thought is motion

The sentence, with its narrow typographical confines, is a lonely place, the loneliest place for a writer, and the temptation for the writer to get out of one sentence as soon as possible and get going on the next sentence is entirely understandable. In fact, the conditions in just about any sentence soon enough become (shall we admit it?) claustrophobic, inhospitable, even hellish. But too often our habitual and hasty breaking away from one sentence to another results in sentences … that do not feel fully inhabitated and settled in by language. So many of the sentences we confront in books and magazines look unfinished and provisional, and start to go to pieces as soon as we gawk at and stare into them. They don’t hold up. Their diction is often not just spare and stark but bare and miserly.

There is another way to look at this: …

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More than a year after he took the original pictures, French photo artist JR has returned to Kibera, Kenya. He was reunited with the women who had accepted to be part of his WOMEN project at the end of 2007. 2000 square meters of Kibera slum rooftops have been covered with photos of their eyes and faces. [via metafilter.com]

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Launching a cross-Atlantic voyage in May, Open Sailing aims to create a self-sustainable, floating architecture that evolves like a living organism, a laboratory for techno-social experiments. The basic approach is to convert apocalyptic threats into design constraints.