roared by. Jim, she never intuited the gentle and cunning economy behind this man’s quote harsh sloppy unstudied approach to objects. The way he’d oh so clearly practiced a chair’s back-leg tilt over and over. The way he’d studied objects with a welder’s eye for those strongest centered seams which when pressured by the swinishest [...]
Sally Bennett Jones, 1944–1988. Center medallion of triangles, surrounded by multiple borders, 1966, cotton, 86 x 77″ Linda Pettway, born 1929. “Logcabin” — single-block variation, tied with yarn, ca. 1975, corduroy, 88 x 78″ Mary Elizabeth Kennedy, 1911–1991. “Housetop” — “Logcabin” variation, ca. 1935, cotton, rayon, 84 x 79″ Quilts of Gee’s Bend Catalog
The timeline of the burrito documents the use of the burrito, a food made with tortillas and filling found in Mexico and the United States. Hand-held take-out foods like the burrito have a long history. Before the Spanish colonization of the Americas, indigenous peoples were eating hand-held snack foods like corn on the cob, popcorn [...]
WINTER B.S. 1960 — TUCSON AZ Jim not that way Jim. That’s no way to treat a garage door, bending stiffly down at the waist and yanking at the handle so the door jerks up and out jerky and hard and you crack your shins and my ruined knees, son. Let’s see you bend at [...]
A zebra cleans a hippo’s teeth in an enclosure at Zurich Zoo. Thought to be one of the most aggressive animals in the world the hippo allowed the zebra to floss its teeth for fifteen minutes Telegraph
As the two, maybe three people who visit this blog might have noticed, maintaining a timely Fall Video of the Month series sometimes proves too tall an order for one Chris Svensson. As such, I have reached out and asked dear friend and fellow Fall enthusiast Frances Stark to guest curate. If any of the [...]
It’s alright to say things can only get better You have lost your brand new sweater…
Let me be clear about this: I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem. —Keith Richards But, I was not so fortunate. But, you know, I was cruising hard at that time so when you think about it, the anti-Cruise really breathing down my neck, could not allow me even physical mobility. [...]
Roland ‘Rollie’ Free, Bonneville Salt Flats, September 13, 1948. Via A Continuous Lean.
Goats in trees courtesy of It’s Nice That and Google image search.
Container Drivers official video, 1980.