Things I found.

"I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 22:59:00 +0100

“I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.”

- Vintage Books & Anchor Books facebook page, Michel Foucault

thefashionatelier: Agyness Deyn photographed by Tim Walker for...

Sat, 11 May 2013 22:40:36 +0100

thefashionatelier:

Agyness Deyn photographed by Tim Walker for Vogue UK May 2011

bohemea: It can be energetically extremely expensive to be...

Thu, 09 May 2013 05:54:00 +0100

bohemea:

It can be energetically extremely expensive to be photographed, the agreement to be fully present—not always the easiest contract to strike. There is a sort of essential dare set up, the challenge to stay open and “undefended”: basically not to run and hide. Sometimes this can feel like wrangling a hairnet on a jellyfish.

Tilda Swinton on Being Photographed - Time by Peter Hapak, December 8th 2011

pitchfork: It looks like Beck will release a new acoustic album...

Wed, 01 May 2013 20:27:06 +0100

pitchfork:

It looks like Beck will release a new acoustic album this year, his first proper LP in five years.

Fall into raptures with green eyes

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 07:54:21 +0100

Fall into raptures with green eyes

visuallyoverwhelming: Tilda Swinton is my favorite

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 07:51:39 +0100

visuallyoverwhelming:

Tilda Swinton is my favorite

"We need music criticism because people like writing it and people like reading it. It’s as simple as..."

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:49:36 +0100

“We need music criticism because people like writing it and people like reading it. It’s as simple as that. Why do we need blogs about World of Warcraft? Why do we need people who want to talk about knitting? There’s a number of things that, if you’re outside of that culture, it seems strange or unnecessary. If you’re in it, though, it feels very necessary. They give meaning to life, they make you happy, they give you something to do.”

- Author Devon Powers makes a case for music writing in her conversation with Eric Harvey about her book Writing the Record: The Village Voice and the Birth of Rock Criticism. (via pitchfork)

Photo

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 08:12:00 +0100

Photo

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 08:11:00 +0100

Photo

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:23:07 +0100

lindsayzoladz: “Man, what if somebody made a human-sized...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 07:45:48 +0100

lindsayzoladz:

“Man, what if somebody made a human-sized replica of the milk carton dude from Blur’s ‘Coffee & TV’ video?” Does someone at the Museum of the Moving Image have a direct line to ALL OF MY HOPES AND DREAMS?

"Decide my past Define my life Don’t ask questions Cause I don’t know why"

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 04:50:05 +0000

“Decide my past
Define my life
Don’t ask questions
Cause I don’t know why”

- The strokes ‘Tap out’

John Cage Interview, 1985, KCRW 1992 (by atwaterpub)

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:10:00 +0000

John Cage Interview, 1985, KCRW 1992 (by atwaterpub)

The Death of Ferdinand De Saussure Illustrated

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:33:56 +0000

The Death of Ferdinand De Saussure Illustrated

pitchfork: Listen to the Strokes new album Comedown...

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 23:16:21 +0000

pitchfork:

Listen to the Strokes new album Comedown Machine right now via Pitchfork Advance.

letterheady: Queen, 1991 | Source Queen letterhead used by...

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:55:30 +0000

letterheady:

Queen, 1991 | Source

Queen letterhead used by Brian May in 1991, shortly after the death of Freddie Mercury.

See also: Queen letterhead from 1973.

"Information Theory depends upon a precise (but limited) definition of the word information which..."

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 23:08:43 +0000

“Information Theory depends upon a precise (but limited) definition of the word information which answers the question of how to define the quantity of information contained in a message being transmitted, received, or stored…Information Theory defines the quantity of information conveyed by a particular message as inversely proportional to the predictability of that message; when a message is entirely certain (that is, its probability is 1), then the quantity of information conveyed is zero. When a message is totally improbable (that is, its probability is 0), then to receive such a message would be to receive an infinite quantity of information.”

- Information theory and music

"Michel Foucault’s work on sexuality anticipates and informs the Queer theoretical movement in a role..."

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 08:20:37 +0000

“Michel Foucault’s work on sexuality anticipates and informs the Queer theoretical movement in a role similar to the way his writing on power and discourse prepared the ground for “New Historicism.” Judith Butler contends that heterosexual identity long held to be a normative ground of sexuality is actually produced by the suppression of homoerotic possibility. Eve Sedgwick is another pioneering theorist of “Queer theory,” and like Butler, Sedgwick maintains that the dominance of heterosexual culture conceals the extensive presence of homosocial relations.”

- Literary theory, 8. Gender studies and queer theory

"The essential difference between English and American musicians could be very crudely defined in..."

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 07:54:00 +0000

“The essential difference between English and American musicians could be very crudely defined in these terms: American musicians will always ask ‘How do we end?’. English musicians only ask ‘How do we begin?’”

- Dai Griffiths, Elvis Costello, sleevenotes King of America (reissue, 1995).

Literary theory

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 07:36:30 +0000

Literary theory:

Struggling to understand the literary theories? Then this is for you.