Nesting
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Monday, December 30, 2013
the science behind fonts and how they make you feel
sites that are like “yoga studios for content.” lol
the science behind fonts and how they make you feel
"I like that I stick out. I was watching “Valentine’s Day” on the plane recently. I have a tiny part in that movie. I was watching all the women — Jessica Biel, and Emma Roberts, and Jennifer Garner and Julia Roberts. They are gorgeous women, and I don’t want to take anything away from them, but they all do have a very classical look, with a very thin nose. I’m watching this parade of these faces and then, boom, it was my face, and I was taken aback. I was like, “Oh, my nose is so big!” I have never in my life thought I had a big nose, but, well, there it was.
The first time I was on TV, on “Flight of the Conchords,” someone put up a YouTube clip and said, “You’re too ugly to be on TV.” And I was like, “That is exactly why it’s a good thing that I’m on TV.” - Kristen Schaal, goddess
And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing.
Oprah Interviews Maya Angelou - Oprah.com (via alecresnick)
Oprah Interviews Maya Angelou - Oprah.com (via alecresnick)
Sunday, December 22, 2013
Friday, December 20, 2013
And it has been
one hell
of a year.
I have worn
the seasons
under my sleeves,
on my thighs,
running down my cheeks.
This is what
surviving
looks like, my dear.
Michelle K., It Has Been One Hell of a Year. (via sulkystripper)
one hell
of a year.
I have worn
the seasons
under my sleeves,
on my thighs,
running down my cheeks.
This is what
surviving
looks like, my dear.
Michelle K., It Has Been One Hell of a Year. (via sulkystripper)
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
This could be useful for a more accessible take on MOTU Artist’s page. Notice how activities are naming user tasks in a way and name-dropping at the same time. You get a better feeling for what’s possible with immediate credibility. So instead of, here’s the Pink Floyd producer, name what specifically he does with MOTU products and back that with the fact that he’s the Pink Floyd producer.
1 Write only when you have something to say.
2 Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.
3 Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.
4 If nobody will put your play on, put it on yourself.
5 Jokes are like hands and feet for a painter. They may not be what you want to end up doing but you have to master them in the meanwhile.
6 Theatre primarily belongs to the young.
7 No one has ever achieved consistency as a screenwriter.
8 Never go to a TV personality festival masquerading as a literary festival.
9 Never complain of being misunderstood. You can choose to be understood, or you can choose not to.
10 The two most depressing words in the English language are “literary fiction”.
David Hare, writing tips.
2 Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.
3 Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.
4 If nobody will put your play on, put it on yourself.
5 Jokes are like hands and feet for a painter. They may not be what you want to end up doing but you have to master them in the meanwhile.
6 Theatre primarily belongs to the young.
7 No one has ever achieved consistency as a screenwriter.
8 Never go to a TV personality festival masquerading as a literary festival.
9 Never complain of being misunderstood. You can choose to be understood, or you can choose not to.
10 The two most depressing words in the English language are “literary fiction”.
David Hare, writing tips.
Excerpt from "The Myth of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
If one believes Homer, Sisyphus was the wisest…
Excerpt from "The Myth of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus
Monday, December 16, 2013
Wintertime sniffles.
Okie: I'm not feeling so good. sore throat and my nose is kind of stuffy.
Drew: I have some nasal decongestant if you want some of that.
Okie: some of what?
Drew: You know, western medicine.
Okie: Is it organic?
Drew: It's not a naturally occurring color.
Drew: I have some nasal decongestant if you want some of that.
Okie: some of what?
Drew: You know, western medicine.
Okie: Is it organic?
Drew: It's not a naturally occurring color.
"It’s important to forgive."
“What have you had the hardest time forgiving?”
“I’m not sure.”
“When have you most needed forgiveness?”
“Not sure about that either. I’m not talking about anything big, really. I’m talking about all the small things that need forgiveness. Stuff with your brothers and sisters and friends. Forgiveness keeps relationships moving. Without forgiveness, everything comes to an end.”
