About motorcycles---By Frederick Seidel (Harper's Magazine)
"There is an ascetic, Brancusi aesthetic in the simplicity of the perfection of these boats and the loveliness of their wood. They are violins." About motorcycles, surely, but this quote about the "severe gorgeousness of these needles that go slow" perfectly captures the playfulness and love of life/things in Seidel’s prose and poetry.
I'm unclear as to why all of Tarkovsky's films are available for "free" viewing, but this is an opportunity to catch glimpses of beauty and spend a few hours haunted by the challenges of Man.
"Writer, chef, culinary traveler (and vocal critic of vegetarianism) Anthony Bourdain squared off on this topic on Q this morning with author and vegetarian Jonathan Safran Foer."
A tumblog using a map-based naviagtion relating the author's travel experiences in Ireland.
"Making Noise" A talk by Ken Perlin on the creation his Perlin Noise algorithm.
Adam Miller and yours truly, making the news in San Francisco.
"an experiment in sustainable publication. We print and bind books on demand, creating original work with artists and writers we admire, books that both respond to the conversation of the moment and can endure." In Berkeley, Portland, Vancouver and Chicago.
"a transcription of Harrell Fletcher's invaluable transcription of Paul Thek's "teaching notes," contained in Fletcher's booklet Thek's Teaching Notes." Sample questions: What are your requirements in a friend? Lover? Mate? Tell us about the most exciting thing you ever saw, did. How do you know that you are happy, sad, nervous, bored? What does this school need? This room? You? This city? This country? What is abstraction?
Molly Haskell in discussing Rohmer's Clair's Knee: "In fact, in Rohmer’s universe, women are instruments of men’s improvement, in the sense that they shake them up, force them to confront prejudices[...] Attraction enlarges and expands us, takes us out of our comfort zone and into the unknown, thanks to someone who surprises our preconceptions, forces us to radically readjust categories and criteria. An intellectual may be attracted to a girl with whom he can’t discuss Pascal or Dostoyevsky; that does not make her an object of ridicule. Possibly she will be fresher and more interesting, less chock-full of ready-made formulations, than he is. But on some level, she must be able to account for herself, leave a verbal signature."