November 2011
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“You go to your studio and look at the glossy, immaculate surfaces of your...”
– Dan Fox, associate editor of Frieze, in an epic and awesome zeitgeist-nailing (in the sexual way) essay.
Jumping Ship, Great Abyss: Flight AZ704 to... →
abyssjumping:
Flight AZ704 to Istanbul
SOME GENERALIZATIONS that MAY or MAY NOT HOLD TRUE WITH TIME - NOV. 28, 2011
- ALL duty free stores are tacky or gaudy in some decorative or substantive way.
- ALL connecting flights in the Rome-Fiumicino Airport are purposefully located clear across the airport from one another.
- ALL babies scream for the duration of a flight, EXCEPT during ...
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bbredux:
Major post-vacay back-at-work blues
Little Brown Miscellanea: Friday Poem →
littlebrownmushroom:
Friday Poem
Reasons to Survive November by Tony Hoagland
November like a train wreck – as if a locomotive made of cold had hurtled out of Canada and crashed into a million trees, flaming the leaves, setting the woods on fire. The sky is a thick, cold gauze – but there’s a soup special at the Waffle House downtown, and the Jack Parsons show is up at the museum, full of...
“I was a guest at Trinity College Dublin recently, and there was a talk, the...”
– Tom McCarthy: My desktop | Books | guardian.co.uk
(Worth noting here too that the Guardian Review used to run a series called “Writer’s Rooms”, which I analysed back in 2007. The desktop as writer’s room is a near-perfect update.)
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Some Thoughts About Musa Mayer's Night Studio
Musa Mayer is the daughter of painter Philip Guston and poet/painter/mother Musa Guston. Her memoir “Night Studio” is a memoir of Philip Guston, but also a memoir of her own experience with Philip Guston as a person, and having one of the last artists who fulfilled the bad-boy painter, tortured genius, Abstract-Expressionist cliche for a father. The memoir is notable in its split...
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MONEY, CASH, HO'S by David Cho: David Cho-phie's... →
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I just read this thing by Bill, that was very emotionally compelling, or at least compelled me, and then it made me think of what I’ve done in the last six months, and now I’m writing something, which I haven’t done in a while! So here goes! IF ONLY I COULD REMEMBER THE PASSWORD TO MY…
I need to read this later.
Kill Screen: Byzantine architecture of Assassin's... →
killscreendaily:
The Assassin’s Creed: Revelations team managed to recreate an authentic 16th century Constantinople, even though many of the buildings in the game no longer exist.
[A]rt director Raphael Lacoste and mission design director Falko Poiker turned draftsmen. They made a research trip to the…
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LOOK I'M LUCID: I came across Sage Keeler’s work... →
look-im-lucid:
I came across Sage Keeler’s work about a year ago and became an instant fan. She is a multi-media artist and musician living in Santa Barbara, California and recently joined up with the Computers Club Drawing Society where her exquisite geometric drawings have been blowing my…
Interview with Sage Keeler
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Some Thoughts About Joan Didion's Blue Nights
Blue Nights was the first book I read by Joan Didion. I wasn’t totally used to the loping, repetitive writing style until a while into the (super-short) volume, but by the time I got the rhythm, it was nice, if sometimes a little too masturbatory. I had thoughts. I listened to things. I thought about the things again. I thought about listening to things, like my child crying. &etc. I...
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poem beginning with a line by Tricia Lockwood’s...
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The Virgin Mary has appeared to the people of Green Bay.
She is wearing green and yellow Starter jackets
crudely fashioned into robes. She is crying now
for each historical atrocity. You think
that this will probably be going on for a while.
You think the world has never been a nice place
to raise a family, especially when it’s raining
all the time and the sky is dark at 3 o’clock
and...
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