Friday, January 3, 2025
An oft-cited story in the sillok about King Taejong falling off his horse has been used to illustrate the meticulous recordkeeping during the Joseon Dynasty of Korea.
"The king himself rode a horse and shot arrows at a deer. However, the horse stumbled, causing him to fall off, but he was not injured. Looking around, he said, "Do not let the historians know about this."" — The Veritable Records of Taejong, Vol. 7, article 4
— "Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty," Wikipedia via @depthsofwikipedia
Thursday, January 2, 2025
What kind of bug is in the fast-flying FUCHSIA box?
— David A. Carter, More Bugs in Boxes
Wednesday, January 1, 2025
The coin throw is such a popular item on tourist itineraries that even a recent three-month restoration that cut off direct access to the 18th-century fountain was not a deterrent. Visitors still crowded in front of the transparent panels protecting the work site to lob coins — about 61,000 euros’ worth, or $63,000 — into a squat utilitarian tub.
— Elisabetta Povoledo, "Fishing Coins From Trevi Fountain and Putting Wet Money to Work," The New York Times
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
And, finally, "that quality ever present in winners—luck."
— Max Boot, Reagan: His Life and Legend
Monday, December 30, 2024
We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours.
— Jimmy Carter, Voyager message June 16, 1977
Sunday, December 29, 2024
We have loved posting up in cafes and drawing the same things !!!! Coffee cans in a cafe in Peekskill, NY
— Emily and Paul, "Newsletter Issue No. 1"
Saturday, December 28, 2024
I can barely even remember what our apartment looks like.
— Isaac
Friday, December 27, 2024
Marcia and I were your age when Clara came along.
— Dr. Ketchell in a text
Thursday, December 26, 2024
Mike Winkelmann, aka Beeple, has been thinking about that banana recently. You know, the one that was bought from a fruit seller outside Sotheby's, duct taped to a wall, flogged for $6.2 million, and devoured before the press in Hong Kong.
The last time the eccentricities of the art world grabbed mainstream attention, Beeple was to thank, his Everydays: the First 5000 Days (2021) prompting that tired and essential question: what is art? This hasn't happened with Maurizio Cattelan's Comedian, Winkelmann said. Yes, the work is absurd and grossly expensive, but no one's saying it's not art. Nor has it escaped his attention that Justin Sun, the banana's gleeful owner, was Everydays's under bidder.
"A hundred years ago, we decided you could turn over a toilet and call it art, but I draw pictures every day on the computer with the sole purpose of them being art and people say it's not art. How could that possibly be?"
— Richard Whiddington, @artnet
Wednesday, December 25, 2024
My brother Scott working on his encyclopedia. He suffers from short-term memory loss for the last 35 years. This is part of his memory now. He writes and collects images that he reads through to help him remember. Rather remarkable.
— @craigdykers
Tuesday, December 24, 2024
The antediluvian period is the time period chronicled in the Bible between the fall of man and the Genesis flood narrative in biblical cosmology... Colloquially, the term is used to refer to any ancient and murky period.
— Wikipedia, "Antediluvian"
Monday, December 23, 2024
Cortis and Sonderegger's process calls attention to the staging of photographs, whether made in the studio or as a historic record.
— Wall text, "Making of "Mont Blanc: La Jonction" (by Louis Auguste Bisson & Auguste Rosalie Bisson, 1861)," The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art
Sunday, December 22, 2024
I'm going to watch until he wakes up.
— Cora watching the baby monitor
Saturday, December 21, 2024
Two dings.
— Lily on the sound airplanes make before takeoff
Friday, December 20, 2024
As humans, we possess the unique habit of archiving; we collect symbols essentialized by their permanence. We build up the intimate interiors of our homes with found artifacts, collected ephemera, photographic records capturing our lineage. We place these images on our walls in neat geometric compositions. We move to translate the loss of time into an idealized eternity by passing these records down — each a form of proof that life has continuity, that we belong to the past and equally as much to something beyond ourselves.
— Lydia Chodosh, On the Impulse to Notate
Thursday, December 19, 2024
The gift that was a cutting of my grandmother's Plumeria tree sent from Los Angeles has been refused by the Louvre Museum in Paris on the grounds that the collections do not contain works in this format.
— @davidhorvitz
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
MrBeast has reportedly rented the three Pyramids of Giza for 100 hours for a YouTube video.
— @starworldlab
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
Of course, I am happy. In each of your hearts is piece of Nelly, and you’re never gonna forgot me, and that was my aim. Cake, we can bake. Piece of Nelly, you got.
— Nelly, "E6 Autumn Week," The Great British Baking Show
Monday, December 16, 2024
Dadadadadada
— Wally
Sunday, December 15, 2024
Joe says that when he looks at Bo, he feels past generations looking through him, like a stack of pringles.
— @noraphone
