Daily Meh

Matthew's non theme based fancy dress party

May 30th

Hate

Do you hate anyone? Is there anyone you truly hate? I realized today that I hate no one. That word...

May 29th

By Matthew Genitempo.

May 29th

“A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest...”
— Roald Dahl.

May 28th

Presidio Modelo is a former prison in Cuba (now a museum),...

May 27th

Al-Faw Palace, Camp Victory, Baghdad, Iraq, 2009, by Richard...

May 27th

Bedjumping with sandwich, for Alec Soth’s assignment. ...

May 27th

Realizing that I don’t have a monopoly on interpreting works of art, I still feel a little...

May 27th

From Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo, by Jonathan Hillhouse...

May 27th

William Eggleston.

May 27th

By Lina Scheynius.

May 27th

Derek Vincent. (found here)

May 26th

The Line Above, by Douglas Huebler, 1970. This is...

May 25th

This is 100 South African Rand (about $12). The old notes...

May 25th

Easy Solutions #1

May 25th

“Books ought to be so cheap that we can throw them away if we...”
— Virginia Woolf. (via Tomorrow...

May 25th

Ernst Haas.

May 24th

Yumiko Kinoshita.

May 24th

Mary Roach: 10 things you didn't know about...

May 23rd

Mojibake

May 23rd

Intellectual Property Asshole Competition

May 22nd

No flimping

May 22nd

Ping Pong Study, from Tate Millerton’s Evolution is...

May 21st

Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned, by...

May 21st

Moments that people are in

When something becomes a theme, that suggests I ought to write about it. Not every writer gets to...

May 20th

“Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying...”
— Aristotle.

May 20th

Ted Dziuba reviews Wolfram Alpha. (via inky) I actually...

May 20th

Sometimes I suspect that Tumblr’s theme engine has...

May 19th

Exhausted Renegade Elephant, 1979, by Joel Sternfeld....

May 19th

Yes, it’s time to put this thing to use.

May 19th

An, auf, hinter, in, neben, über, unter,...

I just finished my German exam. In two years, my classmates and I have learned depressingly little...

May 19th

Joel Sternfeld talks about the High Line. Wikipedia: The...

May 18th

From Dreamworld, by Leo Fabrizio. (via Shooting Wide Open)

May 18th

Steven Ahlgren’s Inside the Corporation.

May 18th

“I demand that the human race ceases multiplying its kind...”
— Jack Kerouac.

May 17th

Kohlton Ervin has a website now. (previously)

May 17th

Wonderful color photos from Paris during the German...

May 17th

This is the office of Spanish architectural firm Selgas...

May 17th

A collection of exclamations by Mel Bochner.

May 17th

From Entoptic Phenomena by William Hundley. (via today and...

May 17th

Automat, 1927, by Edward Hopper. Literature such as After...

May 16th

TIME FOR SOME STORIES

May 16th

Kawaii not, “the comic for cute things gone...

May 16th

And another by Mathew Scott.

May 16th

By Mathew Scott. (found here)

May 16th

An actor in a local street theatre performance today....

May 16th

Outdoing Infinity (or: epenis = aleph...

Is it possible to outdo this? Can you beat infinity? Can your score be higher than...

May 15th

“I spent the winter on the verge of a total breakdown while...”
— Of Montreal, A Sentence of...

May 14th

“I photograph to see what the world looks like in...

May 14th

Here’s one injection of cuteness.

May 14th

Stansted airport transit #1, by Kevin Meredith.

May 14th

If things were up to me, there would be a special tax on applying certain adjectives to yourself....

May 13th

This is a great concept: the cover of issue 8 of Opium...

May 13th

Can somebody please either write or name their book “Teal...

May 13th

“You can’t produce art by trying, by setting up exacting...”
— Raymond Chandler.

May 13th

Josef Schulz.

May 13th

Never, by Shaun Sundholm.

May 12th

A softer world. (via heather-rivers)

May 12th

“Their lives were too human for science, too beautiful for...”
— George Vaillant, on the men in...

May 12th

By 1977!, from Kuala Lumpur. (And taken with a Yashica-Mat...

May 12th

What arrived in the mail today. Its customs declaration has...

May 12th

Mind in the Eyes

May 11th

Ross Rosenberg’s Advice for Aspiring Bloggers

May 11th

By Lina Scheynius.

May 11th

By Kevin C. (via hope and anchor)

May 11th

Commons: Licensing

May 11th

How time travel works in Primer; click through for a...

May 10th

Memento Mori by Jonathan Nolan

May 10th

The Lost Tools of Learning, by Dorothy Sayers

May 10th

Spectrum 2 by Jessica Eaton.

May 10th

“I I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the...”
— Autobiography in Five Short...

May 8th

When someone puts an exact number to an unquantifiable...

May 8th

nostrich writes: Getting a Posterous blog requires significantly less effort than complaining about...

May 8th

From Piramid, by Raoul Gatepin. (found here)

May 8th

(from here)

May 8th

What does it say about me that I prefer the 1946 edition...

May 7th

The Art of Penguin Science Fiction

May 7th

“Am I disappointed by the amount of progress in cognitive...”
— Douglas Hofstadter.

May 7th

“Tumblarity needs an api so someone can make a mashup that...”
— nostrich in #tumblrs.

May 7th

John Searle on Ludwig Wittgenstein

May 6th

Dubious Localization

Here’s an annoying problem I encountered today, due to some overhelpful programmers who wanted...

May 6th

Don Jose, Nezahualcoyotl, Mexico, 2003, by Stefan Ruiz: This...

May 6th

From London, by Matt Mawson. (via evoke.)

May 6th

Pixel City, procedurally generated city

May 5th

China brain

May 5th

By Cody Cloud.

May 4th

Trampolines. No further comment.

May 4th

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"

May 4th

Why you should be very careful with using pie charts to...

May 4th

After that, something lighter: a fractal cow. (found here)

May 3rd

Every healthy person having considered...

The Nietzsche quote I posted earlier was one I found through reading Albert Camus. His essay is a...

May 3rd

Apparently, redheads + fine light = a post on this blog. Oh,...

May 3rd

“If the world were clear, art would not exist.”
— Another aphorism about the...

May 3rd

“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche.

May 3rd

Europe, by ArtWerk. Selfish fishermen land, ftw. (via...

May 3rd

Carl Wooley, night. (via & via)

May 3rd

EU quarantines London in swine flu panic

May 1st

As a favor to insomniacs, the world looks much prettier at 4...

Apr 30th

By Benoit Chailleux.

Apr 30th

David Foster Wallace in the room he had “painted...

Apr 30th

Just North of the Unconquered Sea, by Trey Hill. (via Laura...

Apr 30th

The Garden of Forking Paths

Apr 30th

My theme made it into the Tumblr Theme Garden. Preview...

Apr 30th