February 2010
1 post
January 2010
3 posts
Please do not be cynical. It doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets...
December 2009
5 posts
There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit...
– Anna Katharine Green (via quote-book) (via reginkula)
November 2009
8 posts
October 2009
3 posts
September 2009
14 posts
Artist/Body Architect Lucy McRae believes... →
Thus able to give psycho-sensorial feedbacks (a subliminal message) and indirect response (touch and feel). She sees skin as a wonderful sensor: it’s an electronic network, a protection barrier, a temperature regulator, etc.
If a city doesn’t have sufficient density, as in L.A., then strange things...
– David Byrne’s Perfect City.
Reading on the subway is a New York ritual, for the masters of the intricately...
– The Joy of Reading in the Subways of New York.
August 2009
9 posts
Transcript of Alain de Botton's philosophy of...
For me they normally happen, these career crises, often, actually, on a Sunday evening, just as the sun is starting to set, and the gap between my hopes for myself, and the reality of my life, start to diverge so painfully that I normally end up weeping into a pillow. I’m mentioning all this, I’m mentioning all this because I think this is not merely a personal problem. You may think...
In order to change the world, change your attitude to the world.
Your impulse to stay busy?
There are different species of laziness: Eastern and Western. The Eastern style is like the one practised in India. It consists of hanging out all day in the sun, doing nothing, avoiding any kind of work or useful activity, drinking cups of tea, listening to Hindi film music blaring on the radio, and gossiping with friends. Western laziness is quite different. It consists of cramming our lives...
Good design can be smart, sensible, and intuitive; meticulously considered...
– - Eviana Hartman