February 2010
131 posts
It’s important to get away from technology and experience the world. You’ve got...
– Jonathan Harris, Beyond Flash link via Amanda Mooney (via somethingchanged)
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January 2010
235 posts
When you make a thing, a thing that is new, it is so complicated making it that...
– Pablo Picasso quoted by Gertrude Stein in Jonah Lehrer’s “Proust was a Neuroscientist.” (via somethingchanged)
"If your feet are nimble and light, you can get...
“I do not mean “love” in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and you never love anyone quite that way again.”
-Joan Didion in Goodbye To All That
Photo by Jonathan Harris
“It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, just meant that we should be together.”
“Consumers don’t need all the reasons to love your brand, just one really good one. And a coupon doesn’t count.” -@LEECLOWSBEARD
Share things that you are most excited about. Share things you find, love, hate...
– Five social media tips for indie musicians | Technology | Los Angeles Times
Good quote!
(via thegrammys) (via john)
An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own...
– J.D. Salinger (via bmdesign)
Let’s just try to have a marvelous time this weekend. I mean not try to analyze...
– J.D. Salinger , Franny and Zooey
(via jaredm)
A writer, when he’s asked to discuss his craft, ought to get up and call out in...
– J. D. Salinger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via ableparris)
Ack!
Tumblr, wine and sleep sounds pretty dreamy tonight.
However, that does make me sound like a slightly modern Cathy comic, no?
…you’re going to start getting closer and closer - that is, if you want to, and...
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (via sometimesagreatnotion) (via meaghano)
Salinger was the first writer I read about whom I made up my own mind about how...
– Malcolm Jones, with a really nice Salinger piece (via newsweek)
In science, being completely and utterly stuck can be a good thing; it often...
– 13 Things That Don’t Make Sense (via david)
Interesting take on the modern day advertising organizational structure from...
– Creativity Agency of the Year 2009: Mother New York - Agency of the Year 2009 - Creativity Online (via seij, connerhuber, dennisdemori) (via alexjcampbell)
I think I’ve just figured out why it annoys me when people trivialise the...
– Me (after, well, a few glasses of wine) (via alexjcampbell)
The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be...
– e.e. cummings (via urlgirl) (via robot-heart)
I got together 6 of my trusted friends, we each had a bottle of wine and printed...
– (via clientsfromhell)
Kevin Kelly: the internet blurs work and play →
austinkleon:
My friend John Unger was just saying something like this the other night:
“This waking dream we call the Internet also blurs the difference between my serious thoughts and my playful thoughts, or to put it more simply: I no longer can tell when I am working and when I am playing online. For some people the disintegration between these two realms marks all that is wrong with the...
The camera in my bag, the project on my computer
“When I hung up the phone in the hotel room in Romulus, Michigan, and walked out into the bright midday light under a sky that really was crystalline, my life suddenly felt very thin, like there was me and then there were vast distances between me and the next thing, which was probably half a continent away, unless of course you count the camera in my bag or the project on my computer, which...
The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing...
– Jessica Hische (via @antm) (via austinkleon)
Online, the basic trait is interaction and the basic need is connection.
– (via viafrank)