February 2012
4 posts
“Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don’t abandon the book....”
– Patti Smith (via libraryland)
“Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous ‘I don’t know’.”
– Wislawa Szymborska, from her Nobel Prize acceptance speech (via kateoplis)
“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple...”
– Gall’s law (via Waffle). (via thinkdrastic)
“Let’s accept the role of gardener as being equal in dignity to the role of...”
– Brian Eno (via ummhello)
January 2012
11 posts
“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Most people die...”
– Erich Fromm (via adsertoris)
“Don’t be afraid to be a fool. Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young...”
– Stephen Colbert (via nathanielstuart)
“I don’t distinguish between magic and art.”
– Alan Moore (via nathanielstuart)
“What sets art apart from other technological endeavors is not the innovative use...”
– Jon Ippolito, “Ten Myths of Internet Art” (via saidtotheuniverse)
“We are habits, nothing but habits – the habit of saying ‘I’. Perhaps there is no...”
– Gilles Deleuze (via endofinquiry
)
“For years, Viacom continuously and secretly uploaded its content to YouTube,...”
– YouTube Blog: Broadcast Yourself (via interestingsnippets / infoneer-pulse) (via prostheticknowledge) (via jzp
)
“I’m always buying art books, and they just sit there. Then I grab them in those...”
– Miranda July, 2011 in USA Today (via fuckyeahmirandajuly)
“don’t expect to get anything back, don’t expect recognition for your efforts,...”
– paulo coelho (via sweetpeapath)
“A cause is not a fact— it’s a fiction that helps us make sense of facts.”
– Jonah Lehrer in “Trials and Errors: Why Science is Failing Us” (via jayparkinsonmd
)
“A canvas is not a blank surface. It is already heavy with clichés, even if we do...”
– Gilles Deleuze, “Painting Sets Writing Ablaze” (interview)
“In a way, staring into a computer screen is like staring into an eclipse. It’s...”
– Bruce Sterling (via rem0ved)
December 2011
14 posts
“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making...”
– http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2011/12/my-new-year-wish.html (via neil-gaiman)
“When you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than...”
– _why, (via David Tate (via robertogreco)
“Software is eating the world.”
– Marc Andreessen: Predictions for 2012 (and beyond) | Digital Media - CNET News
“All (mental) models are wrong, some models are useful.”
– George Box
“My advice is to do what you can this second. Big plans that rely on other...”
– Miranda July, interviewed by the Guardian (via jackrusher)
“Sadness, sad affects, are those which reduce our power to act. The established...”
– Gilles Deleuze, Dialogues (via sonofapritch)
“If you’re going to go your own way, don’t expect anyone to come with you. If you...”
– Henry Rollins (via nathanielstuart)
“As to those for whom to work hard, to begin and begin again, to attempt and be...”
– Michel Foucault (via foucaultscat)
“To put it very gently, I have a feeling that the philosophical reduction of...”
– Frank O’Hara (via thenmyrasaid
)
“What we commonly call nihilism—and are tempted to date historically, decry...”
– -Hannah Arendt, Thinking and Moral Considerations (via blerchin
)
“It’s not a question of worrying or hoping for the best, but of finding new...”
– Gilles Deleuze, “Postscript on Control Societies” (via sonofapritch)
“Other people’s words are the bridge you use to cross from where you were to...”
– Zadie Smith, “Other People’s Words, Part One,” in Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays (via)
“I make my pictures for what Hollywood spends on lipstick”
– Maya Deren (via liefdebijtenwonden
)
Bad At Sports: What does it mean to be an artist at the end of the day? What does that mean?
David Shrigley: Um ... it means that you don't have to have a job, basically.
November 2011
6 posts
“Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all...”
– Buckminster Fuller (via nathanielstuart
)
“Don’t become a well-rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and dull....”
– Bruce Sterling. The Wonderful Power of Storytelling (via thisway
)
“We break out of the box by stepping into shackles.”
– Jonah Lehrer on constraints (He continues: “the brain is a neural tangle of near infinite possibility, which means that it spends a lot of time and energy choosing what not to notice. As a result, creativity is traded away for efficiency; we think in literal prose, not symbolist poetry. And this is...
“People now don’t even have any concept that there ever was a culture outside of...”
– Robert Crumb (via crumb-brothers)
for not having more intellectual curiosity about what’s behind all of this jive bullshit. (Exactly!)
“We neither strive for, nor will, neither want, nor desire anything because we...”
– Baruch Spinoza (via hollowskin)
“Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured...”
– Philip K. Dick (via libraryland)
October 2011
12 posts
“In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our...”
– Bruce Sterling (via asitwasmadetobe)
“I believe that my originality (if that is the right word) is an originality...”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value (via vastandgrand)
“A characteristic of artistic education is for people to tell you that you’re a...”
– Milton Glaser. via youmightfindyourself. (via tobia)
“We are sealed in our own little melancholy atmospheres, like planets, and...”
– Allen Ginsberg
“It has neither name nor place. I shall repeat the reason I was describing it to...”
– Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities (via mythologyofblue)
“In life, a person can take one of two attitudes: to build or to plant. The...”
– Paulo Coelho (via pursue-wisdom)
“The Occupy Wall Street movement is spreading quickly to many cities and states,...”
– Roger Ebert (via azspot)
Roger Ebert dropping some truth bombs AS HE IS KNOWN TO DO. (via ataxiwardance)
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
– Samuel Beckett (via stoweboyd)
“How we use our brain ( what we pay attention to) changes our brain. Those things...”
– Cathy N. Davidson in the book Now You See It, which I highly recommend.
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“the procrastinator can be motivated to do difficult, timely and important tasks,...”
– John Perry (via protoslacker)
September 2011
19 posts
3 tags
“People are just as wonderful as sunsets if I can let them be…when I look at a...”
– Carl Rogers (via atramentum)
3 tags
#OccupyTogether: The Best Among Us →
There are no excuses left. Either you join the revolt taking place on Wall Street and in the financial districts of other cities across the country or you stand on the wrong side of history. Either you obstruct, in the only form left to us, which is civil disobedience, the plundering by the criminal class on Wall Street and accelerated destruction of the ecosystem that sustains the human...
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“We need to remember that the process of learning is much more important for our...”
– Process and Product (via gjmueller)