February 2011
69 posts
January 2011
81 posts
“There are four trillion bits coming at you, 99 percent of them are shit, and...”
– David Foster Wallace, in 1996, about the need for an Internet search engine
“Let’s call the world we actually have now Reality A and the world that we might...”
– Haruki Murakami, in the New York Times
“A dagger rests in a drawer.
It was forged in Toledo at the end of the last century. Luis Melian Lafinur gave it to my father, who brought it from Uruguay. Evaristo Carriego once held it in his hand.
Whoever lays eyes on it has to pick up the dagger and toy with it, as if he had always been looking out for it. The hand is quick to grab the waiting hilt, and the powerful obeying blade slides in...
The brutal truth about advertising:
“When we go to work in advertising the companies we work for buy, not just the majority of our time, but of our creative lives. The ongoing process of self-examination, inspiration and growth that leads artists from pencil, to oils to bronzes will take us from washing machines, to jeans to carbonated, high-calorie soft drinks. And it’s sometimes hard,...
“How important is Steve Jobs to Apple? Ask yourself this: If you had woken up...”
– Wall Street Journal
“Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period” — http://www.slate.com/id/2281146/pagenum/all/
I converted to one space after my art director at my first advertising job tore her hair out with frustration deleting the extra spaces from all of my copy. I converted unwillingly, but I’m glad I did — I look back at papers I wrote with two spaces and cringe at...
