May 2010
1 post
“Take care of your thoughts because they become words.
Take care of your words...”
– The Dalai Lama
December 2009
1 post
“People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our...”
– Bill Clinton
November 2009
3 posts
October 2009
5 posts
Dave Eggers Reassures
“We’re convinced that the best way to ensure the future of journalism is to create a workable model where journalists are paid well for reporting here and abroad. And that starts with paying for the physical paper. And paying for the physical paper begins with creating a physical object that doesn’t retreat, but instead luxuriates in the beauties of print. We believe that if you use the hell...
“One’s art goes as far and as deep as one’s love goes.”
– Andrew Wyeth
“The peculiarity of being a writer is that the entire enterprise involves the mortal humiliation of seeing one’s own words in print.”
Joan Didion, Last Words
“It goes on one at a time,
it starts when you care
to act, it starts when you...”
– “The Low Road”
A poem by Marcy Piercy
September 2009
1 post
August 2009
5 posts
A Woman's World →
A stunning collection of reader-submitted photos on the New York Times. Featuring my dear friend Tracy and the195 contributors Sean Emerson Gordan-Marvin and Simon Han.
This montage hints at the awe-inspiring influence of billions of women working for the world, all around the world.
The Uniform Project →
Digging this. Sustainable fashion, and clear prose explaining the experiment.
courtesy: chaey
“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can change a...”
– Robert F. Kennedy
I do feel that I’ve spent half my education being fed JFK/RFK quotes, but they are incredibly inspirational. Maybe the propensity for soaring rhetoric is part of their genetic makeup?
“I’m more interested in photography that is ‘unfinished’ - a...”
– Paolo Pellegrin, a photojournalist whose work I saw at the Jüdisches Museum Berlin
June 2009
3 posts
The 195 →
Writing from Seoul, South Korea:
I honestly think five people read my tumblr, and those are close friends who’ve already heard me talking about this site to their wit’s end… but if you haven’t heard, please check this out! It’s our beautiful little creation with stories and photos and students, a few of my favorite things.
The happiest of summers to you all.
“I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one’s...”
– Camus, “The Myth of Sisyphus”
Words to live by. I discovered this story three years ago and ever since have tried to internalize it. I remember my English lit teacher telling me she knew I would love Camus. She was right — I even printed this excerpt and taped it to my bedroom...
May 2009
4 posts
One in 8 Million →
Stories of New Yorkers - “their passions and problems, relationships and routines, vocations and obsessions” - collected beautifully by the Times
http://doihaveswineflu.org →
(via theartofthematter)
April 2009
8 posts
“Sri Lanka has become a living laboratory on how to and how not to fight...”
– Professor Rohan Gunaratna (no relation) in this compelling Q&A in the Asian Tribune about the state of war, peace and counter terrorism in Sri Lanka
The Girl Effect →
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it....”
– Premal Shah, quoting Howard Thurman, at the closing address of this year’s awe-inspiring Global Engagement Summit. Premal Shah, young enough to look like another Northwestern student, is the founder of Kiva, a wildly successful microfinance organization that in the past four years has enabled...
WatchChance encounter! I met an awesome girl on my New York-Chicago flight this week: Mars Argo, an aspiring photographer and student at Columbia College who, turns out, was in New York because she wants to transfer to a more intensive arts school in the city. Together with her boyfriend, a videographer, she has a kickass experimental website called grocerybag.tv in which the couple posts her...
March 2009
6 posts
The obituary of Alan Landers, ex-smoker, tonsillar... →
“Rosa sat
So Martin could walk
Martin walked
So Obama could run
Obama ran
So...”
– Poem seen today, hanging in Washington Elementary School (via brianrosenthal)
The capital-T truth →
David Foster Wallace’s words here, at a 2005 commencement address at Kenyon University, are lovely. This is water.
February 2009
6 posts
“I didn’t ball out of the human race as a reporter. I allowed myself to...”
– Helen Thomas, in her speech tonight to a packed audotorium at McTrib.
I’m feeling very lucky that, on just another weekday evening, I can see this journalistic giant and fascinating public figure speak. Dressed in all black with a flashy band of sequins around her waist, Thomas was so short I...
"123 people" yourself →
This website is supremely interesting… it’s a search tool, like Google, but in a more targeted, detailed way. On 123 People you can type in your name and get a conglomeration of all the links, photos and phrases tied to you on the internet - all things that are publicly available. The result is a packaged, digitalized reflection of your public person, up to this point in time. The site...
“We have no idea what journalism is going to look like in five years. But I’d...”
– —The AP Washington bureau chief
(via stufftotelljillian) (via brianrosenthal)
“where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
where knowledge is...”
– “gitanjali,” rabindranath tagore
January 2009
7 posts
earth →
wonderful installation art: this room in nyc, on public view since 1980, smells like the rainforest and is filled with dirt
home!
The daughter of an assassinated president is now no longer in the running for New York’s senate seat, which was left vacant when the wife of a publicly adulterous politician moved on up to the executive branch. The candidate was being considered for appointment by a legally blind, formerly adulterous recreational coke-user, who moved to the Governor’s Mansion only after the former governor’s...
Watch“Better days”
“In the age of personalized news, who is going to put in their search engine:...”
– Samantha Power in REPORTER
On Slumdog Millionaire
When Debbie and I walked back from the theatre, snow falling around us with a rare heaviness, we finally found the right word to describe the film: magical. It is magical in its art direction – the production team took an idea and somehow transformed imagined images into a colorful, dizzying physical reality. The film is magical in its affect on audience members – you leave the theatre with a...