“Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will. “
—Paul Klee
—Adam Savage from his speech to Harvard’s Humanism Society
Julia Child making omelette (via danieljlockwood)
Just finished compiling a list of cooking “hacks” via this article / forum on Hacker News. There’s interesting ideas, if not flat out great ones there.
I don’t really eat eggs and I think that Child’s omelette technique is world changing. The little explanation of various pans alone is worth watching this.
- — Ernest Hemingway. (via whiskeymonologues)
Dorothy Parker reading her Poem “Men”.
hey hail you as their morning star Because you are the way you are. If you return the sentiment, They’ll try to make you different; And once they have you, safe and sound, They want to change you all around. Your moods and ways they put a curse on; They’d make of you another person. They cannot let you go your gait; They influence and educate. They’d alter all that they admired. They make me sick, they make me tired.
In this world no man, no woman knows what trouble really is. In this world. Now you take this. You setting here in this house, but you don’t know what kind of trouble you run into before you get back home. Ain’t that right, man? Ain’t that the truth? And I’ll tell you something, this is the troublest world. But it’s not the world, it’s the peoples in it. It’s the peoples in the world now today. You got your radio, you got your TV, every time you pick up your news, everytime you turn on your radio or your TV, there’s something happening, ain’t that right? There’s trouble all over the world. See, now if they could just study and look back - I’m dumb,what you may say dumb, I never been to school a day in my life, that child over there [his wife Hattie] she haven’t never been to school. Which we trying to school our children now, we trying to school’em every chance we get. But I hope that they don’t grow up and get in all this racket. I hope they don’t. Because if I could move back to where I thought it wouldn’t be like this humbug today - like it is now - if there was just some way I could move back I would move back, I really would.
- Robert Pete Williams in Peter Guralnick’s Feel Like Going Home
In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and know I had to put it on the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused.
— Ernest Hemingway, from the preface to “The Short Stories”
facadeprinter.org - F2 at Stroke.01 (by Facadeprinter)
“The Facadeprinter is a simple, software controlled robot. It consists of a two axis turn table and an airpressure printhead. The printer shoots the artwork from a distanced position dot by dot onto the chosen area.”
(via pixelsumo)
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