Tim Hwang
Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the InternetAkhmatova, Anna, Pasternak, Boris, Mandelstam, Osip, Tsvetaeva, Marina
Four of Us: Pasternak, Akhmatova, Mandelstam, TsvetaevaSophocles
CREON
Am I to rule by other mind than mine?
HAEMON
No city is property of a single man.
CREON
But custom gives possession to the ruler.
HAEMON
You'd rule a desert beautifully alone.
Sophocles
ANTIGONE
Death yearns for equal law for all the dead.
CREON
Not that the good and the bad draw equal shares.
ANTIGONE
Who knows but this is holiness below?
CREON
Never is the enemy, even in death, a friend.
ANTIGONE
I cannot share in hatred, but in love.
CREON
Then go down there, if you must love, and love the dead. No woman rules me while I live.
22T04
Sophocles
Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus † Basic Program Year One AutumnKevin Kelly
Whole Earth Catalog – Signal: Communication Tools for the Information Age † AI Symbiosis Workshop @ Cybernetics LibrarySøren Kierkegaard
The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary SinSandor Ellix Katz
Sandor Katz's Fermentation Journeys: Recipes, Techniques, and Traditions from Around the World † Cultured Pickle ShopSusan Sontag
Throughout this opening sequence, Godard systematically deprives the viewer. There is no cross-cutting. The viewer is not allowed to see, to become involved. He is only allowed to hear.
Only after Nana and Paul break off their fruitless conversation to leave the counter and play a game at the pinball machine, do we see them. Even here, the emphasis remains on hearing. As they go on talking, we continue to see Nana and Paul mainly from behind. Paul has stopped pleading and being rancorous. He tells Nana of the droll theme his father, a schoolteacher, received from one of his pupils on an assigned topic, The Chicken. "The chicken has an inside and an outside," wrote the little girl. "Remove the outside and you find the inside. Remove the inside, and you find the soul." On these words, the image dissolves and the episode ends.
Oscar Wilde
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
† The Picture of Dorian GrayAlbert Camus
At midnight, alone on the shore. One moment more and then I shall set sail. The sky itself has weighed anchor, with all its stars, like those ships which at this very hour gleam throughout the world with all their lights and illuminate dark harbour waters. Space and silence weigh equally upon the heart. A sudden love, a great work, a decisive act, a thought which transfigures, all these at certain moments bring the same unbearable anxiety, linked with an irresistible charm. Is living like this in the delicious anguish of being, in exquisite proximity to a danger whose name we do not know the same as rushing to our doom? Once again, without respite, let us go.
I have always felt that I was living on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.
22C09
22C09
Jerome Tanon
The Eternal Beauty of Snowboarding † The Eternal Beauty Of Snowboarding - YouTubeFriedrich Nietzsche
The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music † Generative Aesthetic ComplexityBell Hooks
When greedy consumption is the order of the day, dehumanization becomes acceptable. Then, treating people like objects is not only acceptable but is required behavior. It’s the culture of exchange, the tyranny of marketplaces values. Those values inform attitudes about love.
† Allison VanouseWalter Bonatti
But then, thinking about the age in which we live, where technology has brought triumphs under the North Pole and on the Moon, but also fat and softness to many men, victims of too much comfort, I said to myself, after all, what is more beautiful today than still being able to run barefoot and do somersaults in the fields.
† The Eternal Beauty Of SnowboardingOscar Wilde
Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.
† The Picture of Dorian GrayOscar Wilde
Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces, and always prevent us from carrying them out.
† The Picture of Dorian GraySuleiman Osman
The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn: Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York † Tom MacWright's recommendationOscar Wilde
I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream – I believe that the world would gain such a fresh impulse of joy that we would forget all the maladies of mediaevalism, and return to the Hellenic ideal – to something finer, richer, than the Hellenic ideal, it may be. But the bravest man amongst us is afraid of himself. The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars out lives. We are punished for our refusals. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind, and poisons us. The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with the desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.
