Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century
A Henri Cartier-Bresson retrospective at MoMA.
His inventive work of the early 1930s helped define the creative potential of modern photography, and his uncanny ability to capture life on the run made his work synonymous with “the decisive moment”—the title of his first major book.
I’d love to see it.
(via kottke)
First impression…
Are George and Diane just a little tipsy?
quote out of context
It’s about the inherent duality of man and his finite and structured capacity for self-love. Bicameral duplex onanism and okay I got nothing.
Phoenix: “Sad-Eyed Lady
Quote out of context, “Obama is the iPad” edition
“…the iPad is a lot like Barack Obama: Everyone was able to project their own fantasies and aspirations on a product with which they were mostly unfamiliar, only to sour on it once they realized that it did not live up to their impossible expectations.”
Alternative Means Of Communication
You can see this cross for miles at night. It is lit and at the top of a mountain, I have been trying to find out how you get to it for years. Finally this year I stumbled up some mountain track and after climbing for what seemed like for ever I arrived at it. A mass of wires and aerials – all surrounding a tiny church which I would imagine was there long before there was any need to transmit using radio waves – prayer was enough, I guess. I suppose they light this cross because they can – the power for the transmitters has brought power for the church and so the cross. My measurements may be way off, but, my GPS told me I was 5,800 feet up and it felt like it!
Dear Clusterflock
Would you buy one?
It’s lonely in the modern world.
Even in your company, I feel so alone. (Dwell, September 2009.)
Unhappy Hipsters. (Thanks, Kate.)
Reality
Not quite the iPhone.
Immediately following Jobs’ announcement, Apple shares fell 1.3% to $203.28.
Apple’s iPad
You name the quip and I’ve already heard it from one of my many, many clever female friends.
Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary
The committee will “determine the extent to which the challenged material supports curriculum, the educational appropriateness of the material and its suitability to the age level of the students,” according to school district policy.
Live from the Apple Event
CUPERTINO, CA—Claiming that he completely forgot about the much-hyped electronic device until the last minute, a frantic Steve Jobs reportedly stayed up all night Tuesday in a desperate effort to design Apple’s new tablet computer. “Come on, Steve, just think—think, dammit—you’re running out of time,” the exhausted CEO said as he glued nine separate iPhones to the back of a plastic cafeteria tray. “Okay, yeah, this will work. This will definitely work. Just need to write ‘tablet’ on this little strip of masking tape here and I’m golden. Oh, come on, you piece of shit! Just stick already!” Middle-of-the-night sources reported that Jobs then began work on double-spacing his Keynote presentation and increasing the font size to make it appear longer.
(via the comments on Engadget)
Y’all
I am trying hard to find non-Apple tablet related stuff, but it’s hard.
Video Game Consoles
The BSS Bildschirspiel 01, the only known videogame system from Eastern Germany. The entire list of consoles is just incredible. (via quips)
Sometimes
I’m hard-pressed to think what’s better than reheated spaghetti pan-fried in olive oil.
Quote out of context, “If I Had a Hammer” edition
I call it the law of the instrument, and it may be formulated as follows: Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.
Quote out of context, Apple Tablet edition
Once, during a concert in the last century, dub legend Lee “Scratch” Perry astonished the crowd by whipping out his dick and announcing, “Here’s the messiah you’ve all been waiting for.”
The 1912 Blackiston — with a 5′ 7″ hood, what could go wrong?
As the hood towers above the driver’s head, the only direct view to the front is at one side of the car, but the ingenious placing of mirrors is expected to overcome this difficulty.
reinventing content
Apple’s goal is to offer a new platform for content creators to reinvent books, magazines and online content — in addition to offering a new avenue for content producers to make money. That platform will likely be far broader than just a tablet device, and will extend to every device or computer that iTunes touches.
Photo Out of Context
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The Alaska Nanooks 2010 Hockey Intro
It defies description.
from the comments
Matt:
Terrence McKenna had been saying something similar for years… he proposed personally that the alien was The Mushroom: entirely foreign with no evolutionary branch, thus unique in the plant kingdom, poisonous, hallucinatory, folklorish, phallic, spores as intergalactic panspermia… etc.
He also suggested that a primary characteristic of The Alien is that we would NOT recognize it’s presence.
ditto
But I’m hoping that all changes tomorrow.
It’s Hard Out Here Being a Pimp
Each man was wearing blue denim pants, a blue work shirt, a light fluorescent green vest, a tool belt, and carrying white, construction-style hard hat, when they allegedly asked a staffer to show them to the telephone closet.
Update:
[It's a] very weird story that probably needs a lot of context and a lot of looking into, which is what we’re going to do here. I just wanted to get it on the record with it right now.
the cat’s — out of the bag
Yeah, very exciting. Yes, they’ll make their announcement tomorrow on this one. We have worked with Apple for quite a while. And the Tablet is going to be based on the iPhone operating system and so it will be transferable. So what you are going to be able to do now is we have a consortium of e-books. And we have 95% of all our materials that are in e-book format on that one. So now with the tablet you’re going to open up the higher education market, the professional market. The tablet is going to be just really terrific.
This from the CEO of McGraw-Hill. Tomorrow should be interesting. Steve Jobs is pissed.
