Tuesday, September 14, 2021
That duality which is the very mark of art: the tension between the wish to say (explicitness, literalness) and the wish to be silent (truncation, economy, condensation, evocativeness, mystery, exaggeration).
— Susan Sontag, "Posters: Advertisement, Art, Political Artifact, Commodity," The Art of Revolution: 96 Posters from Cuba
Monday, September 13, 2021
The meaning of things can change on a dime.
— Janet*
Sunday, September 12, 2021
America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers.
— Announcer at Sea Dogs Field of Dreams game
Saturday, September 11, 2021
Cider donuts.
— Jonathan
Friday, September 10, 2021
Cooler & Warmer
— Old Rhode Island slogan
Thursday, September 9, 2021
If Gournay wins, a page of Montaigne may also come to look simpler, for it could reduce the desire for the visually disruptive sprinkling of "A," "B," and "C" letters signifying different layers of composition. They would still be of interest, but they were first put in by editors working from the Bordeaux Copy whose motivation was partly to make their hard work fully visible.
— Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Wednesday, September 8, 2021
Isn't that what baseball's all about? Tradition? It's a museum masquerading as a sport.
— Alex Levy, The Morning Show
Tuesday, September 7, 2021
Cover the book in thinly sliced mortadella and walk out.
— David Horvitz, How to Shoplift Books
Monday, September 6, 2021
Echoing the phrase “all press is good press”: any remix is a good remix. To be referenced is to still be culturally relevant. So if you own an NFT describing Arachnid Person, you want to contribute to an environment where as many people want to include Arachnid Person in their works as possible so that Arachnid Man #1 becomes something worth owning.
— Kyle Russell via Casey Newton, "Loot is a Virtual Social Network That Looks LIke Nothing You've Ever Seen," The Verge, sent by Austin
Sunday, September 5, 2021
Describe what we see.
— Lily at The Met
Saturday, September 4, 2021
Combining all his academic interests, Gilhooly developed a "Frog World" composed of hundreds of sculptures that irreverently reimagine human affairs.
— David Gilhooly wall text at MAD
Friday, September 3, 2021
A small selection of fabrics I designed during my years at @vlisco
— @michiel_schuurman
Thursday, September 2, 2021
Thanks to @presentandcorrect for pointing out the amazing collection of envelope security patterns under #地紋自答
— @zakjensen
Wednesday, September 1, 2021
“This is the one time in human history where every single human being across this country, possibly across the planet, but especially in this country, are all going to have an interest in vaccination and vaccines,” he said. “So it’s time for us to educate.”
By “educate,” he meant to spread misinformation about vaccines.
The approach that Mr. Coleman displayed in his nearly 10-minute-long appearance — turning any negative event into a marketing opportunity — is characteristic of anti-vaccine activists. Their versatility and ability to read and assimilate the language and culture of different social groups have been key to their success.
— Tara Haelle, "This Is the Moment the Anti-Vaccine Movement Has Been Waiting For," The New York Times
Tuesday, August 31, 2021
It was unique, yet it slotted neatly into the established marketing genres of classical miscellanies and commonplace books. It had that perfect commercial combination: startling originality and easy classification.
— Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Monday, August 30, 2021
What is striking is that they seized them from the text while ignoring almost everything else—but this is what all readers do, to a greater or lesser extent.
— Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Sunday, August 29, 2021
I can give a dollar to every person on Earth
— Kanye West, "Pure Souls," Donda
Saturday, August 28, 2021
Chocolate fudge.
— Abby
Friday, August 27, 2021
Or of boggling his own mind by contemplating the millions of lives that had been lived through history and the impossibility of knowing the truth about them. "Even if all that has come down to us by report from the past should be true and known by smoeone, it would be less than nothing compared with what is unknown." How puny is the knowledge of even the most curious person, he reflected, and how astounding the world by comparison.
— Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Thursday, August 26, 2021
To go from having the Taliban as an adversary we’re seeking to kill, to relying upon them for security, coordinating to make sure things run smoothly.
— Peter Meijer, "2 U.S. Representatives Try to Explain Unauthorized Visit to Kabul," The New York Times
