Quotidiana →
“Quotidiana, from the word quotidian, is a website dedicated to the essay.”
Classic essays, interviews and teaching resources.
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“The concept is simple. Take a blank sheet with nothing but the basic outline of a pinup girl and illustrate a unique scene around her.”
This is fucking amazing.
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25 abandoned Yugoslavia monuments that look like they’re from the future
“These structures were commissioned by former Yugoslavian president Josip Broz Tito in the 1960s and 70s to commemorate sites where WWII battles took place or where concentration camps stood. They were designed by different sculptors and architects, conveying powerful visual impact to show the confidence and strength of the Socialist Republic. In the 1980s, these monuments attracted millions of visitors per year, especially young pioneers for their ‘patriotic education.’ After the Republic dissolved in early 1990s, they were completely abandoned, and their symbolic meanings were forever lost. From 2006 to 2009, Kempenaers toured around the ex-Yugoslavia region with the help of a 1975 map of memorials, bringing before our eyes a series of melancholy yet striking images.”
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“Perpetually shrouded in mist, the Kalinga village of Buscalan sits high up in the Cordillera Mountains of northern Luzon, Philippines. Although all of the tattooed warriors are now gone, the village is teeming with tattooed elderly women that wear the artistry of the last Kalinga tattoo artist: 89-year-old Whang Od who learned the art of batok (tattoo) from her father.”
A wonderful article about a very old and profound tradition. Click the photo to read the full article.
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SKATEISTAN: To live and skate in Kabul - film short here.
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Data Raps about his cat
Data is the ultimate cat lady.
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The 30 Harshest Author-on-Author Insults In History →
8. Elizabeth Bishop on J.D. Salinger “I HATED [Catcher in the Rye]. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him every ridiculous sentence of the way. How can they let him do it?” 3. Virginia Woolf on James Joyce “[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.”
Intellectual Gluttony →
Venkatesh Rao discusses the concept of intellectual gluttony and his desire to avoid erudition.
“Depending on what problem you are trying to understand or solve, your reading may take you the rest of your life, or be done in two years. But how you read can determine whether you become a pedantic bore who contributes nothing, or somebody who makes new contributions.”
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