Brainpickings asked artist extraordinaire Wendy MacNaughton to illustrate Susan Sontag’s reflections on art and the results are truly wonderful. The quotes used were carefully culled by Brainpickings from more than 1,000 pages of diary entries from both the same volume and the one preceding it, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963. Here they are... All aesthetic judgment is really . . .
Elf on the Shelf
IT'S CHRISTMAS WEEK! DAY 1/7 I take this time of year very seriously. Appropriate attire and behaviours include reindeer ears, whistling of Christmas tunes, festive socks, decorative baubles on desks, ugly sweaters, and most importantly - smiles on faces. My poor colleagues have been dealing with endless Christmas music blasting from my speakers. There will be one Christmas-related post for . . .
Metamorphosis
A beautifully timed shot - not a second too early, not a second too late. Florida-based photographer David Taggart photographed this and called it "Ready to Fly" but once it took its rounds across the internet, the public soon renamed it "Metamorphosis". "The picture was captured in Valparaiso, Chile where I was photographing the city's rich outdoor murals. As the man walked into the . . .