February 2012
16 posts
“People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed,...”
– Audrey Hepburn, in Taschen’s new trade edition to have
“Nobody’s going to a Web site to see zeroes and ones. But they will go for oohs...”
– NYT on how Hollywood took its time and regrouped
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.