My birthday started out a bit rough but I ended up going to the Arthur Sackler Museum at Harvard.1 I was surprised to see Light Prop For An Electric Stage by László Moholy-Nagy there. I have long been a fan of his work, particularly his collages, but had never seen anything of his in person.
- I had also never used the wonderful free passes that our library system has. One person per day can borrow a pass to a local museum and two people can get in free. Basically awesome.
Bookstores fight back with instant paperbacks
Sounds terrific for the locals who make it to the end of NaNoWriMo.
In a public unveiling slated for September 29, the Harvard Book Store will become only the second US merchant to install such an apparatus, which prints, binds, and trims perfect-bound books — complete with full-color covers and black-and-white guts — in about four minutes.
Muffy and I were employed there [at Harvard], teaching creative writing. And the motto of Harvard is ‘Veritas,’ which means ‘truth.’ We took to saying ‘very tass’ to mean, ‘very true,’ or ‘too true.’ Our students picked it up and started applying it to something that was cool. So very tass turned into very hip or cool.
— Tass Times in Tonetown - Wikipedia
