February 2012
8 posts
Are You As Busy As You Think? →
Faulty impressions of how we spend time in our “too-rushed-to-breathe” world.
The Death of Cyberflânerie (New York Times Sunday... →
This is the very stance that is killing cyberflânerie: the whole point of the flâneur’s wanderings is that he does not know what he cares about.
January 2012
8 posts
Publishers have stopped referring to their... →
Memoryhouse - “This Will be Our...
December 2011
8 posts
I hate top ten lists →
It’s no mystery why people love Top Ten lists. Here are a few reasons: They’re easy, like Sunday morning. They’re to-do lists someone else wrote. They’re sports for non-sports people. They’re fun to argue with/about.
“Real film is light, digital is electricity.”
– Aki Kaurismäki
November 2011
11 posts
WatchLearn languages!
No Fishing - A short film by Richard Meitern, Estonian Academy of Arts, winner of the 2008 Languages through Lenses competition “Best film on Multilingualism of the year 2008 produced by a student” at the PRIX EUROPA Festival, Berlin.
The cameras that record the moment of their own... →
“The more famous the image, the more likely it is that our common knowledge is...”
– Martin Kemp
October 2011
3 posts
“My best advice? Shut off your iPhone, order some good Champagne and find love...”
– Martin Lindstrom
WatchDreamy as it should be.
White Birds - Hondora
And more Beach Boys echoes.
Their White Birds tape is out via Grizzly and you can also stream it on their Bandcamp.
September 2011
3 posts
7 tags
August 2011
8 posts
5 tags
“My job is to save the fucking wilderness. I don’t know anything else worth...”
– Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975)
Watchpierreism:
‘Mes Tin Varka (In The Small Boat)’ by Nana Mouskouri
So I saw this on the BBC a couple of days ago and couldn’t find an online copy that was of high enough quality to do it justice. She hasn’t even recorded a solo version of this song as far as I can tell, so this was definitely worthy of being archived. Cue a couple of days of internet sleuthing, and lots of dead torrents and...
WatchOn my way.
“Nunca lo habitual debe considerarse natural.”
– Álvarez
July 2011
4 posts
Watch
Miranda July’s “A Handy Tip for the Easily Distracted”, a terrific film short extracted from her most recent film The Future.
Miranda July on NOWNESS via Willa