February 2012
12 posts
Charlotte Gainsbourg @ Nowness
N: And where is it you want to go?
C: I want to be less embarrassed by who I am but not aspire to be someone different.
N: Many artists have to struggle with that, yet you carry the weight of inheritance as well.
C: People live better if they can really tear down their parents at one point. I couldn’t do that, I wasn’t able to step on them and crush them.
N: Were they just too larger-than-life to do that?
C: No I loved them. I couldn’t find faults with them. Even their faults had great charm.
N: Were there many boundaries to rebel against?
C: The thing is, I was very sensible child, whereas they didn’t care if I had my baccalaureate or whatever. [...] They left me completely free to have my own life. It was so important, I realize now, for me to build up who I was through those experiences.
source: http://www.nowness.com/day/2012/2/1/1863/charlotte-gainsbourg-anna
“Пожалуйста, поймите меня пpавильно: я не пытаюсь pазвенчать пpозу. Истина...”
– fantastic Iosif Brodsky, on how to pick and read good prose
(spoiler: start with poetry)
“All I want now, from a good airplane book, is transport. A sense of propulsion....”
– up in the air, read this, not that: on airplane reading, from a sufferer to a goner, in one click and a 5 minute read.
“It’s not a revolution, it’s a correction.”
– says SALT director Vasif Kortun says, referring to Istanbul’s current phase of cultural production, in NYT Magazine’s feature on the city’s art boom.
“In New York it feels like the best years are behind us. In Istanbul it feels like the best years are yet to come.”
this...
“Rosemary Clooney once came up to me in the lobby of the Four Seasons in San...”
– this quote from Lyle Lovett for Esquire’s What I’ve Learned series inspired a new post on a page.
with a similar power, someone asked me today why my blog is silent for 3 months already. “i liked it a loooot, man”. tx, buddy. i am back.
November 2011
1 post
October 2011
13 posts
“If I lose control of these multimillionaires in the Manchester United dressing...”
– Sir Alex Ferguson, in a piece in T Magazine, which stimulated this short musing at a page
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage”
– Anais Nin
“I don’t see quality very much. People don’t know how to use the...”
– Fabien Baron of Baron & Baron, in Wallpaper’s Sep 2011 “King Makers” feature on NY-based powerful art-directors
September 2011
10 posts
“This city is not about other people or buildings or streets but about your...”
– the city that Ai WeiWei writes about is Beijing. “[it] is a nightmare. A constant nightmare”, he closes his thought.
and we all know his reasons for these strong words.
me, I am more drawn to “mental condition” phrase. it echoes my recent note, where i was arguing for a...
August 2011
14 posts
“I knew a man who cried about having no shoes, until he met a man that had no...”
– Cristiana told me about Jake. he’s sick. i dont know exact details, but his legs will soon be amputated knees down…
wuuf. breathe out.
to lift him up, Cristiana started a private blog, where she posts an everyday cheer for him.
and i remembered and wholeheartedly recommended one...
“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to...”
– R. Buckminster Fuller via Moritz Stefaner via feltron
