A tradition that peaked in Enlightenment-era Europe was the practice of maintaining a commonplace book. In its customary form, commonplacing involved transcribing interesting or inspirational passages from one's reading, assembling a personalized encyclopedia of quotations.
Sam Stabler is a New York based artist who thrives on iconic images taken from recent and more historic media (spanning Old Master paintings and early cinema), rethinking them by way of among other things, neon acrylic on paper. This is one such reassessment, of a still from the 1954 Japanese film Seven Samurai.
See what his collectors have to say here.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Warren G @regulator:
The shirt I had on in regulate video wow! This cat offerd me $200,000 I told him its priceless
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Even though Tumblr was never a one-person company, it usually felt like a one-person product.
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@marcoarment
the second person sometimes has the best perspective on it.
awesome post by Marco
The One-Person Product – Marco.org
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I’m delighted to announce that we’ve reached an agreement to acquire Tumblr!
We promise not to screw it up. Tumblr is incredibly special and has a great thing going. We will operate Tumblr independently. David Karp will remain CEO. The product roadmap, their team, their wit and irreverence will all remain the same as will their mission to empower creators to make their best work and get it in front of the audience they deserve. Yahoo! will help Tumblr get even better, faster.
Tumblr has built an amazing place to follow the world’s creators. From art to architecture, fashion to food, Tumblr hosts 105 million different blogs. With more than 300 million monthly unique visitors and 120,000 signups every day, Tumblr is one of thefastest-growing media networks in the world. Tumblr sees 900 posts per second (!) and 24 billion minutes spent onsite each month. On mobile, more than half of Tumblr’s users are using the mobile app, and those users do an average of 7 sessions per day. Tumblr’s tremendous popularity and engagement among creators, curators and audiences of all ages brings a significant new community of users to the Yahoo! network. The combination of Tumblr+Yahoo! could grow Yahoo!’s audience by 50% to more than a billion monthly visitors, and could grow traffic by approximately 20%.
In terms of working together, Tumblr can deploy Yahoo!’s personalization technology and search infrastructure to help its users discover creators, bloggers, and content they’ll love. In turn, Tumblr brings 50 billion blog posts (and 75 million more arriving each day) to Yahoo!’s media network and search experiences. The two companies will also work together to create advertising opportunities that are seamless and enhance user experience.
As I’ve said before, companies are all about people. Getting to know the Tumblr team has been really amazing. I’ve long held the view that in all things art and design, you can feel the spirit and demeanor of those who create them. That’s why it was no surprise to me that David Karp is one of the nicest, most empathetic people I’ve ever met. He’s also one of the most perceptive, capable entrepreneurs I’ve worked with. His respect for Tumblr’s community of creators is awesome, and I’m absolutely delighted to have him and his entire team join Yahoo!.
Both Tumblr and Yahoo! share a vision to make the Internet the ultimate creative canvas by focusing on users, design — and building experiences that delight and inspire the world every day.
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Big K.R.I.T., Black Hippy (Kendrick Lamar + Schoolboy Q + Ab-Soul + Jay Rock), Bodega Bamz, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Brother Ali, Chase & Status, Common, Curren$y, Danny Brown, Dilated Peoples, Dizzy Wright, Dom Kennedy, Earl Sweatshirt, Flatbush Zombies, Hit-Boy, Hopsin, Immortal Technique, Jhene Aiko, Juicy J, Jurassic 5, Kid Cudi, Lecrae, Mimosa, Prof, Rakim, Ratking, Snow tha Product, Supernatural, Talib Kweli, Tech N9ne, Tyler The Creator, Wu-Tang Clan (incl. ODB hologram)
— Rock the Bells, October 4, 2013
#STORi
Fair warning on the #warhol cover lot, hammer’s up… and sold at $34m @phillipsauction #contemporaryart #eveningsale (at Phillips)
All is well since all grows better.
— Andrew Carnegie
