Elsewhere on the Internet! A (Mostly) Non-Media Linkfest

• NYTimes.com designer Khoi Vinh discusses his ‘90s design education. (ZT)

• My roommate started singing this SNL Digital Short song last night, and I went to listen on Hulu only to find it not there. Strange. But it’s amazing. (SK)

• “Moldovan accused of murdering 1800-year-old.” Oh, Russia Today, you never fail to impress. (RQ)

• Why does every Merce Cunningham obituary leave us in tears? (ZT)

From NPR:

Cunningham once said that dance was movement, movement of any kind, and it is as accurate and impermanent as breathing. NPR’s Renee Montange asked Cunningham three years ago if that meant his last breath would be a dance.

“Yes or I can call it dancing,” Cunningham laughed. “Even if no one else does.”

From NYT:

Mr. Cunningham often spoke and wrote movingly about the nature of dance and would laugh about its maddening impermanence. “You have to love dancing to stick to it,” he once wrote. “It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.”

From The New Yorker:

There was no discipline or self-denial involved in his neglect of his surroundings, just the carelessness of someone who woke up every morning, every day of his long, productive life, focussed on nothing but making the best dance possible that day.

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