‘As the Pope said to the earnest visitor who wondered how long he ought to stay in Rome to know it well: Two days, very good. Two weeks, better. Two years, not long enough?’ Alistair Cooke
‘The best fiction rarely provides answers; but it does formulate the questions exceptionally well.’ Julian Barnes
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‘My first beer memory is of my granddad raising his pint of nutty bitter to my lips in the pub garden of The Barley Mow on Englefield Green - the smell of cigarettes on his fingers, mingling with the Brylcreem in his hair and the Old Spice aftershave he used to wear. I didn't like the ale much, but I loved him, so I took another sip.’ Melissa Cole FT
A report from Vevo, a video streaming service, cites Gen Z as leading a rise of "borrowed nostalgia", with two-thirds reporting an emotional attachment to eras they never experienced.
“If you leave absence in a work, you make room for the spectator," he says. "If an artwork only has one interpretation, it's not art. It's communication." Ryan Gander
Charles and Ray Eames invented a pioneering leg splint to transport soldiers injured in the second world war. The project taught the designers how to manufacture moulded plywood efficiently, leading to an estimated 150,000 splints produced for the US military.The splints laid the technical foundation for their famous moulded chairs.
"The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he, or she, has become a threat.” James Baldwin
Netflix's audio logo - which the company variously calls "ta-dum", "toudum" and "tudum" - comprises a few different pieces: the knocking of Oscar-winning sound designer Lon Bender's wedding ring on a cabinet, the striking of an anvil, other "muted hits" and an electric guitar. "Any sound is made up of four sounds, generally," Bender says. They had previously considered using the bleat of a goat.
