May 2012
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The Risk-Averse Style Industry
I recently read a Vanity Fair article about how style hasn’t changed much since the 1980s. The writer suggested two reasons for this industry’s lack of change:
1. People are too shocked by changes in other aspect of their lives:
“I think, it’s an unconscious collective reaction to all the profound nonstop newness we’re experiencing on the tech and geopolitical and economic...
Most entertaining NYC apartment listing so far
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SASSY!! Wicked APT: fun, cool of SOHO, exhilaration & Rush of GREENWICH VILLA
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RAZZLE DAZZLE. Best part of SoHo with a smidge of Greenwich Village. The artsy chic, the vibrant pulse! Drop-dead location with all the art, fashion and nightlife scene you can handle.Quiet building, Stylish full of character street, adorable,...
“What I “discovered” was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not...”
– Flow, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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“China babble has reigned among exactly the kinds of people who used to marvel at...”
– Chinese Economy “Unexpectedly” Slows, @ American Prospect
April 2012
4 posts
“…she had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it...”
– from TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf (via readandbreathe)
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Four photos for Yom HaShoah
I’m taking a break from packing my Austin life into some suitcases, and my Facebook newsfeed reminded me of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day).
This year I have time, so I am sharing four very personal family photos that tell one story of loss and rebuilding out of millions.
First: My grandmother Traute and her first husband, Joseph Seckbach, in Frankfurt around 1940/1. Joseph did...
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Betty's Gone
Silly me for writing about a TV show, but I thought I’d share my thoughts with the larger Tumblr community after seeing last night’s episode of Mad Men. Ezra Klein lists a few reasons why he thinks Betty is terminally ill, so I thought I’d add to those:
1. Her expression, with eyes darting back and forth as she tells Henry it is a false alarm screams “lying”, besides...
March 2012
9 posts
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Twitter users, check out @LustreFound
It’ll explain why I’ve been a bit absent on Tumblr of late.
But seriously, everyday I am pleased to see who’s followed me. (Minus those annoying spammers and porn types, obvi. Their photos are awful.) For example, The Week just followed me. Yay!
If you’re a Twitter user who wants to read some interesting stuff, check out https://twitter.com/#!/lustrefound for links and...
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Whether wine can become an American habit, circa...
“Wine is a habit, an industry, and an art. The men who pick and trample barefoot the rare fine grapes beside the Gironde have their own carafes filled with a liquid poorer than the grand Medocs, and in Jerez de la Frontera, whose brave wine the linguistically lazy English made famous, the people drink manzanilla, which is the unfortified wine of the country and cheap. A tall sleek bottle of...
Zielschmerz
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the exhilarating dread of finally pursuing a lifelong dream, which requires you to put your true abilities out there to be tested on the open savannah, no longer protected inside the terrarium of hopes and delusions that you created in kindergarten and kept sealed as long as you could, only to break in case of emergency.
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“We are indeed living in an interesting age when it is socially accepted, even...”
– Michael Raisanen’s Fast Co Design piece on Fake Authenticity
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“The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for...”
– Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson via It’s Okay to be Smart.
Also see how to find your purpose and do what you love.
(via explore-blog)
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“We used to live in the internal imaginary world of the mirror, of the divided...”
– because any quotation that connects “self” with “imaginary”, “interactivity”, “screens”, “machines”, and the most timeless one of all: “men”, has to be profound.
[Jean Baudrillard (via quiix0tiic) on faciality, zur...
February 2012
12 posts
Style: Ithaka →
washingtonpoststyle:
This poem, by C.P. Cavafy, was read at journalist Anthony Shadid’s memorial at the American University of Beirut Tuesday.
As you set out for Ithaka hope the voyage is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery. Laistrygonians and Cyclops, angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them: …
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“No matter how fine, noble, and gifted one may be, he cannot command respect or...”
– R’ Soloveitchik, on Adam I, in The Lonely Man of Faith
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Coffee Klatsch
Girl: She's a yuppie.
Guy: How do you know that?
Girl: She really likes Whole Foods. And she listens to ok music, but she pretends it's really important to her.
“The buzzword now is authenticity—If anything, turning ourselves into miniature...”
– William Deresiewicz continues his three-pronged attack on the Millennial ethos. This week, entrepreneurship. Read @FranzKafka. (via theamericanscholar)
January 2012
36 posts
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“Elegance doesn’t mean being noticed, it means being remembered.”
– Giorgio Armani (via sorakeem)
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“I am empty, but not in a monkish way. I am just kind of dumb. Also, without the...”
– In the Land of the Non-Reader, Jonathan Gourlay
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“We’re not aware of changing our minds even when we do change our minds. And most...”
– Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow (via fsgbooks)
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Tamar Adler inspires us to deepen our relationship...
Sharing just a few answers from her Mother Jones interview with Kiera Butler. Most italicization is mine for emphasis:
MJ: Lately it seems like we’re in an era of the chef-celebrity. What do you think that’s about?
TA: On some level, I feel like by making chefs into celebrities, we’re kind of crying for help. Look, what characterizes celebrity is its unavailability to any of...
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“Downton Abbey” is situated precisely on the Venn diagram where “prestige” meets...”
– Emily Nussbaum’s New Yorker review of “Downton Abbey”
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Paula Deen has diabetes
Our schadenfreude about it is almost as sickening as donut burgers.
Read more…
“We are a peculiar people, sir! You don’t understand us, and you can’t understand...”
– How mysterious and engaging my state is… Louis T. Wigfall, a senator from Texas, in 1861 to a reporter from the London Times (via historical-nonfiction)