Friday, December 13, 2013
A thing that happened yesterday
That doesn’t sound like a free pass. It sounds like you confronted a stranger really peacefully about hate speech that’s become so ingrained in him it’s habit. That took a lot of courage.
I was at an intersection in Davis Square around 4:15 when an older white man next to me stepped into the crosswalk and into oncoming traffic, all against the right-turn light. He nearly got hit by a turning car, so he flipped off the lady in the driver’s seat and shouted, “Fuck you!” She pointed…
A thing that happened yesterday
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might take a lifetime to wrap my head (and heart) around.
(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
From now on, I'm "Bing-ing It!"
[#tl;dr translation: Bing now let’s you easily filter on the basis of licenses, aka, the right to reuse (beyond the rights of fair use). Bravo, Bing!]
For years I have been arguing that there’s something ridiculous about the way search engines enable people to find and use content — given…
From now on, I'm "Bing-ing It!"
Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.
David Bowie (via taylorbooks)
David Bowie (via taylorbooks)
Thursday, December 12, 2013
Maya Angelou doing a little reading in her dressing room before her performance at the Village Vanguard in New York City. Long before she was a poet and writer and the icon we know today, Dr. Angelou was a dancer and singer of folk and calypso songs (she even recorded an album in 1957 called “Miss Calypso” and appeared in the film “Calypso Heat Wave” that same year. This photo was taken by G. Marshall Wilson, who was a staff photographer at Ebony for 33 years. Photo: Art.com
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
[gallery]
http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2013/10/27/south-china-sea/
Fade in effect.
Dark on both the top and bottom.
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Friday, November 29, 2013
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.
Virginia Woolf, The Waves (via thebentworld)
Virginia Woolf, The Waves (via thebentworld)
I’m not too enticed with it," said Mulloy, when asked his opinion of pro tennis in the 21st century. "The game has changed. There’s no net play, and that’s because the balls has less fuzz on them, and they go throughout the air faster, bounce higher, making it more difficult to get to the net. It used to be you had to end up at the net on every point to win. Now, you just stay back, have long rallies until someone makes a mistake.
Gardnar Mulloy turned 100! We went to his birthday!
http://espn.go.com/tennis/story/_/id/10011290/tennis-true-living-legend-gardnar-mulloy
I wonder what it’s like to have a news article written about your entire life every time you have a birthday.
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Monday, November 25, 2013
Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.
C.S. Lewis (via fawun)
C.S. Lewis (via fawun)
Friday, November 15, 2013
Tibetans try to see death for what it is. It is the end of attachment to things. This simple truth is hard to fathom. But once we stop denying death, we can proceed calmly to die and then go on to experience uterine rebirth or Judeo-Christian afterlife or out-of-body experience or a trip on a UFO or whatever we wish to call it. We can do so with clear vision, without awe or terror. We don’t have to cling to life artificially, or to death for that matter. We simply walk toward the sliding doors. Waves and radiation. Look how well-lighted everything is. The place is sealed off, self-contained. It is timeless. Another reason why I think of Tibet. Dying is an art in Tibet. A priest walks in, sits down, tells the weeping relatives to get out and has the room sealed. Doors, windows sealed. He has serious business to see to. Chants, numerology, horoscopes, recitations. Here we don’t die, we shop. But the difference is less marked than you think.
Don DeLilo, White Noise (via z-bra)
Don DeLilo, White Noise (via z-bra)
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Monday, November 11, 2013
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"there is no expectation that people can enjoy, engage, or value something directly, especially art, religion, politics— the expectation is that we need an intermediary, an “expert”, someone who really understands these things. T-Mobile is offering you the chance not to experience art more directly— which they know is impossible and anyway not that important to anyone— but to become that intermediary, to derive identity from that role.”
via @thelastpsychiatrist
(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
Friday, November 8, 2013
Lou and I played music together, became best friends and then soul mates, traveled, listened to and criticized each other’s work, studied things together (butterfly hunting, meditation, kayaking). We made up ridiculous jokes; stopped smoking 20 times; fought; learned to hold our breath underwater; went to Africa; sang opera in elevators; made friends with unlikely people; followed each other on tour when we could; got a sweet piano-playing dog; shared a house that was separate from our own places; protected and loved each other. We were always seeing a lot of art and music and plays and shows, and I watched as he loved and appreciated other artists and musicians. He was always so generous. He knew how hard it was to do. We loved our life in the West Village and our friends; and in all, we did the best we could do.
