For poets, painting is full of atavistic vocabularies. Painters, on the other hand, have always looked to poets to articulate what we might call their sublime backwardness.
martin earl, ‘poets & painters’
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Painters and poets have been wed from the beginning. Language itself has pictorial roots.
martin earl, ‘poets & painters’
The best of the new crop are making use of both innovative form and linear narrative, producing poems that are at once relevant and accessible—in some cases even popular.
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One person’s “accessible” is another’s “crass commercialism.
Eamon Dolan, vice president and editor in chief of the Penguin Press, explained that [a book title has] to communicate the theme of a book almost instantly…. “the title is trying to do something on an emotional level,” to make the reader pause.
When the music changes the dance must also change.
Tuareg proverb (via deltafoxtrot)
Twitter is very text-driven, whereas other social networks like Facebook and MySpace are more image-oriented. Maybe women post better photos and other rich media on their social network pages, and men provide more authoritative-sounding sound bites.
Twitter Trends by Catherine Rampell
Jared Friedman, co-founder and chief technology officer of Scribd took an optimistic… of the industry’s future. Scribd’s vision may be to liberate the written word but Friedman said he believes digital formats will monetize better than paper books in coming years and urged publishers to stay on track by developing and embracing “a really good distribution model,” such as the Kindle; adopting “more than one distribution mechanism” to avoid a monopoly; and exploring new distribution channels for e-books.
The thing about salary is that it isn’t only about money, it is about your overall quality of life. It is about the things that you can or you can’t do. The films that you can or can’t see when they are first released, the places or restaurants that you can or can’t eat at, the shops or clothes you wear. The holidays that you take. We all know about the moan that you’ll never be able to afford a mortgage on a publishing salary, but it isn’t only about that. It might not seem much for one or two years or at the beginning of your career but after 5 or even 7 years it takes its toll.
Publishing’s pay drain | theBookseller.com (via fluffynotes)
In wine, there is wisdom. In beer, there is strength. In water, their is bacteria.
Oscar Wong, Founder, Owner, President, and chief cleanup guy of Highland Brewery. (via plainclothesman)
That was always the yuppie dream: an aristocratic life achieved meritocratically.
The new post-college prestige job is retail | Penelope Trunk’s Brazen Careerist via mlherold (via fluffynotes)
dream? or fantasy?
Twitter is like golf. I feel like an idiot for doing it, but I have to admit that sometimes it’s fun.
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.
Steve Jobs (via ninakix) (via iamdanw) (via somethingchanged)
A poem is not poetry. A designed artifact is not design.
Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
Lemony Snicket (via hibernate) (via somethingchanged)
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
C.S. Lewis
According to ABC, for 395 newspapers reporting this spring, daily circulation fell 7% to 34,439,713 copies, compared with the same March period in 2008.
the global IT industry generated as much greenhouse gas as the world’s airlines – about 2% of global CO2 emissions
The market for new poetry is small; it is not bought and sold like modern art, or hankered after by the very wealthy. In fact, if you consider poetry by brutal commercial rules, it is a miracle it exists at all. Yet not only does poetry exist, it is flourishing – and not just among the grand old oaks of literary society, but in the grassroots of bohemia. New, young writers are using poetry to break rules and free themselves creatively.
The Facebook poets: ten rising stars of British poetry – Times Online (via buyhercandy)
In essence, [blogging/blog platforms are] a straightforward content-management system that posts updates in reverse-chronological order and allows comments and other social interactions.
Viewed as such, blogging may “die” in much the same way that personal-digital assistants (PDAs) have died. A decade ago, PDAs were the preserve of digerati who liked using electronic address books and calendars. Now they are gone, but they are also ubiquitous, as features of almost every mobile phone.
Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.
Elie Wiesel. (via monkeytypist)
I don’t believe that faith is always meant to be safe.
Book blogs are the enemy of reading. I discovered several such fascinating blogs this year and spent hours enamored of reading, listing the books I wanted to read, and reading others’ lists. Imagine my surprise when I realized that I had frittered away precious reading time staring at a computer screen. Apparently I was getting all the warm, fuzzy, readerly feelings without the commitment of turning pages. Sad.
We work, we play, we marry, we grow old, we dust ourselves off and keep going, all in a quiet hopelessness, neither loving much nor expecting to be loved much. We hang drapes in our pit and hunker down. All is weariness; what has been will be. And then Christmas comes.
Andrée Seu
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