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Current Topic: Arts

Bart Simpson, on Grad Students
Topic: Arts 8:19 am EDT, Mar 17, 2009

Marge: Bart, don't make fun of grad students!

From the archive, Louis Menand:

Getting a Ph.D. today means spending your 20’s in graduate school, plunging into debt, writing a dissertation no one will read – and becoming more narrow and more bitter each step of the way.

Bart Simpson, on Grad Students


Bruce Haley Pictures
Topic: Arts 7:47 am EDT, Mar 12, 2009

I wander toward the world‘s margins, the dark places, places of solitude, rural landscapes, wasteland. What this says about me is unimportant; what one encounters in such places is the heart of the matter. For it is there that life is unvarnished and vital, where the margins offer the occasional glimpse of a darkly-splendid world.

Christopher Alexander:

A building or town will only be alive to the extent that it is governed by the timeless way.

The search which we make for this quality, in our own lives, is the central search of any person ... It is the search for those moments and situations when we are most alive.

Bruce Haley Pictures


KMFDM: Blitz
Topic: Arts 7:56 am EDT, Mar 10, 2009

On sale in two weeks.

Celebrating twenty-five years of the ultra-heavy beat, KMFDM proudly announce their new album of eleven new sonic blasts, tipping the scales at over 52 minutes. Under the direction of founder, leader, and vocalist Sascha K., "Blitz" is dominated by analogue synthetics with high-powered hooks, singer Lucia lends her vocal power, and the tracks are rounded out by some assistance from the KMFDM line-up of the last half decade: Jules Hodgson, Andy Selway, and Steve White.

From Decius's profile, years ago:

"Someone is writing down your mistakes. Someone's documenting your downfall." - KMFDM

More recently:

This was the largest two-day advance since 1987, and, more importantly, the rest of the entire list is populated by the Great Depression.

Also, from the archive:

Having been told that the world rested on a platform which rested on the back of an elephant which rested in turn on the back of a turtle, he asked, what did the turtle rest on?

Another turtle.

And that turtle?

"Ah, Sahib, after that it is turtles all the way down."

KMFDM: Blitz


Gaby Wood interviews David Lynch
Topic: Arts 7:11 am EST, Mar  3, 2009

With his enigmatic masterpieces Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive, the director created a dark, disturbing vision of America. Now, he says, he is done with films in favour of making art from paint, cameras and 'toxic materials' – and practising transcendental meditation.

Gaby Wood interviews David Lynch


The Unfinished
Topic: Arts 7:11 am EST, Mar  3, 2009

D. T. Max on DFW:

Wallace was trying to write differently, but the path was not evident to him.

The Unfinished


Wiggle Room
Topic: Arts 7:11 am EST, Mar  3, 2009

David Foster Wallace:

Lane Dean, Jr., with his green rubber pinkie finger, sat at his Tingle table in his chalk’s row in the rotes group’s wiggle room and did two more returns, then another one, then flexed his buttocks and held to a count of ten and imagined a warm pretty beach with mellow surf, as instructed in orientation the previous month.

Wiggle Room


Louis Kahn and the lost art of sketching
Topic: Arts 7:33 am EST, Feb 26, 2009

Witold Rybczynski on Louis Kahn.

In a small room, one does not say what one would in a large room.

Louis Kahn:

A good idea that doesn't happen is no idea at all.

I.M. Pei:

Quality, not quantity.

V.S. Naipaul:

Ideas are abstract. They become books only when they are clothed with people and narrative.

Garry Winogrand:

I think part of the aim was to unsettle people's ideas, whether his own or other people's. To move people out of an unquestioning space and to some less settled space in which the authority of rules and structures was broken up a bit.

Louis Kahn, again:

I like English history. I have volumes of it, but I never read anything but the first volume. Even at that, I only read the first three or four chapters. My purpose is to read Volume Zero, which has not been written.

Have you seen My Architect?

Louis Kahn and the lost art of sketching


National Gallery of Art - Leo Villareal
Topic: Arts 8:04 am EST, Feb 24, 2009

Multiverse, the largest and most complex light sculpture created by American artist Leo Villareal, may be seen and experienced by visitors as they pass through the Concourse walkway between the East and West Buildings of the National Gallery of Art. Commissioned by the Gallery and on view until November 2009, the work features approximately 41,000 computer-programmed LED (light-emitting diode) nodes that run through channels along the entire 200-foot-long space. The development of this LED project began in 2005, and the installation created by Villareal specifically for this location began in September 2008.

National Gallery of Art - Leo Villareal


Are You the Favorite Person of Anybody?
Topic: Arts 8:04 am EST, Feb 24, 2009

Miranda July and John C. Reilly.

Here's Director Miguel Arteta:

This little short is like a rear-view mirror that survived a fabulous, painful crash.

Recently:

The era that defined Wall Street is finally, officially over.

Are You the Favorite Person of Anybody?


The Geometry of Sound
Topic: Arts 1:02 pm EST, Feb 21, 2009

Dave Brinks, at Exquisite Corpse:

beginning at the end you come to a place where sound travels through rock the aperture is porphyry plucked violins spur of the valley the epiphany of pythia an outcrop of ridges orpheus ascending still nothing is known of the occipital text which brought him here afire and aglow but to be born out of silence all the dimensions the square flat ones euclidean space is optional when climbing the sky look at the duration of two circles conjoined at the hip caduceus shedding its skin moments of involuntary bliss and what sense lay bare

Molly Young:

Desserts cut into wedges are more delicious than those cut into squares or slivers.

The Geometry of Sound


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