Wednesday, July 20, 2016
He doesn’t like it when he feels trapped.
I wish I could do better but I’m not so apt.
I wish I could do better but I’m not so apt.
— Lily
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
They’re so connected to the beginning of earth.
— Lily on bugs
Monday, July 18, 2016
A member of The Indian Army motorcycle display team rides his motorcycle through a rack of fluorescent light bulbs.
— Getty Images
Sunday, July 17, 2016
Is it like performance art with still objects?
— Man walking by stack of Klondike bars with a book on top
Saturday, July 16, 2016
With considerable wit Venturi redefined those two mythological items on the compound agenda-the people and non bourgeois-and then presented the elements of orthodox modern design in prank form, with “Kick me” signs stuck on the back. These became known among architects as “witty” or “ironic references.”
— Tom Wolfe, From Bauhaus to Our House
Friday, July 15, 2016
But in 1935 he did Fallingwater, a home for Edgar J. Kaufmann, Sr., father of one of his apprentices.
— Tom Wolfe, From Bauhaus to Our House
Thursday, July 14, 2016
Snakes don’t have bones. Snakes have bones!?!
— Caleb
Wednesday, July 13, 2016
On day you’ll build a model and it’ll get used.
— Jason
Tuesday, July 12, 2016
The guy who started Pokemon was into insect collecting as a child.
— receptionist at PT
Monday, July 11, 2016
Hi depressed, I’m dad.
— UCB skit (watched with Bob Kohler)
Sunday, July 10, 2016
No, the much-acclaimed solitary figure one finds instead in the artist or architect who, like Kasimir Malevich, is smart enough to cover himself in the trappings of a movement, an ism, and become a one-man compound.
— Tom Wolfe, From Bauhaus to Our House
Saturday, July 9, 2016
It’s just so people get hungry.
— Williams-Sonoma employee on delicious smelling microwave in corner of the store
Friday, July 8, 2016
I’m not going to sit here and go back and forth.
— Second hand bookstore person not wanting to argue over a dollar
Thursday, July 7, 2016
Peanut.
— Lily
Wednesday, July 6, 2016
For several weeks of shows.
— Iron & Wine, “Such Great Heights”
Tuesday, July 5, 2016
Dorian went on to point out the dangers of the “standardized” interpretations that were likely to accompany the rise of the record performance: with the ease of hearing how another artist had done it, the musician would lose his own, clean, untarnished inspiration.
— Sara Fishko, “Music In Good Company,” Pentagram Papers 40: Time Signature
Monday, July 4, 2016
He’s an asshole.
— GK on Arthur Carter*
Sunday, July 3, 2016
You can be honest.
— Mark Utay on the dryness of the chicken
Saturday, July 2, 2016
Amen.
— Significant number of people after pledge of allegiance at the May's 4th of July party
Friday, July 1, 2016
we’re all se
set
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— Andrew Sondern on my first NYT illustration