the pink wars

Dogs as Fonts by Grafisches Büro

Fri, 18 Oct 2013 17:49:29 -0500

Dogs as Fonts by Grafisches Büro

GIFT IDEAS FROM MY FRIEND RYAN

Mon, 14 Oct 2013 13:13:20 -0500

Film from my cousin’s wedding in the summer in Alexandria,...

Fri, 04 Oct 2013 20:16:11 -0500

Film from my cousin’s wedding in the summer in Alexandria, VA

Film from my summer trip to Washington, DC

Fri, 04 Oct 2013 20:12:00 -0500

Smithsonian Castle

Smithsonian Castle

The White House

The White House

Film from my summer trip to Washington, DC

Film from my summer trip to Alexandria, VA & Washington, DC

Fri, 04 Oct 2013 20:08:29 -0500

Georgetown in Washington

Georgetown in Washington

Georgetown in Washington

Georgetown in Washington

Georgetown Waterfront Harbour

Georgetown Waterfront Harbour

Georgetown Waterfront Harbour

Madewell

Film from my summer trip to Alexandria, VA & Washington, DC

Film from Summer 2013

Fri, 04 Oct 2013 20:02:43 -0500

Film from Summer 2013

NYC Garbage

Tue, 24 Sep 2013 14:05:00 -0500

The Referendum

Mon, 23 Sep 2013 15:12:00 -0500

By Tim Kreider

The Referendum is a phenomenon typical of (but not limited to) midlife, whereby people, increasingly aware of the finiteness of their time in the world, the limitations placed on them by their choices so far, and the narrowing options remaining to them, start judging their peers’ differing choices with reactions ranging from envy to contempt.

Spike Jonze’s new film with a music score by Arcade Fire

Sat, 10 Aug 2013 23:14:21 -0500

Spike Jonze’s new film with a music score by Arcade Fire

"The thing is to be happy," he said. "No matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier..."

Wed, 07 Aug 2013 13:22:00 -0500

“"The thing is to be happy," he said. "No matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It’s nothing to do with circumstances. You wouldn’t believe how good it is. Accept everything and then tragedy disappears. Or tragedy lightens, anyway, and you’re just there, going along easy in the world."”

- Alice Munro (“Gravel” from Dear Life: Stories)

Lakai: Venice to Venice with Guy Mariano

Sat, 03 Aug 2013 20:56:37 -0500

Lakai: Venice to Venice with Guy Mariano

A Lesson in the Desert

Wed, 31 Jul 2013 22:17:00 -0500

By Liesl Schillinger

happiness is not an intellectual choice, it’s an instinct, and a good in itself

Here Is Today

Wed, 31 Jul 2013 21:31:28 -0500

Here Is Today

How Not to Be Alone

Mon, 22 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500

By Jonathan Safran Foer

Technology may make it easier to communicate electronically, but more difficult to do so emotionally.

Went to Calgary for Sled Island which was unfortunately...

Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:04:00 -0500

Went to Calgary for Sled Island which was unfortunately cancelled due to the severe floods around the city. With the roads being closed off to Banff, we took a day trip to the town of Drumheller to visit their dinosaur museum, Royal Tyrrell.

My sister, Kim, visited me in Vancouver at the end of May. We...

Wed, 10 Jul 2013 13:23:21 -0500

Matchstick Coffee Roasters

Matchstick Coffee Roasters

Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

Pike Place Public Market

The first Starbucks ever opened

Seattle Public Library

My sister, Kim, visited me in Vancouver at the end of May. We drank artisan coffee every morning and stayed overnight in Seattle.

We Think Alone

Sat, 29 Jun 2013 03:39:00 -0500

A project by Miranda July

I’m always trying to get my friends to forward me emails they’ve sent to other people — to their mom, their boyfriend, their agent — the more mundane the better. How they comport themselves in email is so intimate, almost obscene — a glimpse of them from their own point of view. WE THINK ALONE has given me the excuse to read my friends’ emails and the emails of some people I wish I was friends with and for better or worse it’s changed the way I see all of them. I think I really know them now. But our inner life is not actually the same thing as our life on the computer — a quiet person might !!!! a lot. A person with a busy mind might write almost nothing. And of course while none of these emails were originally intended to be read by me (much less you*) they were all carefully selected by their authors in response to my list of email genres — so self-portraiture is quietly at work here. Privacy, the art of it, is evolving. Radical self-exposure and classically manicured discretion can both be powerful, both be elegant. And email itself is changing, none of us use it exactly the same way we did ten years ago; in another ten years we might not use it at all. Thank you to Kareem, Kirsten, Sheila, Danh, Lee, Etgar, Kate, Laura, Lena and Catherine for their daring and diligence.

– Miranda July

*All emails were written prior to the start of this project.

WE THINK ALONE was comissioned by Magasin 3 for a show called On The Tip of My Tongue. It only exists in your inbox, where a themed compendium of ten emails will arrive each Monday, from July 1 – November 11, 2013.

The Old Man at Burning Man

Fri, 28 Jun 2013 19:12:00 -0500

By Wells Towers

It’s something we’ve all been meaning to do. The father-son bonding adventure. You know: The big fishing excursion, The road trip down Route 66. Last year, Wells Tower took a completely different approach with his dad: Burning Man

Film from April. "Boundary Bay Regional park is located south of...

Thu, 27 Jun 2013 17:24:00 -0500

Film from April.

"Boundary Bay Regional park is located south of Vancouver near the US border and is a popular bird watching area for nature enthusiasts. There is a long trail that wraps around a large portion of Boundary Bay." - Vancouver Trails

Franny - I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:25:04 -0500

Franny

- I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.

- I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.

Zooey

- Behind the shower curtain, Zooey closed his eyes for a few seconds, as though his own small craft were listing precariously in the wake. Then he pulled back the shower curtain and stared over at the closed door. It was a weighty stare, and relief was not really a great part of it. As much as anything else, it was the stare, not so paradoxically, of a privacy-lover who, once his privacy has been invaded, doesn’t quite approve when the invader just gets up and leaves, one-two-three, like that.

- Zooey turned full around to look at his mother. He turned around and looked at her, in this instance, in precisely the same way that, at one time or another, in one year or another, all his brothers and sisters (and especially his brothers) had turned around and looked at her. Not just with objective wonder at the rising of a truth, fragmentary or not, up through what often seemed to be an impenetrable mass or prejudices, clichés, and bromides. But with admiration, affection, and not least, gratitude. And, oddly or no, Mrs. Glass invariably took this “tribute”, when it came, in beautiful stride. She would look back with grace and modesty at the son or daughter who had given her the look.

- Your age has nothing to do with what I’m talking about. There are no big changes between ten and twenty—-or ten and eighty, for that matter.

- In my opinion, if you really want to know, half the nastiness in the world is stirred up by people who aren’t using their true egos.

- Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddamn hobbies.

- You don’t know how to talk to people you don’t like. Don’t love, really. You can’t live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.