Justin Wheeler's blog
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Magic Tubes “If you think about all the technology we were promised the future would hold, from something like Star Trek, a lot of it has come true - we have little touch screen computers, we have hand-communicators. But one of the things we don’t have — and will probably never have — is the Transporter: the thing that can disassemble something somewhere, and reassemble it somewhere else. I wonder if that has to do with why the tubes feel so ancient and so futuristic at the same time: it’s the closest we ever got to transmitting a physical object instantaneously.”
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“When Lincoln won the nomination, each of his celebrated rivals believed the wrong man had been chosen. Lincoln seemed to have come from nowhere; a backwoods lawyer who had served one undistinguished term in the House of Representatives and lost two consecutive contests for the U.S. Senate … When viewed against the failed efforts of his rivals, it is clear that Lincoln won the nomination because he was the shrewdest and canniest of them all. More accustomed to relying upon himself to shape events, he took the greatest control of the process leading up to the nomination, displaying a fierce ambition, an exceptional political acumen, and a wide range of emotional strengths forged in the crucible of personal hardship that took his unsuspecting rivals by surprise.” — Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin -
Fly fishing in the backcountry, with two caught trout, a fair-isle v-neck sweater, collarless button down, and leather-and-turqouise belt buckle, Steve McQueen still looks cool.
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More proof that Steve McQueen looked cool all the time, any time.
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“It is not for man to follow the trail of truth too far, since by doing so he entirely loses the directing compass of his mind, for arrived at the Pole, to whose barrenness only it points, there, the needle indifferently respects all points of the horizon alike.” — Melville -
“But the quality that ties all of [James] Stirling’s work together is something that only the greatest architects possess: the unique ability to think volumetrically, to conceptualize and visualize all of a building’s components and relationships simultaneously in all three dimensions, reorganizing and reinventing those relationships to create brilliant spatial progressions and shifts in perception and experience that elude more ordinary talents.” -
Dick Hall hangs it out on the Vermont Long Trail. Photo by Steve Barnett, page 10 of the 1988 Chouinard Backcountry Catalog.
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Montauk, New York
Photographer- Trevor Munch
The worst part about cliches is how great they can be.
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I believe the world’s a better place because of this.
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soft day summer sky, stephen quiller
