April 2011
1 post
““Aim well, shoot fast, and scram.”
—Henri Cartier-Bresson.
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January 2011
1 post
“True simplicity comes not from imitation, but from understanding. Certain...”
– Jonathan Harris, “World Building In A Crazy World”
November 2010
3 posts
“Each step requires asking “What’s really important?” That’s the most important...”
– Jason Fried, “The Class I’d Like To Teach”
“Got a working illusion
In the palm of your hand
Why in the world would you...”
– Lloyd Cole, “Why In The World?”
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
September 2010
1 post
“The sun shines high above
The sounds of laughter
The birds swoop down upon...”
– David Sylvian
“September”
August 2010
1 post
“Sometimes it seems
as if I just paint one painting,
from a white canvas ...”
– Richard Pousette-Dart, describing his white paintings
July 2010
1 post
“I’ve been chasing ghosts and I don’t like it
I wish someone would...”
– John Cale
“Dying On The Vine”
June 2010
1 post
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April 2010
6 posts
“I need you Deck. I need the old Blade Runner. I need your magic.”
– Captain Bryant in Blade Runner
“Namely, why is it we are still stuck with WIMP, or more specifically real world...”
– David Bailey
“Who, in his right mind, expects Steve Jobs to let Adobe (and other)...”
– Jean-Louise Gassee
“You know how you see a show car, and it’s really cool, and then four years...”
– Steve Jobs
“Placelessness is a huge problem. With a paper magazine, newspaper, or book, you...”
– John Gruber
March 2010
2 posts
“I’ve lived past the age of malice, though I still dwell in the valley of...”
– Robyn Hitchcock
February 2010
6 posts
Tilda On Conan
On Conan O’Brien’s final Tonight Show, he earned one of his biggest laughs when he said that if HBO decided to make a movie about the recent late-night fiasco, he’d “like to be played by Academy Award-winner Tilda Swinton.” I just finished interviewing Swinton at Sundance to promote her new film I Am Love, and I decided (without any authorization from HBO whatsoever) to make her a formal offer for...
“These people have better things to do with their days than tweaking out the...”
– funkatron.com : We’re the Stupid Ones: Facebook, Google, and Our Failure as Developers
“Arrrrgghhh…. not another rebooted superhero movie! I mean, these guys are...”
– Anekanta comment
Dark Knight’s Nolan To Reboot Superman?
“And as Amazon found in its first Kindle pilot projects at universities,...”
– John Murrell, www.siliconvalley.com
“The thing to judge in any jazz artist is does the man project, and does he have...”
– Miles Davis
January 2010
7 posts
“It’s got to be so annoying to compete with Apple, at anything really, because...”
– Tycho on competing with Apple (from Penny Arcade)
The Sound of Prose …
This is part of a...
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”
– Lao Tzu
“Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People...”
– Steve Jobs
“Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn’t. It simply files...”
– John Irving
“Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky,...”
– Emerson, quoted by John Dewey in Art as Experience
“Today, we know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
– Oscar Wilde
December 2009
1 post
“One of the things that I love about writing novels is that it really...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
November 2009
3 posts
“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then He is not omnipotent. Is He...”
– Epicurus
“I Used To Say I Love You
I used to say I love you
It wasn’t really true...”
– Robyn Hitchcock
““Nostalgia - it’s delicate, but potent. Teddy told me that in Greek,...”
March 2009
4 posts
“In the second issue of Location [Donald Barthelme} took part in a debate about...”
– Book Review - ‘Hiding Man - A Biography of Donald Barthelme,’ by Tracy Daugherty - Review - NYTimes.com
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““Banville is obsessed by sentences. Flaubert’s mother said about her son that he...”
– John Banville differentiating his work from his crime novels as Benjamin Black in The Elegant Variation
“Civilisation’s greatest single invention is the sentence. In it, we can...”
– John Banville
Writing for a living: a joy or a chore? | The Guardian
“Sometimes I get an idea for cinema. And when you get an idea that you fall in...”
– David Lynch on writing a script.
Gaby Wood interviews David Lynch | Film | The Observer
February 2009
6 posts
3 tags
“Every actor needs an audience
Every action is a performance
It all takes...”
– —Pet Shop Boys, “Flamboyant”
The oddly prescient wisdom of Neil Tennant for the Age of Twitter.
The Ten Design Commandments of Dieter Rams →
If you want to know who was an inspiration for Apple’s Jon Ive, look no further
“American critics complain that his characters are crash-test dummies; that his...”
– Mark Dery on JG Ballard
Shovelware
2 tags
The Rules of Gunfighting →
David E Petzal’s 29 very funny (and appalling) rules for winning a gunfight. Look for a Tarantino film version momentarily …
Apple Tablet Likely Described in Patent →
Based on my experience with iPhone, I’d buy this in a heartbeat.
3 tags
“HOLD THE COPROPHAGIA
They’d run with that tallness, employing a white,...”
– William Gibson
Excerpt From His Novel-In-Progress
26 Years, 85 Notebooks →
Michael Bierut on the efficiency, joys and obsession of notebooks.
January 2009
20 posts
“I discovered science fiction magazines in this Greyhound station. Or rather, in...”
– William Gibson
“While ago, I gave some start-up advice to a would-be blogger. Unsure of how to...”
– Jay Rosen Twitter / jay rosen
4 tags
Carr’s “iTunes for news” already exists →
Scott Rosenberg’s take on why newspapers say they can’t make money online.
The City Where the Sirens Never Sleep →
A fearless, unrelenting look at Detroit in its death throes.