Max Tabackman Fenton

Stop Talking. Start Making

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:00:06 -0500

Lewis recently took part in General Assembly’s “Stop Talking. Start Making” series, talking about why he started a brand new magazine at age 72.

There’s other videos as well, including Mario Batali, Michael Bloomberg, and Amanda Hesser, all talking about what it takes to be an entrepreneur.

The assumption of non-interaction.

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:51:00 -0500

“What was done cannot be undone.”
“We want to give you choices.”

The lines between us are so thin, loves.
Dance and be light.

Photo

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:37:42 -0500

Photo

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:05:30 -0500

"It is important to play correctly in poor positions, giving yourself every possible opportunity to..."

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 01:57:08 -0500

““It is important to play correctly in poor positions, giving yourself every possible opportunity to win.””

- Magriel “Backgammon”

The things I know

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 04:07:23 -0500

It is 4:405 am
I began this ‘blog’ to impress exactly one person. Two, actually. But one was a lost cause.
Only blessings.
[forgot]

/ there is no blossom / here we are all fallow ground / leave it up to gods /

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 02:01:23 -0400

/ there is no blossom / here we are all fallow ground / leave it up to gods /

Most of the really important things I do—the beautiful things—happen in the interstitial...

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:21:20 -0400

Most of the really important things I do—the beautiful things—happen in the interstitial moments between hard-scheduled events. I keep my calendar full in a way to increase those probabilities.

Two thirds of every day, two thirds of my life, I’ve held apple products. I’ve touched...

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:29:00 -0400

Two thirds of every day, two thirds of my life, I’ve held apple products. I’ve touched that design more than I’ve touched all humans.

What dull worlds we’ve turned down. Waking up each day knowing something even better was on the way. Another pack of film to be exposed.

Modeling languages to speak our dreams. The dreams of us, of waves and the majesty of california light. Shaping colors into notes. Enmeshed and becoming more so.

The title of a book, “How we became post-human” echoes now as: which post-humans we became.

"JUSTICE GINSBURG: All this rides on accepting your argument that zero is a limited time. MR...."

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:13:00 -0400

“

JUSTICE GINSBURG: All this rides on accepting your argument that zero is a limited time.

MR. FALZONE: No. Not on the First Amendment side. Not at all. No. No. No. No.

”

- http://cl.ly/Ahjm

Diybookscanner photosynth additional data cross “advocated and non-advocated...

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:41:40 -0400

Diybookscanner

photosynth

additional data cross

“advocated and non-advocated information” (textfiles)

Something in my brain broke in the past year and I can’t see typos anymore. It worries me and...

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 16:13:41 -0400

Something in my brain broke in the past year and I can’t see typos anymore. It worries me and I delete more tweets than can be counted. It’s not the words that disappear, but for so long I could find a misplaced comma in a textbook and now that sensation of spotting has diminished. Odd to be an editor now and not a line-reader. Larger screen, daily glasses, yes. But also the shame of so often mis-speaking in public; seeing only the mistakes and not the intended thought.

"The entertainment industry refines and multiplies the varieties of reactive behavior among the..."

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:23:00 -0400

““The entertainment industry refines and multiplies the varieties of reactive behavior among the masses. In this way, it makes them ripe for the workings of advertising. The link between this industry and the world exhibitions is thus well established.” [G16.7]”

- Walter Benjamin “the Arcades Project” Harvard p. 201

Last night I dreamt a few things. I dreamt I read “Arcades” and I dreamt of a notebook...

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 01:42:00 -0400

Last night I dreamt a few things. I dreamt I read “Arcades” and I dreamt of a notebook with another notebook in it and the thing was called “Foresight.” I dreamt of an up-scrolling blog (because aren’t these anecdotes running the wrong way) and then that got one-upped. I dreamt I was in love, and dreamt that was enough. I dreamt I got over not writing and I dreamt of other things. Did you dream last night, or did you sleep like a lamb and spend the day making, instead?

that dream

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 09:28:03 -0400

in that dream, matt jones showed me a shape that had been cut out of plexi that was like two overlapping long triangles with some rectangular intersections and outcroppings. some degree of scratches on its surface and one circle (or maybe two) printed on or in it.

he said “develop this” — in contradistinction to “draw this” — and that the largest paper you could get was 30” x 400” which confused me and still does because I know paper comes in taller rolls than thirty, but that was the story and this was a dream. but the key was to develop this image, to make some kind of colossal photograph (rather than a tracing) that would capture the thing.

and I worked through in this dream a solution that involved a cctv and a projector — coating the fourhundred inch paper with mild photosensitive chemicals in a room or maybe a cosco container and projecting onto it—from above—a closed circuit video of the object. that was something of a bill daniel solution, but one designed to get those scratches because such a long exposure could be dim but incremental. (who made the pinhole cameras of airports out of containers?)

ignoring the ambient light of projectors. this was a dream.

made it home late last night \ after a stop at the all night lobster shack \ for a burger and fries...

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 09:15:00 -0400

made it home late last night \ after a stop at the all night lobster shack \ for a burger and fries \ I fell asleep without eating \

slept under a grow light \ which I kept on in the freelance days \ when I worked inside at home \ and felt like a plant \

dreamed that matt jones \ gave me an assignment \ dreams of a tom hanks movie \ about moving from cape cod \

dreamed that sagmeister \ worked in a woodshop \ and dreamed kevin-o from work \ left a first comment on boingboing \ that was so very good \ xeni video called \

woke in my fall clothes \ and though it was grey out \ me in the daytime \ under the grow light \ with all of these dreams \

Photo

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 07:44:35 -0400

WHOLE HEALED

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 19:00:37 -0400

WHOLE HEALED

Is Reading.am an everyday game?

Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:36:12 -0400

Is Reading.am an everyday game?

The tools of the day

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 15:13:00 -0400

The tools of the day:

After years spent personal-assisting, client-wrangling, and generally trying to grasp and adapt to the strange ways of my particular primate mind, it’s obvious to most people who know me that my two languages are dance-floors and macbooks.