May 2010
“The catalogue is especially remarkable because WikiLeaks is not quite an organization; it is better described as a media insurgency. It has no paid staff, no copiers, no desks, no office. Assange does not even have a home. He travels from country to country, staying with supporters, or friends of friends—as he once put it to me, “I’m living in airports these days.” He is the operation’s prime mover, and it is fair to say that WikiLeaks exists wherever he does.”
—Julian Assange profiled in New Yorker - Boing Boing
“On a good movie set, everybody’s very talented and good at their jobs. The director’s the one person who doesn’t really… do anything. Everybody else has some specific task to fulfill, and the director theoretically is, in some cosmic, alchemical way, shaping everything. But it’s very unclear what the job really is. Ultimately, it’s just about channeling other people’s energies and then taking the credit.”
—Andrew Bujalski via 3quarksdaily
“Candid street photography and military aerial reconnaissance may seem to have little in common, but they’re both examples of how the camera has made us more distant from each other and from the world around us, according to Sandra Phillips of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, who is the exhibition’s curator.”
—New Scientist: How the camera has made us all voyeurs | Street Reverb Magazine
“Book publishing is going to change, and drastically, but it won’t explode into a million fragmented pieces any more than YouTube has utterly destroyed network television. People still watched the Lost finale in addition to sending around the video of that cat standing up on its hind legs.”
—Flavorwire » Publishing’s Not Dead: The Industry Responds to Garrison Keillor
“Art doesn’t have to be a lie to tell the truth; sometimes it can just be funny.”
—JOGGING
“I suppose our group’s situation is a microcosm of a much wider societal condition as more and more of our daily contacts take place through monitors. I know many people through various online communities, but without meeting them I will never feel like I really know them. And I think that is probably true for society as a whole. In some ways the world is getting smaller as interconnections multiply. But the essence of community I think will always be actual human contact. So with this trip I’m doing my part, or at least that’s how I justify it.”
—B
