Last week Swells mentioned a tune she’s currently digging so much that she claimed, “I might need to ease up on the rotation soon so I don’t forget all the other songs I know.” That got me thinking a lot about repetition, particularly as it concerns art and our experience of it. How and why […]
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Tuesday retro
1. Go now to Retronaut, a site with random compendia of fascinating vintage images. It will suck up untold hours if you let it. The page on the “Encyclopedia of Home Improvement, 1970” is what first sucked me in… …but you can also enjoy such wonders as “Evolution of US Breakfast Cereals“… …”Typewriter […]
Yes, the Watts Towers are that amazing
I deeply apologize to anyone who’s visited me in SoCal. I’ve failed you all by not bringing you to see the Watts Towers. I toured them today for the first time, and I vow to bring all who come out in the future. They really are the most inspired works that I’ve ever seen.
Guest photographer: Leon Alesi
Leon texted me this photo a few weeks ago, and I keep returning to it because it’s compositionally perfect — there, I said it, “perfect.”
The inside/out project
You may remember the NYT magazine spread about the French street artist JR, who won the 2011 TED prize for his global innovation in pasting enormous photographs of individual faces in public places: the concrete banks of the Seine, where a giant nude reclines; metal rooftops in Nairobi, where a series of women’s eyes are […]
