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9/15/03:

From Milton Michado's "Art that makes me come" -

"For Brazilians, as for those who speak Portuguese, art is a woman: "A Arte". For people who speak Spanish, art is a man: "EI Arte". For those who speak English, art has no gender. This does not mean that people who speak Portuguese and people who speak Spanish make art differently as woman is different from man. They make art in a way that is equal, as a woman is equal to a man. Art in English has no gender, but this does not mean that art done in English is neutral as woman and man are not neutral."

From a new interview with Douglas Coupland [via caterina.]

"Not being American, I don?t know how it feels to be American but I think it is a different thing to be an American now." / "It feels like national identity is in flux for many people who haven?t been knee-jerked into saluting the flag?"

Again, Seu Michado -

"Saudade does not travel, it is precisely what stays, left behind. The
traveler who has saudade says 'I'm not sad, I'm ill'. It's like mumps
(positive, more or less...)"

Eyegasm - all train graffiti all the time.
Why am I excited about a Pixies cover band but apprehensive about a Pixies reunion? [2nd via travelers]
An oddly exhaustive day-to-day history of Nirvana.
Conceptual art under military dictatorship in Brazil.
Cubism and Cameras - this paper is a sudden flash of insight that the current digital camera is quite unnecessarily confined to its mechanical father [via dublog.]
Cincinnati's abandoned subway [via beyond]