“Why do I travel? It’s not the flying I mind- I will always be awed by the physics that get a fat metal bird into the upper troposphere. The rest of the journey, however, can feel like a tedious lesson in the ills of modernity, from the predawn x-ray screening to the sad [...]

This is what I want my day to be like:

Photo by Katie Sokoler via Noelle.

From Wholphin Issue No. 1
Directed by Miguel Arteta and written by Miranda July.

I love stumbling upon new artists and discovering their work. Today’s find in French Michael Levy, who catapulted me to Paris in just one click:

Paris, Hotel Le Brun (promenades architecturales series)

Paris, Palais Bourbon (Promenades architecturales series.)

He also won me over with his beautiful pictures of Iceland, which you can admire here. Now if only [...]

Hands up if you get the reference! Photos from here.

A short story written by Michael Chabon and adapted to film by Amy Lippman with Zooey Deschanel and Paul Rudd. Featured in Wholphin n.5 (2008)

Or, how to appreciate the slow pace of a sun-drenched Monday morning that feels like Spring:

A weekend of champions, this was.
I experienced a rare kind of decadence, one made possible only by the tacit understanding that school was to be put on hold for the entire duration of the weekend. Indulging in books, magazines, paintings and the violin is not an everyday occurrence, if you’re an overworked grad student like [...]

Friday night, this is what I make of you:

Words from Sarah Manguso’s Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape (2007), included with story collections by Dave Eggers and Deb Olin Unferth in McSweeney’s One Hundred and Forty-Five Stories in a Small Box.
Words in the last picture by Broken Social Scene and my unrelenting faith in [...]

Sometimes life feels like the act of reading and re-reading a page that has been torn out from the middle of a book. The story never reaches its catharsis and, in its repeating, becomes a photocopy of itself. A tamed, purely ornamental version of a narrative that leaves you wondering what will happen next. Tonight, [...]