Ottessa Moshfegh, in the Wall Street Journal, January 4, 2017
MUCH OF DIGITAL LIFE SINCE 1999
CHRISTMAS
SATURDAY
Ruth Asawa, Untitled, c. 1970s
WEDNESDAY
Ruth Asawa, Poppy, 1965.
SUNDAY
Robert Motherwell, The Basque Suite: Untitled, 1971.
ROBERT PALMER'S SINGLES, 1981
As published in The New York Times on December 30, 1981.
COUNTING
From Sirius, Coleman Hawkins' last studio session, recorded on December 20, 1966 in New York.
BIRD
This bird was carved from stone by an artist named Jennifer Tetlow in 2011.
THE FALL'S THIRD GIG IN L.A.
On Friday, December 14th, 1979, The Fall played at The Anti-Club in Los Angeles. Mark E. Smith's opening remarks (as quoted here):
DRIVING AND TALKING
Tom Hardy in "Locke," directed and written by Steven Knight, released in 2013. The director of photography was Haris Zambarloukos. Wish I had found this movie earlier.
ARCHIVE
Teinosuke Kinugasa’s "Kuretta Ippei," a 1926 film known in the States as "A Page of Madness" (via Open Culture).
THE BAD ARTICLE
Extensive, diffuse speculation regarding the context rather than specific analysis of any content.
AUGUST 30, 2011
Videos, rather than photos. Not just the look and shape of a person, but their movements, what they are or and aren't distracted by, their relationship to the world reflected in gestures intended to achieve other things.
CUT TO THE CHASE
From MSP Blade Runner.
HIGHER CLASSIFICATION
COOL
PUBLISHED BY HARPER’S MAGAZINE (EST. 1850), November 29, 2016, by Sharon J. Riley
SIGNAL
FUNDAMENTALS OF VIDEO TAPE RECORDERS (VTRs) SUBCOURSE NO. SS05466 (Developmental Date: 30 Jun 86) U.S. ARMY SIGNAL SCHOOL FORT GORDON, GEORGIA
DEATH DRIVE
Hannah Arendt, "The Origins of Totalitarianism," 1951.
WHAT IT IS LIKE TO BE AN ANDROID
“Blade Runner” screenplay by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, February 23, 1981.
