"Minimalists are actually extreme hoarders:
they hoard space." — Douglas Coupland,
​quoted here on May 18, 2017
Tuesday, July 25, 2023
Centerpiece
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Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Diamond Bits
Or: Putting the Pinter in Pinterest
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From "A Poem for Pinter" Log24 on Oct. 13, 2005 The Guardian on Harold Pinter, winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature: "Earlier this year, he announced his decision to retire from playwriting in favour of poetry," Michael Muskal in today's Los Angeles Times: "Pinter, 75, is known for his sparse and thin style as well as his etched characters whose crystal patter cuts through the mood like diamond drill bits." Robert Stone, A Flag for Sunrise (See Jan. 25): "'That old Jew gave me this here.' Egan looked at the diamond…. 'It's worth a whole lot of money– you can tell that just by looking– but it means something, I think. It's got a meaning, like.' 'Let's see,' Egan said, 'what would it mean?' He took hold of Pablo's hand cupping the stone and held his own hand under it. '"The jewel is in the lotus," perhaps that's what it means. The eternal in the temporal….'" |
See as well an image in a link target from today's noon post —
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Monday, May 29, 2017
Ordinary Evening in a Paper Town
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Thursday, May 18, 2017
Bit Plot
From a May 15 review of a new book by Douglas Coupland, author of
the 1991 book Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture .
"Minimalists are actually extreme hoarders:
they hoard space." — Douglas Coupland
The title of Coupland's new book suggests a review of Schmeikal
in this journal …
Coupland's above remark on hoarders suggests a look at
a wealthy California collector whom, were he not wealthy,
some might call a hoarder.
“I buy things because they strike an emotional bell,
they appeal to my curiosity, to the thrill of discovery
of the extraordinary in the ordinary,” Mr. Cotsen told
The Denver Post in 1998. “They appeal to my sense
of humor, and to my search for the beauty in simplicity.”
He added, “I decided I had a collection when there was
no more space to put anything.”
By the time he died at 88 on May 8 in Beverly Hills, Calif.,
Mr. Cotsen (pronounced COAT-zen) had donated about
half of the material in his collections to institutions like the
Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, Princeton University
and the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, N.M.
— Richard Sandomir in the online New York Times , May 17
Cotsen reportedly died at 88 on May 8.
See also this journal on that date —
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Monday, May 8, 2017
New Pinterest Board
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