Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
Put crêpe bows round the white necks of the public
doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.
He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.
The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.
-Auden
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Bad Ass: Vardzia
Vardzia is a ruined honeycomb of arched passageways and artificially enlarged caves on a steep mountainside in Georgia. It is on a "tentative list" for UNESCO World Heritage status.
From bldg blog.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Today: Picture books from 1810 to 1950
A total of six hundred and fifty Dutch picture books, dating to the period 1810–1950, are brought together in this collection, which runs the gamut from Robinson Crusoe to Tielse Flipje (a cartoon mascot on ‘De Betuwe’ jam pot labels) and from old nursery rhymes to fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm: there is something for everyone in the collection.
from the Memory of the Netherlands.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Today: Whoa.
The mac calculator has something called the "Programmer" view. I have no idea what any of it means but I am impressed. It looks so cool.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Design: Graphkin
How much do I love this graph paper napkin? So much so that I am reduced to asking myself rhetorical questions.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Article: Mad about Mad Men
To watch this megamovie as it should be watched, as a 26-hour (and counting) cycle, and to read McLean’s dissection of its intricacies, is to grasp Mad Men’s triumph: its emotional intelligence—evident not only in its writing and acting but in its exquisite direction, lighting, and photography—overwhelms its mushy ideology and whatever Important Points it wants to make. At its best—and it usually hits that mark—its characters are true to themselves and therefore to their time and place.
from the Atlantic.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
The part of my brain that just wants to give in to the Matrix
...would not mind living in Muji Village.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Today: Phantom of the Opera part 2: The Reckoning
Is Andrew Lloyd Weber feeling the pinch? Did he think making a sequel would bring in the big bucks? I don't know how I feel about this. I am ashamed to admit I like Phantom (my theater friends would scoff for it being too mainstream Broadway and all my other friends would sneer that I like musicals). But a Phantom sequel set in Coney Island? This might be good/bad for everyone! The new musical will be called Love Never Dies. It is due to open in London in March. It x will be staged also in New York beginning in November 2010 and will open in Australia in 2011.
from Crains
from Crains
Not today but someday: My own flag
If I ever become (choose adjective: rich, famous, lucky, killer-skilled) enough to have my own (choose: country, island, street), my flag will look something like this one from the Benin Empire, a pre-colonial African state situated in modern Nigeria that lasted from 1440 until 1897.
Maybe by then they'll have animated fabric (Harry Potter style) and there will be slicing-head action!
via kottke.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
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