Archives for September 2009
Surprisingly Free. Jerry Brito’s new blog (and podcasts!) on the intersection of technology, policy, and economics.
“I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn’t want to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress. I didn’t realize then that it’s the same impulse. It’s make-believe. It’s performance. The only difference being that a writer can do it all alone. I was struck a few years ago when a friend of ours — an actress — was having dinner here with us and a couple of other writers. It suddenly occurred to me that she was the only person in the room who couldn’t plan what she was going to do. She had to wait for someone to ask her, which is a strange way to live.” – Joan Didion (via.)
The winners of LIVE FOREVER The Michael Jackson Monument Competition. I’d like to go to Foreverland…
Another exciting project from The Concord Free Press. In Spring 2010, they will publish IOU, ” a multi-genre collection of new writing about money.” CFP is a non-profit literary publisher distributing free books requesting only that the recipient pass the book along to another reader and donate something to a charity of his choice. In October they will publish “The Next Queen of Heaven” by Gregory Maguire (Wicked).
Ken Robinson on schools and how they kill creativity. Also, let students choose their own books.
A.P.C, Gucci, Michael Kors, Band of Outsiders, and Dolce & Gabbana all have a common inspiration this season and it isn’t Don Draper. WSJ explains why men’s fashion is obsessed with Steve McQueen He didn’t just seduce women with chess, he wore cardigans, turtlenecks, even silk paisley print pajamas in Bullitt without looking effete or like he was trying at all. Pictures of McQueen even “adorn the ‘mood’ bulletin boards used in-house to inform J. Crew’s collections, says Frank Muytjens, head of men’s design.” Bizarrely, motorcycle maker Johnson Motors has created a line of “McQueen-inspired” outfits which are kind of Ed Hardy-goes-to-Army/Navy-Surplus (You can have his surname stamped to the back of your blazer like a sororiety girl’s Juicy sweatpants.)
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