January 2012
32 posts
“I guess to make a box that’s a joy to open, you have to open a lot of boxes....”
– We used to build cathedrals, now we open boxes.
Apple Packing Is So Good Because They Employ A Dedicated Box Opener | Gizmodo UK
“How do you kill the movie and TV industries? Or more precisely (since at this...”
– YCRFS 9: Kill Hollywood
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Rick Ross smelling Yankee Candles at a Cracker Barrel
“Works of art are just ways to pay attention to different things, and to...”
– The Believer - Interview with Laurie Anderson
“So you may be like, “Um, I’m an artist of the minimalist school, and so I go to...”
– The Believer - Interview with Laurie Anderson
“Criticism is doubt informed by curiosity and a deep knowledge of a discipline...”
– On Criticism, Cynicism & Sharpening Your Gut Instinct :: Tips :: The 99 Percent
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“1 trillion – The number of video playbacks on YouTube.
140 – The number of...”
– Internet 2011 in numbers | Royal Pingdom
“By observing how popular the same song became in different worlds, we could...”
– The Myth of Common Sense: Why The Social World Is Less Obvious Than It Seems « Freakonomics
“What liberals have never understood about Obama is that he practices a...”
– Andrew Sullivan: How Obama’s Long Game Will Outsmart His Critics - The Daily Beast
Here’s what I like about this guy. Long game.
“There is, we recognize, a historical danger here. Someday, the record of this...”
– Will Brand
Hirsts Spotted at Gagosian
“Authenticity is a paltry standard by which to appraise an idea or a work of art...”
– Leon Wieseltier, Against Identity (via austinkleon)
“The problem, though, is that while I can appreciate YouTube videos on the basis...”
– The Uncanny Valley of “Electrocuted Squirrel”
“It’s too often assumed that if you want to talk about architecture, then...”
– Geoff Manaugh, BLDG BLOG Book
MythBuster Adam Savage: SOPA Could Destroy the... →
wilwheaton:
Right now Congress is considering two bills—the Protect IP Act, and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)—that would be laughable if they weren’t in fact real. Honestly, if a friend wrote these into a piece of fiction about government oversight gone amok, I’d have to tell them that they were too one-dimensional, too obviously anticonstitutional.
Make no mistake: These bills aren’t...
December 2011
21 posts
“Gaming (like, say, tweeting) doesn’t have the same distance between medium and...”
– Rhizome | Big Reality
“I can only say that those who choose to argue in prose, even if it is very good...”
– Peter Hitchens (Christopher Hitchens’s brother)
Zondervan Blog: Quitting the Ghastly Circus: Reflections on the Late Christopher Hitchens, His Brother Peter’s Memoir, and Religious Rage
“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click...”
– This Tech Bubble Is Different - BusinessWeek
“Our aesthetic judgements are really complicated. While Rembrandt was an...”
– How Does the Brain Perceive Art? | Wired Science | Wired.com
“Here’s a thought experiment: Everyone over age 12 when YouTube launched in...”
– No Copyright Intended - Waxy.org
“Based on these observations and interviews with the zookeepers, Osvath thinks...”
– Chimpanzee collects ammo for “premeditated” tourist-stoning : Not Exactly Rocket Science
“I am not going to light my hair on fire. I am not going to sign those silly...”
– Jon Huntsman (via theatlantic)
Can you imagine a presidential campaign where two adults have a serious debates about real things? Me neither.
Why Is Art So Damned Expensive? →
The uselessness of art makes any spending on it especially potent: buying a yacht is a tiny bit like buying a rowboat, and so retains a taint of practicality, but buying a great Picasso is like no other spending. Olav Velthuis, a Dutch sociologist who wrote Talking Prices, the best study of what art spending means, compares the top of the art market to the potlatches performed by the American...
