Michael Caine [born 1933] photographed by David Bailey [born 1939], 1965.
“First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.”
Monday, March 15, 2010
working class
Michael Caine [born 1933] photographed by David Bailey [born 1939], 1965.
“First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.”
Sunday, March 14, 2010
conveyance of mental confusion
Portrait of Virginia Wolf by her sister Vanessa Bell, 1912
"The method of writing smooth narrative can't be right. Things don't happen in one's mind like that. We experience, all the time, an overlapping of images and ideas, and modern novels should convey our mental confusion instead of neatly arranging it. The reader must sort it out."
- Virginia Woolf [1882-1941]
Saturday, March 13, 2010
on the rocks
"We always try to choose good ice cubes."
- Robert Large, Yeoman of the Cellars, Buckingham Palace
There's a good side to failure
"No matter how far off or unlikely it may now seem, the next success you have will be sweeter than all the other ones, because you went through this."
- Attributed to Steven Spielberg by Quentin Tarantino on the release of a flop
Friday, March 12, 2010
Thursday, March 11, 2010
quantum analogy
Image source here.
"A person hides a ball in a cabinet with a million drawers. How many drawers do you have to open before you find the ball? You might get lucky and find it in the first drawer you open. Or you may not find it until you've opened the last one. But, on average, it will take a person half a million peeks to find the ball. A quantum computer can perform the same search by looking into only 1,000 drawers."
- Globe and Mail article here.
diptych
Zeng Fanzhi's Mask Series 1996, No 6 sold for $9.7m, a new contemporary Chinese art market high, at Christie's in Hong Kong in May 2008.
Monday, March 8, 2010
Saturday, March 6, 2010
8 of the 15 were manic-depressive*
"Blessed are the cracked for they let the light shine through."
Group portrait of American Abstract Expressionists in 1950, "The Irascibles." From left, rear: Willem de Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Ad Reinhardt, Hedda Sterne; (next row) Richard Pousette-Dart, William Baziotes, Jimmy Ernst (w. bow tie), Jackson Pollock (in striped jacket), James Brooks, Clyfford Still (leaning on knee), Robert Motherwell, Bradley Walker Tomlin; (in foreground) Theodoros Stamos (on bench), Barnett Newman (on stool), Mark Rothko (with glasses).
* www.obad.ca
Friday, March 5, 2010
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
public face
"Much of the business of this city transpires after five o'clock pm."
- Attributed to the founding era's first First Lady, Dolley Madison [1768—1849].
Sunday, February 28, 2010
bipolar
Chile's Atacama desert currently produces the largest market share of the world's lithium carbonate.
"In the first twenty-five years after lithium was introduced to treat manic depression, it saved $150 billion in hospitalization costs."
- Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner, Superfreakonomics, p.145
Friday, February 26, 2010
Thursday, February 25, 2010
halfpipe
"I don't have the concentration to work more than one or two hours a day."
- Vancouver Olympic Snowboard Gold Medalist Shaun White [born 1986]
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Monday, February 22, 2010
Sunday, February 21, 2010
5
"To make a great movie you need at least five great scenes."
- Attributed to Sir David Lean [1908-1991] by Barbara Streisand [born 1942]
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