January 2012
4 posts
Eventually, we must come home again, to ourselves.
December 2011
1 post
1 tag
“At the end, we’re all just dead, no matter how sensibly and rationally we...”
– Mimismartypants
September 2011
5 posts
“Ask yourself about the source in your artistic longings. Why is it so necessary...”
– Ernst Haas
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air and light and time and space
by Charles Bukowski
“–you know, I’ve either had a family, a job, something has always been in the way but now I’ve sold my house, I’ve found this place, a large studio, you should see the space and the light. for the first time in my life I’m going to have a place and the time to create.”
no baby, if you’re going to create you’re going to create whether you work 16 hours a day in a...
1 tag
2 tags
August 2011
1 post
“It’s counterproductive to hold a particular scenario in our mind as the...”
– Rob Brezny
July 2011
5 posts
1 tag
“In your life, anything that is worn to the bone and no longer working, or is no...”
– Rob Brezny
April 2011
17 posts
“Never follow somebody else’s path; it doesn’t work the same way...”
– J. Michael Straczynski
“Don’t let creative people stop you from being creative.”
– The Island (via jimisland)
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us...”
– Ira Glass (via nefffy)
I have no idea what class I watched this Glass video in, but I did watch it in a class and I’m pretty sure my Prof cried.
(via electricollection)
Rules for eating & drinking
Michael Pollan: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
Alex Balk: “Drink alcohol. Quite a bit. Mostly bourbon.”
3 tags
March 2011
3 posts
February 2011
1 post
“Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best,”...”
– Rob Brezny
January 2011
4 posts
1 tag
December 2010
1 post
November 2010
1 post
“Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take...”
– Hardy D. Jackson
October 2010
5 posts
“‘I usually solve problems by letting them devour me,’ wrote Franz...”
2 tags
“The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it...”
– Rainer Rilke
“We make a lot of detours but were always heading for the same destination.”
– The Alchemist
September 2010
7 posts
1 tag
Deliberation
Constant slow movement teaches us to keep working like a small creek that stays clear, that does not stagnate, but finds a way through numerous details, deliberately.
Deliberation is born of joy, like a bird from an egg.
Birds do not resemble eggs.
Think how different the hatching out is.
A white leathery snake egg, a sparrow’s egg, a quince seed, an apple seed.
Very different things look...
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roadside attraction
It turns out the geographical center of the continent is not well-marked. Driving into the town famous only for its location, I see an electric red tower skewering out of the trees. And yet, arriving at its base, I discover the structure is, instead, a monument signaling the proximity of the high school, where I suppose other great moments of different magnitude are being celebrated. The landmark...