Tumblr (3.0; @wilkinson)http://blog.wilkinsonweb.com/“How can you cope with the end of a world and the beginning of another one? How can you put an earthquake into a test-tube, or the sea into a bottle? How can you live with the terrifying thought that the hurricane has become human, that the fire has become flesh, that life itself came to life and walked in our midst? Christianity either means that, or it means nothing. It is either the more devastating disclosure of the deepest reality in the world, or it’s a sham, a nonsense, a bit of deceitful play-acting. Most of us, unable to cope with saying either of those things, condemn ourselves to live in the shallow world in between.”<br/><br/> - <em>N.T. Wright</em>http://blog.wilkinsonweb.com/post/5936285415http://blog.wilkinsonweb.com/post/5936285415Sat, 28 May 2011 12:01:00 -0600“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”<br/><br/> - <em>Ira Glass</em>http://blog.wilkinsonweb.com/post/4932503098http://blog.wilkinsonweb.com/post/4932503098Mon, 25 Apr 2011 12:41:18 -0600<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lk28ypg2Wp1qz6jwgo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Atomic Energized Tulips</p>http://blog.wilkinsonweb.com/post/4837709687http://blog.wilkinsonweb.com/post/4837709687Fri, 22 Apr 2011 09:42:24 -0600<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/4YBxeDN4tbk?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Your business card is CRAP!</p>http://blog.wilkinsonweb.com/post/4045594859http://blog.wilkinsonweb.com/post/4045594859Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:02:30 -0600<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg5j16KEJU1qz6jwgo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://blog.wilkinsonweb.com/post/3131364537http://blog.wilkinsonweb.com/post/3131364537Sat, 05 Feb 2011 16:00:07 -0700“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery — celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from — it’s where you take them to.””<br/><br/> - <em>Jim Jarmusch</em>http://blog.wilkinsonweb.com/post/3122873191http://blog.wilkinsonweb.com/post/3122873191Sat, 05 Feb 2011 07:00:06 -0700“For my own part I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I rather suspect that the same experience may await many others. I believe that many who find that ‘nothing happens’ when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand”<br/><br/> - <em>C.S. Lewis</em>http://blog.wilkinsonweb.com/post/3072907536http://blog.wilkinsonweb.com/post/3072907536Wed, 02 Feb 2011 13:40:29 -0700<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lekc2bQKwJ1qz6jwgo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>New Starbucks logo. If by “new” you mean “pretty much the same.” The trend seems to be that the Siren is coming closer and closer to us. Or are we coming closer to her? Is this symbolic of the fact that we’re heeding her seductive promise of “gourmet coffee” only to fall prey to caffeine addiction in the form of over-priced beverages?</p>http://blog.wilkinsonweb.com/post/2611364926http://blog.wilkinsonweb.com/post/2611364926Wed, 05 Jan 2011 11:44:00 -0700<p><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/Obama_logomark.svg/190px-Obama_logomark.svg.png"/><br/>Obama logo.</p> <p><img src="http://wilkinsonweb.com/images/cropcircles.jpg"/><br/>“Crop Circles” by Michael Hollern, newly installed near the Great Falls, Montana, River’s Edge Trail.</p>http://blog.wilkinsonweb.com/post/1455838730http://blog.wilkinsonweb.com/post/1455838730Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:00:00 -0600<p><a href="http://www.idsgn.org/posts/gap-turns-to-crowdsourcing/">Here’s the summary of the situation</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://weblog.muledesign.com/2010/10/dear_gap_i_have_your_new_logo.php">And here’s the best idea so far</a>.