January 2012
11 posts
Bruce Mau's Incomplete Manifesto for Growth
this is seriously everything i need right now and more… //
1. Allow events to change you.
You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.
2. Forget about good.
Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all...
“The designer today should not help to produce more - he has to help produce...”
– Philippe S+arck
Collin McLoughlin - Titanium (David Guetta Cover)
a belated resolution..
I didn’t bother to come up with a resolution for 2012, but after reading this great “Decalogue of Canons for observation in practical life” by Thomas Jefferson, I’d very much like this collection of wise words to be my resolution for this (great ..i can feel it!) year ahead. It is quite unfortunate that after all these years… we have yet to learn. oh,...
i believe in art
for the last half of 2011, my mind has been running/sprinting/skipping/inching/dancing in circles around the endless problems, questions, solutions, ideas, etc. surrounding the ambiguous and headache-inducing idea of a better world. and how to achieve it. so much can be done, and so much has been done… but what is most important? and what can i do? this question will probably stay in my...
“What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.”
– Leo Tolstoy
Robert Reich: The Decline of the Public Good →
robertreich:
Meryl Streep’s eery reincarnation of Margaret Thatcher in “The Iron Lady” brings to mind Thatcher’s most famous quip, “there is no such thing as ‘society.’” None of the dwindling herd of Republican candidates has quoted her yet but they might as well considering their unremitting bashing of…
He is hands-down brilliant.
