Shawn P. Calhoun

nevver: Word on the Street

Tue, 14 May 2013 15:15:11 -0700

nevver:

Word on the Street

thingsorganizedneatly: Pocket.

Sun, 12 May 2013 18:40:02 -0700

thingsorganizedneatly:

Pocket.

O M G.

Fri, 10 May 2013 16:26:47 -0700

O M G.

writersnoonereads: The Academy of Modern Ruins is repurposing...

Mon, 06 May 2013 17:07:09 -0700

writersnoonereads:

The Academy of Modern Ruins is repurposing this abandoned gas station on Route 66 as The Philosopher’s Library. Submit a book that’s changed your life. (via invisiblestories)

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Mon, 06 May 2013 17:05:22 -0700

"It has been argued that a chronic fever of distraction and fascination arrives on waves of Wi-Fi to..."

Fri, 03 May 2013 21:40:15 -0700

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It has been argued that a chronic fever of distraction and fascination arrives on waves of Wi-Fi to stunt our attention spans, encouraging writers to paddle about, tweeting and liking, instead of striking out for deeper waters. As a writer who writes about writers, I struggle with this surfeit of ideas and impressions myself, but I also can see this so-called malady from a different point of view, through the prism of history. Authors, after all, have always sought the means to build bridges between the world and the page. Wi-Fi, Google Docs, social networks and even smartphones and other gadgets are just the most recent means of doing so. While they can distract us with their bells and whistles, they also provide powerful tools for gathering information, tracking renegade thoughts and inspirations and disciplining the flow of words and ideas.

The impulse to connect to the outside world is an ancient one.

Writers have always welcomed this intervention and inspiration of the world in the work of composition. Early-modern European authors had their commonplace books: journals they filled with excerpts from classical and modern works, snippets of journalism and reflections gleaned from daily life. More than a mere journal, the commonplace book can be thought of as a paper-based interface for the social world of letters, in which Enlightenment-era writers continuously added, combined and swapped out snippets of found text gleaned from such new media as newspapers, broadsides and learned journals.

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- Matthew Battles considers how writers interact with the world. Indeed, the medieval florilegium was the literary Tumblr of its day and Voltaire’s Republic of Letters was primordial Facebook. (via explore-blog)

I love this sentiment, and bravo (brava? bravi?) to explore-blog for elaborating upon it! Read all of it— you won’t regret it.

(via text-block)

nevver: Love Will Tear Us Apart Map

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:24:21 -0700

nevver:

Love Will Tear Us Apart Map

nevver: You can’t get there from here Got ‘em all....

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:22:10 -0700

nevver:

You can’t get there from here

Got ‘em all. I’m old.

Jobs - PAID Summer Writing Internship - Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:55:30 -0700

Jobs - PAID Summer Writing Internship - Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism:

cat:

Cool link alert. A new women’s magazine in Brooklyn needs interns for the summer! It’s PAID. You can work remotely or, if you’re local, in their office. Ladies of the writing variety, holler at this.

NYU Business School Professor Has Mastered The Art Of Email Flaming

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:03:58 -0700

NYU Business School Professor Has Mastered The Art Of Email Flaming:

…get your shit together…

benandjerrys: Today is Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry’s! Find...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 07:45:03 -0700

benandjerrys:

Today is Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry’s! Find a Ben & Jerry’s Scoop Shop near you: www.benjerry.com

lookatmybooks: idiaz: New cover for Fahrenheit 451 by Ray...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 06:59:05 -0700

lookatmybooks:

idiaz:

New cover for Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. “The spine is screen-printed with a matchbook striking paper surface, so the book itself can be burned.”

I’m obsessed.

the pinakes: Create|Curate with Archive.org

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 20:46:51 -0700

the pinakes: Create|Curate with Archive.org:

internetarchive:

Internet Archive will be accepting 52 people for week long tumblr residencies. We are looking for creators, hackers, educators, curators, tumblr kids and anyone else looking to play with some code and content.

Here’s how it works: You create a custom tumblr theme at a…

wtfqrcodes: Absolutely brilliant. via @CristinMcGrath

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 21:43:21 -0700

wtfqrcodes:

Absolutely brilliant.

via @CristinMcGrath

"It’s a treasure trove of books, films, music, and software made free, often with the consent of its..."

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 20:58:13 -0700

“It’s a treasure trove of books, films, music, and software made free, often with the consent of its creators. It’s also the home of the Wayback Machine, an online resource that archives ‘dead links’ from throughout the Internet’s history. To date, more than 281 billion web pages are archived in the Machine, preserved here long after the original pages’ hosts have turned off their servers and moved on. That time the Chronicle interviewed you about a fire in the Outer Sunset in 1999? Go take a look — it’s likely in there. When people talk about things lasting forever on the Internet, they’re talking about this place. The Archive’s goal, as [Brewster] Kahle [founder, Internet Archive] puts it, is to be a ‘modern Library of Alexandria. When people download too much of our stuff, that’s a good thing. It just means we need bigger servers.’”

- Privileged Information: The Fight for an Open Internet | Alee Karim, SF Weekly, describing the Internet Archive’s San Francisco headquarters (via thepinakes)

nevver: Albums as Book Sets

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 21:54:29 -0700

Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division (1979)

Power, Corruption & Lies by New Order (1983)

nevver:

Albums as Book Sets

"I hate people who write off other people’s talents just because of their taste in movies. I left..."

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 07:15:56 -0700

“I hate people who write off other people’s talents just because of their taste in movies. I left film-school for that very reason. The first thing the teacher told us was “If you want to make Terminator 2, leave now” and I was like, fuck you man. There could be a kid sat in the corner disheartened because Terminator 2 is the movie he wants to make, that’s his vision and here’s the teacher telling him he can’t do that. He had no fucking right, none of us do. Besides, I think Terminator 2 is a pretty kick-ass movie.”

- sub books (or just about anything else) for movies…

Paul Thomas Anderson (via dwsc)

howitzerliterarysociety: rocketlover: brain-food: Artist Jay...

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 06:56:34 -0700

howitzerliterarysociety:

rocketlover:

brain-food:

Artist Jay Shells channeled his love of hip hop music and his uncanny sign-making skills towards a brand new project: “Rap Quotes.” For this ongoing project, Shells created official-looking street signs quoting famous rap lyrics that shout out specific street corners and locations.

Reblogging, again, because of perfectness.

The best poets are tied to their towns.

nevver: Dinner is coming

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 19:51:59 -0700

nevver:

Dinner is coming

heisenbergchronicles: All Hail the King!

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 19:50:57 -0700

heisenbergchronicles:

All Hail the King!