May 2012
10 posts
wonderfulambiguity:
Sandalwood by Moondog and...
“Why would musical theater be the only culture that resists newness? It doesn’t...”
– Scott Rudin on musical theater.
Newsies is on Tumblr.
How Can Musical Theater Be Saved? Broadway Veterans Give Their Advice | Vulture
(via popculturebrain)
Relevant! Something to think about if you’re involved in the fine arts.
Something Changed.: sonder →
n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate…
“When I’m balanced on two thin wheels at 30 miles an hour, gauging distance,...”
– On cycling. (via somethingchanged)
applicable over many different fields
April 2012
2 posts
Freedom and Art →
youmightfindyourself:
The partial freedom of, and from, meaning that is the natural result of aesthetic form is made possible by the exploitation of an inherent fluidity, or looseness of significance, naturally present in both language and social organization. This is a freedom often repressed, and attempts at repression and conformity are an inevitable part of experience. That is why aesthetic...
March 2012
2 posts
January 2012
5 posts
globes-maps:
Lions - I Can Make A Mess Like...
Wait - what ?: “If you abandon intention, the... →
dreaminginthedeepsouth:
“If you abandon intention, the birds will not be suspicious. If your intention is stirred, the birds will fly away. Why? This is because you can fool the form but not the spirit. Even if your spirit moves slightly, the other’s spirit will know. This is the way things are: nothing can be hidden…
“The key to the creative type is that he is separated out of the common pool of...”
– Ernest Becker in The Denial of Death, the thesis of which can perhaps be summed thusly: humanity sublimates its fear of death through the causa sui project: the construction of meanings which are enduring and non-contingent despite our mortality and ludicrous, creaturely contingency. Society,...
December 2011
8 posts
wonderfulambiguity:
Bach: Viola da Gamba Sonata...
Christmas 2011 →
jratlee:
ratcliffe-lee:
tried using storify as a place to gather all the media our family created around the holiday.
also updated the fam. blog theme.
“[We have forgotten] leisure as “non-activity” —an inner absence of...”
– Josef Pieper, Leisure: The Basis of Culture, 1948. This sort of leisure is the prey being hunted to extinction by technology in general and the Internet specifically, and it is this leisure which permits the creation of sustaining human meaning.
Leisure, Culture, Selfhood
Pieper’s thesis,...
Website containing a PLETHORA of full length... →
“A solution is not a solution if it doesn’t work for the people for whom it’s...”
– Cheryl Heller on SVA’s new Design for Social Innovation MFA
(via poptech)
applicable.
November 2011
8 posts
Watchjratlee:
thanksgiving 2011.
had fun making this. will try to do it every year from now on.
finally got my act together w/ columbus day wknd photos as well.
also, come at me movember.
Our thanksgiving meal “stuffed” into a one minute video.
The Aporeticus: Out →
mills:
In a crowd of strangers, one feels somehow identifiable as even stranger: as the one for whom any eye contact is an occasion for momentary panic, as the one who isn’t sure where to stand, as the one who cannot piece together what everyone else inexplicably knows: which lines lead to which…
I’m going out tonight.
Wait - what ?: “I refuse to do drive-through. I am... →
dreaminginthedeepsouth:
“I refuse to do drive-through. I am not a grazer, I am not a cow. You eat. You sit down. You put a napkin there. And it has to have the colors. If you’re having a steak then you’ll have a little carrots because it’s really yellow, and it looks good. And maybe a little broccoli. So that the plate —…
interesting
October 2011
5 posts
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September 2011
4 posts
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The Aporeticus: The Patterns on Her Back →
mills:
Here he is: the child who sees himself as a camera would, who believes that an audience of hidden observers awaits the slightest signs of wit manifest in his doodles and daydreams, an audience which will demand that he be elected to the stage, to some high-culture Star Search, to a status of…
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August 2011
3 posts
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July 2011
6 posts
“We abide by cultural directives that urge us: clarify each thought, each...”
– Richard Foreman, quoted by Maggie Nelson in The Art of Cruelty (via invisiblestories)
