June 2011
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Art & Advertising
elirousso:
“The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative, and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.”
— Banksy
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How to Become a Great Finisher
“…when we are pursuing a goal and consider how far we’ve already come, we feel a premature sense of accomplishment and begin to slack off. For instance, in one study, college students studying for an exam in an important course were significantly more motivated to study after being told that they had 52% of the material left to cover, compared to being told that they had...
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“A lot of programmers get to that second 90%, get tired and bored and frustrated,...”
– Quake’s 3-D Engine: The Big Picture by Michael Abrash
Replace programmers / programming with whatever it is you do and the result is still the same. Get things done, finish projects, be prolific and doors never stop opening.
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The Storm and The Line
viafrank:
…everything we do, everything we make, is not about the beginning or the end of things. We may draw a line, but we are in the thick of life. We make for these middle parts. Every time we sit down to write, draw, design, paint, dance, we do so because we believe there will be a tomorrow. Every movement and each creation says, “The world is not done yet.” To make is to be...
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“Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to...”
– Erich Fromm (via @buriedinwinter)
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“As a designer, I don’t want things to just look good, I want them to be good.”
– (via design-think)
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“But it turns out that the people trying to teach me were just doing a bad job....”
– James Somers (via robertogreco)
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Design Think: Designers are control freaks →
design-think:
The recent popularity of Things Organized Neatly has been a hit with designers as a way of venting and fulfilling their OCD tendencies. Immaculately ordered contents of bags, things arranged by size and even icons in colour order.
Contents of a bag perfectly arranged [source]
It’s funny because it’s true.
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New addition on the way...
After spending the last few weeks being completely enamored by the mini-simmons, I finally bit the bullet, sold my fish and ordered one. I’ve been following Larry Mayo’s work for a few years and have always loved not only the shapes he puts out, but the amazing color and glass work he does. I’m getting Larry’s take on a more user-friendly simmons in a 5’5”....
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A royal sport for the natural kings of earth...
“And suddenly, out there where a big smoker lifts skyward, rising like a sea-god from out of the welter of spume and churning white, on the giddy, toppling, overhanging and downfalling, precarious crest appears the dark head of a man. Swiftly he rises through the rushing white. His black shoulders, his chest, his loins, his limbs—all is abruptly projected on one’s vision. Where...
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“…you have to write with confidence. If you’re sure about something, don’t...”
– T.J. Stiles (via Tarnoff)
Funny enough, this applies to just about any creative field be it design, writing, making music, etc.
“Our work, organized into the cursed jobs system, doesn’t help, condemning as it...”
– Tom Hodgkinson - from The Freedom Manifesto (via grapevinetwine) 