November 2009
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Best Books →
Roger Lewis’s Seasonal Suicide Notes, is the funniest and most scathingly brilliant book I’ve read in a really long time. Despite it’s unfortunate cover (designed to sell during the holiday, I suppose) a marooned intellectual/artist, recounts his disappointments with a hilarious bile fueled vigor seldom seen in a book today. Voracious, smart, rabid skewering of all that is false and...
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“The only thing that consoles us for our miseries is diversion, and yet it is the...”
– Pascal.
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“A glitch is a singular dysfunctional event that allows insight beyond the...”
– Goriunova, Olga, and Alexei Shulgin. “Glitch.” Software Studies: A Lexicon. Ed. Fuller, Matthew. Leonardo. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2008. 110-19. Via the Eyebeam Reblog.
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Chaplin or Keaton →
Richard Brody explain why, when a gun is poised to his head, and asked to choose between Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton, he wisely picks Chaplin, here’s why; “D. W. Griffith may have made the cinema represent the world and the inner life, but Chaplin made people think it represented their own inner lives. He invented the personal cinema, the notion that the director filmed not...
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Vincent Van Gogh: The Complete Letters →
“Michelangelo wrote some wonderful sonnets; Constable’s correspondence has a fascinating tough-tenderness; most visualisers have, with varying degrees of success, tried to match words to their images. But Van Gogh’s letters are the best written by any artist. Engrossing, moving, energetic and compelling, they dramatise individual genius while illuminating the creative process in...
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POP! →
A new stage musical about Andy Warhol titled “Pop!” opens this week at Yale Repertory.
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WatchAs One by Makoto Yabuki
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UrbanEye: The City Is A Stage →
Melena Ryzik reports from the 2009 Performa Biennial, a Performance Art festival that inhabits New York City for three weeks. NYT video library.
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Mobile Photography and The iPhone →
Bringing Big Smiles to iPhone Shutterbugs - Creative control and functionality combined with roughly 2,000 camera apps that are either free or under $2.99 make for an interesting and powerful too. The NYT’s run down of some of those apps, edit features and filters.
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The War For the Web →
“It could be that everyone will figure out how to play nicely with each other, and we’ll see a continuation of the interoperable web model we’ve enjoyed for the past two decades. But I’m betting that things are going to get ugly. We’re heading into a war for control of the web. And in the end, it’s more than that, it’s a war against the web as an...
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Digitizing Artifacts →
Google is putting thousands of images of ancient artufacts at Iraq’s National Museum online, the museum houses one of the finest Mesopotamian collections in the world.
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On Francis Bacon →
Art historian John Richardson talks about Franacis Bacon’s legacy in an upcoming edition of The New York Review of Books (cannot wait to read some Bacon bits). According to The Guardian’s “Sado-Masochism and Stolen Shoe Polish”, “Richardson also refers to Bacon’s early adventures as a rent boy; his shoplifting, using his elderly nanny as an accomplice; and the...
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“We’re the future and the past, we’re the only way you’re gonna last. We’re just...”
– Sparks, Tryouts For The Human Race
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