The Blind Assassin
Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. —Margaret Atwood
History of the Rain
…poets are different to you and me. Poets do not escape into other worlds, they go deeper into this one. —Niall Williams
A Somewhat Functional Alcoholic (charcoal on newsprint)
7 Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI
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It Took Me Almost Two Hours To Draw This Effing Hammer and It’s Really Not Great (charcoal on newsprint)
A Bedouin Who Looks Vaguely Similar to John Singer Sargent’s “A Bedouin Arab 1891” But Instead of Proud and Strong He Just Looks Angry and Awkward (charcoal on newsprint)
It’s Just a Stupid Paper Grocery Bag, What Do You Want From Me? (charcoal on newsprint)
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
A good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. —Richard Flanagan
All the Light We Cannot See
What mazes there are in this world. The branches of trees, the filigree of roots, the matrix of crystals, the streets her father re-created in his models. Mazes in the nodules on murex shells and in the textures of sycamore bark and inside the hollow bones of eagles. None more complicated than the human brain, […]
The Bone Clocks
Art feasts upon its maker. —David Mitchell
Straight Man
Truly grateful people don’t make lists of things to be grateful for, any more than happy people make lists of things to be happy about. Happy people have enough to do just being happy. —Richard Russo
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk. —Karen Joy Fowler
The Adobe Illustrator Story
10 Rare Color Photographs From World War I
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To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
He called me Paulie. “Paulie, run and get me a beer from the fridge.” “Paulie, stay awake, now, it’s the sixth inning, Paulie, you gotta watch the game and tell me what happens.” “We lost, Paulie, it’s another loss, goddamn it, that’s how it is with them losing fucks, they lose on you, the fuckers.” […]
A Song About The New Airbnb Logo
Game of Thrones, Season 4 – VFX making of reel
Americanah
You can’t write an honest novel about race in this country. If you write about how people are really affected by race, it’ll be too obvious. Black writers who do literary fiction in this country, all three of them, not the ten thousand who write those bullshit ghetto books with the bright covers, have two […]
We Need New Names
And the jobs we worked, Jesus—Jesus—Jesus, the jobs we worked. Low-paying jobs. Backbreaking jobs. Jobs that gnawed at the bones of our dignity, devoured the meat, tongued the marrow. —NoViolet Bulawayo
