Category: general
To save money by reducing library services and resources is like trying to save a bleeding man by cutting out his heart. Or — if we could reach it — his soul.
Pico Iyer in the L.A. Times (via nypl)
An Architect Squeezes 24 Rooms Into 344 Square Feet. Sally Schneider considers the feat:
Using sliding panels and walls and consummately clever thinking, architect Gary Chang revamped his tiny 344-square-foot Hong Kong apartment to be able to change it into 24 different designs. It totally challenges preconceived notions of what a space can be, which is Chang’s mission.
Read and see more on The Atlantic’s Life channel.
(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
By honoring one another’s creation we honor something that deeply connects us all, and goes beyond us.
[Writing is] like standing on the edge of a cliff. This is especially true of the first draft. Every day you’re making up the earth you’re going to stand on.
Peter Carey (via theparisreview)
One by one, the buffers between what people want and what the media can afford to deliver have been stripped away. Broadcast TV was deregulated, and cable and satellite TV arose in a wholly post-regulation era. As newspapers fell during the rise of the Internet, and fell faster because of the 2008 recession, the regional papers fell hardest. The survivors, from The New York Times to the National Enquirer, will be what British newspapers have long been: nationwide in distribution, and differentiated by politics and class. The destruction of the “bundled” business model for newspapers, which allowed ads in the Auto section to underwrite a bureau in Baghdad; the rise of increasingly targeted and niche-ified information sources and advertising vehicles; and the consequent pressure on almost any mass offering except for sports—all of these are steps toward a perfected market for information of all sorts, including news. With each passing month, people can get more of what they want and less of what someone else thinks they should have.
This is a pretty accurate representation of my current internship in brazil, the work one needs to be really minimal though.
(Source: http://loldwell.com/?p=526)
Every morning, I have woken up knowing that I will never run out of books to read. That has been my life.
Picture of me taken by Sable for the Spring 2011 issue of Proxart Magazine
Which you should check out (Free PDF of Proxart Winter 2010)
Can do better, will do better.
Andre Dubus III, Six-Word Memoir from the Memoirville interview at Smith Magazine (via wwnorton)
Time is like air; it is there always, changing people and forming character.
William Trevor (via theparisreview)
People have one great blessing – obscurity – and not really too many people are thankful for it.
Bob Dylan’s Playboy interview, 1966. (via somethingchanged)
Sometimes I think a writer should make up his mind whether he’s going to be a writer or a reader. There isn’t time for both.
Jessamyn West (via theparisreview)
EXPERIENCE DESIGN PYRAMID
This may seem a bit academic but for me it is pretty fundamental to remember when doing experience design. I put this checklist together to remind me why some experiences fail. Usually they are missing one or more parts of this experience design pyramid. Do all 6 and your experience is like magic!
photojojo:
Take note on these lessons from Wieden+Kennedy’s Executive Creative Director, John C Jay:
via SwissMiss
Be authentic. The most powerful asset you have is your individuality, what makes you unique. It’s time to stop listening to others on what you should do.
Work harder than anyone else and…
R. Buckminster Fuller at Black Mountain College by Nancy Newhall ca. 1948 Color Transparency (via adamferriss)
Coffeehouse Junkie 