May 2012
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“The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone’s neurosis,...”
– William Styron, interview, Writers at Work, 1958 (via writeworld)
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good writing is all handmade
Good writing is all handmade. It’s made of words. Looking up words as you write is a vital step in research. A word choice isn’t apt merely because a word’s formal definition seems to fit. Words are layered with meaning, and the layers need to fit as well. If you write “the final solution to our problem” unaware that “final solution” translates the Nazi euphemism for the Holocaust, die Endlösung;...
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“Clearly we didn’t have the time (nor the inclination) to write, record, edit and...”
– http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/05/listening-machine-twitter-music/
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WatchYou’re watching someone playing I’d Hide You, the interactive game by Blast Theory that took the streets of Manchester for three evenings.
The players had to pick a runner to follow, see the world through their eyes and snap another runner on screen without getting snapped themselves. They charged down the back streets, chatted to passers-by and hid down alleys in real time.
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“If we were able to take as the finest allegory of simulation the Borges tale...”
– Jean Baudrillard, “The Precession of Simulacra”
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