February 2012
3 posts
January 2012
6 posts
“There has always been a respectful suspicion between the East Coast and West...”
– Hua Hsu, “Going Back to Cali”
“When you photograph you give up much of the quality of the immediate experience;...”
– Charles Eames
“Painters from Poussin to Seurat, Picasso to Mondrian, Pollock to Chuck Close...”
– Michael Kimmelman, “The Grid at 200: Lines That Shaped Manhattan”
December 2011
3 posts
“A city speaks to you mostly by accident—in things you see through windows, in...”
– Paul Graham, “Cities and Ambition”
“We could accumulate hundreds of thousands of images throughout our lives but...”
– Joanne McNeil, “The Never Forgotten House“ (via Frank Chimero)
“My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson (via Frank Chimero)
November 2011
7 posts
“The world is deluged with objects and images intended to record and remind us of...”
– Rick Poynor, ”The Infinite Warehouse of Images”
“I suppose it all boils down to the irreducibility of the human experience. It’s...”
– Jack Cheng, “The Keyframe Bias”
“Only in hindsight are the plausible connections possible to comprehend; with...”
– Christopher Murphy and Nicklas Persson, The Manual
October 2011
5 posts
“Lightness is to be found in substitution or recomposing, not in rote addition.”
– Frank Chimero
“One of the surest tests [of the superiority or inferiority of a poet] is the way...”
– T.S. Eliot
“I think one of the most odd things about learning is the moment where you know...”
– Frank Chimero
September 2011
3 posts
“If curiosity is a game we play with the world for the duration of our lives,...”
– Rob Giampietro, “Permutations & Loops”
August 2011
6 posts
WatchCinemetrics by Frederic Brodebeck:
Cinemetrics is about measuring and visualizing movie data, in order to reveal the characteristics of films and to create a visual “fingerprint” for them. Information such as the editing structure, color, speech or motion are extracted, analyzed and transformed into graphic representations so that movies can be seen as a whole and easily interpreted or compared...
“As we know from remix culture, zombie movies and Heraclitus, what’s revived is...”
– Carl Wilson, “My So-Called Adulthood”
“I think there’s more value, or maybe more power, than is obvious in a simple “Oh...”
– Rob Walker, “A simple tool that reminded me of the value of ‘Oh yeah’”
July 2011
7 posts
“The transcendent quality of the park is why baseball is better on the radio: the...”
– Frank Chimero
“If an amateur can be beamed to the top of Mount Everest, will the view be as...”
– James Gleick, “Books and Other Fetish Objects”
“Sentimentality provides only a momentary response to a work of art; nostalgia...”
– Paul Rand
WatchPeople Staring at Computers by Kyle McDonald:
I wrote a simple application that took one picture every minute. If it found a face, it uploaded the photo to my server. I installed the app around NYC over three days, collecting more than a thousand photos.
Before sharing the photos online, I decided to exhibit them in the same places they were originally captured. So I wrote another app that...
June 2011
5 posts
“This digital memory sits somewhere between experience and non-experience; it is...”
– James Bridle, “Where the F**k Was I?”
“We need to remember the value of nothing. It’s like breathing: you can’t inhale...”
– Sam Anderson, “An Accidental, Experimental Masterpiece”
“But essentially the camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s...”
– Susan Sontag, On Photography
May 2011
5 posts
“Maybe there is no too long, only attentions that are too short. We may skip...”
– Frank Chimero, “Reading Readiness—A Little Bit on A Lot”