</p>http://blog.wilkinsonweb.com/post/1272943965http://blog.wilkinsonweb.com/post/1272943965Fri, 08 Oct 2010 20:22:39 -0600<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l9dlfa3owL1qz6jwgo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://blog.wilkinsonweb.com/post/1194436357http://blog.wilkinsonweb.com/post/1194436357Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:35:34 -0600<p><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2TVooUHN7j4&hl=en_US&fs=1?rel=0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2TVooUHN7j4&hl=en_US&fs=1?rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object> Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 “The Shining.” <br/><br/><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xJ6EWr52aYY&hl=en_US&fs=1?rel=0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xJ6EWr52aYY&hl=en_US&fs=1?rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object> Victor Sjöström 1921 “The Phantom Carriage.” <br/><br/><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/D9853ozGcsY&hl=en_US&fs=1?rel=0&start=112"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/D9853ozGcsY&hl=en_US&fs=1?rel=0&start=112" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br/> D. W. Griffith’s 1919 “Broken Blossoms.”</p>http://blog.wilkinsonweb.com/post/762017601http://blog.wilkinsonweb.com/post/762017601Sat, 03 Jul 2010 10:00:00 -0600<span id="video_player_761924883">[<a href="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" target="_blank">Flash 10</a> is required to watch video.]</span><script type="text/javascript">renderVideo("video_player_761924883",'http://blog.wilkinsonweb.com/video_file/761924883/tumblr_l4ui526c1G1qz6jwg',400,171,'poster=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_l4ui526c1G1qz6jwg_r2_frame1.jpg,http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_l4ui526c1G1qz6jwg_r2_frame2.jpg,http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_l4ui526c1G1qz6jwg_r2_frame3.jpg,http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_l4ui526c1G1qz6jwg_r2_frame4.jpg,http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_l4ui526c1G1qz6jwg_r2_frame5.jpg')</script><br/><br/><p>Business card scene from American Psycho. They still can’t top <a href="http://amassblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/rand_card1-500x323.jpg">Paul Rand’s business card</a>.</p>http://blog.wilkinsonweb.com/post/761924883http://blog.wilkinsonweb.com/post/761924883Fri, 02 Jul 2010 09:51:58 -0600<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l381oiwgzB1qz6jwgo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>Wilcoxson’s Spumoni Ice Cream</b><br/> I’m often critical of packaging, so for a change I thought I’d point out some packaging that I think is absolutely great. Plus, I can’t begin to decipher the meaning of “chocolate, old world & spumoni fruit & nut ice creams.”</p>http://blog.wilkinsonweb.com/post/646074817http://blog.wilkinsonweb.com/post/646074817Sun, 30 May 2010 01:19:00 -0600<p>Aimee Bender’s up to her old tricks. The jacket of her new novel, <a href="http://flammableskirt.com/newbook.html"><i>The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake</i></a> was clearly inspired by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Thiebaud">Wayne Thiebaud’s</a> paintings. </p> <p>This isn’t the first time a book of hers has taken some inspiration from the art world — as I <a href="http://blog.wilkinsonweb.com/post/109080613/aimee-bender-jasper-johns-timothy-hsu">previously pointed out</a>, <i>An Invisible Sign of My Own</i> was influenced by the work of Jasper Johns.</p> <p>A few of Wayne Thiebaud’s paintings: <img src="http://wilkinsonweb.com/images/theibaud-collage.jpg" alt="Collage of Wayne Thiebaud paintings"/></p> <p>The cover of Bender’s new novel: <img src="http://wilkinsonweb.com/images/particular-sadness-of-lemon-cake.jpg" alt="The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake"/></p>http://blog.wilkinsonweb.com/post/636387392http://blog.wilkinsonweb.com/post/636387392Wed, 26 May 2010 21:25:56 -0600<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/rIlk3Az6F6I?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Not only did AT&T desecrate <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Drake">Nick Drake’s</a> “From the Morning,” but they also blatantly ripped-off the artwork of <a href="http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/">Christo</a>. I assume <a href="http://www.brytermusic.com/">Bryter Music</a> (Drake’s estate) received compensation for licensing the song, but did Christo get anything? Time to re-watch <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0001OGUWW?ie=UTF8&tag=wilkinsonweb-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0001OGUWW">5 Films About Christo and Jeanne-Claude</a> and try to forget about the crass commercialization that permeates every corner of society!