Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.
Goodreads | Quote by Mary Shelly: “Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not…” 10:55pm on October 18, 2015Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time,’ is like saying, ‘I don’t want to.’
Quote by Lao Tzu: “Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have t…” 10:33pm on October 18, 2015In some families, you grow up with the expectation that it’s OK to ask for anything at all, but you gotta realize you might get no for an answer. This is Ask Culture.
In Guess Culture, you avoid putting a request into words unless you’re pretty sure the answer will be yes. Guess Culture depends on a tight net of shared expectations. A key skill is putting out delicate feelers. If you do this with enough subtlety, you won’t even have to make the request directly; you’ll get an offer.
Ask Culture and Guess Culture 7:03pm on October 9, 2015To be different is a negative motive, and no creative thought or created thing grows out of a negative impulse. A negative impulse is always frustrating. And to be different means ‘not like this’ and ‘not like that.’ And the ‘not like’—that’s why postmodernism, with the prefix of ‘post,’ couldn’t work. No negative impulse can work, can produce any happy creation. Only a positive one.
Frank Chimero – Anti-Pre-Pro 11:44am on August 24, 2015But I remember to sense where I am. To sense my feet in the grass and the cool night on my skin. I look up at the dark line of trees and the fireflies flickering at the base of them, and the stars dimly emerging overhead and the moonlit trees all around me, and instead of jokes or stories this time I say out loud that I think this place is already heaven, and everybody in it is already an angel, and we’re here in heaven to make heaven a better place for the other angels.
Breaking The Silence: What Really Happens On Silent Meditation Retreat 5:09pm on August 10, 2015I’ve come to believe that a lot of what’s wrong with the Internet has to do with memory. The Internet somehow contrives to remember too much and too little at the same time, and it maps poorly on our concepts of how memory should work.
The Web of Alexandria follow-up 9:47pm on May 27, 2015The trick to being truly creative, I’ve always maintained, is to be completely unselfconscious. To resist the urge to self-censor. To not-give-a-shit what anybody thinks. That’s why children are so good at it. And why people with Volkswagens, and mortgages, Personal Equity Plans and matching Lois Vutton luggage are not.
A Short Lesson in Perspective 8:35am on May 6, 2015
The loop is a signature of our times, whether in musical beats or GIFS. The loop is repetition, over and over again in the now.
Frieze Magazine | Archive | Head Space 2:38pm on April 6, 2015If we give the impression that creativity is the sole domain of the creative industries, why are we surprised when it is considered irrelevant to everyone else?
The marginalising of creativity by the creative industries — Medium 8:23pm on February 24, 2015
Wherever life pours ordinary plenty.
Isn’t that a beautiful description of the web?
Adactio: Journal—Ordinary plenty 2:23pm on February 14, 2015Interviewer – Suppose your house were on fire and you could remove only one thing. What would you take?
Jean Cocteau – I would take the fire.
I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
Quotes About Memory (1428 quotes) 12:52pm on February 11, 2015I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.
Mary Oliver Quotes (Author of New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1) 11:51am on February 11, 2015