February 26, 2015
Kinds of Listening, Kinds of Light: He told me he saw more subtle cycles there
“When spring came, when every crow announced its arrival by raising his cry half a tone…” – Sans Soleil Last week, deep into California’s wildflower season, I made a new rule: […]
August 20, 2013
Café of the Future
The Long Now Foundation is hiring volunteers to curate their “Manual for Civilization,” a collection of 3500 volumes to be shelved in the Long Now Salon. Founded in “01996,” Long […]
September 7, 2012
‘Were there but world enough and time’: Tom Phillips on A Humument
If the un-canon exists—or the alternative canon; a trove of works treasured outside of the mainstream—then it indisputably includes Tom Phillips and A Humument, his capstone project. A painter by […]