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15 May 2008
Some people want to be dressed their best, laid in silk-lined boxes, covered in dirt, topped with stone. Some want to be frozen, preserved, to see a future that will reanimate the dead. Some want to be incinerated, returned to dust and inertness.
I think this is for me …
28 March 2008
Philippe Starck’s retirement announcement via AFP, via Kottke from Die Zeit. It ends: Starck said the only objects that he still felt attached to were “a pillow perhaps and a good mattress.” But the thing one needs most, he added, was the “ability to love”.
4 December 2007
As the Broadway stagehand strike closed and I rushed the box office for a ticket to “Cyrano de Bergerac” last weekend (and will do the same for “Rock ‘n’ Roll” before too long), I was reminded—as I was more consistently my last weekend in California than even I have recently allowed my introspection to persist—the extent to which my life is a bento box.
3 October 2007
My project starts on page 242, and yes, I’m aware of the (at least one) typo in my contribution and the first thing I’ll do when I return home tonight is check the proofs and either drink in self-loathing or quiet celebration. Nevertheless, it’s a beautiful tome, 631 perfect-bound pages, and I’m honored to have contributed six of them.
15 July 2007
If there is a climax to Manufactured Landscapes, it is the moment when Edward Burtynsky, the photographer and the ostensible subject of the documentary, explains (however weakly) his reasons for not politicizing his photography. Visual information, pure, noble, and free of bias—I felt the audience around me leap into a hushed rebuke.
1 February 2006
Lessons learned from Morales-Pacquiao 2 and the Chip Kidd retrospective:
The unstoppable straight left is what launched me to this stage. Trust it.
Bludgeon with the left; develop the right hook for the knockout.
The gloves make a difference.
Don’t give the audience what they requested; give them what they need. They will be stunned.
Professionals don’t take it personally.
There […]
18 December 2005
In my line of work, it would behoove me to have a precise definition of what Web 2.0 is. It’s been suggested that it’s marketing departments jerking off to AJAX. I think it has more to do with tag clouds.
The evening past I ventured to the PostSecret exhibit in Georgetown and bemused myself with the […]
19 September 2005
A single rose is a textbook romantic gift.
A photograph of a single rose is something nice for decorating the wall space above a water closet.
A drawing of a single rose in bloom, magnified roughly 800%, is a labor not for the impatient or weak of wrist; a rigorous full-brain exercise of constant graphite changes and […]
2008 December 25
Though I completed this chapter of my pop music autobiography in late September, a few weeks into my first semester at Georgetown, only now in the more apparent denouement of my existential crisis do I feel compelled to write its intentions, framed in the context of two gifts I received in November.
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