Jun
17th
Mon
17th
this is sort of about an ami in the land of gummi bears, sort of a way to keep in touch with people without all the creepiness of facebook, but mostly a repository for all the crap i stumble on. low hanging fruit topics will generally fall into three broad categories: Schadenfreude (the joy germans find in misery), anthropomorphism (monkey touching mostly), puns (see title). yada, yada, yada and blah, blah, blog.
and you can email me --- colimac311 at yahoo dot com
and you can email me --- colimac311 at yahoo dot com
May
28th
Tue
28th
Sophie Calle began following strangers because she didn’t know what to do with herself; she had no friends. “It was a way to force myself to get out of the house without having to decide what I was doing.”
January 1980 in Paris, she followed a man for the day and then lost him in the crowd. She later attended an art exhibition to find him there, a coincidence which led her to believe it was fate. She overheard him talking to a friend about a holiday to Venice and decided to go to track him down.
She began to follow him every day, photographing him, writing down his every move together with her thoughts and feelings in a journal. If he stopped to take a photo, she would stand in the exact same spot and try to capture the image he had taken. Her work is more similar to a detective’s than a lover, as she highlights the vulnerability of the stranger while trying to examine his identity.
This project lead her into another: she requested her mother to hire a private investigator to follow her. She took him on a journey through the streets of Paris to her favourite places. She kept a journal of the things she was up to, to compare with the detectives notes for amusement.
She was intrigued with the idea of switching roles and her privacy being invaded, like the many that she had once followed, and the contrast of the scenarios the detective pieced together from following her, to the actual truth.
(via an-94)
May
17th
Fri
17th
May
12th
Sun
12th
50 Things That Turn 50 in 2013
- Beatlemania
- The Computer Mouse
- Weight Watchers
- Push-Button Telephones
- Michael Jordan, Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt…
- Marvel’s The Avengers
- The X-Men
- Smiley Face
- The Rolling Stones
- “Blowin’ In The Wind” - Bob Dylan
- “Surfin’ Usa” - The Beach Boys
- Compact Cassettes
- Zip Codes
- Tennis For Women
- The Fugitive
- The Great Train Robbery
- Hang-Gliding
- Hover Mowers
- Hypertext
- “I Have A Dream”
- “Segregation Forever”
- “Ich Bin Ein Berliner”
- The Election Of Pope Paul Vi
- Iron Man
- Kenya
- Dead-Donor Kidney Transplants
- Lava Lamps
- Cleopatra
- The Alphanumeric APS2
- Lilies Of The Field
- Lamborghini
- Women In Space
- The Eruption Of Mount Agung
- Modesty Blaise
- “Be My Baby” - The Ronettes
- Nanoseconds
- The Killing Of Medgar Evers
- The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
- The Nutty Professor
- Fellini’s 8 ½
- The Profumo Affair
- The Most Peaceful Violent Protest In History
- Skateboarding
- Science Of Being And Art Of Living
- The Birds
- Astro Boy
- Zanzibar
- “Pop Art” At The Guggenheim
- The JFK Assassination
- Doctor Who
May
10th
Fri
10th
In 2005, author David Foster Wallace was asked to give the commencement address to the 2005 graduating class of Kenyon College. However, the resulting speech didn’t become widely known until 3 years later, after his tragic death. It is, without a doubt, some of the best life advice we’ve ever come across, and perhaps the most simple and elegant explanation of the real value of education.
We made this video, built around an abridged version of the original audio recording, with the hopes that the core message of the speech could reach a wider audience who might not have otherwise been interested. However, we encourage everyone to seek out the full speech (because, in this case, the book is definitely better than the movie).
-The Glossary
(Source: photographsonthebrain)
May
9th
Thu
9th
20 years
May
8th
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