December 2010
22 posts
DC Soundtrack
Why are there so few songs about DC? These are the only ones I have:
The Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone Tonight: D.C. sleeps alone tonight.
Robin Thicke – My Life: I met this pretty girl/ She was from DC/ I liked the way that she smiled
The Magnetic Fields - Washington DC: Washington, D.C.!/ It fits me to a T
Chuck Klosterman’s “23 Questions I Ask Everybody I...
1. Let us assume you met a rudimentary magician. Let us assume he can do five simple tricks—he can pull a rabbit out of his hat, he can make a coin disappear, he can turn the ace of spades into the Joker card, and two others in a similar vein. These are his only tricks and he can’t learn any more; he can only do these five. HOWEVER, it turns out he’s doing these five tricks...
Bokononism →
Every since reading Cat’s Cradle I’ve been wanted to try boko-maru with the boy who kisses me while I watch the Redskins lose another game
Sadness and Writing
“Writing is one of the top 10 professions in which people are most likely to suffer from depression, with men particularly at risk from the illness, according to US website health.com.”
Surprise! The positive correlation between writing and depression is at last confirmed by the debatable source of health knowledge Health.com.
Novelist Simon Brett tells Gaurdian.co.uk:
“You...
“Thanne were such proclamacions made‥bi suggestion & informacion of suche...”
– Information, n., now runs 9,400 words, the length of a novella. It is a sort of masterpiece—an adventure in cultural history.
The Information Palace by James Gleick
Where is my Mind?
Are our minds actually composed of interactions between body, brain and our surroundings? The concept of mind has long been limited to the organ within our skull where all sorts of neurological thought activity lights up different bits and pieces of blood flow…
“At the very least, minds like ours are the products not of neural processing alone but of the complex and iterated...
“Susan Philipsz, who was awarded the 2010 prize earlier this week, is the first...”
– Sound as Art - Susan Philipsz’s Turner Prize-Winning Work - NYTimes.com
“The great So What of the soul speaks within me and urges me to accept”
– Five Best: Fiction About Failure - WSJ.com
Gesture
On this table are a variety of things. Your task is to create your own drawing tool out of some of these materials—think about how to attach things to other things. An existing drawing tool, such as a pencil or piece of charcoal, should be a part of your new tool.
MoMA | Educator Journal: In the Making—On the Line
