February 2012
1 post
January 2012
3 posts
August 2011
3 posts
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1 tag
“There were moments when Nona felt oppressed by responsibilities and anxieties...”
– Edith Wharton, Twilight Sleep (1927)
6 tags
July 2011
4 posts
“Even trying to restrain the progress of decline doesn’t come to their minds, precisely because they consider the disintegration of a society or a nation as an exceptional circumstance that will restore itself automatically, even though history clearly shows the opposite.”
—Walter Benjamin
April 2011
1 post
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us...”
– Ira Glass (via nefffy)
January 2011
2 posts
Hard Core: The new world of porn is revealing...
essayist:
As recently as 15 years ago, if somebody wanted vivid depictions of, say, two men simultaneously performing anal penetration on the same woman, securing such a delicacy would require substantial effort because the pornographic repertoire was still limited by the costs and imprecision of distribution.
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December 2010
3 posts
“The presumption of art’s essential ‘goodness’ is nothing more than a political...”
– Dave Hickey, via Alex Ross. (via jonathanbogart)
October 2010
1 post
a new mix
http://soundcloud.com/user67043/karl-rip-r1o
Sleeparchive - Perspective Marlon D - Jesus Creates Sound Onur Ozer - Orion Levon Vincent - The Medium is the Message Giorgio Gigli - Extrospection Peter Van Hoesen - Trusted (Norman Nodge Reconstruction) San Proper - Keep it Raw Wax - 30003 B Stephan Laubner - Portside Waves Lost Trax - Birth
September 2010
1 post
August 2010
4 posts
“Well, there’s a scene in the film that has something to do with rules of the road. And it just strikes me that we could talk about what’s happening in Los Angeles and maybe many places in the world: People are going through red lights. It’s a big problem. And I understand the frustration of the light turning yellow and the cars in front are going ahead. But it’s...
July 2010
14 posts
Dan Lissvik Interviewed →
June 2010
17 posts
1hr 24min Unedited Video Interview with DFW →
I’m guessing this is one of the last video interviews done with him. It is very long, shot almost entirely close-up, and mostly extremely uncomfortable to watch. He does not seem to be having a good time.
The Totalitarian Buddhist Who Beat Sim City →
Vice: Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi seems to have been a big inspiration. Vincent: It very much was - I first watched it in 2006. The film presented the world in a way I never really looked at before and that captivated me. Moments like these compel me to physically express progressions in my thought, I have just happened to do that through the form of creating these cities in SimCity 3000. I...
