Category: Culture

Published July 5, 2011

Hemingway in Photographs

Those who know me well know that Ernest Hemingway is perhaps my favorite author. Exhibit A: Although it took me a few tries before I could get through it, For Whom the Bell Tolls is now one of my favorite books, as are A Moveable Feast and The Sun Also Rises. I really like the way Hemingway wrote, as well as the themes he touches upon in his writing.

Exhibit B: Consider this picture of my home office:

Published June 14, 2011

“Super 8” and Hindsight

I have not yet seen “Super 8,” and I am not sure I will see it, but I found the reasoning in the following excerpt from a post over at Partial Objects quite compelling:

Published June 1, 2011

Schoenberg Cats

Whether you love or hate his type of art, this New Yorker article on Cory Arcangel is a fascinating read. Here is Arcangel’s arrangement of Schoenberg’s “Drei Klavierstücke, op. 11” played by cats on pianos. This is part I.