Peter Baker reviewing Psycho for Films and Filming. September 1960.

Via chained and perfumed.

There are some really phenomenal pictures in this series, but I hesitate to clutter this page with a long series of photographs. Instead, I suggest you view the whole set on her site. There isn’t really a designation where one set ends and the next begins, but all of her sets are interesting.

[Caspar David] Friedrich’s own destiny is part of the psychological landscape of his age. In almost every one of the poems by Wihelm Müller that Schubert set in his Winterreise, there are lines that seem to mirror the painter’s distraction and dread of human contact:

Durch des Bergstroms trock’ne Rinnen
Wind’ ich ruhig mich hinab–
Jeder Strom wird’s Meer gewinnen
Jedes Leiden auch sein Grab. (Irrlicht)

(Down the mountain stream’s dry gullies
I calmly pick my way
Every stream will reach the sea,
Every sorrow finds its grave.)

A lightbulb is placed in a block of ice and ink. As it melts, the ink spreads about on its own accord. More views at various stages here.

Via VVork.

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From Alex Lukas, via Booooooom!

From “Mosh Pits (Human and Otherwise)” by Dan Witz. Via today and tomorrow.

More at AJ Fosik’s photostream. Via today and tomorrow.

The New York Times:

Like a dozen or so other cities across the nation, Fresno is dealing with an unhappy déjà vu: the arrival of modern-day Hoovervilles, illegal encampments of homeless people that are reminiscent, on a far smaller scale, of Depression-era shantytowns.

What a miserable world we live in (link goes to the article).

Via infinite thøught.

(Via Matthew Yglesias.)

(Via Wonkette.)

(Via Ezra Klein.)

(Via Ezra Klein.)