October 2012
96 posts
{Does this mean we”ll never have a baby?}
{We’ll never have a baby.}
{Undo your pants.}
{Start with the top button.}
Now is the time for pants
but I comply.
Now is the time
for bedlam.
But so much
softer. So much
slower.
“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.”
—Brian Eno, A Year With Swollen Appendices, 1996. I saw part of this quotation and thought “that’s fantastic”; some judicious googling turned up both the source (hat tip to here) and more of the original thought. (via imathers)
“212. It always saddens me to leave the field. Even fielding the final out of the World Series, deep in the truest part of me, felt like death.”
—Aparicio Rodriguez, The Art of Fielding (via mightyflynn)
sometimes, when i click on my saved “hobart” search tag, i find stuff like this:
IS THERE ANYONE IN HOBART WHO WOULD LIKE TO BANG ME
The Daily Forlorn: Yesterday The Daily Forlorn passed a huge milestone in number of... →
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for artists, and/or just “process” geeks.
Yesterday The Daily Forlorn passed a huge milestone in number of followers, and while I don’t want to go into really specific numbers, I do want to extend a thank you to the tens of thousands of new people following this site.
To give back a bit, I wrote a post about what I use to make my work, in the hopes that this is useful to people. I posted it on my blog, but I wanted to post it here too. So… here’s that:
