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By Night or By Day
Edgar Allan PoeEleonora Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. Found on a Baci wrapper with versions in Italian, English, German and French. And so for day 315229.07.2015
The Dangers of Deictics
Aphorisms are dangerous. This is not an aphorism. And so for day 312704.07.2015
Moving Goalposts
Gene YoungbloodSecession from the Broadcast Utopia is no longer understood as not possible because it’s too ideal, but as not permitted because it’s too radical. And so for day 312027.06.2015
Turn, turn, turn
A most magnificent coda: The earth spins and we, utterly, are spun. “Of Contour, of Cadence”Thief in the InteriorPhillip B. Williams And so for day 304008.04.2015
Horticultural and Culinary Tautology
Scribbled on a postcard in a series mailed out as correspondence art: If a recipe is a solution, a garden is a crime. And one of the series inverted the order: If a recipe is a crime, a garden is … Continue reading
Pro-retro
From an interview in Surface Magazine: What’s the future if we can’t learn from the past? Sébastien Léon, artist, designer and sound sculptor This was set as an either/or question: Remember or forget? Remember. What’s the future if we can’t … Continue reading
Procrustean
Maged Zaher from If Reality Doesn’t Work Out Smaller beds bigger nightmares And so for day 2918 08.12.2014
Eschew perfection. Strive for excellence.
Thomas Keller The French Laundry Cookbook When you acknowledge, as you must, that there is no such thing as perfect food, only the idea of it, then the real purpose of striving toward perfection becomes clear: to make people happy, … Continue reading
ab ovo: social comforts and refinements
The Sayings of Poor Richard (Toronto: The British Educational Society, [nd]) reprints a biography from 1938 published by The Grolier Society Limited in which one reads: He never countenanced the accumulation of wealth for its own sake, but for its … Continue reading
Recursive Reticulation: Misunderstanding the Mobile
Two quotations from Yona Friedman Understanding something means misunderstanding it in one’s own way. An architect does not create a city, only an accumulation of objects. It is the inhabitant who ‘invents’ the city; an uninhabited city, even if new, … Continue reading