Journal

Rojak.

Review of Arcade Fire’s new album, The Suburbs. [via Obscure Sound] I just got my hands on it.

flickr has a new look, with bigger pictures. Look at mine. [via flickr] I like it so far.

A look into the J.G. Ballard archives. [via A Piece of Monologue]

‘I am not going to give one inch to the “you need to support yourself” argument. I had a student at the School of Visual Arts once. He came to class one week and didn’t have any work because his camera was stolen. I understood that. But the next week he came back and still didn’t have any work because he said he didn’t have enough money to buy a camera. I said, “I’m going to throw you out of the class.” I made him come up to the front of the class and I asked him to stick out his arm. He did. I grabbed his hand and said, “What is that?” He had a Tag Heuer watch. I said, “Sell that watch and buy a camera.” He said, “I can’t sell that watch, my grandmother gave it to me.” So I said, “Sell your grandmother into slavery and buy a camera.” I threw him out of the class. ‘

Talking to photographer Thomas Roma. [via The Days of Yore]

StarCraft II is the fastest selling strategy game of all time. [via Kotaku]

On Education, by Bertrand Russell. [via Wikisource]

Hi, David Bowie. Hi, George! [via Youtube]

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