The Eternal Moonwalk
Friday, September 4th, 2009One more silly-but-wicked pop culture thing for your synapses.
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Mad Decent
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
The Infinity Bookcase
Sunday, November 16th, 2008Anything involving books always make me drool. (Thanks a lot Allison.) This is courtesy the website Book Patrol, and the creator is Dutch conceptual artist Job Koelewijn. The shape of the bookcase is a lemniscate—a figure 8 and the mathematical symbol of infinity—which is so perfectly combined with the notion of the infinite potential and lasting power of books, words (and even more classically, the Word).
All the Presidents
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
David Attenborough & the Lyrebird
Monday, October 13th, 2008Here’s a little late night fun where nature imitates technology. A friend of mine just sent me this link where the Lyrebird… well, you’ll just have to watch.
Godzilla vs. Iran
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008Errol Morris, a documentary filmmaker based in Connecticut, has just written a blog post on the New York Times website entitled Photography as a Weapon. In the post, he interviews Hany Farid, a Dartmouth professor and an expert on digital photography and together they raise age-old (or at least Industrial Age-old) questions about truth and veracity when it comes to photographs and our vision. It’s well worth the read.
The Olympic Spirit
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008With the Olympics about to begin and everyone discussing the myriad issues surrounding the event, the site, the Chinese government preparations, and the dwindling paper stock available in mainland China at the moment, I thought it appropriate to post an entry about it myself. The other day, the most recent copy of Orion magazine landed on our desk and in it was a review of the new Mark Klett: Saguaros book, published by Radius Books. That alone was exciting. But flipping through the magazine I came across a fantastic little essay by that itinerant essayist Rebecca Solnit. Solnit, as many of you may or may not know, is a writer of national and international acclaim. She has written about photography, the history of photography, the history of photographic technology and the West, as well as many essays about land use, time, the American West, social politics, and the joys of walking (to name just a few off the top of my head). I always thoroughly enjoy coming across her ruminations in all sorts of magazines. This was no different.
The essay is entitled Looking Away From Beauty and is published in the July/August 2008 issue of Orion magazine (click here to subscribe).
Words Without Pictures (Aperture, 2010)
Short Track, by Jake Mendel
Bird Watching, by Paula McCartney