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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.  Thank you and goodnight!

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. 

Thank you and goodnight!

Posted 6 hours ago

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The Most Comma Mistakes

The Most Comma Mistakes

Posted 1 day ago

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I had gone to Hunter College, but never graduated. So I tried going back to school, too. I took two classes at Hunter: a modern poetry class and a media studies course. I was getting a lot out of both classes; the professors were great. But I remember there were materials on reserve at the library, and you had to go check out a book and Xerox the material. You had to get a Xerox card and stand in line to photocopy the book. I just had this moment where I was like, “What the fuck?” There was no way I could do it. It just seemed ridiculous. There might be some arrogance in that, but Xeroxing a book seemed completely disconnected from my desire to learn. It wasn’t just Xeroxing a book, but everything that represented. After years of working in this new, exciting arena, doing things no one had done before, making money, to then be standing there in line to Xerox a book - needless to say, I didn’t finish the classes.

That’s me talking about my last (last ever!) attempt to go back to college after the dotcom bust in 2000. From an excerpt of an interview I did with Lisa Chamberlain in 2007 or so, for her book Slackonomics: Generation X in the Age of Creative Destruction.

So cool that someone read this just a few days ago and liked it enough to post it on their blog. Thanks, Evan!

Merv at the Movies: Maximum Efficiency

Posted 3 days ago

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International News Photos, Amelia Earhart and her Lockheed Electra above the Golden Gate Bridge, March 17, 1937  (Paging @sldistin!) (via Celebrating 75 Years of the Golden Gate Bridge | Fans in a Flashbulb)

International News Photos, Amelia Earhart and her Lockheed Electra above the Golden Gate Bridge, March 17, 1937 

(Paging @sldistin!)

(via Celebrating 75 Years of the Golden Gate Bridge | Fans in a Flashbulb)

Posted 5 days ago

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Love, love, love the Love Blanket.

Love, love, love the Love Blanket.

Posted 6 days ago

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Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon. Now available as a 20x200 edition. Hooray! (via 20x200)

Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon. Now available as a 20x200 edition. Hooray!

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Posted 3 weeks ago

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Wild Thing, an intaglio print by Maurice Sendak. This state proof is from a print project Sendak worked on for several years, but never editioned. (via PRINTERESTING)

Wild Thing, an intaglio print by Maurice Sendak. This state proof is from a print project Sendak worked on for several years, but never editioned.

(via PRINTERESTING)

Posted 4 weeks ago

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Silver Cup, Long Island City  a new 20x200 edition by William Steiger From Sara’s newsletter introducing the edition:  But for all the glimmering futures that this territory may hold on its sturdy, once oyster-strewn cement and tar streets, it is in the outskirts, in Queens, at Silvercup Studios, where new dreams are spun. The space, previously a bakery, now single-handedly serves as a Hollywood of the East, housing the production of shows like The Sopranos, Sex in the City and, now, Girls, as well as films The Savages and The Devil Wears Prada—furthering the lore (for better or for worse) of the city—what it means to live, to love, to build and otherwise make it here. The studio and its sign, like William’s works, nods not only to what we have done, but what we might—filling in for what was, and what will be.

Silver Cup, Long Island City  a new 20x200 edition by William Steiger

From Sara’s newsletter introducing the edition: 


But for all the glimmering futures that this territory may hold on its sturdy, once oyster-strewn cement and tar streets, it is in the outskirts, in Queens, at Silvercup Studios, where new dreams are spun. The space, previously a bakery, now single-handedly serves as a Hollywood of the East, housing the production of shows like The Sopranos, Sex in the City and, now, Girls, as well as films The Savages and The Devil Wears Prada—furthering the lore (for better or for worse) of the city—what it means to live, to love, to build and otherwise make it here. The studio and its sign, like William’s works, nods not only to what we have done, but what we might—filling in for what was, and what will be.

Posted 1 month ago

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OMG, mega megaphones! <3 (Shoutout: UnBeige)

OMG, mega megaphones! <3

(Shoutout: UnBeige)

Posted 1 month ago

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Salvador Dali and his pet anteater.  (More here.)

Salvador Dali and his pet anteater. 

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