Lotte Time Lapse: Birth to 12 years in 2.45 mins. by Frans Hofmeester
Simply a wonderful, personal, and expressive little film
(via mediagirl)
Agnes Martin, Falling Blue, 1963; oil and graphite on canvas; 71 7/8 in. x 72 in. (182.56 cm x 182.88 cm)
(via SFMOMA | OPEN SPACE)
I love this painting.
Artesia, NM
SUBMISSION:
After being tipped off by the store across the street, this 8x10 negative was exposed just as local police parked to tell to me about post-9/11 America.
“Some people choose to delete their pictures after we talk to them.”
I guess using an enormous view camera isn’t very stealthy.
Reading is a privileged pleasure because each of us enjoys it, quite complexly, in ways not replicable by anyone else. But there is enough structural common ground in the text itself so that we can talk to each other, even sometimes persuade each other, about what we read: and that many-voiced conversation, with which, thankfully, we shall never have done, is one of the most gratifying responses to literary creation, second only to reading itself.
—Robert Alter: The Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age (via wwnorton)
I love it when I read something that gives voice to something I knew implicitly, but was unaware of.
The Chimerist: Everything is its own reward
This app exists primarily to promote a book by the same title. Both contain the precise yet allusive pen and ink drawings (some with text) of Paul Madonna, who has contributed a weekly column of such drawings to the San Francisco Chronicle for many years. The book is very beautiful and…
