May
18
“Maybe there really wasn’t an America, maybe it was only Frank Capra.”
John Cassavetes
von stein
miscellany
May
13
We would love to hang this 1956 map of the “Voyage of the Pequod” in the LQ office. (Library of Congress)
Also: “The Library has more than 225 literary maps that record the location of places associated with authors and their literary works or serve as a guide to their imaginative worlds.”
Don’t be shy LOC, show them to us!
Apr
21
Art History remixed— Cuban-American artist Cesar Santos’s painting series, “syncretism” mixes iconic work by masters from Renaissance to Modernism: including works in the style of De Kooning, van Gogh, Goya, Michelangelo, Rothko and more.
(via allthishappened)
Apr
9
Tyrannies: Twentieth Century Economic History
In a century where the chance that a randomly-selected person will be shot or starved to death by his or her own government approaches two percent…
Apr
6
The Inscrutable Brilliance of Anne Carson
4 remember Monica Vitti saying, I can’t watch the sea for a long time or what’s happening on land doesn’t interest me anymore
Mar
31
Hieronymus Bosch’s Group of Victims.
Mar
29
DJ Sprinkles lays it out
DJ Sprinkles discusses oppression, agency, privilege, and house music.
Fuck that. We shouldn’t be asking to participate in the rights and privileges of those who have oppressed us. We should be trying to divest those groups of privileges.
Letter from Kentucky
All that darkness had to be good for something, didn’t it?
Artist Jay Shells channeled his love of hip hop music and his uncanny sign-making skills towards a brand new project: “Rap Quotes.” For this ongoing project, Shells created official-looking street signs quoting famous rap lyrics that shout out specific street corners and locations.
i love this.
oh yes
(via allthishappened)
Mar
10
Algorithmic rape jokes in the library of Babel
Amazon isn’t a store, not really. Not in any sense that we can regularly think about stores. It’s a strange pulsing network of potential goods, global supply chains, and alien associative algorithms with the skin of a store stretched over it, so we don’t lose our minds.
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