Erik Spikermann använder en motordriven sele för att komma åt böcker i sina två våningar höga bokhyllor.

Jag smygkikade in i en verkstad på Rosenlundsgatan idag.

Jag upptäckte Colin Stetson på någon lista över förra årets bästa musik. Hans New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges förekom på flera listor. Inte direkt lätt att lyssna på, men hans bassaxofon är lätt hypnotiserande. Ovan videon till låten “Those Who Didn’t Run”.

En favorit från förra säsongen av Portlandia.

Från Open City, av Teju Cole:

Then it came to me: I was remembering something I had seen about a year earlier: the sprawling scale model of the city that was kept  at the Queens Museum of Art. The model had been built for the World’s Fair in 1964, at great cost, and afterward had been periodically updated to keep up with the changing topography and built environment of the city. It showed, in impressive detail, with almost a million tiny buildings, and with bridges, parks, rivers, and architectural landmarks, the true form of the city.

The attention to detail was so meticulous that one could not help but think of Borges’s cartographers, who, obsessed with accuracy, had made a map so large and so finely detailed that it matched the empire’s scale on a ratio of one to one, a map in which each thing coincided with its spot on the map. The map proved so unwieldy that it was eventually folded up and left to rot in the desert.

Se mina markeringar i Open City hos Readmill.

Aaron Schmidts modifierade version av den amerikanska nationella ikonen för bibliotek.