August 2010
16 posts
Keeping down with the Joneses - article in The... →
“Right-sizing is ridding your life of what you don’t need, don’t use, don’t find beautiful,” the writer and archaeologist explains, chanelling William Morris, the 19th-century designer and artist who famously advised to “have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”
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"Paleoblogging"
Most popular blogs, like most popular media, regardless of genre, spend 99.9% of their time reacting to and arguing about something that’s just happened, or is about to (maybe) happen. Jason’s aesthetic has always been different, because he’s always been just as excited about older things that have just been uncovered or rediscovered, marvelous objects and ideas in weird corners...
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