“IT ALWAYS SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE UNTIL IT IS DONE.” Steve Jobs also said : “A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.” So DO IT! Create that ‘possibility’ that’s in your head and reveal for us the things we want. All the best, (via swissmiss) [...]
Here is a transcript of a beautiful letter Paul Banks (of Interpol) wrote to a downbeat fan. Dear Hailey, No matter how sad you may get, it’s always passing. You may wake up blue, and by the afternoon, everything will be rosey. Sadness is a strange companion. And a nuisance. So try not to pay [...]
The European in conversation with George Dyson about computers, internet, progress, human life, and the deeper topics associated with it. They throw out some really interesting questions. What are some of your thoughts on these issues? We now live in a world where information is potentially unlimited. Information is cheap, but meaning is expensive. Where [...]
The New Museum is showing a survey exhibition of the German artist Carsten Höller (b. 1961, Brussels, lives and works in Stockholm) He has transformed the gallery into a playground. It sounds like there are heaps of art works on display that visitors can actually have A LOT OF FUN with. Would you like [...]
I say “cool,” all the time, seriously. “What, exactly, is cool?” Colin Eatock asks in this fun article. He talks about what it means to be cool in the current culture, when and how ‘being cool’ became cool and everything else in between! Excerpt: And of course people can be (or not be) cool. Steve [...]
In her article, A Coconut Cake From Emily Dickinson: Reclusive Poet, Passionate Baker, Nelly Lambert looks at Emily’s passion in baking. Lambert writes, “Dickinson discussed baking in many of her letters — evincing both her trademark wit and a zest for life that belies the common image of her as a depressed figure. Note the [...]
Have you ever felt guilty of doodling in a boring lecture or workplace? Well, good news is here. There’s no need to feel that way anymore! It turns out that you were trying to take more in. Sunni Brown shows us how through out history doodling has been viewed in a negative light. But she [...]
Artist Stephanie Imbeau manifests in her statement: …the work explores the idea of community, belonging, and the role that architecture plays in contextualizing life. She is interested in how homes and the built environment affect the way people live and interact with others. Play and exploration also have significant roles…feels that retaining a sense of [...]
Check out a heartwarming piano performance by a couple of 62 years. YouTube user havelah‘s video description: “An elderly couple walked into the lobby of the Mayo Clinic for a checkup and spotted a piano. They’ve been married for 62 years and he’ll be 90 this year. Check out this impromptu performance. We are only as [...]
Guy Raz, weekend host of All Things Considered on NPR, published an article on artist Lonni Sue Johnson, who contracted viral encephalitis in 2007, which destroyed parts of her brain and her work. In the article, How Crossword Puzzles Unlocked An Artist’s Memory, Raz writes, “The encephalitis took away many of Johnson’s old memories, like [...]