September 2010
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I wish I was a little bit taller, I wish I was a...
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“Any time there’s a new development in the medium there are new creative...”
– Bill Viola. So jealous that Amelia got to do this interview.
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At least Lindsay Lohan seems to be getting better... →
See all four. And, okay, feel kinda sorry for her. I’d still watch her in pretty much anything, and I don’t even know where the affection comes from.
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New resolution: I'll stop saying "it is strange...
Observations&/insights aren’t always of oddities; in fact most of them are surprising more in the UM DUH than the OH WOW.
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"Quit being so fucking goal oriented with your... →
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“I know you think I’m crazy, that I’m a schemer and a liar and...”
– Oh, Georgina Sparks. Bless.
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The Big Bang, on at White Rabbit
Originally published in Drum Media, I think last week’s? Anyway go see the show, it’s fantastic.
“I ended up controlling the elevator on Friday,” says Paris Neilson, and if this doesn’t sound like part of a gallery manager’s role, well, someone had to do it. The opening of White Rabbit’s third show, The Big Bang, was to put it politely, nuts. Even with the four...
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“If my eyes would carry with them the execution which the eyes of the basilisk...”
– Her confidante to the eponymous heroine of Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa, in vol. II, on the topic of the horrid Mr Solmes being as ill-intentioned as he is I’ll-favoured.
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These people (described in a Marketplace article...
TOM: Amazingly, we do between 30-40 percent of our business on the Internet. We don’t meet them. We don’t even necessarily speak to them on the phone. It’s all through e-mails.
TYLER: People are spending upwards of tens of thousands of dollars on stuff that they’ve never actually seen or touched?
TOM: Hundreds of thousands of dollars per piece on things they’ve never seen or touched.
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So You Need A Typeface? An incredible flowchart... →
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Artprice overview of auction performance in... →
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“This relation may serve, therefore, to let the ladies see that the advantage is...”
– So you see, it was really ‘Moll Flanders’ that introduced ‘The Rules,’ in 1683 no less. And man is it ever still a great book.
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"It's art that grabs you and that makes you want... →
Rima talks about The Big Bang at White Rabbit over at Concrete Playground.
I did an interview with the director there which should be out by now… must get ‘round to uploading these things more often. WATCH THIS SPACE.
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Consider the Archive: an evening with David Foster... →
An archive of DFW’s papers at the University of Texas, Austin gets opened to the public on Tuesday 14th and is celebrated with a bunch of readings, which will be webcast. Yep, that’s tomorrow. And that? That’s just the sound of every dude who knows what an MFA is shifting his grip from ‘the Franzen’ to a nice backhand. Love all, indeed.
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“My unconscious feels like a constipated dragon.”
– Egon Schiele in Snoo Wilson’s play about him, “Reclining Nude With Black Stockings.”
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Spring 1956: To JOHN BUTTON
Dear John,
I don’t know why I have to tell you this today (but I do) — perhaps it’s because when I look out into the fog all I can see is the hairs of your adorable chest. I’m terribly in love with you, and have been for such a long time, ever since the first time Frank took me to your apartment. I looked around at your beautiful paintings and suddenly everything I’d...
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Famous Pipe Smokers →
I guess I just have a thing about really literal internet. “Fuck having a clever name!” exclaims blogger Joseph Cruse Johnson. “I will name my online collection of famous people who smoke pipes according to what it is.” And he did.
The wallpaper is pretty tasteful, too.
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"Electropop meets Southern hip-hop/Indeterminate... →
Hipster-bashing is the new cultural sensitivity.
