George Washington as a middle-aged dad with his record collection.
I’ve always wanted to see how presidents would look modernized.. so I’m making it happen.
(via littlei)
It’s called Rubber Band Pistol. I’m going to try to ruthlessly chronicle everything I read, watch, or listen to throughout the day.
http://rubberbandpistol.tumblr.com/
LITTLE.i.: David Foster Wallace on seeing Blue Velvet -
[…] seeing the movie when it first came out was a kind of revelation for me. It was such a big deal that ten years later I remember the date — 30 March 1986, a Wednesday night — and what the whole group of us MFA Program students did after we left the theater, which was to go to a coffeehouse and…
“Do I contradict myself?
Very well, then I contradict myself.
I am large,
I contain multitudes.”
— Whitman, Song of Myself
“It is not only our material environment that is transformed by our machinery. We take our technology into the deepest recesses of our souls. Our view of reality, our structures of meaning, our sense of identity—all are touched and transformed by the technologies which we have allowed to mediate between ourselves and our world. We create machines in our own image and they, in turn, recreate us in theirs. […]
Our machines allow us to reach out beyond the limits of our flesh. Our machines alter the ways in which our senses feed us information about the world beyond. […] Our machines offer us an image of ourselves — an image, which like the reflection of Narcissus, can hold us transfixed in self-adoration.”
—David Lockhead, on McLuhan’s The Gutenburg Galaxy
One of these days I’m going to quit the Internet and be a lot happier.
An Interview with Gideon Rosen -
“I can imagine that to the extent to which one is gripped by the problem of nihilism is pretty closely connected by the extent to which one dwells on one’s own death. There the recipe is: dwell less on death.”
CONVERSATION: Infinite Stupidity, Or the Retweet -
“A tiny number of ideas can go a long way, as we’ve seen. And the Internet makes that more and more likely. What’s happening is that we might, in fact, be at a time in our history where we’re being domesticated by these great big societal things, such as Facebook and the Internet. We’re being domesticated by them, because fewer and fewer and fewer of us have to be innovators to get by. And so, in the cold calculus of evolution by natural selection, at no greater time in history than ever before, copiers are probably doing better than innovators. Because innovation is extraordinarily hard. My worry is that we could be moving in that direction, towards becoming more and more sort of docile copiers.”
A series of life-affirming talks by cultural mavericks.
After finally seeing Melancholia, the only thing more unforgettable than the film itself was the collective “Fuuuuuuuuck” uttered by the audience as the credits rolled.
“Except for order, moderation, and constancy, I believe that all things are achievable by a man who in general is very imperfect and defective.” — Montaigne, The Essays