Sunday, September 28, 2014
Barf.
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Saturday, September 27, 2014
Charles was on the board of the Ringling Brothers College and often referred to the circus as an example of what design and art should be: not self-expression but precise discipline.
— Beatriz Colomina, “Enclosed by Images: The Eameses’ Multimedia Architecture”
Friday, September 26, 2014
Now that’s an esophagus!
— Aogaeru, Spirited Away
Thursday, September 25, 2014
The only thing that’s capital-T True is that you get to decide how you’re gonna try to see it.
— David Foster Wallace, “This is Water”
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Audience?
— Martha Friedman
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
You’re as close to one being as you will ever be in your life.
— Lucia Allais
Monday, September 22, 2014
Assuming that would be a big help as opposed to pretending to be scientific.
— Mario Gandelsonas
Sunday, September 21, 2014
Yet year after year, it’s the same routine.
— Jack Skellington, “Jack’s Lament”
Saturday, September 20, 2014
But our chances really was a million to one.
— Bob Dylan, “Bob Dylan’s Dream”
Friday, September 19, 2014
What’s your major?
— Man using urinal
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Isn’t lavender just a smell?
— Bernardo
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
There’s no problem to solve, no problem to invent.
— Martha Friedman
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
It’s one of those swindles with the international date line, you cross an imaginary boundary and you’re in another day.
— Chika Okeke-Agulu
Monday, September 15, 2014
Science is really expensive.
— Michael Gordin
Sunday, September 14, 2014
The way you want it to be.
— Tim’s Dad, About Time
Saturday, September 13, 2014
In using the term “art” as a conceptual category, it seems to me, in many cases we run the risk of displacing local criteria for categorizing and evaluating cultural artifacts.
— Peter Mark, “Is There Such a Thing as African Art?”
Friday, September 12, 2014
Hell sounds like fun.
— Mario Gandelsonas
Thursday, September 11, 2014
What all of these shows grasp at, in one way or another, is that nobody knows how to be a grown-up anymore. Adulthood as we have known it has become conceptually untenable. It isn’t only that patriarchy in the strict, old-school Don Draper sense has fallen apart. It’s that it may never really have existed in the first place, at least in the way its avatars imagined.
— A. O. Scott, “The Death of Adulthood in American Culture,” The New York Times
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
I get excited about 90% of my waking hours each day.
— Michael Gordin
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
It is our ability to judge our own work (with as close to an unbiased eye as possible) which determines the quality of what we make.
— Peter Mendelsund, Cover