There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Pablo Picasso (via firstmillionsketches) (via subcreation)
Month: December 2009
um… does this mean c.s. lewis was abducted by aliens?
Coffee leads men to trifle away their time, scald their chops, and spend their money, all for a little base, black, thick, nasty, bitter, stinking nauseous puddle water.
The Women’s Petition Against Coffee, 1674
tonight at 7:30, Flood Reading Series @ Posana Cafe featuring Ned Condini and Laura Hope-Gill
Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical.
Jonathan Swift
the house where i live has a smaller carbon footprint than the all the limos & private jets at copenhagen…
Coffee should be black as hell, strong as death and as sweet as love.
Turkish proverb (via shonpapri)
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee’s frothy goodness.
Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm.
Dutch Proverb
15 things to know about coffee…
ashleyxsober: click for more
(Source: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/coffee)
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
Author Unknown
I began writing in mystery, and it’s mystery that’s kept me writing.
Philip Levine, poet
how can i get one of these for my backyard?
creativeinspiration: adorablelife: bookspaperscissors: The Bibliobarn’s Bibliobargains! (via yeksitra)
Sexton, who won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967, and Plath… author of The Bell Jar and posthumous recipient of the 1982 Pulitzer for poetry, were unknown students writers…. Sexton was a troubled stay-at-home mom dabbling in poetry at her therapist’s suggestion, while Plath was just auditing.
Caleb Daniloff, for BU Today (link)
I always joke with my students that poetry couldn’t possibly be as hard as they think it is, because if it were as hard as they thought it was, poets wouldn’t do it. Really, they’re the laziest, stupidest people I know. They became poets in part because they were demoted to that job, right? You should never tell your students to write what they know because, of course, they know nothing: they’re poets! If they knew something, they’d… be in history or physics or math or business or whatever it is where they could excel.
misssnowwhite: funny how when you really want to say something, twitter isn’t the right place.
Caffeine isn’t a drug, it’s a vitamin!
Author Unknown
soundtrack to watching the snow fall on a carolina saturday morning: yo-yo ma & friends ‘songs of joy & peace’
it started snowing an hour ago… there was a hawk perched outside the window on a naked tree limb when the sleet turned to snow… seems perfect weather for some pancakes, eggs & coffee… now if i can just find a quiet corner & a good book…
It’s much easier to believe in our importance when we view ourselves within small contexts. Through its networks and groups, Facebook simplifies the globalized world into manageable cyber-villages, with many of the costs and benefits of real villages, from the lack of privacy to the comfort of being recognized. The difference is that on Facebook, each of us gets to rule our own village, inviting and expelling members as we see fit.
Johnny Thakkar in “The Withering of Narcissus: Playing Tyrant on the Internet” for The Point (via britticisms) (via somethingchanged)
People ignore design that ignores people.
Frank Chimero (via charzmendoza)
Dieter Rams: 10 design principles
via DesignApplause
Good design is innovative
Good design makes a product useful
Good design is aesthetic
Good design helps us to understand a product
Good design is unobtrusive
Good design is honest
Good design is durable
Good design is consequent to the last detail
Good design is concerned with the environment
Good design is as little design as possibleDieter Rams (born May 20, 1932 in Wiesbaden) is a German industrial designer closely associated with the consumer products company Braun and the Functionalist school of industrial design.
In 1993 I asked Dieter to speak to the Architecture & Design Society at the Art Institute of Chicago. The society recently had a name change: “design” had been added. We joked ( ahem ) at the time that the real estate economy was so bad that the Architecture Society needed new members. We needed a credible and passionate design icon to speak to this group. Dieter became the first designer to speak under the society’s new name.
What I remember that night and again recently while watching the Objectified movie was Dieter’s 10 design principles. Honestly, I can’t tell you for sure that these are the same principles. Hoping Dieter will set the story straight.
I think I like the earlier stuff better. Maybe it was the materials or maybe it was so different than the pack at the time. The first Braun product I remember making a design connect to me was an electric razor. Much of Dieter’s work has long seemed more connected to brutalism than minimalism. Let’s say beautifully, brutally, minimal.
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