i hiked ten Adirondacks High Peaks yesterday and took a selfie on top of each one. here’s a flickr set!
June 2013
4 posts
“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.”
— Brian Eno, A Year With Swollen Appendices (via volumexii)
May 2013
11 posts
“There is something about holding-in and release that seems essential to all processes of composition; it may be related to gathering strength, or tensing before some explosive physical act. I think much creativity is dispersed before a creative product is achieved because of talk, tweet, constant expression. It is as though there are a few holes in your lungs; you prepare to leap across some span and take a deep breath, but before you feel the fullness of it as it saturates your blood, you are leaking it out; you cannot even finish a breath without losing some, and so no breath is satisfying, and you are always slightly winded, as though you have emphysema. Incessant self-expression, the constant evacuation of the mind onto the cutting room floor that is the unstructured Internet of social networks, leaves you creatively a bit weakened, pale.”
—Millsin’ About
April 2013
14 posts
NPR pulled no punches this morning in this takedown of beltway commentators:
I have a huge problem with— some of them are good at their job, and I’ve been looking at— there are people who have done studies, you know, who are the good prognosticators, and some of them are pretty good, but a lot of them are terrible and there is no accountability. No one ever goes back and says “oh remember how certain you were?”
haha just kidding, that was Mike Pesca talking about the NFL draft
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