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dreams do come true: lil bro at Madison Square Garden, watching...

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:23:47 +0200

dreams do come true: lil bro at Madison Square Garden, watching Knicks vs Mavs

Charlotte Gainsbourg @ Nowness

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:47:00 +0200

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 состоит в том, что по..."

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:16:38 +0200

“Пожалуйста, поймите меня пpавильно: я не пытаюсь pазвенчать пpозу. Истина состоит в том, что по стечению обстоятельств поэзия пpосто оказалась стаpше пpозы и таким обpазом покpыла большее pасстояние. Литеpатуpа началась с поэзии, с песни кочевника, котоpая пpедшествует писанине оседлости. И хотя я где-то сpавнивал pазличие между поэзией и пpозой с pазличием между воздушными силами и пехотой, пpедложение, котоpое я высказываю сейчас, никак не связано ни с иеpаpхией, ни с антpопологическими истоками литеpатуpы. Все, что я пытаюсь сделать, — это быть пpактичным и избавить ваши глаза и мозговые клетки от массы бесполезного печатного матеpиала.”

- fantastic Iosif Brodsky, on how to pick and read good prose

(spoiler: start with poetry)

his face or his business, one of the two, you surely seen...

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:12:00 +0200

his face or his business, one of the two, you surely seen before.

kim dotcom and megaupload, a fascinating story, in Bloomberg Businessweek, linked through a page, too.

"All I want now, from a good airplane book, is transport. A sense of propulsion. I want to feel the..."

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 01:30:00 +0200

“All I want now, from a good airplane book, is transport. A sense of propulsion. I want to feel the rush of plot against my cheek. I want to know where I am going, and why. I’m willing to trade transport for transportation. I want all the things, in other words, that the airlines no longer deliver. But who cares? When the world around you is ringing with clashing swords, cataclysmic love affairs, swashbuckling detectives — when you are moving at warp speed through entertaining realms — the right book becomes your ticket to travel, and your plane ticket only feeds the fantasy that you are making progress through this world.”

- 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.

Lana del Rey - Video Games now you do

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:01:00 +0200

Lana del Rey - Video Games

now you do

learn from the masters

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:02:08 +0200

learn from the masters

to lil bro, on his 19th: anything is possible.

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:23:04 +0200

to lil bro, on his 19th: anything is possible.

"It’s not a revolution, it’s a correction."

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:04:00 +0200

“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 both reminds me of Barna’s contemplation on the life cycle of cities - describing an aging, tired Paris -and makes me long for the intricate, stunning Istanbul that stole a piece of my heart this summer.

any given day, put me back on the plane.

these guys are a prolific couple who bring together no less ...

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:05:48 +0200

these guys are a prolific couple who bring together no less than 30 artists for their new show, Cranium, opening today, and i interview them for A Page on things now and eternal: a sitdown with Saddo and Aitch: about life and death and 30 skulls

Street Etiquette fellas come out with an audio-video marvel...

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:23:33 +0200

Street Etiquette fellas come out with an audio-video marvel again, in a form a very elegant sound, music and voice- narrated slideshow

"Rosemary Clooney once came up to me in the lobby of the Four Seasons in San Francisco. This was back..."

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:43:17 +0200

“Rosemary Clooney once came up to me in the lobby of the Four Seasons in San Francisco. This was back in the late eighties. She said, “I like your music.” Oh, man, that makes you feel good. It makes you want to try so much harder. It makes you want to never let Rosemary Clooney down. Ever. Makes you want to make sure that she’s right.”

- 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.

via jjjjound

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:01:04 +0200

via jjjjound

igu is serious about photography, and just got a new set of...

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 02:41:07 +0300

igu is serious about photography, and just got a new set of lights and remote controls for them, so innocent me had to model again.

somebody stop this man.

What Would (i) Do is one of the most important questions any ad...

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 02:20:15 +0300

What Would (i) Do is one of the most important questions any ad man should ask himself, to filter his work for the Client(s), i expand on a page.

reblogging myself from mccannsufrageria: “happyhappyjoyjoy”, in...

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 01:49:57 +0300

reblogging myself from mccannsufrageria:

“happyhappyjoyjoy”, in Madalina’s words, has instilled in our Sufrageria as of today.

Madalina (Andronic) is a bright young illustrator “direct de pe ruta Londra-Bucuresti, cu vantul in spate si chef de zabovit cate putin sub ochii fiecaruia dintre noi”.

I long admired and zoomed-in to see amazing delicate details of her works online (here and here), and then caught up with her almost immediately that she set foot back on Ro land,to decorate Sufrageria with some of her illustrations.

said and done: our management gladly supported the idea, Madi selected these works attached, our own Ionut (Lutzu) produced all posters at great quality at his start-up Atelierul de Print, and Alex (the librarian) coordinated the set-up, so all is up, right there behind our reception.

come see.

to buy originals or collaborate with Madi for your lovely brand, write her madi.andronic@gmail.com or call 0769 796936.

to buy re-prints in a variety of sizes, and many more by other amazing artists, visit www.atelieruldeprint.ro

"If I lose control of these multimillionaires in the Manchester United dressing room, then I’m..."

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 02:18:00 +0300

“If I lose control of these multimillionaires in the Manchester United dressing room, then I’m dead. So I never lose control. If anyone steps out of my control, they’re dead.”

- Sir Alex Ferguson, in a piece in T Magazine, which stimulated this short musing at a page

fucking morning inspiration jpg from nikolay

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:25:28 +0300

fucking morning inspiration jpg from nikolay

igu discovered my pentacon and put it to immediate use

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:21:11 +0300

igu discovered my pentacon and put it to immediate use

my new post for a page

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:46:00 +0300

my new post for a page