“beauty”

Ha tanto que no leia un cumplido de esta altura!

Here’s a quick stab of a translation, though it makes it absolutely no justice:

I’ve been looking for cool art lately (yup, there is a girl :) and I’m happily surprised to find there are lots of great stuff on the web. There are hundreds of web shops of amateur and independent artists out there (here’s one: boygirlsparty). DeviantArt was a first stop, of course; later followed by Etsy, a big place to find craftsy stuff which has some nice things going on and thru which I found Poketo, an artsy store specializing in wallets and apparel, where I finally found the gift (which will be perfect for her, I swear—had I had it custom-made it wouldn’t be this good).

And ogling through artist’s websites I found the perfect gift for, well, me: Io: Art of the Wired. I don’t know, I can simply feel it: this is a great book. Look at the rave reviews and the great art included:

But what really blew me away was Poketo’s flat worldwide shipping rate and Guu Media’s even bolder FREE global shipping. Nothing says one world louder than free shipping anyplace.

I found this out in the Wild Wild Web and am not able to ascertain the author¹, which is a shame since she’s a genius:

¹ All I know is they probably come from ZatteVrienden but I don’t grok Dutch.

Today is World Book Day and to celebrate it there was a public reading of The Aleph, a wonderful book of short stories by Jorge Luis Borges (“the information fetishist”), in my city. Let’s not miss the opportunity, here’s a great short-story of his to read today: Funes, the Memorious (in English and in Spanish).

The story is slow, filled with all sorts of mundane, meticulous details (apocryphal, of course) and full of seemingly irrelevant roundabouts—Borges hallmarks. How else can you talk about such profoundly magical things?

Today’s reading, The Perry Bible Fellowship^WP, has precious few words in it, it’s a comic strip. The most disturbed and weird one I know, at times insanely funny and original. There are over 163 strips in the archive so to make this into my Today’s Reading section (which is all about pithiness) here’s a selection of my favorites:

1. Bunny Pit
2. No Survivors
3. Sun Love
4. Raft Friends
5. Trampoline
6. Barbara and Rudy
7. Hammer Screwed
8. Not Today Little One
9. Small Man
10. New Specs for Ken
11. Billy Bunny
12. Reset
13. Suicide Train
14. Painter Piece
15. Monkey Photographer
16. Gopher Girlfriend
17. Today is my Birthday
18. Left Brain, Right Brain
19. Walbert
20. Love Lizard
21. Bumble Buzzin
22. Way too much
23. Durab, Inc
24. Food Fight

Their (brilliant) author is Nicholas Gurewitch, who also happens to be a very talented artist and movie director (The Forest (Parental Advisory: It revolves around the weirdest cartoon hand-job), Ken’s New Specs).

(Parental Advisory: Some barely concealed nipples ahead.)

Now, is this the most shockingly beautiful, original phrasing of Occam’s Razor you’ve ever read or what?