“The New Yorker Wolcott Gibbs wrote for–elegant, literary, ironic, laced with a bracing skepticism–was the spiritual house organ for people looking for relief from the clang of rivaling opinions, the barkering of each week’s Next New Thing, the knowingness of haughty punditry, the maelstrom of the world’s unrelenting noise. The New Yorker of the current day flourishes financially, its circulation in the ascendant. The New Yorker of Wolcott Gibbs’s time, published in the world we now live in, would probably not last out the year.”
Tag: 12.12.11
The Brilliant Designer Behind ‘Let It Bleed’
He studied with László Moholy-Nagy, did prodigious amounts of drugs and designed the cover of the Rolling Stones’ “Let It Bleed” and died young. When an architect asked him, “What is graphic design?” Robert Brownjohn replied, “I am.”
Inventing A Language; Making A Killing
Movie and television-makers invent new worlds –Â and they need languages for those worlds. Enter the conlanger.
If The Children Are Our (Arts) Future, Theatre & Dance Have Won Them Over
Branded plays and ballets made from favorite children’s books might drive parents a little crazy, but the kiddies learn to love theatre and dance early on – which, of course, may lead to more patronage later.
Want To Read Newton’s Original Manuscripts? Power Up Your Laptop
Just wow: “Cambridge University has published more than 4,000 pages of Newton’s most important works on a new digital library website. They include the scientist’s own annotated copy of Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.”