Resolved: whenever I am down, I will look at this picture and love the universe again.
groovyhappens: Tina Weymouth of Talking Heads & Grandmaster Flash (1982, NYC) Photo by Laura Levine.
Deeply cool.
The Astounding Photos that Made America Fall in Love with Science
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Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real flesh and I myself am not a dream.
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Helen Keller, Midstream: My Later Life (via liquidnight)
I like the idea of New York as a city that reinforces one’s physicality. Certainly you can feel it humming in your bones.
I really like how Méliès sends wizards into space. Because only dudes with hats like that would be crazy enough to try it.
From the lost film To the Stars (1906, dir. Georges Méliès) (via)
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Posted January 28, 2012 at 11:52am
Gender bias at NPR — and what it reveals about the world of literary fiction
The truth is that major publishers put out more books written by men than women. Print publications write more about books written by men. NPR discusses more books written by men. Unsurprisingly, the best seller list is dominated by books written by men: men outnumbered women 25 to 11 on last year’s number-one-best-seller fiction charts. And to be honest, I’m not innocent of this either — in the last calendar year, of the 76 books I wrote about, 42 were by men and only 34 were by women.
Clearly, female novelists have neither the cultural capital nor the financial capital that male novelists do. When will people face up to that? And when will it change?
Please do go read this whole piece; lots of excellent points. And I’ll admit, I’d have guessed NPR did better on the gender balance issue, which just goes to show it’s always worth doing the math.
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Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
— Gustave Flaubert (via michelledean)
Boy I hope this actually works. I go to bed at ten like an old lady to get up & write, then suffer occasional paroxysms of terror about how boring I’ve become.
It’s fun to imagine a crowded city street where everyone’s cell phones are swapped out for one of these.
“Property of the Hess Estate which has never been dedicated for public purposes”, Christopher St. & 7th Ave., NY, NY. (Photo by Nick Carr.)
