February 2010
January 2010
“An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.”
—J.D. Salinger
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it”
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J.D. Salinger
goodbye, good friend
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“the moment Jobs announced the iPad’s base price ($499), Apple’s market cap increased by $5 billion.”
—via @KBAndersen
Bill Gates on the Daily Show →
watch.thecomedynetwork.ca
robots that love vs. fixing education in america
bill gates weighs in on the more difficult challenge.
Tomorrow, in a year — A Darwin electro-opera with music by The Knife →
hotelproforma.dk
The opera-genre provides the DNA, the framework of the performance. It calls for large scale, and it forms a space where form and expression dominate. The Swedish music group The Knife creates completely new compositions that challenge the conventional conception of opera music.
The opera presents an image of Darwin that above all reminds us that the world is a place of remarkable similarities and amazing diversity. That over time - tomorrow, in a year, or tomorrow, in a million years - change is inevitable.
Typedia: A Shared Encyclopedia of Typefaces →
typedia.com
This might be old news, but just found this site today in an attempt to find the release year of Tobias Frere-Jones’ Whitney typeface. FYI: it’s 2004.
