January 2011
24 posts
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WatchI’m learning to love Sunday afternoons. Taking a mini-break from catching up on some reading, and I heartily recommend that you listen to some Orakel. That is all.
“Writing about Hollywood is like being a reporter at Disneyland. At first, you...”
– Former NEWSWEEK film writer Sean Smith, on his decision to quit journalism and join the Peace Corps. (Ouch.)
Me: There’s a poem in here somewhere, damnit. On your marks…
“But I don’t know that it would be possible to write any poem—a highly...”
– How a Poem Happens: Marilyn Hacker
WatchThe Making of TIONG BAHRU (by Chay Yan Productions)
Clearing out the inbox - got an invite from a former contact at the British Council to a screening of this next Monday. Tickles my “community documentary” bone, and I’m looking forward to seeing what they managed to come up with…
“Every time we postpone some necessary event—whether we put off doing the dishes...”
– Time and the Art of Living / from a working library
You know how, sometimes, it seems you find things exactly when you need to find them?
“…for me, part of being an artist is understanding that at some point,...”
– A Photo Editor - Phil Toledano Interview
WatchMaintaining a theme from something I posted earlier in the week about the death (and resilience) of old media formats, this video about the dying art of the photographic darkroom comes from the Guardian. You’d better believe I’m heading down to Riflemaker sometime soon.
“The thing with printmaking is that it’s about feeling the pictures. It’s not good enough just to...
“This, I believe, is why a book feels permanent, even though enough libraries...”
– Forever / from a working library
Vinyl, anyone? I spent my late teens and early twenties nurturing a modest collection of Hip-Hop, Nu-Jazz and obscure electronica, a collection which now resides in my loft. We all know the story of the floppy disk - my mother still has a few 5” disks around...
“The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor. It is the one thing...”
– From Aristotle’s De Poetica. via Lapidarium (via viafrank)
“Make notes—I’ve lost more material than I’ve ever written. Contrary to popular...”
– Judith Guest via (Home)
“The problem with clichés is not that they contain false ideas, but rather that...”
– Clichés (via Instapaper)
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“I have to keep reminding myself of this fact (pertaining to anything I may...”
– obia, the 3rd: It’s perfectly possible. Just bloody difficult.
From the Toyin Odutola’s keyboard to my ears.
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“Being an artist, I feel that art comes from the inexplicable urge to manifest a...”
– On Meaningful Observation § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
“You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a...”
– Paulo Coelho (via imageinfomood)
“Art is fundamentally a survival device of the species. Otherwise it wouldn’t be...”
– Milton Glaser: first graphic designer to win the National Medal of Arts. (via brokeasdope)
“Look back in memory and consider when you ever had a fixed plan, how few days...”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca: On the Shortness of Life
Wherein Seneca extolls the virtues of a life devoted to philosophy. More cheery thoughts for the new year…
“Fundamentally I teach because it makes me feel good. It helped me certainly...”
– swissmiss | Milton Glaser on teaching
Amen to that.
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“The rise of the Lifestyle Blog doesn’t mean that other blogs will...”
– 2011: The Rise of a New Breed of Blogger : Lifestyle :: American Express OPEN Forum
I’m not sure about the term “Lifestyle Blogger”, and I don’t know how “new” that particular species of blogger actually is, but the article got me thinking (again) about what...
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“Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing...”
– Calvin Coolidge
Ah. it’s an oft-cited quote, but particularly good at this time of year. Stick it in your New Year’s pipe and smoke it…
(Maybe I should have scheduled this post for the 1st of February, by which time most resolution-setters will be feeling the strain and slipping...
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“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t...”
– Gilda Radner | submitted by withoutyouimnothing (via quote-book)