art21:

“It was important that people come to value light as we value gold, silver, paintings, objects.”
—James Turrell

New video from the Exclusive series: James Turrell, our current 100 Artists featured artist, describes the values and perceptions of light while revisiting one of his “skyspace” works, Second Meeting (1989).

WATCH: James Turrell: “Second Meeting”

IMAGES: Production stills from the Exclusive film, James Turrell: “Second Meeting”. © Art21, Inc. 2013.

bobbyfinger:

Sorry inventor Steve Wilhite but I’m going to use a hard G because you decided to name it “GIF” as an acronym for “GRAPHICS INTERCHANGE FORMAT” and the G in “GRAPHICS” is hard not soft like “JIF” so if you wanted us to call it a “JIF” you should have called it a “JOLLY INTERCHANGE FORMAT” or some crap.

This debate is stupid, but his reasoning is stupider. Graphics. Hard G. GIF.

imakethings:

This octopus understands me.

everyday.

(Source: striginesensibility)

A door in Chicago covers a Miles Davis lick.

theparisreview:

Hudsons and Studebakers ruled the streets,
a crossing guard and teenagers to the pavement
when I was eight. But that was an improvement
on indoors, a domain of grunts and threats.

One way out went up, skyward, on steep roofs
where we clattered on corrugated tin
or gripped crumbling shingles and stared at the sun,
until a call to scat down cuffed our laughs.

We had to shimmy down the drainpipes, hop
on the slick decks of sailboats on their trailers
and, skulking off, out of the range of callers,
reaching the center of the block, escape.

The boundaries dwindled to a row of wickets
or a wire fence twisted and bent and pulled
up from a channel clawed in earth. We crawled
underneath and squeezed through, dirt in our pockets.

The bushes, vines, limbs, underbrush, and creepers
were ours, a lodge for the diminutive,
and summer passed in coolness through the cove,
until we rose, pants brushed off, checking our zippers.

—John Drury, “The Center of the Block”
Photography Credit Amelia Hooning (via)