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‘Lived religion is a very different thing from strict...

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:37:26 -0400

‘Lived religion is a very different thing from strict textual analysis’ - Mohsin Hamid via

"Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences...."

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:16:07 -0400

““Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences. (Roy Ascott’s phrase.) That solves a lot of problems: we don’t have to argue whether photographs are art, or whether performances are art, or whether Carl Andre’s bricks or Andrew Serranos’s piss or Little Richard’s ‘Long Tall Sally’ are art, because we say, ‘Art is something that happens, a process, not a quality, and all sorts of things can make it happen.’ … [W]hat makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside you — so the value of the work lies in the degree to which it can help you have the kind of experience that you call art.””

- Brian Eno (via jessiethatcher)

(via Mark Cousins: the kids stay in the picture) MC always...

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:11:36 -0400

(via Mark Cousins: the kids stay in the picture)

MC always celebrating film. The Story of Film is amazing.

“In a sense, I can go anywhere I want and fit in, but I...

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:11:31 -0400

“In a sense, I can go anywhere I want and fit in, but I never feel that sense of belonging.” - Tsai Ming-Liang

“As far as culture and politics are concerned, the...

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:37:56 -0400

“As far as culture and politics are concerned, the important theme is long-attention-span vs. short-attention-span thinking.” - Neal Stephenson

Definitely part of it. Anathem is a brilliant way of working this out. And a gaspingly good story so far.

‘one’s got to get up in the morning thinking of a...

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:36:57 -0400

‘one’s got to get up in the morning thinking of a deviant act, merely to make certain of one’s freedoms’ J.G. Ballard

Thomas Mery

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:31:47 -0400

Thomas Mery

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Mon, 20 May 2013 10:03:24 -0400

Lovely version of Mr. Wyatt’s Shipbuilding

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:25:12 -0400

Lovely version of Mr. Wyatt’s Shipbuilding

Faced with what we can not understand we need to guess and...

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:20:55 -0400

Faced with what we can not understand we need to guess and improvise. Like children. Paraphrasing Robert Wyatt

Gus the cat int he midst of a long week, which was a long week...

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:17:37 -0400

Gus the cat int he midst of a long week, which was a long week ago

I am feeling a wee bit homesick for London. via

Wed, 15 May 2013 13:14:42 -0400

I am feeling a wee bit homesick for London. via

Derek Jarman from Tilda Swinton:...

Wed, 15 May 2013 12:39:17 -0400

Derek Jarman from Tilda Swinton: ‘Longlivemess./Longlivepassion./Longlivecompany’

and

This is what I miss, now that there are no more Derek Jarman films: the mess, the cant, the poetry, Simon Fisher Turner’s music, the real faces, the intellectualism, the bad-temperedness, the good-temperedness, the cheek, the standards, the anarchy, the romanticism, the classicism, the optimism, the activism, the glee, the bumptiousness, the resistance, the wit, the fight, the colours, the grace, the passion, the beauty.

“Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it...

Tue, 14 May 2013 15:54:58 -0400

“Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that the hurt is to be taken seriously, that the hurt is not to be accepted as normal and natural but is an abnormal and unacceptable condition for humanness.”

Walter Brueggemann

“There are those who love to get dirty/ and fix things./ They...

Mon, 13 May 2013 11:33:00 -0400

“There are those who love to get dirty/ and fix things./ They drink coffee at dawn,/ beer after work,/ And those who stay clean,/ just appreciate things./ At breakfast they have milk and juice at night./ There are those who do both,/ they drink tea.”

- Gary Snyder

guardian: Who could resist a book with the title The Gigantic...

Mon, 13 May 2013 11:26:50 -0400

guardian:

Who could resist a book with the title The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil? Not me.

Rachel Cooke reviews Stephen Collins’s first book.

‘The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil’ looks amazing

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Sun, 12 May 2013 22:00:17 -0400

Yotam Ottolenghi’s Ka’ach bilmach with dipping sauce...

Sun, 12 May 2013 21:15:42 -0400

Yotam Ottolenghi’s Ka’ach bilmach with dipping sauce (and chocolate banana bread cameo); will work on more prettiness next time

harkaway: What I know about ewoks. Because the question was...

Sat, 11 May 2013 16:15:19 -0400

harkaway:

What I know about ewoks. Because the question was asked: if you were offered a part in the new Star Wars and it was as an ewok, what would you say?

Always good to remember ewok badasserry

Ladies and Gentlemen, David Carr (journalist)

Sat, 11 May 2013 16:13:10 -0400

Ladies and Gentlemen, David Carr (journalist)