</p>http://blog.wilkinsonweb.com/post/569752564http://blog.wilkinsonweb.com/post/569752564Mon, 03 May 2010 20:38:00 -0600<p>In recent art news, the <a href="http://www.whitney.org/Exhibitions/2010Biennial">2010 Whitney Biennial</a> is now in full swing, the New Museum’s “<a href="http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/411">The Generational: Younger Than Jesus</a>” just opened, Marina Abramović has a <a href="http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2010/marinaabramovic/index.html">major retrospective at MoMa</a> and the innocent denizens of Great Falls, Montana, must be subjected to another <a href="http://www.westernartweek.com/">Western Art Week</a>. </p> <p><a href="http://blog.wilkinsonweb.com/post/88818378/western-art">Last year’s acerbic diatribe</a> still nicely summarizes my views on “Western Art,” so this year I’ll let the pictures do the talking. All the paintings below were done in 1912.</p> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="http://assets.tumblr.com/javascript/tumblelog.js?16"></script><div id="photoset_461087389" class="html_photoset"> <p><img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kzl62khhw01qz6jwgo1_250.jpg" alt="PIcasso, Violon, verre, pipe et encrier" class="photoset_photo"/></p> <p class="photoset_caption">PIcasso, Violon, verre, pipe et encrier</p> <p><img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kzl62khhw01qz6jwgo2_500.jpg" alt="Kandinsky, Black Spot I" class="photoset_photo"/></p> <p class="photoset_caption">Kandinsky, Black Spot I</p> <p><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kzl62khhw01qz6jwgo5_500.jpg" alt="Bonnard, Saint-Tropez, Pier" class="photoset_photo"/></p> <p class="photoset_caption">Bonnard, Saint-Tropez, Pier</p> <p><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kzl62khhw01qz6jwgo3_400.jpg" alt='Matisse, "La Danse" with Nasturtiums' class="photoset_photo"/></p> <p class="photoset_caption">Matisse, “La Danse” with Nasturtiums</p><p><img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kzl62khhw01qz6jwgo4_400.jpg" alt="Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase" class="photoset_photo"/></p> <p class="photoset_caption">Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase</p> <p><img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kzl62khhw01qz6jwgo6_500.jpg" alt="Russell, A Bronc to Breakfast" class="photoset_photo"/></p> <p class="photoset_caption">Russell, A Bronc to Breakfast</p></div> <script type="text/javascript"> replaceIfFlash(9, "photoset_461087389", '<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="/swf/photoset.swf" bgcolor="#000000" quality="high" class="photoset" flashvars="showLogo=false&showVersionInfo=false&dataFile=/post/461087389/photoset_xml/tumblr_kzl62khhw01qz6jwg/500" height="367" width="500">')</script>http://blog.wilkinsonweb.com/post/461095289http://blog.wilkinsonweb.com/post/461095289Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:13:00 -0600<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Y-mkGqcvKPM?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>The Mascot by Ladislas Starewicz</p> <p>Part 1: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-mkGqcvKPM"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-mkGqcvKPM">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-mkGqcvKPM</a></a></p> <p>Part 2: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtjtKw_mATM"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtjtKw_mATM">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtjtKw_mATM</a></a></p> <p>Part 3: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUsFg8TT8Zc"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUsFg8TT8Zc">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUsFg8TT8Zc</a></a></p>http://blog.wilkinsonweb.com/post/363989584http://blog.wilkinsonweb.com/post/363989584Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:36:21 -0700<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3Gmex_4hreQ?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>The Loudness War</p> <p>More info here: <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122114058">The Loudness Wars: Why Music Sounds Worse</a>.</p>http://blog.wilkinsonweb.com/post/311621284http://blog.wilkinsonweb.com/post/311621284Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:17:56 -0700<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/WNGVWWJrZls?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Promo video for Charles and Ray Eames’ shell chairs</p>http://blog.wilkinsonweb.com/post/284638626http://blog.wilkinsonweb.com/post/284638626Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:14:01 -0700