What’s the most resilient parasite? An Idea. A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules. Which is why I have to steal it.
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Archive for July, 2010|Monthly archive page
Careful
In west on 07/22/2010 at 2:39 pm
The Library of Congress recently announced that it will be acquiring — and permanently storing — the entire archive of public Twitter posts since 2006.
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Bill Murray, on if he’s an LA-guy:
In west on 07/21/2010 at 1:55 pmNo, no, no. Never. It just never took. It’s like the first day you check into a hotel in L.A. there’s a message under your door. The second day, there’s eleven messages under your door. The third day, there’s thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy messages. And I realized that they just want fresh blood. They. Just. Want. Fresh. Blood. You gotta get the hell out of there. And you really feel, if you live in New York, that you’re three hours ahead of them—I mean that literally. It’s like, Oh man, we gotta help these people! And the longer you stay there, the less ahead of them you get, and then you’re one of them. No way, man. Not for me.
Awesome interview in GQ here!
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in my minds eye
In east on 07/19/2010 at 8:21 pm
ABOVE & BELOW: Joanna Kopczyk
The darker disk on the left is a acetate transfer to a lithographic stone of a black and white printout of a mass grave of the victims of the earthquake in Haiti that took place in January this year. The disk on the right is an abstracted ideal of the surface of Jupiter (a gas giant), as I tend to imagine it, which was drawn directly onto the stone. Somewhere in the back of my head were all those images of individuals, particularly Anna Wintour and the Olsen twins, wearing large circular sunglasses in dark rooms in the middle of winter. I always wonder what goes through the head of such a person (what are they seeing exactly)?
See more here
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no cheating kids!
In west on 07/15/2010 at 3:00 pm
2 things are awesome about this:
1) 826 LA is a non-profit dedicated to WRITING. Each 826 chapter provides drop-in tutoring, class field trips, writing workshops, and in-school programs for kids 6-18. It’s one of 8 nationwide locations.
2) Dave Eggers (fav author / founder of McSweeney’s) is on the board of directors.
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