"I am working on, or am interested to try, or expect to return to, such projects as the following. I shall first list them, then briefly specify a little more about most of them."
Borgesian list of James Agee's artistic ambitions outlined in his application for a Guggenheim.
Lighthouse with its foundations underwater at high-tide. I read on shorpy that this house is still in operation today, and has been solar-powered for the past 25 years.
Set of 97 photos of the Columbian Exposition by the Brooklyn Museum's first fine arts curator, William Henry Goodyear. Mostly of the White City, though there are a few from the midway as well.
"Give me the cloth and I'll wipe my face / When it's all gone, something carries on /
It's not morbid at all, just when nature's had enough of you / When my blood stops - someone else's will not"
Successive rounds of drawings of superheroes/-villians whose special powers beat the special powers of the superheroes/-villians from the round before.
Lucky Dragons' last album, Widows, was altogether fantastic, weird enough to stay fascinating after multiple listens, accessible enough to allow for multiple listens in the first place, and this might well be the best track on it.
Excellent, though sort of needlesslay flash-heavy interface for hearing/seeing the golden record sent out with the Voyager. Amazing: "Johnny B. Goode" is on there. via kio.
