Conan O’Brien interview John Galliano’s ‘brother’ about the scandle involving John.
You can see the pattern, what it all was meant to look like, but it’s like reading a letter, a letter from oh a long time ago, that’s been left in the rain and all the words have run together. I wonder if he grieves at it. He was an orderly man.
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| — | Little, Big by John Crowley, p. 60 (via isolatedempire) |
Does anyone ever really know what they want? Why is it that we crave the things out of our reach? And when it comes close enough to grasp, you don’t want it anymore. It reminds me of when I was a kid. I would see an add for some stupid toy I thought was the most epic thing in the world. I thought…
The first thing I want to know is why, apparently, people on DB don’t feel exposed, vulnerable, embarrassingly narcissistic. “There was a study done,” Brian says. “They gave people video cameras. Everyone over the age of 25 would turn it outward, and everyone under the age of 25 would turn it inward. This is the first platform that captured this behavior of turning the camera inward. It created a platform for communication around that one behavior. Look at the iPhone 4. It has two cameras—they added one specifically to face inward. And the fact that Steve Jobs, who’s sort of the person who defines what’s acceptable in technology and behavior, put this here? So this behavior is becoming even more acceptable.
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| — | (From the same article.) The Viral Me: Devin Friedman Investigates the New World of Social Networking: Big Issues: GQ (via lazyperfectionist) |
