Toby brought me this back from SXSW this year. Proper glad I am too because, apart from it being a limited edition (and I do like limited editions), and hand numbered, and A NEWSPAPER (something that still excites me a lot about Newspaper Club (who made it)), and full of great writing and images, it’s also got a lot to say about time and stuff…
“What Charles Darwin did for all life through time, Vernadsky did for all life through space. Just as we are all connected in time through evolution to common ancestors, so we are all – through the atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, and these days even the ionosphere – connected in space. We are tied through Vernadskian space to Darwinian time.”
- Foreword to Vladimir I. Vernadsky’s The Biosphere. via Matt Jones‘ article on the sun, Solar Storm Watch, Chizhevsky’s ‘Heliobiology’, and the numinous experience.
“…what newspapers are really good at: understandable, highly portable, physical objects that make digesting certain kinds of information easier. Like magazines, they can get you to read things you would never usually be interested in, simply through clever design decisions.”
- Bobbie Johnson on newspapers, and how they are constantly evolving, always in beta, and how they’re not dying – they’re just changing.
Where people congregated in Texas at different times of the day.
Time-sinks. Beautifully arranged, as always, by David McCandless at Information is Beautiful (who did one of my favourite things here).
“The most invaluable resource any writer has is time.”
- Warren Ellis, in the midst of thinking about print, publishing, notebooks with rulers on them, and it not hurting to value the physical…
“Capitalist newspaper names, then, are either temporal or political – and what is politics, but an attempt to freeze morality in time?”
- James Bridle, on the naming of newspapers.
