More fluid reflections on keeping a solid center.
“While the authority of the doctor or plumber is never questioned, everyone deems himself a good judge and an adequate arbiter of what a work of art should be and how it should be done.”…
“I’m so unused to being happy that I haven’t really come to terms with what it involves… I feel like a garden that’s finally been watered, so my flowers can bloom.”
How to master the beautiful osmosis of conscious and unconscious, voluntary and involuntary, deliberate and serendipitous.
The cat listicle goes pop art half a century before cat listicles existed.
“Everyone’s self-control is a limited resource; it’s like muscle strength: the more we use it, the less remains in the tank, until we replenish it with rest.”
An irreverent invitation to reconsider the world’s givens.
‘Philosophy is 99 per cent about critical reflection on anything you care to be interested in.’
‘Philosophy is 99 per cent about critical reflection on anything you care to be interested in.’
Visual interpretations of linguistic hidden gems.
“If you just pick one human that you can change for the better, with work that might not work — that’s what art is.”
A mesmerizing celebration of “the passionate love of life and of all that is alive.”
An inventory of cross-disciplinary interestingness, spanning art, science, design, history, philosophy, and more.
This Is What Viper Venom Does To Blood
“So many people are frightened by the wonder of their own presence. They are dying to tie themselves into a system, a role, or to an image, or to a predetermined identity that other people ha…
Multimedia landscape as a language pattern, or what Ezra Pound has to do with Twitter.
A beautiful invitation to inhabit a different mode of sensorial reality.
“The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost.”
A list of 100 wonderful, must-read second novels, from a broad, diverse array of authors, spanning several decades and genres.
We're not normally coffee-table book people, but this? This is awesome. Designer Dinah Fried has just published a collection of fascinating images called Fictitious Dishes: An Album of Literature's Most Memorable Meals. To compile the 128-page labor of love, she cooked, photographed and art directed recreations of 50 meals found in literature, from Oliver Twist to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (who can forget all those oh-so-Swedish egg and cheese sandwiches with coffee?). "Many of my most vivid memories from books are of the meals the characters eat," Fried writes. "I read Heidi more than 20 years ago, but I can still taste the golden, cheesy toast that her grandfather serves her, and I can still feel the anticipation and comfort she experiences as she watches him prepare it over the open fire." Check out a few of the literary tableaus below and see several more on Brain Pickings, where Fried's former Rhode Island School of Design adviser, Maria Popova, describes the evolution of the concept: The project began as a modest design exercise while Fried was attending the Rhode Island School of Design a couple of years ago, but the concept quickly gripped her with greater allure that transcended her original short-term deadline. As she continued to read and cook, a different sort of self-transcendence took place. … A near-vegetarian, she found herself wrestling with pig kidney for Ulysses and cooking bananas 11 ways for Gravity’s Rainbow. Swann's Way by Marcel Proust (1913): Tea and petite Madeleines. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (1951): Swiss cheese sandwich and malted milk. The Girl With a Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (2005): Cheese and hard-boiled egg sandwiches with coffee.
An inventory of cross-disciplinary interestingness, spanning art, science, design, history, philosophy, and more.
“Each of us is an atlas of sorts, already knowing how to navigate some portion of the world, containing innumerable versions of place as experience and desire and fear, as route and landmark …
