June 2012
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Inside Gay Talese's Shoe Collection - WSJ.com →
When Manhattan journalist, author and man-about-town Gay Talese begins his day around 7 a.m., he dresses “like I’m going to the lunch I’m not going to.” Invariably, that means he’s impeccably turned out, from his signature fedoras to his bespoke Oxford shoes. For the author of “Thy Neighbor’s Wife” and writer of many other books and fabled Esquire...
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“Se qualcosa ci appartiene legittimamente, è proprio, credo, ciò che la natura ci...”
– Eugène Dulac, Fisiologia e igiene di barba e baffi, 1842 [via eleapocket via Barbe d’Italia]
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1820 Manhattan in the Randel Farm Maps →
In celebration of the 200th anniversary of New York’s street grid, the Museum of the City of New York, in collaboration with the Manhattan Borough President’s Office, has put online the complete Randel Farm Maps for the first time ever. Made between 1818 and 1820 by John Randel, Jr., these one-of-a-kind, hand-drawn and hand-colored maps from the collection of the Office of the Manhattan Borough...
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“The dirty little secret is no longer sex; the dirty little secret is hatred and...”
– Philip Roth [via theparisreview]
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WatchMad Men-Era New York [via theatlantic]
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“L’amour est injustice, mais la justice ne suffit pas.”
– Albert Camus
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“Life can’t be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas...”
– William F. Buckley [via rulesformyunbornson]
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“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned in life: It goes on.”
– Robert Frost [via ragazzaccia]
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“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding...”
– Ayn Rand [via theformofbeauty]
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“Libraries raised me. I don’t believe in colleges and universities. I believe in...”
– Ray Bradbury [via mrgan]
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“I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as...”
– Kurt Vonnegut [via libblykat]
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Taking Gondoliering Lessons in Venice - WSJ.com →
Rowing a gondola sounds very simple. You stand facing the front of the boat, one foot parallel to the oarlock that juts from its hull and the other set back a bit for stability. Then you push the shaft of the oar forward, moving the narrow blade back through the water. When your arm is as outstretched as it can get, rotate the shaft, lift the oar out of the water and swing it forward for another...
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“Your note of 9/19 was heartening and inspiring and also made me curious about...”
– David Foster Wallace writing to Don DeLillo of discipline and dedication
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WatchSonata for Viola. A portrait of Shostakovich
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“There’s a new wind blowing in government, and I don’t like it. All...”
– Ron Swanson (S01E02)
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“I’ve written only one masterpiece—”Boléro”. Unfortunately,...”
– Maurice Ravel
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“Ritengo la politica una maniera eccellente di risolvere i problemi seri della...”
– Karl Kraus, Essere uomini è uno sbaglio [via Paolo Nori]
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The modern maestro - FT.com →
For much of the 20th century, orchestras were a valued part of the western cultural fabric. In towns and cities on either side of the Atlantic, the cost of maintaining an 80-strong ensemble to play a diet of predominantly 19th-century music was rarely questioned. But by the 1990s the noise of popular culture had begun to drown out the sound of symphonies, and government subsidies were on the...
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“I gave him [H. Harris in New York] a pair of my old London trousers [Frederick...”
– The Duke of Windsor [via voxsart]
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“Take a view of the Royal Exchange in London, a place more venerable than many...”
– Voltaire, Letters on the English, 1734 [via Tom Palmer]
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“Il cammino della storia dunque non è quello di una palla di biliardo che una...”
– Robert Musil, L’uomo senza qualità [via Karl Kraus]
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“If nothing else, a student must get from his training a feeling of security in...”
– Charles Eames [via explore-blog]
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Pablo Picasso 'Draws With Light,' France, 1949 -... →
LIFE magazine’s Gjon Mili, a technical prodigy and lighting innovator, visited Pablo Picasso in the South of France in 1949. The meeting of these two marvelous minds and sensibilities was bound to result in something extraordinary. Mili showed the artist some of his photographs of ice skaters with tiny lights affixed to their skates, jumping in the dark — and Picasso’s lively mind began to race....
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Holocaust Visual Archive →
The Holocaust Visual Archive collects the images and afterimages of the Holocaust disseminated in the vast landscape of visual culture, at the intersection where pop culture, cinema, memorial culture and modern art meet.
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