November 2009
32 posts
journalism →
1 tag
það besta við madríd?
að vera á kaffihúsi og sitja úti í lok nóvember á fjölfarinni götu, kaffi við hönd. niðursokkin í hugleiðingar um samspil bókmennta, blaðamennsku, áróðurs og heimilda. undir áhrifum frá george orwell. það er grátt og blautt í fyrsta skipti í vetur, fólk fer framhjá hraðar en venjulega. það eina sem nær að rjúfa einbeitinguna er trúðurinn. hann kemur hlaupandi, þó hann fari ekki mikið hraðar en...
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
það besta við madríd?
litlu sjálfstæðu bókabúðirnar sem virðast vera á hverju horni
2 tags
Before the world was made
’if i make the lashes dark and the eyes more bright and the lips more scarlet, or ask if all be right from mirror after mirror, no vanity’s displayed : i’m looking for the face i had before the world was made. what if i look upon a man as though on my beloved, and my blood be cold the while and my heart unmoved ? why should he think me cruel or that he is betrayed ? i’d have him...
clients from hell
Prospective client: $400 for a logo?! Why are you so expensive? My nephew has Photoshop—I can just get him to do it.
Me: Does your nephew have Microsoft Word?
Prospective client: Yes.
Me: Then have him write you a novel while he’s at it.
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
“Dropping dead down mangonel aeroplane soared straight up, curved in a loop,...”
– Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
2 tags
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
2 tags
I am vertical
But I would rather be horizontal. I am not a tree with my root in the soil Sucking up minerals and motherly love So that each March I may gleam into leaf, Nor am I the beauty of a garden bed Attracting my share of Ahs and spectacularly painted, Unknowing I must soon unpetal. Compared with me, a tree is immortal And a flower-head not tall, but more startling, And I want the one’s...
1 tag
“I watched him with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a...”
– Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell
1 tag
“Por tanto, lo primero que se le presenta a la decisión del hombre, si éste no...”
– Spænskur Kant
http://www.stephendaitergallery.com/ →
Stephen Daiter Gallery offers fine and vintage examples of important American and European photography from the 20th century. Our areas of specialty are avant garde, experimental, documentary and photojournalism.
1 tag
“…by lack of understanding they remained sane.”
– 1984, George Orwell
1 tag
1 tag
The Daily What →
fílaðað
1 tag
1 tag
“I’m the perfect example of the poor little intellectual who’s...”
– The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir
1 tag
