Sally Lloyd-Jones's Blog, page 25
October 1, 2010
bookish coffee sideways: v cool design
designed by Anurag Nema
D'Espresso, 317 Madison Avenue (42nd Street)Nema turns a normal room sideways. Glazed tiles printed with images of books created the illusion of bookshelves tilted sideways, running along the ceiling, down the rear wall and onto the floor. very coolvia NYT
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September 30, 2010
September 29, 2010
portraits, photos + something to do with death
Truman Capote 1947, by Cartier-Bresson
"As time passes by and you look at portraits, the people come back to you like a silent echo. A photograph is a vestige of a face, a face in transit. Photography has something to do with death. It's a trace." Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)
must be why old photos can make you feel sad.
at least they do me.
September 27, 2010
new blog up: on writing--first you must lose yourself
"I'm not responsible for my photographs. Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. It's drowning yourself, dissolving yourself and then sniff, sniff, sniff--being sensitive to coincidence. You can't go looking for it; you can't want it or you won't get it. First you must lose your self. Then it happens." Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)
I think it's the same thing with writing--you as the writer are no more responsible for your stories than Cartier-Bresson was...
September 24, 2010
new blog up: How To Draw
Apparently there is an ultimate test of drawing. And the often told story is this: (in the cool Opinionator blog today: "The Frisbee of Art" by James McMullan, illustrator of I STINK the wonderful children's book about garbage trucks)When Pope Boniface (I love his name. did he make it up?). Hopefully he was handsome or it might have been quite hard to go round with that name--imagine it would be like being called Mrs Gorgeous and then going right ahead being plug-ugly. But I suppose, if...
September 22, 2010
marcel the shell with shoes on
"Marcel The Shell With Shoes On", directed by Dean Fleischer-Camp with the voice of Marcel by SNL's Jenny Slate.the voice! it makes my heart hurtPosted via email from s@lly l-j 
