A Very Happy Dog.
Finished reading: Small Town Talk by Barney Hoskyns. Reading about the music of the Sixties can be fascinating, but reading about all the $$$ complications is often infuriating, and reading about the musicians’ personal lives is deeply depressing. 📚
James Hill: “Eve Arnold, the wonderful Magnum photographer, used to recount a story about walking with Henri Cartier-Bresson from the Magnum office in Paris to have lunch at his apartment on the Rue de Rivoli. During the 15-minute stroll home, as he kept telling her that he was no longer interested in photography, only drawing, he took three rolls of film on his Leica.”
I’m having fun listening to The Science of Sound, from 1958. The liner notes are fun also.
I’m hitting the pause button on my weekly newsletter, but that just means that I’ll be using micro.blog as my newsletter, thanks to the cool subscribe feature. Indeed I’ve already begun posting some items of interest that I previously would’ve saved for the weekly issue.
From a fascinating interview about Georgia O’Keefe’s choice of materials, especially papers.
Hilary Hahn plays the Sibelius Violin Concerto — an astonishing performance 🎵
Cabel Sasser: “Some designers are amazing at imagining things, but not as amazing at imagining them surrounded by the universe.”
