Aside from being gratis, paint swatches make beautiful bookmarks. One day you will walk into a room and exclaim, “Is this Spring Forsythia? Goodness, this color always reminds me of Nabokov.”
By the by, the Glossolalia Exhibition at MoMa is quite delicious, if you happen to appreciate bizarre drawings and quirky art in general.
I had a lovely time with lovely people at the Guggenheim this evening. The Louise Bourgeois show is up, and it’s certainly interesting. This caught my eye:
Plate 1 from He Disappeared Into Complete Silence.
The text reads, “Once there was a girl, and she loved a man. They had a date next to the eighth street station of the sixth avenue subway. She had put on her good clothes and a new hat. Somehow he could not come. So the purpose of this picture is to show how beautiful she was. I really mean that she was beautiful.”
Many thanks to the good sir who brought the following titles to my attention:
Uncovered, photographs by Thomas Allen
Scouts In Bondage: And Other Violations in Literary Propriety, edited by Michael Bell
Today I went to PS1 and saw Olafur Eliasson’sTake Your Time. It was excellent. I also saw the Arctic Hysteria show, and although there are a number of things I should describe as being excellent and totally fantastic, it’s really in your hands to see it all for yourself.
What I will post here instead is a tiny chunk of Jari Silomäki’s My Weather Diary. This has stuck with me all day:
Below is Stewart Butterfield’s letter of resignation to Yahoo (from Flickr), courtesy of Valleywag. Amen, eloquent tinsmith.
Via this article on CNN, I found this doctor on Inked Inc, which apparently has a book all about tattooed professionals. The Flash site they have up is a little awkward to navigate, but worth a peek. It’s interesting the way these people cover themselves up to look one way, but live in a completely opposite manner. Fascinating.
I put this on my thesis blog already, but the Times ran an article about this incredible home. It’s full of secret messages and clues to discover puzzles and decode other clues…It’s fantastic. So fantastic in fact, that JJ Abrams has already bought the rights to make a movie about the place. I find that really annoying.