† The Picture of Dorian GrayOscar Wilde
Dorian Gray listened, open-eyed and wondering. The spray of lilac fell from his hand upon the gravel. A furry bee came and buzzed round it for a moment. Then it began to scramble all over the oval stellated globe of the tiny blossoms. He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression, or when some thought that terrifies us lays sudden siege to the brain and calls on us to yield. After a time the bee flew away. He saw it creeping into the stained trumpet of a Tyrian convolvulus. The flower seemed to quiver, and then swayed gently to and fro.
† The Picture of Dorian GrayMichael Matthews
Bigger Leaner Stronger: The Simple Science of Building the Ultimate Male BodyVladimir Nabokov
Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.
† LolitaJason Calacanis
E19: Breaking down Robinhood's GameStop decision: Why did it happen and how can it be prevented in the future?Michel Foucault
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison † Deschooling and Lifelong Learning - 日记- 豆瓣Muriel Cooper
A book has heft and weight. Chapters that divide the material into topics. There is a beginning and an end. But electronic information lies in a strange and complex new world without boundaries. To make it accessible not simply for the acquisition of data but also to help people think better, we must invent new metaphors and models. Something less linear than the Information Highway. Consider instead an Information Landscape, a space that allows you to peruse information by navigating in and out and then to investigate specific portions in both two and three dimensions. Professor Muriel Cooper and students of the Visible Language Workshop propose an interactive and dynamic universe of worlds with landscapes of typographic spatial and symbolic information. The user moves through this galaxy, browsing the generalities or exploring the detail of complex ideas and relationships.
† Information Landscape on YoutubeJessica Hische
The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life.
Casey Reas & Ben Fry
Language, Environment, Community
A Processing program is called a sketch. This is more than a change in nomenclature, it’s a different approach to coding. The more traditional method is to resolve the entire plan for the software before the first line of code is written. This approach can work well for well-defined domains, but when the goal is exploration and invention, it prematurely cuts off possible outcomes. Through sketching with code, unexpected paths are discovered and followed. Unique outcomes often emerge through the process.
Early versions of Processing exported sketches to Java Applets and at the time, that was an easy and convenient way to share work through the web. By default, exported sketches included a link to their source code and the web page included the text “Built with Processing.” This phrase was a simple search term to explore work created by others and the source code included on the page was a way to learn how that sketch was created. Users could remove the links to the source code, but we wanted sharing to be the default. We learned coding in large part by looking at others’ code, and wanted this openness to be central to the project.
† A Modern Prometheus by Processing Foundation on MediumBen Fry
But for as much trouble as the preprocessor and language component of Processing is for us to develop (or as irrelevant it might seem to programmers who already code in Java), we’re still not willing to give that up—damned if we’re gonna make students learn how to write a method declaration and “public class Blah extends PApplet” before they can get something to show up on the screen.
I think the question is a bit like the general obsession of people trying to define Apple as a hardware or software company. They don’t do either—they do both. They’re one of the few to figure out that the distinction actually gets in the way of delivering good products.
† Is Processing a Language? by Ben FryMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Nick Montfort, "Code and Platform in Computational Media"Pablo Servigne Raphael Stevens Yves Cochet
Comment tout peut s'effondrer. Petit manuel de collapsologie à l'usage des générations présentesMartin Montgomery
An Introduction to Language and Society (Studies in Culture and Communication)David Reinfurt
Muriel Cooper's "Interests and goals", 1974:
Concerned with use of mass production and its constraints and with extending experimental and educational experience into work relationships, reducing artificial human split. The significance of participatory and non-authoritarian communication forms in relation to specialization and professionalism. Structured/unstructured relationships in learning. Direct, responsive means of reproduction.
† A New Program for Graphic DesignBerkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
All Data Are Local: Thinking Critically in a Data-Driven SocietyDaniel Thorson
Daniel Schmachtenberger - Utopia or Bust: Designing a Non Self-Terminating Civilization村上 春樹
親切さと心はまたべつのものだ。親切さというのは独立した機能だ。もっと正確に言えば表層的な機能だ。それはただの習慣であって、心とは違う。心というのはもっと深く、もっと強いものだ。そしてもっと矛盾したものだ。
† 世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド〈下〉Susan Sontag
Photography implies that we know about the world if we accept it as the camera records it. But this is the opposite of understanding, which starts from not accepting the world as it looks. All possibility of understanding is rooted in the ability to say no. Strictly speaking, one never understands anything trom a photograph. Of course, photographs fill in blanks in our mental pictures of the present and the past: for example, Jacob Riis's images of New York squalor in the 1880s are sharply instructive to those unaware that urban poverty in late-nineteenth-century America was really that Dickensian. Nevertheless, the camera’s rendering of reality must always hide more than it discloses. As Brecht points out, a photograph of the Krupp works reveals virtually nothing about that organization. In contrast to the amorous relation, which is based on how something looks, understanding is based on how it functions. And functioning takes place in time, and must be explained in time. Only that which narrates can make us understand.
† On PhotographySusan Sontag
The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past. Aesthetic distance seems built into the very experience of looking at photographs, if not right away, then certainly with the passage of time. Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
† On PhotographyAndre Gide
But I believe there comes a point in love, once and no more, which later on the soul seeks—yes, seeks in vain—to surpass; I believe that happiness wears out in the effort made to recapture it; that nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
p53.
† The ImmoralistViktoria Mullova Matthew Barley Paul Clarvis Luis Guello Carioca Freitas
Stradivarius in Rio - Viktoria MullovaDonald E. Knuth
Digital Typography (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes)Susan Sontag
There is, in a sense, no such thing as boredom. Boredom is only another name for a certain species of frustration. And the new languages which the interesting art of our time speaks are frustrating to the sensibilities of most educated people.
† Against InterpretationMarshall McLuhan Lewis H. Lapham
Juan Villoro (Author) Carlos García (Author) Graciela Iturbide (Photographer) Marta Dahó (Introduction)
Graciela IturbideMarshall McLuhan Lewis H. Lapham
Physiologically, man in the normal use of technology (or his various extended body) is perpetually modified by it and in turn finds ever new ways of modifying his technology. Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. The machine world reciprocates man’s love by expediting his wishes and desires, namely, in providing him with wealth.
† Understanding MediaPlayfair, William/ Wainer, Howard/ Spence, Ian
Playfair's Commercial and Political Atlas and Statistical BreviaryMatthias Felleisen Robert Bruce Findler Matthew Flatt Shriram Krishnamurthi
How to Design ProgramsAndre Gide
Andre Gide
Christopher Alexander
Take, for example, the idea of a "rough circle." If I ask you to point to things which are rough circles, you can do it easily. But if I ask you to define precisely, what we mean by a rough circle, it turns out to be very hard to do. The strict mathematical definition of a circle (points exactly equidistant from a pointer center), is much too narrow. None of the rough circles in nature follow this rule exactly. On the other hand a looser definition (points between nine and ten inches from some given point, for instance), is much too loose. It would include, for instance, a weird zigzagging structure, in which no two points of the "circumference" are near each other. yet even a rough circle has some kind of continuity along its rircumference.
† The Timeless Way of BuildingChristopher Alexander
In early times the city itself was intended as an image of the universe — its form a guarantee of the connection between the heavens and the earth, a picture of a whole and coherent way of life.
A living pattern language is even more. It shows each person his connection to the world in terms so powerful that he can re-affirm it daily by using it to create new life in all the places round about him.
And in this sense, finally, as we shall see, the living language is a gate.
† The Timeless Way of BuildingRuedi Ruegg
Basic Typography: Design With Letters. Typografische Grundlagen : Gestaltung Mit SchriftCourtland Allen
#086 – How to Build a Life You Love by Quitting Everything Else with Lynne Tye of Key ValuesRichard Strauss Herbert von Karajan Berliner Philharmoniker Michel Schwalbe
Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra; Till Eulenspiegel; Don JuanMatthias Felleisen Robert Bruce Findler Matthew Flatt Shriram Krishnamurthi
How to Design Programs, 2nd Edition[法] 罗兰·巴特
SNoW.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Susan Sontag
- 7/14/58
† RebornJared Ash Nina Gurianova Gerald Janecek Margit Rowell Deborah Wye Natalia Goncharova Kasimir Malevich El Lissitzky Alexander Rodchenko
The Russian Avant-Garde Book 1910-1934Ecole Cantonale D'Art De Lausanne (Ecal); Fruh, Roland; Paradis, Louise
30 Years of Swiss Typographic Discourse in the Typografische Monatsblatter简媜
I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me, but I went away — yes, the dash should be as long as the radius of the earth's orbit ——————————— and wanted to shoot myself.
— Kierkegaard
Der Mensch kann nicht leben ohne ein dauerndes Vertrauen zu etwas Unzerstörbarem in sich, wobei sowohl das Unzerstörbare als auch das Vertrauen ihm dauernd verborgen bleiben können. Eine der Ausdrucksmöglichkeiten dieses Verborgen-Bleibens ist der Glaube an einen persönlichen Gott.
— Kafka
Si j'avais à écrire ici un livre de morale, il aurait cent pages et 99 seraient blanches. Sur la dernière j'écrirais: "Je ne connais qu'un seul devoir, et c'est celui d'aimer."
— Camus
† 私房书Susan Sontag
- 1/6/58
† RebornJohann Sebastian Bach Glenn Gould
The Glenn Gould Edition - Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book ISusan Sontag
- 12/13/49
† RebornItalo Calvino
Italo Calvino
Wilde, Oscar; Pasco, Richard; Clyde, Jeremy
The Importance of Being Earnest: Classic Radio Theatre SeriesJanos Starker Johann Sebastian Bach Bela Bartok Ernest Bloch Girolamo Frescobaldi Franz Joseph Haydn Fritz Kreisler David Popper Camille Saint-Saens Franz Schubert
Starker Encore Album穆洛娃 Viktoria Mullova Boston Symphony Orchestra 小泽征尔 Ozawa Seiji
Sibelius / Tchaikovsky: Violin ConcertosSusan Sontag
希望能在2018开始试图抓住对日本的这种 sensibility 吧。
† Against InterpretationLeonard Bernstein New York Philharmonic
Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture, Marche Slave, Romeo & Juliet, Capriccio Italien, Hamlet [Expanded EditioEric Gill
But the only way to reform modern lettering is to abolish it, and as we stand at the end of such a legacy, the most we could & should do is to uphold it.
† An Essay on TypographyEric Gill
想起 Tschichold 说到的「True book design is a matter of Takt alone」.
在作为 functional 以上，放弃所谓 form 和 function 的谁先谁后，还有一种以 medium 的方式的存在。于是 lettering 本身比起 sound 更加像 air 一样的存在。
原来能做到的仅仅是 book design，但现在可以从更加根本的层面去 design the flow of information.
大概喜欢 typography 的点就在这里。The intentionality behind the scribbles that goes through the system. The staves to music. The film to vision. The railroad to information.
不过最近从视觉读到的已经太多啦。是不是应该闲下来听听有声书呢。
† An Essay on TypographySusan Sontag
What I read about, though, is an attempt to juxtapose the stroke against the grid, a (re)-discovery of the humane element of a system that later made its way into modernism.
† Against InterpretationCara McCarty Matilda McQuaid Susan Brown Kimberly Randall Lucy Commoner Sarah Coffin Caitlin Condell
Making DesignIsabel Tejeda Valery Dymshits Victor Margolin Oliva María Rubio El Lissitzky
El Lissitzky: The Experience of TotalityJulia Fischer Russian National Orchestra Yakov Kreizberg
Tchaikovsky.Violin.Concerto.in.D.(Pentatone.SACD.2006)菅野洋子 Yoko Kanno イラリア・グラツィアーノ エミリー・カーティス オリガ ガブリエラ・ロビン jillmax
攻殻機動隊 STAND ALONE COMPLEX O.S.T.2Rudolf Firkušný Yo-Yo Ma Itzhak Perlman Frederica von Stade Boston Symphony Orchestra Ozawa Seiji
Dvorák in Prague: A CelebrationJohann Sebastian Bach Münchener Bach-Orchester Karl Richter
J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1 - 6Simon Garfield
村上 春樹
入江泰浩 博史池畠 三宅和男 池添隆博 佐藤育郎 筑紫大介 石田畅 矢吹勉 宫原秀二 佐藤清光 荻原露光 末田宜史 清水久敏 内田信吾 山崎隆 园田雅裕 小山田桂子 上田繁 友永和秀
钢之炼金术师FA村上 春樹
Harold Abelson Gerald Jay Sussman
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - 2nd Edition (MIT)