beautiful south-of-spain timelapse
File under: things I wish I knew how to do.
One of these days ....
collapse and delight
June 2009
wanning’s cane
—from “Her Boss” by Willa Cather
polaroids, at Lens and at home
The crowdsourced Polaroid gallery at Lens is fun to click through and highly recommended. I have the analog equivalent on our hallway wall — a grid of images taken over the course of several years with various JoyCams. Landscapes, family and friends, adventures, sand sculptures, still lives, party detritus, a sweet cat since deceased. The hole is for an image that never turned up when we moved to this house. My favorite of them all, it’s of a taxidermied moose in a cage, along a roadside somewhere on the way to the desert. Maybe it’ll turn up next time we move.
a trip around oliver sacks’ desk
Seed has an interactive exploration of Oliver Sacks’ desk, and although there’s no indication of this (apart from it having been labeled, Workbench) I’m hoping it’s the first in a series.
gay talese: save the tailors!
Eero Saarinen, hopelessly unromantic
My friend Gina recently linked to this marvelous collection of illustrated letters, which I marked for future reference. When I finally went to look at it just now, I was bowled over by the presence of a love note (I guess you’d call it) — on office stationery — from Eero Saarinen. Complete with slanty writing and a 3D heart. All my illusions would be officially shattered were it not for the fact that the note is almost distressingly unromantic and the heart is offset by a sketch of the Michigan Music School. Between that and the repeated misspelling of WOR[K]ED, it’s somehow endeared him to me further.
