From Manteq al-Tayr , Farid ud-Din Attar (Fitzgerald, trans.): But how could you have expected to travel that path in thought alone; how exp...

i took alain de botton's architecture of happiness out of lamont last week. it may be the pleasantest architectural theory i've eve...

an online RPG featuring characters such as: Pastamancer With his mastery of the arcane secrets of Noodlecraft, the Pastamancer is a forc...

finally, but marred by a really crummy logo: wuala

a great short film by chuck kraemer, about letterpress (specifically, a small press now in allston). elsa dorfman, the fabled portrait photo...

"the crystal goblet" by beatrice warde (a short read available here ) is a crisp exposition of invisible typography, the idea that...

the rubin museum will host a traveling exhibition of still-consecrated bhutanese buddhist art (per the nyt ). The works in the exhibition a...

this is neat. the graphic border is made of little elements broadly-themed by book category (nonfiction, arts, children, etc) and then reas...

after everyone left, whit and i spent the weekend working on stuff -- she was much more efficient and got out at 6-ish, but i was in there l...

effie sent this , a pair of germans who photograph lightpaths in remote locations. some of their work reminds me of the photo-respiration se...

you get what you pay for poplar, milk paint, red oak 18" x 5" x 2.5"

aaron got me from google and we picked up some coffee from downtown mountain view before heading to the airport where he was going to collec...

from little, big : "Life is acts, and not thoughts and things. An act is a thought and a thing both at once, only it has this shape, se...

after the evening sessions on saturday, a small group of people gathered around for folk music next to the tent city. i sat next to a physic...

i got to sci foo camp late on friday afternoon -- back at google for the first time in 2 months. it's surreal to be back and yet not bac...

the last few weeks have been really packed at the ranch. we had tom huang on bamboo, wendy maruyama and judy mckie teaching the maruyama va...

laura mcphee (daughter, incidentally, of john) was at the ranch a few weeks back. for her guest lecture, she showed her quite beautiful pho...

i've been trying to get a copy of lawrence weschler's wanderer in a perfect city for at least a year; the san francisco library had...

cloud 1, white ash. approx. 39" x 27" x 30" this is the first of the clouds.

on sunday night, i got called over to the dynamic abstraction dinner table and we decided that the man himself would make a large-ish patte...

tonight, lectures from joshua davis , robert berlind (represented by tibor de nagy ) and christian burchard . berlind's work is generall...

Even my friends began to seem to me marvelous. People's being themselves, year after year, so powerfully and so obliviously -- what was ...

the slide from the grew-sheridan studio late-nite photo session in may with joe schopplein finally arrived, so new photos are up on my slowl...

the combination of time, space, and image has been occupying me of late. noon on the kamogawa (2004), newly improved with fresh geometry (...

having all-hours access to a fully-equipped studio and machine shop is the closest thing to perfect. in between working on stuff, i'm wo...

i went to a presentation of work a few days ago by rob amesbury , who's at the ranch teaching a workshop on fine detail gouache painting...

aspen has a remarkable circulating library for a town of 6,000 permanent residents. i took out madeleine l'engle's a circle of quiet...

i bought the tummy trilogy in 1999 and calvin trillin almost immediately became my most favoured writer about food. like the best, he is as...

maps, annotations, and wearable . do we want one? yes. yes, we do.

the last four days have been distinctly surreal. leaving a totalizing job is a wrenching experience, the more so if you have had, last minut...