Sunday, May 26, 2024
The definition of a normal person is the person you don't know well.
— Bagel guy from Bagelworks
Saturday, May 25, 2024
What was I thinking about a year ago?... Last spring...
— Glenn Ganges, Kevin Huizenga, The River at Night
Friday, May 24, 2024
If Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn," or Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment," can be scrunched down to a near-minimum, for speed-reading and easy listening, is that a travesty or a useful prop?
— @newyorkermag, Anthony Lane, "Can You Read a Book in a Quarter of an Hour?"
Thursday, May 23, 2024
The kids are beginning to object to my posting them! This is all I have!
— @rick2243 Instagram caption
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
COLUMBIA: Yes, I heard the whole thing.
HOUSTON: Well, it's a good show.
COLUMBIA: Fantastic.
HOUSTON: Well, it's a good show.
COLUMBIA: Fantastic.
— "Voice From Moon: 'Eagle Has Landed'," via @ericdoeringer "Someone cracked the #onkawara code and it all goes back to the July 1969 issue of #madmagazine!! Yes, the same month as the first moon landing, which was obviously very important to OK. And, of course, one of Kawara's long term projects was titled "| READ" while this cover proclaims, "I will never read" (also possible inspiration for #johnbaldessariart's "| will not make any more boring art" a couple of years later). It's a mad mad mad world! Full story on the #codebreaking at onkawara.co.uk"
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
I look at every poop I've ever had. And this has been in me for longer. It's very detailed.
— Lily
Monday, May 20, 2024
Any description of a photograph occurs in linear time: one element follows the other in sequence.
— Stephen Shore, Modern Instances
Sunday, May 19, 2024
I remember the feeling of passing ducks on the way to physics tests and thinking "I want to be you." Not once but regularly.
— Lily
Saturday, May 18, 2024
Henner describes a good autobiographical memory as "a line of defense against meaninglessness."
— David Owen, "How to Live Forever," The New Yorker
Friday, May 17, 2024
Bye Bye
— John Mulaney on Everybody's in L.A. saying "Bye Bye" exactly like John McLaughlin on The McLaughlin Group
Thursday, May 16, 2024
And what no one seemed to recognize is this: looking is a form of passion if you look long and hard enough.
— Deborah Solomon, American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Jonathan Monk’s Picture Postcard Posted from Post Box Pictured is our favourite mail art project and we’ve been fortunate enough to publish five with him: Dublin, Selva del Montello, Reykjavik, Tokyo & Winnipeg. Today we received a copy of Michael Wynne’s great version from Kirvin, Texas. A few other bootleg versions in our collection are Eric Doeringer’s from Los Angles (image 2) and one from an OCAD class project taught by Derek Sullivan in 2022 (image 3).
— @paul_and_wendy_projects
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
I work at a bookstore that has a warehouse and a few retail locations. Stock fluctuates so boxes are constantly coming to and from the warehouse and the stores. These boxes are used and reused again and again. The idea was, a drawing could travel to and from these locations and be seen by a group of people everyday. A small group of people. But a group of people nonetheless. It's theoretically similar to the way freight train graffiti works, but on a smaller, more insular scale. I would take pictures of these drawings on the way out. And then they leave. I drew them quick, so I could finish them without a manager seeing. But as seen in issue three they soon became more and more elaborate. If I did see them again I would mark them with the date. I don't see them often. That may be because I don't handle boxes as much as others do. People have told me they see them a lot. It seems like an obvious form of communication to me.
— George Olsen, TAKE THIS BOOK APART
Monday, May 13, 2024
So few artists were able to survive over time and the number of illustrators was even smaller. It was chilling to contemplate how many ofthe brightest artistic reputations turned to dust.
— Deborah Solomon, American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell
Sunday, May 12, 2024
Nurse, Educator, Student of Aesthetic Realism, a Pioneer.
— Epitaph on grave of Richel Hildy Anne Clerkin, who died March 1, 2011
Saturday, May 11, 2024
Tired of answering to Post editors, he wanted to do something major, to alter his fate.
— Deborah Solomon, American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell
Friday, May 10, 2024
I'm going home.
— Sheila leaving the kitchen
Thursday, May 9, 2024
The thrill of his work is that he was able to use a commercial form to thrash out his private obsessions, to turn a formula into an expressive personal genre.
— Deborah Solomon, American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
What I heard from everyone was a plea for context.
— Jim Moske, "Special Functions Lecture: Jim Moske on Deaths of Artists"
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Actually, it wasn't just illustration but the old belief that art existed to tell stories that suddenly fell out of favor.
— Deborah Solomon, American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell