November 2010
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October 2010
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“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”
– Wayne Dyer
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t...”
– Louise Erdrich
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WatchFor the past 16 years, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey has been reinventing impressionistic and improvisational contemporary jazz. LUDWIG is their most beautifully belabored project to date — a reinterpretation of Beethoven’s 3rd and 6th symphonies in jazz, three years in the making.
Read more here.
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“Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its troubles. It empties today of its...”
– Corrie ten Boom
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us...”
– Ira Glass
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“A problem well stated is a problem half solved.”
– Charles F. Kettering
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A Library Designed for the Post-Print Era →
At the University of Amsterdam, Dutch designers Studio Roelof Mulder and Bureau Ira Koers converted an existing 27,000-square-foot library into a massive study hall — without any visible books — to accommodate the 1,500 to 2,000 students who visit daily.
I can’t say I like this… :(
“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something...”
– Elliott Erwitt
SLATE | Confessions of a Used-Book Salesman →
“It feels like being God in his own tiny recreational casino; my judgments are sure and simple, and I always win because I have foreknowledge of all bad bets. The software I use tells me the going price, on Amazon Marketplace, of the title I just scanned, along with the all-important sales rank, so I know the book’s prospects immediately. I turn a profit every time.”
WatchJim Campbell scatters light across NYC through February… I hope I get to visit before this luminous public art display goes away! ;)
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“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and...”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
WatchStephen Fry on LANGUAGE
Indeed, language should be so lively!
“There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and...”
– The Dalai Lama
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Ask E.T. | Displays of movie-making techniques →
Great article on storyboarding.
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“All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my...”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The Creative Internet →
From Creative Lab @ Google, a collection of slides on the most creative things going on in the Internet today!
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“Quality of life is not a question of speed. It’s a matter of rhythm.”
– Rhythm Design Studies
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“You teach kids how to succeed when they successfully foil the educational...”
– Arlo Guthrie (via Seth’s blog)
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“Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing so gentle as real strength.”
– St. Francis de Sales
