Peruvian booty call (Q train from Astoria)
Park Avenue in spring glory
- Will and Andy at Maison
Allen at brunch
Ishmael Houston-Jones and Keith Hennessy at Blossom
23rd Street subway station
Quote of the day: YOUNG PEOPLE
April 15, 2013YOUNG PEOPLE
An obstacle to implementing any response to content overload is that one can retreat into a position of indifference. Young people experience a world where nothing can be done. They sense that society is falling apart and nothing will change. [Mark Fisher, in his 2009 book Capitalist Realism] correlates the impotence to widespread pathologization, foreclosing the possibility of politicization. “Many of the teenage students I encountered,” Fisher writes, “seemed to be in a state of depressive hedonia, constituted by an inability to do anything else except pursue pleasure.” Young people respond to the freedom that post-disciplinary systems offer “not by pursuing projects but by falling into hedonic lassitude: the soft narcosis, the comfort food oblivion of Playstation, all-night TV and marijuana.”
— Geert Lovink, Networks without a Cause
Photo diary: spring awakening 2013
April 15, 2013
Chelsea morning
Big Gay Ice Cream Store, East Village
science experiment
- still from Gilles Bourdos’s film RENOIR
Jonathan’s flannel loafers
Melissa and Don
Quote of the day: SEX
April 14, 2013SEX
Nothing is more real than sex when it is happening, nothing more illusory when it has just ended.
— Dan Chiasson
Good stuff online: Russell Brand on Margaret Thatcher
April 14, 2013The Guardian of London published this remarkably deep, thoughtfully enraged remembrance of Margaret Thatcher from a surprising corner — as Andy remarked, who knew Russell Brand (the comic actor with the out-of-control hair and five-minute-marriage to pop star Katy Perry) was such a fine, intelligent, self-searching writer?
“I hope I’m not being reductive but it seems Thatcher’s time in power was solely spent diminishing the resources of those who had least for the advancement of those who had most. I know from my own indulgence in selfish behaviour that it’s much easier to get what you want if you remove from consideration the effect your actions will have on others.”
another eye opens 