…from the alarmingly wise Anne Herbert of Peace and Love and Noticing the Miracles.
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insoluable problem -> interesting solution
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Two photos from Magical and Otherwise reminded us of the complete shift of view that can come when we open our eyes to what’s hiding-in-plain-sight all around us. read more…
We found this quote (punctuation ours) on French by Design this morning and have been mulling it all day. It was unattributed. When we did a search to see where it might have come from, we found Weight Watchers and Islam and a bunch of other sources.
What do we want MOST? Can we subject the wants of the moment for the WANTMOSTS?
We’re not that simple… Sometimes the WANTMOSTS aren’t clear. Sometimes the Wants-of-the-Moment turn out to be a path read more…
photo: maria robledo
Another shift of view from Maria Robledo: a fish pond illusion graffiti spotted in San Francisco. The graffiti there is very different than the often cryptic signage we follow in New York. It’s still reverberates with sweet 60′s-ish light:
photo: tara mann
We spotted this very intriguing question on our friend Tara Mann‘s site; it’s the title of an exhibition at Parsons. Tara took this instagram in the lobby: just a question.
It made us think…
where we’ve been…
where we’re going…
what’s been the great migration?…
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We just discovered there’s an entire Wikiquotes page on FAILURE, something we write about a lot because it’s such an essential part of improvising, discovering, living… read more…
…reminds us of the one Pamela Hovland sent us a while back…
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This uplifting bit of graffiti brings out the guerilla in us. We don’t WE become anonymous graffiti artists and leave uplifting (and impermanent) messages around town? All it would take is carrying a piece of chalk (easy to carry)…
read more…
'henry miller on writing' (new directions)
In the early thirties, as he was writing Tropic of Cancer
- Work on one thing at a time until finished.
- Start no more new books, add no more new material to “Black Spring.”
- Don’t be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand.
- Work according to Program and not according to mood. Stop at the appointed time!
- When you can’t create you can work.
- Cement a little every day, rather than add new fertilizers.
- Keep human! See people, go places, drink if you feel like it.
- Don’t be a draught-horse! Work with pleasure only.
- Discard the Program when you feel like it—but go back to it next day. Concentrate. Narrow down. Exclude.
- Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.
- Write first and always. Painting, music, friends, cinema, all these come afterwards.
photo: galenfrysinger.com
While looking at images of Taliesin West for our string light post, we came across this sign of Frank Lloyd Wright’s “The Organic Commandment”. We’re not sure if it’s one or four, or ‘commandment’ rather than principles, but we find it worth mulling…
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pupilpeople.com
This evening marks the start of Chinese New Year – the Year of the Dragon. We think this poster from Singapore design firm pupilpeople would make a fine, fluid set of reminders for the year: glow-in-the-dark, too, for about $24. read more…
Art Director Gustavo Vieira has created a an Is Life Good tumblr where you can download this sign in different resolutions customized for your computer, tablet or phone, to use as wallpaper FREE…
…A great, simple to-the-point question/answer/reminder.
via Swiss-Miss
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‘don’t say yes. be yes.’
In 1966, Alexander Calder and his wife Louisa published this full-page ad in the New York Times; it is a fantastically bold and hopeful statement. Every New Year’s Day, we remember that ad, finding it about the most perfect wish for the New Year.
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harry bertoia
“Sculptor and designer Harry Bertoia was just 15 when he moved from Italy to the United States. Two years later, struggling to assimilate in school, he made this list of personal attributes as part of a class project. After high school he attended the Cranbrook Academy of Art, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where, along with his neatness and accuracy, he developed a fluid sense of sculptural form that made him a leading designer of modern furniture.”
What quality would you add?
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for amy winehouse
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