Wednesday, September 11, 2024
Photos of normal life in the foreground and 9/11 unfolding in the background
— @welcome.jpeg
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
And attempting to take X-ray images without an X-ray machine by using the natural showers of radiation that stream through outer space.
— Kenneth Chang, "Polaris Dawn Astronauts Launch on Ambitious Private Mission," The New York Times
Monday, September 9, 2024
I was 32 when I started teaching at Barstow.
— Mr. Luce
Sunday, September 8, 2024
Cross the wide Missourah
— The Men of The Robert Shaw Chorale, "Shenandoah"
Saturday, September 7, 2024
Field of human-sized corn sculptures
— @amandahuynh
Friday, September 6, 2024
I think the piece that is very hard for us to comprehend is what motivated them culturally. ... I think the motivational part's the harder one to solve. If you can figure out the motivation, you'll figure out a way to organize the whole society. And if you can get the whole society working on it, you can probably do it.
— Peter Thiel on the pyramids, "#2190 - Peter Thiel, The Joe Rogan Experience"
Thursday, September 5, 2024
a book about kissing
— @claire_hungerford caption on images of book with two spines whose pages have silhouettes of animals whose faces meet in the middle so they each kiss each other
Wednesday, September 4, 2024
Eventually every photograph is a photograph of a dead person. The camera is an idling hearse.
— @patrick_pound
Tuesday, September 3, 2024
I do try to make three physical things every 15 days. So even when I'm not sure how it all ties together, I just try to make my three objects. Having this little goal keeps me in search of new physical forms, and helps my drawings not just be .pngs on my hard drive.
— Somnath Bhatt via @thecreativeindependent
Monday, September 2, 2024
Truman talked to him on the telephone shortly before he died in March 1963, "He knew he was dying, and he said one of the most marvelous things l ever remember anybody saying. 'Never mind. At least I've grown up at last.' I knew exactly what he meant. Like most of us, all of his life he had been the victim of adolescent impulses. Contending with something formidable, he knew what it was to be an adult."
— Gerald Clarke, Capote
Sunday, September 1, 2024
It’s literally showing up to a restaurant with Ritz crackers.
— Lily on Wally sucking on his hand during breastfeeding
Saturday, August 31, 2024
A book is a major investment for a serious writer, and the wrong choice of a theme or plot, particularly at the beginning, not only wastes his time and dampens his enthusiasm, but also casts a blight on his still tender reputation.
— Gerald Clarke, Capote
Friday, August 30, 2024
He planned to become the grand old man of American letters, the American Somerset Maugham. He wanted to write popular books, make lots of money, and have a house on the Riviera, just as Maugham did. He always used to say, 'Longevity's the answer. If you live long enough, everything will turn your way.'
— Truman Capote on Gore Vidal via Gerald Clarke, Capote
Thursday, August 29, 2024
Right now, everything is in play. But by and large, criticism doesn't exist. Right now criticism is temporarily suspended.
— @jerrysaltz
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
And while I can think, while I can talk
While I can stand, while I can walk
While I can stand, while I can walk
— Elvis Presley, "If I Can Dream - Live from the '68 Comeback Special," Elvis Presley The 50 Greatest Hits
Tuesday, August 27, 2024
Dear universe.
I would love to become a full-time professor at an institution.
I would love to become a full-time professor at an institution.
— Begining of a note Laurel Schwulst posted on Instagram stories
Monday, August 26, 2024
One of the perils of being associated (by others) with a movement—in this case the so-called Pictures Generation—is that work itself becomes the illustration of a putative thesis and thus loses its particularity. Individual pieces don’t need to be looked at because their concept precedes and dominates them. Rough edges get lopped off or ignored, weirdness gets normalized, and obsessions subordinated to a larger program. What a cruel fate: art historical mummification while still alive. And yet, let’s be candid, aren’t there many artists repeating themselves? This is especially true in photography, where a strategy can be mistaken for a point of view. Do we really need to see what comes next? I can’t help thinking of Titorelli’s paintings in Kafka’s The Trial, a single image is repeated over and over. If you have seen one you have seen them all.
— Lyle Rexer, "James Casebere: Seeds of Time," The Brooklyn Rail
Sunday, August 25, 2024
Mr. Vance said he is “not a big Latin Mass guy,” though he really liked the stability of a church that was “just really old,” standing against the flux of the modern world.
— Elizabeth Dias, "How JD Vance Found His Way to the Catholic Church," The New York Times
Saturday, August 24, 2024
Reminds me of me.
— Lily after saying "well well well, you always get your way" to Wally
Friday, August 23, 2024
Train I ride, 16 coaches long
Train I ride, 16 coaches long
Train I ride, 16 coaches long
— Elvis Presley, "Mystery Train"