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2016-01-04 (Monday)

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  1. On Edward Hopper by Mark Strand | The New York Review of Books

    I particularly like the first half, on Hopper’s preparatory drawings. “It was not that he needed to be sure how to paint a sugar dispenser or salt shaker as in Nighthawks (1942), but that they should become his.”

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  • philgyford’s avatar

    @kottke The other alphabetical movie you were thinking of… was it the alphabetical Star Wars? youtube.com/watch?v=5GFW-e…

  • philgyford’s avatar

    @stefpos Yeah I’m such a sucker. It’s like washing powder with a “New Improved Formula”. They never say how it’s better you just go with it.

  • philgyford’s avatar

    Hold on… this so-called “new” year looks much like all the others. Where’s the disruptive digital media news source exposé on this scam?