February 2012
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October 2011
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"The plot of Jurassic Park was recycled." →
austinkleon:
Great piece on the fanboy cult of Jurassic Park. (I wrote about seeing Jurassic Park when I was 10 in Steal Like An Artist).
The plot of Jurassic Park was recycled. Crichton was an expert recycler. His Congo (1980) is King Solomon’s Mines (1885) with an ape-voice synthesizer and the racism dialed down. Sphere (1987) is Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870). And Jurassic...
September 2011
2 posts
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David Bowie: "The only art I'll ever study is... →
austinkleon:
From Playboy, September 1976:
Cameron Crowe: Since you put yourself first, do you consider yourself an original thinker?
Bowie: Not by any means. More like a tasteful thief. The only art I’ll ever study is stuff that I can steal from. I do think that my plagiarism is effective. Why does an artist create, anyway? The way I see it, if you’re an inventor, you invent something...
August 2011
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July 2011
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June 2011
10 posts
“The guy who recorded an album alone in the woods. This line might end up on...”
– I’m guilty of this.
Pitchfork: Album Reviews: Bon Iver: Bon Iver
May 2011
11 posts
April 2011
31 posts
Watch‘it insists upon itself’
Watchclick the squares, start dancing. the coolest thing i’ve seen on tumblr.
