Tuesday, September 24, 2024
I had imagined that I would write the words that would shatter nerves, honoring Rimbaud and proving everyone's faith in me, but I didn't.
— Patti Smith, Just Kids
Monday, September 23, 2024
These photographers are witness to a story moving too fast to fully digest and are terrified that pretty soon it will all be over. Taking pictures is an act of desperation.
— @emily_elise on parents and sports fans
Sunday, September 22, 2024
I felt disconnected from all that was outside the world that Robert and I had created between us. In my low periods, I wondered what was the point of creating art. For whom? Are we animating God? Are we talking to ourselves? And what was the ultimate goal? To have one's work caged in art's great zoos— the Modern, the Met, the Louvre? I craved honesty, yet found dishonesty in myself. Why commit to art? For self-realization, or for itself? It seemed indulgent to add to the glut unless one offered illumination.
— Patti Smith, Just Kids
Saturday, September 21, 2024
The two faced a painful task: cutting 350,000 words — a third of the manuscript— to reach the upper limit of what a book's binding could hold together.
— Wall text, "Robert Caro's The Power Broker at 50," The New-York Historical Society
Friday, September 20, 2024
Through this visual dialog my youthful memories became his.
— Patti Smith, Just Kids
Thursday, September 19, 2024
Explosives detonating on people in the middle of urban spaces, homes, groceries, hospitals, schools
— @jewishvoiceforpeace via @everyverything
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
the gull yettin is an essential read for you
— George Olsen, special edition of "Two Dollars"
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
But there is, of course, the drama of thousands of things. It can be nightmarish, or it can be a wonderful feeling of abundance, and it can go back and forth. And there's a lot of emotionality when you see thousands of things.
— Allan McCollum, "Allan McCollum in "Systems" - Season 5 - "Art in the Twenty-First Century" | Art21"
Monday, September 16, 2024
For the eyes and camera of
— George Olsen, special edition of "Two Dollars"
Sunday, September 15, 2024
So if you say, “I want to write a book about the 19th century,” there is more material available for almost any topic you want to pick than you could possibly go through in your lifetime. If you say, “I want to write a book about the Roman world,” this is a very different thing. In my office, I have a bookshelf that’s, I don’t know, eight feet high, 10 feet wide, and it contains pretty much all the main surviving Greek and Roman literary texts.
— Gregory Aldrete, "Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire – Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome | Lex Fridman Podcast #443"
Saturday, September 14, 2024
His truth is marching on
— Elvis Presley, "An American Trilogy," Elvis Presley The 50 Greatest Hits
Friday, September 13, 2024
Sometimes
your nose
will make you sad.
Sometimes
your nose
will make you mad.
your nose
will make you sad.
Sometimes
your nose
will make you mad.
— Al Perkins, The Nose Book illustrated by Ray McKie
Thursday, September 12, 2024
My initial conception of the books was to have them be printed in two different heights, alternating, so when lined up on a shelf they would be crenellated, like a castle; like Kafka's Castle. A place that one approaches, but never truly arrives at. When I used to design, I always tried to find ways to justify the use of any medium or surface I had to design to. I never really loved just slapping a design on a surface.
— @petermendelsund
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