No one will map for you the path by which you must cross the wilderness of your own life — not your parents or your teachers, not your heroes or your lovers, not the self-help books or Shakespeare’s sonnets. Some may give you signposts, some may become turning points, but it is
"Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting."
John Yau on Roy Lichtenstein, Megan O’Grady on John Berger, and Paddy Johnson answers the question: Do I need an agent?
but it isn’t. A company wants web traffic, so it dumbs down content, builds listicles and grows. But then others become even dumber or more convenient, so it has to race to keep up with them. Eventually, with nothing but junk, it fades away. A company builds a reputation for
"And it is so simple... You will instantly find how to live."
Charles Harley on Subway Takes : “I don’t think Black people should have to pay for ancestry.com. Why do I have to pay you to figure out where you stole me from?”
Illustrator and writer Luis Mendo’s second book is out . “The only website that once a year becomes a book.” I have Book One and it’s lovely…
The beauty of the Native artist’s forms seduces, but the visual history of destruction is embedded into each element.
Through his “distance montage” technique, the Armenian filmmaker’s masterpieces are built around impressions, not stories.
After a move upstate and a newborn, Merrill’s new work responds to the world around her.
I love these digital illustrations by Adam Fuhrer ; he calls them chromatic aberrations . It was difficult to narrow them down to the few favorites above. I posted about Fuhrer’s pen plotted art a couple of years ago …I like the direction he’s taking this. Tags: Adam Fuhrer ·
The climate group 350 Action’s gallium statue began melting soon after being installed outdoors in Tallahassee on October 13.
"While we weaken friendships by expecting too little of them, we undermine romantic relationships by expecting too much of them."
"If you can acknowledge it and you can relax with it a little bit, very often it shortens its duration."
Margaret Atwood in 2023: Go Ahead and Ban My Book . “It’s very hard to control what young people get their hands on, especially if they’re told something is too old for them, or too evil, or too immoral.”