RafaelFajardo

Category: words

  • Ray Bradbury: August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012

    lareviewofbooks: Ray Bradbury has died at the age of 91. Read Lisa Jane Persky on Bradbury’s The Illustrated Man, at the Los Angeles Review of Books. (Image of a young Ray Bradbury with George Burns.)

  • If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I have never had a dry spell in my life, mainly because I feed myself well, to the point of bursting. I wake early and hear my morning voices leaping around…

  • kchayka: cablegram: Tauba Auerbach, Wood, 2011 Digital offset printing, Mohawk superfine paper, 55 pages, hand painted edges, 17 x 9.5 x 2, Binding construction by Daniel Kelm and Leah H. Purcell. Taubaaa

  • DON’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!!: Questions from art students

    DON’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!!: Questions from art students limbicspace: I’m interning for an artist agency that reps over a hundred artists worldwide and they want to know what college art students are asking about the industry near graduation. They’ll be making a Q&A blog post. Wanna know how to get jobs? How to…

  • kottke.org: Bill Murray interview in Esquire

    kottke.org: Bill Murray interview in Esquire jkottke: If you’re like me, you can read interviews with Bill Murray all day long. Here, go nuts. When I work, my first relationship with people is professional. There are people who want to be your friend right away. I say, “We’re not gonna be friends until we get…

  • Like the men hanging from canvas wings and pushing off from soft promontories, Delsarteans knew enough to follow the natural momentum of their initial impulse; like the glider pilots, too, their performances were customarily short and self-consciously dramatic. But when Wilbur Wright in 1904 banked slowly over an Ohio field in his spindly biplane and…

  • The real obscenity is that people drink that water, that they have no choice but to bathe in it, and to bathe their children in it. You know that, and I know that. But if a massive surface mining operation in the vicinity of your house poisons your water table, and if your well water…

  • What kind of a problem is a library? It’s clear that for many people it is not a problem at all, only a kind of obsolescence. At the extreme pole of this view is the technocrat’s total faith: with every book in the world online, what need could there be for the physical reality? This…

  • As Deloitte’s Shift Index shows, the average life expectancy of a Fortune 500 company has declined from around 75 years half a century ago to less than 15 years today, and heading towards 5 years if nothing is done. Why Did IBM Survive? – Forbes (via colin)

  • bashford: The installation ‘bios [bible]’ (2007) by Robotlab consists of an industrial robot which writes down the bible on rolls of paper.  The machine draws the calligraphic lines with high precision – like a monk in the scriptorium.