Saturday, March 9, 2024
I could look at these all day.
— Kid on "Life in the Soil" section of the "Hall of New York State Environment" exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History
Friday, March 8, 2024
Jonas Mekas' 2010 film WTC Haikus compiles found footage from Mekas' personal inventory in which the World Trade Center just happened to appear.
— Justin Beal, Sandfuture
Thursday, March 7, 2024
But I'm still baffled that they never acknowledge that it's just regular money and it has a face value.
— Matt on shopgoodwill.com selling items like "Lot of U.S. Coins"*
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
I wanted to consume the archive in one pass, to hold all the available information in my mind simultaneously.
— Justin Beal, Sandfuture
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
I don't even understand how this is real
This is the library at UMKC
800,000 volumes stored in a giant robot
the size of a building
This is the library at UMKC
800,000 volumes stored in a giant robot
the size of a building
— @soulellis
Monday, March 4, 2024
For at some point in our lives, if we live long enough, we begin to feel in a visceral fashion what we've always known intellectually to be true, our lifespans will not allow us to take in the whole story. Indeed there may be no whole story. Maybe there's no story at all.
— Maggie Nelson, On Freedom
Sunday, March 3, 2024
In the crew’s photography training he learned that an off-kilter horizon looked wrong and was not pleasing to the eye. That presented a slight problem because Challenger was at a 28.5-degree inclination, so he “tilted the camera to put the horizon level in the pictures.”
— @nasa caption on image of Astronaut McCandless II floating without tethers or umbilicals for the very first time
Saturday, March 2, 2024
Going up?
— Blake on the elevator.
Friday, March 1, 2024
This one is yours.
— Blake pointing to guitar as he holds ukulele
Thursday, February 29, 2024
Being nice to bunny rabbits means not being nice to bunny rabbit parasites.
— Maggie Nelson, On Freedom
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
The weekly images are going great BTW
The students love to hear about each other
And it helps the class bond
The students love to hear about each other
And it helps the class bond
— Mary*
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
We're all just memories for the next generation.
— Lily talking about obituaries
Monday, February 26, 2024
Collectors who buy unopened cases of sports cards might never open the packages, instead treating them as investments to be sold as is at a later date.
— Image caption, Amanda Holpuch, "Unopened Box of More Than 10,000 Hockey Cards Sells for $3.7 Million," The New York Times
Sunday, February 25, 2024
As poet Charles Bernstein put it, "A piece of paper with nothing on it has a definite economic value. If you print a poem on it, this value is lost."
— Maggie Nelson, On Freedom
Saturday, February 24, 2024
Dr.Jart
— Sephora
Friday, February 23, 2024
Rancière's formulation that “an art is emancipated and emancipating when ... it stops wanting to emancipate us" served as my enduring guide.
— Maggie Nelson, On Freedom
Thursday, February 22, 2024
Kind of like a starting point to do whatever you want.
— Bráulio Amado
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
And I actually think AI is not going to be the primary creator of music. I think we’re going to actually face the reality that it’s not that music has been around for thousands of years, but musicians and music has been around. We actually care to know who’s the musician that created it, just like we want to know who’s the artist, human artist that created a piece of art.
— Lex Fridman, "Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech | Lex Fridman Podcast #413"
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
I try to actually show the thing I am describing or writing about, whenever I can.
— Larry Buchanan, New York Times bio page
Monday, February 19, 2024
Hyde, who suggested that Young's sincerity made him more dangerous than Joseph Smith.
— John G. Turner, Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet