Just back from an amazing weekend at my beloved Laity Lodge, where I got to hang out and kinda-collaborate with some astonishingly gifted people, including Dana Tanamachi, Uwade, and Jon Searle — plus my buddy Austin Kleon. Hearing Uwade sing live sent chills down my spine — you can get a sense of her amazing vocal presence by watching this. Goodness, being around people this gifted … well, it’s humbling. That’s a mild word for it.
So long (for now) to the canyon.
When in 1792 the noted engraver and cartographer John Cooke (1765-1845) moved from Drury Lane, London to Mill Hill, he made this card to show friends his passage. Beautiful! (You’ll want to open the image in a new tab or window to see it full size.)
I don’t use Chrome so I can’t use this, but I love the idea of a productivity blocker.
The story of the Raphael Cartoons is complicated and fascinating. This photo shows how they were conveyed from Hampton Court Palace to the South Kensington Museum (now the V&A).
I wrote a brief essay that starts from an idea of Phil Christman’s and commends (in one respect anyway) Noam Chomsky. You can’t pigeonhole ME.
“I regard neither a class of error nor an example of it as one stone which has made me stumble: I learn to distrust my trot in general and set about improving it. To learn that we have said or done a stupid thing is nothing: we must learn a more ample and important lesson: that we are but blockheads.” — Montaigne