February 2012
19 posts
“This is the golden age of photography. Everyone takes photos now, and there is...”
– Allen Murabayashi’s fantastic essay I LOVE PHOTOGRAPHY: A RANT. Great read.
Proper technique for removal of the heart from the...
mythologyofblue:
The heart should be grasped by inserting the index finger into the left ventricle, the thumb in the right ventricle, and grasping the ventricular septum. Raise the heart towards the chin, putting a stretch on the blood vessels. Cut vessels one-by-one in a circular direction, beginning with either the inferior vena cava or lower pulmonary vein.
-Henry W. Cattell, Postmortem...
December 2011
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November 2011
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October 2011
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September 2011
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Charles Frazier chooses five of the best... →
vintageanchor:
“Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world. As in the film noir that they would inspire, the best hardboiled novels make style a primary means of delineating character and place. ...
“Consumerism interferes with the workings of society by replacing the normal...”
– Prosperity and Wealth (via cultureofresistance)
“When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not to bad an...”
– Jorge Luis Borges (via youarenotrational)
August 2011
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July 2011
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June 2011
5 posts
W. W. Norton: Happy Birthday, Alan Turing! →
wwnorton:
Alan Turing, the English mathematician widely considered to be the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, would have been 99 years old today. If there could be a mathematician for the literary set, Turing would surely be it. Exhibit A: this passage from David Leavitt’s The…
May 2011
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April 2011
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Woody Allen's Favorite Typeface →
youmightfindyourself:
“He adored Windsor-EF-Elongated. He idolised it out of all proportion.” Uh, no. Make that, “He romanticised it out of all proportion.” Oh, and it might have been a heavier weight of EF Windsor Light Condensed rather than EF Elongated.
In case you’re wondering, we’re talking typefaces here, and, specifically, the one Woody Allen has used in the titles of most of the...
