arguably one of the greatest living authors and a man whose oeuvre i admire very much quietly announced he was stopping last week: philip roth and he is sharing the following ten morsels of wisdom, amen…
1. work hard.
2. people are animals.
3. we are alone and want to be known.
4. the flesh is weak.
5. beware of ideology.
6. prejudice is alive and well.
7. New Jersey is beautiful.
8. there’s a fine line between reality, fiction, and fantasy.
9. the power of three.
10. know when to quit.
a great little documentary i just stumbled upon about ‘factory records’ back in ’88, some real nostalgia here for me
a fascinating ‘behind the scenes’ look at how the hottest record label of the ’80’s started to put an album together from recording, to designing the sleeve and deciding how many copies to press
featuring tony wilson, sean ryder, bez, martin hanett and various odd characters from the notorious ‘factory’ years… i saw ‘the happy mondays’ live a year before this was made in london… and a very surreal experience it was too…
this is a bit of a baffling phenomenon: a series of prominent designers saying something profound or pretentious about design but then accompanied by a tune, anybody got a suggestion what purpose this could possibly serve?… nope me neither (thanks to ‘polly’ for the baffling tip)
