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"I am a lousy copywriter, but I am a good editor. So I go to work editing my own draft. After four or..."

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:27:51 +0000

“I am a lousy copywriter, but I am a good editor. So I go to work editing my own draft. After four or five editings, it looks good enough to show to the client. If the client changes the copy, I get angry—because I took a lot of trouble writing it, and what I wrote I wrote on purpose.”

- David Ogilvy on copywriting at Letters of Note

From They Live, via Who Killed Bambi?

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:15:55 +0000

From They Live, via Who Killed Bambi?

iwdrm: “Some people are bullfighters, some people are...

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:30:07 +0000

iwdrm:

“Some people are bullfighters, some people are politicians. I’m a photographer.”

Blow-Up (1966)

magnolius: The Big Yellow Rabbit - a 13 meter high sculpture...

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:20:08 +0000

magnolius:

The Big Yellow Rabbit - a 13 meter high sculpture by Florentijn Hofman

The Big Yellow Rabbit is a temporary 13 meter high sculpture. It’s a enlarged cuddle toy made out of swedish products thrown against the statue of Engelbrekt.

fromme-toyou

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:09:10 +0000

fromme-toyou

"Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel."

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:19:28 +0000

“Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.”

- Horace Walpole

Video

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:58:17 +0000

"An illiterate, underbred book. The book of a self-taught working man, and we all know how..."

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:40:14 +0000

“An illiterate, underbred book. The book of a self-taught working man, and we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking and ultimately nauseating … A queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.”

- Virginia Woolf on Ulysses

via nevver

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:36:14 +0000

via nevver

Optimist Prime

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:24:14 +0100

Optimist Prime

newsweek: What’s amazing about this photograph (by David...

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:17:48 +0100

newsweek:

What’s amazing about this photograph (by David Shankbone …) is the ‘Charging Bull’ sculpture was initially installed without the consent of the authorities. It’s guerilla art!

The rest of the Occupy Wall St. photos from ‘In Focus’ are equally fascinating, go check ‘em out.

From Pandyland

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:27:00 +0100

From Pandyland

Read the whole thing: ‘Outfoxed’ by Dylan Meconis

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 00:55:19 +0100

Read the whole thing:

‘Outfoxed’ by Dylan Meconis

9-year-old with stickers vs Sky Mall catalogue. from Reddit

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 10:05:54 +0100

9-year-old with stickers vs Sky Mall catalogue.

from Reddit

photo: Reuters/Mariana Bazo via In Focus

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 17:29:56 +0100

photo: Reuters/Mariana Bazo

via In Focus

stopmotionben: The Flock series by Adam Neate

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 10:29:07 +0100

stopmotionben:

The Flock series by Adam Neate

by Diego Gravinese. via Colossal

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:34:12 +0100

by Diego Gravinese.

via Colossal

Space Oddity children’s book, illustrated by Andrew Kolb, via BB-Blog. Though Kolb’s...

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 17:23:12 +0100

Space Oddity children’s book, illustrated by Andrew Kolb, via BB-Blog. Though Kolb’s website now has it listed as ‘Picture book set in space!’ Non-infringing good fun!

Customisable face animation using WebGL. Play with it here.

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 11:02:06 +0100

Customisable face animation using WebGL. Play with it here.

"I am now 33 years old, and it feels like much time has passed and is passing faster and faster every..."

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:48:16 +0100

“I am now 33 years old, and it feels like much time has passed and is passing faster and faster every day. Day to day I have to make all sorts of choices about what is good and important and fun, and then I have to live with the forfeiture of all the other options those choices foreclose. And I’m starting to see how as time gains momentum my choices will narrow and their foreclosures multiply exponentially until I arrive at some point on some branch of all life’s sumptuous branching complexity at which I am finally locked in and stuck on one path and time speeds me through stages of stasis and atrophy and decay until I go down for the third time, all struggle for naught, drowned by time. It is dreadful. But since it’s my own choices that’ll lock me in, it seems unavoidable – if I want to be any kind of grownup, I have to make choices and regret foreclosures and try to live with them.”

- David Foster Wallace, ‘A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again’