June 2012
“Communication design focuses on delivering messages, and it encompasses most...”
– MoMA’s Paola Antonelli defines the four key sub-disciplines of design in Talk to Me: Design and the Communication Between People and Objects (via explore-blog)
“Perception is grounded in experience. We never see information, we only see what...”
– Neuroscientist and artist Beau Lotto at TEDGlobal 2012. Lotto is the author of Why We See What We Do Redux: A Wholly Empirical Theory of Vision. (via explore-blog)
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“We are living in a time of unprecedented visuality,” says Martin Hand, a...”
– Photo-overload: Everyone’s taking pics, but is anyone really looking? - The Globe and Mail (via photographsonthebrain)
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philiprodriquez:
Brea Souders, Under my Thumb (Heat)
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“the writing of our day has freed itself from the necessity of ‘expression’…the confines of interiority”
“writing is primarily concerned with creating an opening where the writing subject endlessly disappears”
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“when I sat down to translate…I was disappointed to find that the words my dictionary suggested for replacement seemed to begin with just about any letter. I began to have doubts as to the very fundaments of the profession of translation. I mean, how can we imagine how to translate anything, when we cannot even get the letters right?”
“I’m all for inverting the...
“the resistance of the individual poem to the larger cultural field of capitalist commodification where language has become merely instrumental.”
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it makes some vague twisted sense that being embarrassed is one of the most embarrassing things.
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An Interview with Marshall McLuhan →
theatlantic:
tetw:
from Playboy
Perhaps because the Q. and A. format serves to pin him down by counteracting his habit of mercurially changing the subject in mid-stream of consciousness, this interview has considerably more lucidity and clarity than McLuhan’s readers are accustomed to…
Reblogged for photo alone, but the interview is fascinating as well.
PLAYBOY: Why should it be the...
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when i realized i could never be a real writer, i settled for being an artist and occasional “poet”
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i want to do a serious website redesign but i have...
(what is my art?)
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“In certain settings the act of looking feels a little more contrived,”
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“I don’t always know what I’m looking at until I see it in the context of the rest of things I’ve seen.”
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Jesse Hlebo Is The Busiest Man In New York |... →
“there is a similarity in the relationship to freedom that Napster and jazz share with one another: ‘Freedom with responsibility.’ I really like this phrase a lot. I heard it in a Bill Evans interview when he was asked to explain jazz, and it’s a mode that applies to all aspects of my life. Operating in a reactive rather than calculated way is much more my forte. I think its such a beautiful...
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“You know, Murphy’s Law, dude. That guy Murphy and I are not friends.”
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Undone
Undoing, Unseeing, Unthinking, Unfeeling
Do such concepts of exist in anything other than the abstract? Or in a world where time travel to the past is even possible (and Stephen Hawking says it probably isn’t). Volitional forgetting is not a thing, either. But even if it was, that’s different than making something Un-done.
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