Sunday, November 16, 2014
And although he frequently referred to himself publicly, with the self-depreciation typical of the capitalist among artists and intellectuals, as “only a prosaic box maker,” he rose by means of the Container Corporation to prominence as an exponent of modern design and of cultural reform in the mid-twentieth-century America.
— James Sloan Allen, The Romance of Commerce and Culture
Saturday, November 15, 2014
Can you fit 7?
— Dad to an Uber as a joke that was then taken seriously
Friday, November 14, 2014
The collapse of the architectural object into a field of modulated patterns visible at every scale.
— Reinhold Martin, The Organizational Complex: Architecture, Media, and Corporate Space
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Otto, why didn’t you run?
— Doc Watson, “Otto Wood the Bandit”
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Art is for itself but can have effects that produce certain changes.
— Edgar Arceneaux
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Influence assumes power.
— Debora Silverman
Monday, November 10, 2014
The seven sections of the thesis do not obey any rigorous principe of classification, and the similarities between the architectural skins discussed and their natural counterparts are sometimes implied.
— Clara Wong, The Seven Skins of Architecture
Sunday, November 9, 2014
Sardines.
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Saturday, November 8, 2014
You’re fun.
— Older lady at Interstellar
Friday, November 7, 2014
Christmas time is here.
— A Charlie Brown Christmas
Thursday, November 6, 2014
I forgot to ask, what’s your name?
— Reading Room lady
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Corporation that sells empty vessels.
— Martha
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
You should not be ashamed to have large typography.
— Lucia
Monday, November 3, 2014
The song wants to survive.
— Michael Gordin
Sunday, November 2, 2014
Metal?
— Airport Security
Saturday, November 1, 2014
These restaurants bring joy to the world.
— Justin
Friday, October 31, 2014
We don’t want a repeat of all this academic tourism.
— Mario
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Don’t make Mario break out his glow-sticks.
— Justin
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Life’s too short to look straight ahead.
— Jesse
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Maybe I do have a photographic memory I just don’t read enough.
— Jesse
