she asked ‘you are in love what does love look like’ to which i replied ‘like everything i’ve ever lost come back to me.’ From Salt, Nayyirah Waheed.
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TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY
I would renounce, therefore, the attempt to create heaven on earth, and focus instead on reducing the hell. Alan Borovoy, 1932 — 2015. RIP.
TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY NINE
My older brother told me a story today about how a local a roller derby closed in the early 1990s. My grandfather (somehow) got all the old skates, and gave away almost fifty pairs of them to kids in the neighborhood. The story goes that every kid in NDG wore roller skates with derby team numbers stencilledContinue reading “TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY NINE”
TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY EIGHT
From Jason Thielke via Beautiful/Decay.
TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY SEVEN
Crumbs, “Ethiopia’s first post-apocalyptic sci-fi film,” looks magical.
TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY SIX
Flashbacks via Les grands moments du mouvement étudiant. Re: meetings are the opposite of doing things.
TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY FIVE
Gets me every time. XKCD.
TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY FOUR
TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY THREE
“Paradoxically, the better a metaphor is, the worse this kind of problem threatens to become … a good metaphor may be so compelling that it altogether subverts its referent’s original meaning. No longer recognized as a metaphor, it redefines truth on its own limited terms.” From Bernard J. Hibbitts, “Making Sense of Metaphors, Visuality, AuralityContinue reading “TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY THREE”
TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY TWO
From a collection of early cyanotypes of algae by Anna Atkins.
TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY ONE
Adam Basanta, the sound of empty space (via wemakemoneynotart). “…[at] the Galerie B-312 where composer and sound artist Adam Basanta has installed a series of works that play with self-generating microphone feedback. Each of the 3 works in the gallery examines, in its own witty and transparent way, the idea of sound as a mutableContinue reading “TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY ONE”
TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY
Don’t Believe Me? Just (Apple) WATCH! from rstevens (full comic here).
TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY NINE
D’aww my heart. Girl scouts doing science.
TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY EIGHT
Herta Müller in The Paris Review: INTERVIEWER Did you sing when you were alone like that? MÜLLER Little songs we learned in kindergarten, things like “Ein Männlein steht im Walde.” But I also talked to myself a lot, and with the plants. I was convinced I could speak with everything. INTERVIEWER Did you talk toContinue reading “TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY EIGHT”
TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY SEVEN
Simon Stålenhag‘s art just blows me away: doing this kind of sci-fi driven artwork with traditional media feels so lush and cinematic.
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