Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Things are not quite real until they acquire names and can be classified in some way. Curiosity about places is part of a general curiosity about things, part of the need to label experiences so that they have a greater degree of permanence and fit into some conceptual scheme.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“A thing is a thing not what is said of that thing.”
Newspaper reporters call this a “morgue file”—I like that name even better. Your morgue file is where you keep the dead things that you’ll later reanimate in your work.
Austin Kleon • Steal Like An Artist - a book by Austin Kleon
Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described.
Notes on Camp, Susan Sontag.
Introducing the book, Perec writes:
"Many, if not most, of these things have been described, inventoried, photographed, written about or itemized. My intention in the following pages was to describe what remains; that which we generally don’t notice, which doesn’t call attention to itself, which is of no importance: what happens when nothing happens... See more
"Many, if not most, of these things have been described, inventoried, photographed, written about or itemized. My intention in the following pages was to describe what remains; that which we generally don’t notice, which doesn’t call attention to itself, which is of no importance: what happens when nothing happens... See more
Infra-ordinary
For this is the function of the story: to make a man see the thing before his eyes by holding up another thing to view.