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Been funking to this album all week. Half the album is just introducing the band. Donny Hathaway Live
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The Detroit Industry Murals by Diego Rivera are a fine example of corporate-commissioned artwork.
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I am an honest artist. What I write is intended to reach the customer—and affect him, if possible with pity and terror … or at least divert the tedium of his hours. I never hide from him in a private language, nor am I seeking praise from other writers for ‘technique’ or other balderdash. I…
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Turning your phone off at the door is the new taking your shoes off at the door. Clayton Cubitt
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There is a form of Japanese pottery called Kintsugi, where broken pottery is repaired using gold dust. This kind of pottery takes what many people would consider a flaw and draws attention to it. It acknowledges a truth that our flaws create our unique beauty. Kintsugi
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I download a lot of books, but they just sit there and get lost in my Kindle. I forget about them. So I developed this hack: I add books I want to read to my Amazon Wishlist. Every once in a while I dump that into Fancy Hands and reserve all the books at the…
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In the flawed there lies great beauty: Torn pages. Crackles on vinyl. Scratches over celluloid frames. The limitations of physical media become an inescapable component of the art we consume. They place the fiction within a reality, and reveal them both to be susceptible to the ravages of time. More precisely, they expose the beauty…
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The Family Stories That Bind Us
Recently I read an article about how family stories make for healthier individuals. A strong family narrative leads to increased emotional health and happiness. I found the concept of an “intergenerational self” fascinating. From the article: Why does knowing where your grandmother went to school help a child overcome something as minor as a skinned…
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n-a-s-a: Orbits of Potentially Hazardous Asteroids Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech
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I was raised up believing I was somehow unique / Like a snowflake distinct among snowflakes, unique in each way you can see / And now after some thinking, I’d say I’d rather be / A functioning cog in some great machinery serving something beyond me. “Helplessness Blues” by Fleet Foxes I like these lyrics.
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Good design is seldom accepted. It has to be sold. Julius Shulman
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When you make a thing, a thing that is new, it is so complicated making it that it is bound to be ugly. But those that make it after you, they don’t have to worry about making it. And they can make it pretty, and so everybody can like it when the others make it…
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Steve Jobs at home, 1982.
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Steve Jobs at home, 2004.
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Map of the Moon