Entries from March 2011
Mar. 31, 2011
Baldessari: Tips for Artists Who Want to Sell
John Baldessari: Tips for Artists Who Want to Sell
Tags: John Baldessari · painting
Mar. 30, 2011
New York, 1964
André Kertész – Untitled (woman sunbathing on roof reading), September 21, 1964
Tags: André Kertész · New York
Mar. 30, 2011
What information consumes
Economist Herbert Simon: “In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients.”
Tags: quotes
Mar. 30, 2011
Bird vs. Magic
An HBO documentary on the Bird-Magic rivalry.
Tags: basketball · Celtics · Larry Bird · Magic Johnson
Mar. 29, 2011
What Creativity Means
Creativity is not about making something out of nothing. It is about making something new out of old things. To create, you must remix.
Tags: creativity · On Writing · writing tips
Mar. 28, 2011
Quote of the Day
Nabokov: “I can quite understand people wanting to know my writings, but I cannot sympathise with anybody wanting to know me.”
Tags: quotes · Vladimir Nabokov
Mar. 27, 2011
Sunday poem: “Tonight I Can Write” by Pablo Neruda
“I no longer love her, that’s certain, but maybe I love her. / Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
Tags: Pablo Neruda · poems · W.S. Merwin
Mar. 25, 2011
The price of coal
Seth Godin: “For every person killed by nuclear power generation, 4,000 die due to coal, adjusted for the same amount of power produced.” (chart)
Tags: energy · infographics · Seth Godin
Mar. 24, 2011
Blurbathon
More blurbs for Defending Jacob continue to roll in. An update.
Tags: Defending Jacob
Mar. 22, 2011
Seth Godin: Ten Bestsellers
Seth Godin’s memorable presentation at the O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference in February 2008: *10 Bestsellers: Using New Media, New Marketing, and New Thinking to Create 10 Bestselling Books.* (link)
Tags: bookselling · ebooks · Seth Godin · video
Mar. 22, 2011
How to Balance Work and Family
Mar. 22, 2011
Quote of the Day
E.L. Doctorow: “I thought of myself as a writer for years before I got around to writing anything.”
Tags: E.L. Doctorow · quotes for writers
Mar. 21, 2011
Pale Blue Dot
Earth as seen from the Voyager 1 in 1990, at a distance of nearly 4 billion miles.
Tags: Carl Sagan · space
Mar. 21, 2011
Calvino: And then something happens
Italo Calvino: “Every morning I tell myself, Today has to be productive—and then something happens that prevents me from writing.”
Tags: Italo Calvino · quotes for writers
Mar. 21, 2011
The Five Commandments
A few rules for a novelist (or any artist, presumably) struggling to get a new project started.
Tags: creativity · On Writing · writing tips
Mar. 15, 2011
What good shall I do this day?
Benjamin Franklin’s daily schedule: “What good shall I do this day?”
Tags: Benjamin Franklin
Mar. 15, 2011
Madison Square Garden, 1951
St. John’s vs. Bradley at Madison Square Garden, January 1, 1951 (photo).
Tags: basketball
Mar. 14, 2011
California, 1936
Daughter of Migrant Tennessee Coal Miner Living in American River Camp near Sacramento, California. Photo by Dorothea Lange, 1936.
Tags: Dorothea Lange · portraits