The Floating Piers, Lake Iseo, Italy – Christo and Jeanne-Claude
If you do one thing today, make it be a slow scroll through these photos. They let you follow the process, creative and mechanical, step by step. They also have some stunning and some more relatable shots; my favorite may be the portrait of the artist, Christo, testing the piers, with such apparent glee on his face.
http://christojeanneclaude.net/mobile/projects?p=the-floating-piers#.V3hW2ucrIUs
Ernest Hemingway, The Art of Fiction No. 21 – Interviewed by George Plimpton
“I suppose there are symbols since critics keep finding them. If you do not mind I dislike talking about them…It is hard enough to write books and stories without being asked to explain them as well. Also it deprives the explainers of work. If five or six or more good explainers can keep going why should I interfere with them? Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.”
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4825/the-art-of-fiction-no-21-ernest-hemingway
Europe’s Freedom of Speech Fail – Jacob Mchangama
The online Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines “harmony” as “a pleasing or congruent arrangement of parts.” So, which parts are kept and which discarded? Who makes these decision? Who enforces them? (Note: The U.S. is ranked 41, with a score of 22.49, in the 2016 World Press Freedom Index by Reporters Without Borders, which puts us behind almost all of the European nations discussed in this article)
http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/07/07/europes-freedom-of-speech-fail/
“next to of course god america i” – e.e. cumings
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