Gary Indiana’s controlled uncontrol
to fill their lives with meaning. He was earnestly interested in the opposite: What would happen if he emptied everything out? His search for this answer occasioned the experiment’s many harsh “controls”—for it to work, it needed to be pure.
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
“On a building, I don’t know where I’m going when I start,” he said. “If I knew where I was going, I wouldn’t go there, that’s for sure.”
Paul Goldberger • Building Art
the artist creates a structure—whether
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Personally, I have found that a disciplined and structured workplace encourages a certain kind of free-range creativity that chaos is just not conducive to.
Nick Cave • Faith, Hope and Carnage
Tootzi instilled a philosophy of “all that exists is the artifact that’s on the table.” It doesn’t matter if your ideas come from your mind, your heart, your soul, your belly button, the tops of mountains, a bottle of red wine, or from managing an in-house spider colony (this was Salvidore Dali’s process). No matter how you arrive, conscious or unc... See more
Michael Dean • The Secret Architecture of Great Essays
The dream of course is that one day narrative jailbreaking works in an irl conversation too. So if we’re chatting and I ask you how your day has been and then ask you why you just manifested a portal to the reality onion-skinned just outside this one, right between us, hanging iridescent in the air, there look I’m reaching through it, what do I see... See more