January 2012
23 posts
“Komissarov himself thinks reality show viewers are the same everywhere and are...”
– Mother of all TV shows - FT.com
December 2011
23 posts
“studying learned helplessness”
– He’s Got the Whammy on Me | The Classical
“Once you develop the reputation as a badass […], it becomes easier to be...”
– He’s Got the Whammy on Me | The Classical
“Nerd” is a kind of drag in which ballers are liberated to pretend to be...”
– Wesley Morris on LeBron, Dwyane, Amar’e, and the rise of the NBA nerd - Grantland
“[W]hat was framed as mundane-but-lovely in 1976 now seems downright exotic. It...”
– Daguerréotypes | Film | Movie Review | The A.V. Club
“Think about the marks you want to make on the paper in front of you… the ones...”
– Some great illustration advice and questions answered for students (and non-students) in Jillian Tamaki’s new FAQ (via drawnblog)
[I know you didn’t ask for my advice, but you’re gonna get it anyway. -JT]
(via mutantmagic)
“Ultimately, if art is working then it’s done something and you only need to...”
– AGNI Online: Open to Influence: Jonathan Lethem on Reading, Writing and Concepts of Originality by Brian Gresko
“[T]he frameworks for identifying influence or for being anxious about it or...”
– AGNI Online: Open to Influence: Jonathan Lethem on Reading, Writing and Concepts of Originality by Brian Gresko
“In some ways not editing yourself would be like a sculptor dropping some clay...”
– Hi I’m Louis C.K. and this is a thing : IAmA
“Wallace failed beautifully.”
– John Jeremiah Sullivan Reviews David Foster Wallace’s Last Novel, ‘The Pale King’: Books: GQ
“Kahneman has a phrase to describe what they did: “Ironic research.”
– Michael Lewis on the King of Human Error | Culture | Vanity Fair
“The market’s willful ignorance had a self-reinforcing quality: the longer the...”
– Michael Lewis on the King of Human Error | Culture | Vanity Fair
“[H]e had spent nigh on three decades forging and donating paintings as a tribute...”
– FT.com / FT Magazine - The forger’s story
“We try not to try. That should be our motto.”
– GUIDED BY VOICES - Magnet Magazine
“You have to maintain the attitude of a child…You have to be able to throw...”
– GUIDED BY VOICES - Magnet Magazine
“I think that reckless approach or lack of patience is what endeared a lot of...”
– Robert Pollard | Music | Interview | The A.V. Club
“[G]ive it the old lo-fi feel of semi-ineptitude. We wanted that “we don’t really...”
– Robert Pollard | Music | Interview | The A.V. Club
“I was engaged on the essential task of becoming a failure again.”
– RB and me: an education | Ruins of the 20th Century
“Theory in general, and my specific ambitions, had become a way of keeping the...”
– RB and me: an education | Ruins of the 20th Century
“[A]dolescence is a time for what Roland Barthes (who was talking about his own...”
– RB and me: an education | Ruins of the 20th Century