(via Still File - Skrekkøgle)
‘Still File’ is a series of 4 photographs recreating computer renderings as physical scenes. The photos’ artifacts, surroundings, camera settings and lighting has been shaped intending to resemble 3d graphics of different types.
(Source: skrekkogle.com)
ERROL MORRIS: Well, that’s one of the great mysteries of self-deception. When Donald Rumsfeld says to me [in The Unknown Known, Morris’ documentary about him], “There you were in the Oval Office of the White House. There’s Gerald Ford, there’s you, there’s Henry Kissinger, et cetera, and we are pulling out of Vietnam. People are climbing onto helicopters.” And I ask: Do you feel we learned anything from the experience of Vietnam? And Donald—I guess the other Donald, Donald Rumsfeld—says to me, “Well, we learned that some things work out and some things don’t. And that didn’t.”
And the question that comes to my mind, actually at the time, and then certainly subsequently, is what is he saying to me? Is he just simply saying fuck you and I don’t really care to reflect on this or to answer the question? Or is he revealing the fact that there’s nothing there? Like the Wizard of Oz, you open the curtain and there’s just simply a little man, an imposter, standing there.
Angel Olsen - My Woman
Sassy female indie rock gives way to contemplative female indie folk rock. I’ve listened to it four or five times now.
“Wolfgang does not wish to speak with you unless you exhume Noah’s body and prove to the world you lost your son.”
In 1948, a federal housing bureaucrat named Paul Oppermann, trying to come to terms with the perils of the nuclear age, proposed a solution to the problem of protecting America’s cities from the bomb: empty them out preëmptively by encouraging the population to move to suburbs and small towns of fifty thousand or fewer. “No power in the world could afford to drop an atomic bomb on a city of 50,000 or less” is how the San Francisco Chronicle summarized the talk that Oppermann gave to a local planning organization. Plus, Oppermann explained, you get slum clearance into the bargain. The next year, Oppermann assumed office as San Francisco’s planning director.
Why The Cost Of Big-City Living Is Bad For Everyone
The tl;dr is the same story you’ve heard before: post-war housing policies subsidized/incentivized suburb creation. Added twist: we’re so behind on housing supply that it’ll take decades to catch up.
My takeaway: maybe it’s rational to try to lock in housing costs by buying.
Carly Rae Jepsen - E*MO*TION Side B
bright girly pop, inflected with electro r&b. think eating cake for breakfast. pretty good.
Brave Shores - Brave Shores
Bright, dreamy indie pop. A less exuberant Matt & Kim? A few good songs.
Ali Farka Touré - Savane
The blues, as sung from Mali, recorded on Ali Farka Touré’s hotel deathbed. A lot of rhythms I’ve come to identify with “Africa”.
To my untrained ears the songs blend into each other but worth a listen.
It is to our credit if these are the Americans to whom we want to trace our moral genealogy. But we should not confuse the fact that they took extraordinary actions with the notion that they lived in extraordinary times. One of the biases of retrospection is to believe that the moral crises of the past were clearer than our own—that, had we been alive at the time, we would have recognized them, known what to do about them, and known when the time had come to do so. That is a fantasy. Iniquity is always coercive and insidious and intimidating, and lived reality is always a muddle, and the kind of clarity that leads to action comes not from without but from within.
Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
Mellow, orchestral pop not unlike Gainsbourg. Worth a listen.
Programming is debugging. It’s the expectation that things won’t work. This is not something people bring up, just like they don’t bring up their medical history on the first date. Most languages have constructs built in for catching failures, trapping them like wild animals, examining them, and, well, exterminating them. In time, as the relationship between you and a programming language blossoms, you come to realize that what truly characterizes a language is not what it does, but how it tells you what broke. Most of your programming life will be spent trying to figure out what broke, and if the computer helps you, maybe you can watch your kids play soccer.
