January 2012
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“It is no accident that you are reading this. I am making black marks on white...”
– Duane Michals, 1976 (via theremina)
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“I feel like there’s a red pill and a blue pill, and you can take the blue pill...”
– Tenured Professor Departs Stanford, Hoping to Teach 500,000 Students at Online Start-Up - The Chronicle of Higher Education (via davemorin)
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bossa:
Lou Armer - Song of the Week: Week One -...
“David suggested that, instead of dreaming of being dancers or spacemen or...”
– Will Cameron’s call for popular films mean more silent comedies? -Stewart Lee
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inchesgiven:
pretty, bruised big mouth that opens on Sunday for line-cutting bastards, cracked bottles of Chardonnay. a dancer in dimestores, said ‘pay through your pocket,’ he calls himself shallow and you’re always soaking wet. dick drips cascade, cocksure prince play cut to red ribbons, unstitch your grin’s loopholes to secrete...
wolfandfox:
Above: Four Nights of a Dreamer (Bresson, 1971) [watch here]
Below: Le Notti Bianche (Visconti, 1957)
Both based on Dostoevsky’s White Nights
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An open letter to Washington from Artists and...
neil-gaiman:
We, the undersigned, are musicians, actors, directors, authors, and producers. We make our livelihoods with the artistic works we create. We are also Internet users.
We are writing to express our serious concerns regarding the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
As creative professionals, we experience copyright infringement on a very personal level....
neil-gaiman:
SOPA lives—and MPAA calls protests an “abuse of power”
wilwheaton:
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has looked at tomorrow’s “Internet blackout” in opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)—and it sees only a “gimmick,” a “stunt,” “hyperbole,” “a dangerous and troubling development,” an “irresponsible response,” and an “abuse of power.”
“Wikipedia, reddit,...
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Against #SOPA →
Hmm, tumblr html edit doesn't work, so I can't...
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“A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.”
– Martin Luther King Jr (via claytoncubitt)
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“Oh the blackness is murderous
… and I will kiss you when
I cut up one dozen...”
– Anne Sexton, Again & Again & Again (via frenchtwist)
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fireland:
I put a comforting hand on Diamond’s bare shoulder and she spun around and had her Erasermate a millimeter away from my eye in two breaths.
“I want to do this,” she said.
“I understand,” I said, “but you doing that will give me license to retaliate and I tend to, you know, escalate.”
And she hesitated, motionless, our eyes locked, until finally: “Your counter-threat of escalation...
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“The book is almost always better than the movie. You could have no better case...”
– Warren Ellis
Really applies to most adaptations. (especially of Alan Moore’s)
“Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter’s evening, when dusk almost hides...”
– Virginia Woolf, Night and Day (via sketchofthepast)
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“I almost started crying in a bookstore a few days after the second time I saw...”
– Nightmare Brunette
youveescaped:
The Stooges — Search and Destroy
