Claire Cameron is author of a novel called The Line Painter and collector of miscellany
Alternate OCAD monster.
“He says “That is lovely!” He laughed.”
—Tabatha Southey, having shown the picture to thearchitect, Will Alsop.
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— Why Angry Birds is so successful and popular: a cognitive teardown of the user experience (via hughmcguire)
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I don’t live nearby. Am on stake out. No one will suspect a thing.
…if I could steal cars, I would steal this car. Unfortunately this car was pictured quite near to my home so I fear I would be found and arrested for thievery. But if, in an imaginery world, I did steal this car and could justify the astronomical running expense…as well as the risk of being perceived as ‘a bit of a tw*t’, I would surely rejoice in driving this automobile with honour and pride.
At the moment the RHS light on my old volvo 480 is being held up by…a twig, which is why my gaze is wandering…forgive me, for I havn’t sinned…YET.
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I love this David Levine illustration of Muriel Spark, all mischievous and knowing, holding a wicked black cat. It really evokes the wit and brutal perception that made some of her detractors so anxious.
Spark was a little witchy, in the best way. Her “perfect” cat — and only trusted critic — was a Persian, “a gifted clairvoyante [who] would sit on my notebooks if what I had written was all right.”
From her 18th(!) novel, A Far Cry from Kensington:
[I]f you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat. Alone with the cat in the room where you work, I explained, the cat will invariably get up on your desk and settle placidly under the desk-lamp. The light from a lamp, I explained, gives a cat great satisfaction. The cat will settle down and be serene, with a serenity that passes all understanding. And the tranquillity of the cat will gradually come to affect you, sitting there at your desk, so that all the excitable qualities that impede your concentration compose themselves and give your mind back the self-command it has lost. You need not watch the cat all the time. Its presence alone is enough. The effect of a cat on your concentration is remarkable, very mysterious.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lf0vaktsG31qzticbo1_400.png)
I love this David Levine illustration of Muriel Spark, all mischievous and knowing, holding a wicked black cat. It really evokes the wit and brutal perception that made some of her detractors so anxious.
Spark was a little witchy, in the best way. Her “perfect” cat — and only trusted critic — was a Persian, “a gifted clairvoyante [who] would sit on my notebooks if what I had written was all right.”
From her 18th(!) novel, A Far Cry from Kensington:
[I]f you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat. Alone with the cat in the room where you work, I explained, the cat will invariably get up on your desk and settle placidly under the desk-lamp. The light from a lamp, I explained, gives a cat great satisfaction. The cat will settle down and be serene, with a serenity that passes all understanding. And the tranquillity of the cat will gradually come to affect you, sitting there at your desk, so that all the excitable qualities that impede your concentration compose themselves and give your mind back the self-command it has lost. You need not watch the cat all the time. Its presence alone is enough. The effect of a cat on your concentration is remarkable, very mysterious.
Notebooks, journals, sketchbooks, diaries: in search of the perfect page…
Clockwise from top left: Stephen Elliott in the Daily Rumpus ; the price of cabbage in Korea ; Stephen Elliott in the Daily Rumpus again ; A perfectly round egg? ; Jason Logan says what I was thinking ; Stephen Elliott in the Daily Rumpus again; Bernard Madoff’s black velveteen slippers were auctioned off.
How did The Simpsons” manage to track down Banksy, the pseudonymous British artist, and get him to create the powerful opening-credit sequence from Sunday’s episode, which seems to reveal the torturous sweatshop responsible for the show’s creation? And how, after all that mockery, have the producers behind that Fox animated series been able to retain their jobs?
