022
Google, will you tell me some names of the bugs I don't know? Tell me some Google.
— E talking to Google*
Monday, November 21, 2022
“He who nurses the nickels misses the knockouts,” declared this paper.
— Steven Watts, The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century
Sunday, November 20, 2022
We kept your room just the way you left it. But only because it was too small to turn into a pickleball court.
— @asherperlman cartoon for InPickleball magazine
Saturday, November 19, 2022
The only way to become a glass modeler of skill... is to get a good great-grandfather who loved glass.
— Leopold Blaschka, 26 June 1889, "Glass Flowers: The Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants," Harvard Museum of Natural History
Friday, November 18, 2022
If you think about it, there are two or three people that are remembered for positive things, and everybody else it's all negative things, and the likelihood you'll be remembered for positive things is harder and harder, so the surface area of being remembered is negative.
— Chamath Palihapitiya, "Chamath Palihapitiya: Money, Success, Startups, Energy, Poker & Happiness | Lex Fridman Podcast #338"
