March 2011
“Shit, I don’t know where to begin. You know, songs are just very...”
– Tom Waits: In which Neil Young inducts fellow 24B hero Tom Waits into Cleveland’s esteemed Rock Hall of Fame.
(Anatomy of a perfect acceptance speech.)
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WatchLibyan Youth in Revolution: video reports from Libya
Independent journalist Rachel Anderson spent February and March of this year embedded in Libya with several youth groups. After being forced to leave when her security there was questioned, she’s determined to return and continue reporting, and her recently launched Kickstarter campaign will provide her with the necessary support to do...
“A bird cried out on the roof, and he woke up. It was the middle of the...”
– nadine gordimer, a guest of honour
what a way to start a story, it’s nearly crackling. the abrupt lifting to consciousness, when the permanent condition of this novel is the opposite; sleep is the doorway from which we enter. the protagonist is static, asleep, outside of words. but words...
“While still in college [Elizabeth] Bishop met the poet Marianne Moore, who was...”
– Charles Simic, The Power of Reticence
“When you write my epitaph, you must say I was the loneliest person who ever...”
– Elizabeth Bishop, to Robert Lowell. From The Letters of Robert Lowelll, edited by Saskia Hamilton (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005), pp. 288–289 (via)
“I have something to say, but not at this time.”
– final words of Grover Cleveland Redding, convicted of murder, Illinois. Executed June 24, 1921
Redding had claimed that he was the prince of Abyssinia and was just trying to bring the people of his race back to their homeland. During a riot that was started by Redding and his followers, two were...
a few thoughts on marketing your kickstarter...
1. If your project is a business, and not a passion project, you have no business being on Kickstarter.
2. Understand the psychology behind giving money. Why would people fund you? Help them understand why they should.
3. You have 5 key marketing assets you can create: Video, Social Proof, Pricing Levels, Partners & Description. Use them well.
4. Drive your own traffic, no “build...
The Kickstarter Blog: The Story of the Loneliest... →
i really love this little story. happy friday and “in your daily whimsy.”
kickstarter:
On Monday, I stumbled upon a curious little project. It had a $5 goal, one available reward, and there was barely a capital letter in sight. It was called the loneliest mix, launched by LA-based Mike Ambs just a few days earlier, and it opened with this line:
imagine roaming the…
“… her research does not comprise a classical type of investigation (to...”
– In Memoriam: Raymonde Carasco 1933-2009
But here, cinema monumentalises nothing other than the real itself – at the heart of which Carasco isolated a privileged motif: gesture.
the cult of secret. the cult of mystery. an alliance of the senses. it’s like humming.
i saw...
i’m in a bad mood. it’s the cold, and the sick, and the ________, and the just wanting to get out of that house. i would do it the whole way over the bridge, counting the steps under my breath, but as soon as i hit the other side and was walking on Clinton Street I had to act like a normal person. i hated that part. when he left he said, in these exact words, “it’s either...
“The number of hungry people could fall by 100-150 million people if women...”
– just sayin’
