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We loved awkwardly and hopelessly, like a wolf ringing a doorbell while wearing a sheepskin coat that is way too small for him.

The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, by Heather O’Neill

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Readers are a rare and wonderful breed. I've never heard of anyone not liking a reader.

The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, by Heather O’Neill

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The plural of girl is girls, house's is houses, etc. But plural of stimulus is stimuli. Hmmm, so what's the plural of Octopus? Octopuses or Octopi ?

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Young Girls Walking

Edouard Vuillard - circa 1891

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Debbie Harry cooking, 1977, by Chris Stein

The Guardian has the story of the shot:

One shot, of her “cooking” (that is, brandishing a flaming frying pan in a blackened kitchen), has a wild humour that’s typical of Stein’s sensibility – it’s one that the writer Glenn O’Brien identifies in an essay in the book as “the light side of the dark side”. The photoshoot happened when the couple returned from a tour in 1977 to discover their apartment had burned down, after an electrical fire. Rather than despair, Stein looked at all that sooty ruin and thrilled to its aesthetic potential.

“I think the point of Chris’s charm as a photographer,” Harry agrees, “is to see beauty in rot and chaos and destruction and rubble. Plus, the dress that I’m wearing was supposedly Marilyn Monroe’s.” It, too, had been in the fire, so it “had done a weird thing: it was very soft and chiffony and then it became this melted, stiff thing”.

Filed under: photography

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Bob Kane’s gravestone

After posting about Bill Finger’s role in creating Batman, my friend @apelad sent me this tweet: “Bob Kane had an inflated sense of self. You should see his gravestone!”

Comic book writer Valerie D’Orazio writes that “like the most cunning and well-known of historical figures, Kane ‘wins’ because he actively controlled his own narrative…he aggressively did everything he could…to make sure he would always be regarded as the Creator of Batman.” She then asks what lessons we should learn from this:

Do we learn to be better people? Do we learn to share?

Or do we learn to be more aggressive in owning our personal narratives?

…the only way to go toe-to-toe with the Bob Kanes of the world is to own your responsibility and your personal narrative. The Bob Kanes of the world depend on the likelihood that you don’t know how valuable your creations are; that the legal and financial details are too complicated for you to delve into; that you don’t want to be “that guy” (or “that gal”) who is always shamelessly self-promoting.

How to own your narrative is something I talk about in my book, Show Your Work!

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French actress Alice Delysia

Rooster hats for FRANCE

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Sneak peek! Professor Bootsy’s new book debuts at SPX this weekend in Washington DC. Can you DIG it? We KNEW that you COULD!

Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor

Published by Drawn and Quarterly, Monteal

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Italian physicist-turned-sensor-developer Benedetto Vigna on how sensors are changing storytelling and the human experience of reality – a short animation for the 2014 Future of Storytelling summit.  

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Dear Students,

Ivan Brunetti talks about his book, “Cartooning, Philosophy and Practice” It’s one little book with every single thing you need if you want to make comics.

Sincerely,

Professor Bootsly

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Don’t know what to draw? Try Phil McAndrew’s Big List of Stuff to Draw, which has just been doubled from 200 to 400 items.

[thenearsightedmonkey]

Dear Students,

Can you dig it? Here’s some information about our upcoming time together.

I realize that in these images I take on my wookie aspect of last semester.

Please know that when we meet on September 3 2014 I will  inhabit my Professor Bootsy aspect.

But it will be the same image-hand in the puppet that is driving us all.

Sincerely,

Professor Chew-Bootsy

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According to Marco Polo, Mongol warriors of the thirteenth century supposedly rode for ten days at a time without lightning a fire. The rider's food was the raw blood of their horses, obtained by piercing a vein. The cavalry saved time by riding without cooking, and they avoided producing the smoke that might reveal their position to hostile forces. The men did not like the liquid diet and looked forward to a cooked meal when speed was not essential, but there is no suggestion that they suffered from it.

Catching Fire, How cooking made us human

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The highest levels of consciousness are wordless.

Charles Simic

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Memory's fog is rising.

Emily Dickinson

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[..] Varying degrees or states of tension seem to be involved in all our experiences, and that the most gratifying ones are those in which whatever tensions are created are also released. Or, to use another familiar set of terms, an experience is gratifying to the extent that those expectations that are aroused are also fulfilled.

Barbara Herrnstein Smith

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Origins (beginnings) have consequences (endings).

Gaston Bachelard quoted in Madness, rack & Honey