January 2012
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“We need to start treating discovery, connection and sharing as creative acts.”
– an idea from Maria Popova via Matt Thompson in “5 provocative ideas sparked by women in media” (via bettyann)
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“The fun part of research is finding what you aren’t looking for.”
– Erik Spiekermann
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“[W]ork to create small-is-beautiful alternatives.”
– Alan Jacobs
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“The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is...”
– —Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
“May we fight the things that reduce us for the company and truth that make life big.” —Frank Chimero
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Is Twitter what Rayuela tried to be?
Two brief exchanges over the course of the past week have left me with the question above.
@litherland [15 Jan 2012]:
I’m fascinated by the idea of a “book” not as a discrete object but as motley events dispersed across time and space.
@rogre [15 Jan 2012]
@litherland Sounds a lot like @somebadideas on “life today” (due to social media): twitter.com/rogre/status/1… Is Twitter the...
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“A game is not a story, it’s an emotion, it’s how we feel after a...”
– David Calvo (via Nicolas Nova)
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“Marcel Proust called reading a “miracle of communication in the midst of...”
– Susan Cain
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“We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the...”
– George Santayana, as referenced in Pico Iyer’s “Why We Travel”
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“To move not like a train on its tracks but like fog through the city.”
– Geoff Manaugh
December 2011
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Our middle school is an art school?
Christopher Fahey joined a discussion about personal digital archiving that I was part of on Twitter this morning. (Yes, you’ve read that correctly, personal digital archiving.) His name rang a bell, but I couldn’t place him, so I searched for his URL in my bookmarks and found a few of his posts that date back to 2007 and added a tag with his name. Those digital artifacts even helped...
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Watch“A remote prison in the desert during the blue hour. The compound prepares for the night, the lights are gradually switched on. Simultaneously to the illuminating on the ground approaching aircraft lights appear in the evening sky, one after the other, slowly accumulating, hovering, floating.”
Description continues… SHU (Blue Hour Lullaby) 2002/2008, by Philipp Lachenmann
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“When you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than...”
– _why, (via David Tate)