Caleb D. Williams

Might be the coolest song I’ve heard in a long time...

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:10:29 -0400

Might be the coolest song I’ve heard in a long time …

Steak, truffled mac’n’cheese and an nice Brunello di...

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 22:04:54 -0500

Steak, truffled mac’n’cheese and an nice Brunello di Montalcino. Proof there is a God and that he loves us.

Merry Christmas

Mon, 24 Dec 2012 17:04:38 -0500

Merry Christmas

Nothing beats a good Brunello. I miss Montalcino.

Sat, 10 Nov 2012 19:55:49 -0500

Nothing beats a good Brunello. I miss Montalcino.

"He wrote by hand because this forced his brain to wait."

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 23:15:59 -0400

“He wrote by hand because this forced his brain to wait.”

- Few literary authors achieve the cult celebrity of rock stars. But there was something about David Foster Wallace that seemed bigger than his books.
Love this.

"A great story is like a great melody: it announces its inevitable greatness and you recognize it the..."

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 23:13:36 -0400

“A great story is like a great melody: it announces its inevitable greatness and you recognize it the first time you hear it. Most stories aren’t that. They do not announce their obvious greatness. 60% are in the limbo region where they might GET great or they might flop, and the only way to figure it out is to start making the story. So you launch in, hoping for that winning combination of great moments, charm, funny, and X factor.

As a result, we go through tons of stories on our way to the few that end up on the air. It’s like harnessing luck as an industrial product. You want to get hit by lightning, so you have to wander around for a long time in the rain.”

- Ira Glass, host and producer of This American Life, in a Reddit Ask Me Anything from earlier today.
It’s too bad This American Life has a … history … of expanding stories. The stories they do tell are fantastic, but it brings up the old question: What is a fact?

ialreadydontlikeyou: High Speed Photos of Exploding...

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 23:10:02 -0400

ialreadydontlikeyou:

High Speed Photos of Exploding Food.

etsy:

Treats under fire!

From archiemcphee:

Photographer Alan Sailer (previously featured here) quite literally shoots various objects with a pellet rifle and captures the explosive moments of impact using a home-buit microsecond flash and high-speed photography.

Laughing Squid recently posted some of Alan’s latest work and we were particularly taken with these photos of exploding sweets. Treat yourself to a look at Alan Sailer’s flickr and 500px pages for many more of his awesome photos.

No one make wine like Gaja. (Taken with Instagram)

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 22:51:48 -0400

No one make wine like Gaja. (Taken with Instagram)

Dinner. (Taken with Instagram)

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 22:08:22 -0400

Dinner. (Taken with Instagram)

Audio

Fri, 03 Aug 2012 16:42:33 -0400

Audio

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:51:50 -0400

This brings back memories

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:34:55 -0400

This brings back memories

Audio

Fri, 18 May 2012 14:03:04 -0400

Audio

Fri, 18 May 2012 12:35:29 -0400

Z.D. Is an old engineering term: zero defects. I found one,...

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:29:02 -0400

Z.D. Is an old engineering term: zero defects. I found one, there isn’t enough. (Taken with instagram)

"I should be able to pick which applications I use for managing my life, I should be able to pick..."

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:09:42 -0400

“I should be able to pick which applications I use for managing my life, I should be able to pick which content I look at, and I should be able to pick which device I use, which company I use for supplying my internet, and I’d like those to be independent choices.”

- Tim Berners-Lee (via azspot)

"It’s tough to associate creativity with mental illness because obviously if you’re very ill, it gets..."

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 09:33:36 -0400

“It’s tough to associate creativity with mental illness because obviously if you’re very ill, it gets in the way. … But one of the theories now is that the terrible swings of the mental illness – of bipolar depression – you get these manic highs, these euphorias, where the ideas just pour out of you. And you need to write them down. That’s followed by this dismal low period when maybe you’re a better editor. Maybe it’s easier for you to focus and refine those epiphanies into a perfect form. … The thinking is maybe the correlation exists because the swings of mental illness echo the natural swings of the creative process.”

- Jonah Lehrer, on the link between depression and creativity. [complete interview here] (via nprfreshair)

Photo

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 21:10:33 -0400

Photo

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 17:25:58 -0400

Photo

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 23:29:45 -0400