Like many couples, we each constructed ways to be – strategies, and sometimes compromises, that would enable us to be part of a pair. Sometimes we lost a bit more than we were able to give, or gave up way too much, or felt abandoned. Sometimes we got really angry. But even when I was mad, I was never bored. We learned to forgive each other. And somehow, for 21 years, we tangled our minds and hearts together.
It was spring in 2008 when I was walking down a road in California feeling sorry for myself and talking on my cell with Lou. “There are so many things I’ve never done that I wanted to do,” I said.
"Like what?"
"You know, I never learned German, I never studied physics, I never got married."
"Why don’t we get married?" he asked. "I’ll meet you halfway. I’ll come to Colorado. How about tomorrow?"
"Um – don’t you think tomorrow is too soon?"
"No, I don’t."
Laurie Anderson remembers Lou Reed. via Rolling Stone
Thursday, November 7, 2013
One recognizes one’s course by discovering the paths that stray from it.
Albert Camus - Wikiquote (via alecresnick)
Albert Camus - Wikiquote (via alecresnick)
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Medium-Style Page Transition | Codrops
An article on how to achieve Medium’™s next page transition effects, an effect that can be seen by clicking anywhere on the “Read Next†footer at the bottom of the page. This effect is characterized by the lower article easing upward as the current article fades up and out.
Medium-Style Page Transition | Codrops
I get depressed if I’m not making music. For the duration of my break from music, I was mildly depressed. I felt that there was “no time” for anything but work and duty, and I had a despairing attitude about it. However, it’s amazing how much energy a creative endeavor can bring. It can often give more than it takes. I squeeze practicing in between dinner and bedtime. My daughter and my husband play games and read books while I belt it out in the basement. It’s roughly an hour a day of rehearsing, but it’s enough to see a gradual improvement, and I come upstairs energized and happy. Music is self-centered in a healthy way for me because it’s introspective and meditative. It has to happen alone and at the expense of other duties. But it brings more vitality to my life and home than, for instance, a clean kitchen could bring. One notable difference for me now is that I have a partner who picks up the slack and with whom I share this experience. That makes it more communal– in fact, that makes it possible. I wouldn’t be doing this without Seth. I agree with you in the sense that the life of a solo artist can be very unhealthy and isolating. You’re holed up in a messy house with empty pizza boxes and tangled-up cables, and you don’t want anyone to come over and see the mess.
Shannon Stevens on music making in an interview with Sufjan Stephens
Shannon Stevens on music making in an interview with Sufjan Stephens
The hardest period in life is one’s twenties. It’s a shame because you’re your most gorgeous, and you’re physically in peak condition. But it’s actually when you’re most insecure and full of self-doubt. When you don’t know what’s going to happen, it’s frightening.
Helen Mirren, quoted in Esquire’s “What I’ve Learned” (via aquilum)
I had exactly this thought, so great to be validated by Helen Mirren :.)
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
all via css3 transitions.
This scroll effect is not annoying because you always feel in control. Unlike the apple scroll effects, as a user you’re not merely beginning the animation, you control the entire pace of it. For this reason it’s important for it to be continuous (as opposed to taking a continuous scroll wheel and mapping it to discretized steps, as with many sites).
The graphics also invite the user to make their screen bigger. Which is a cool side-effect as well.
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Monday, October 28, 2013
Sophie Dahl writes about sweaters.
I remember reading Roald Dahl’s memoir, when I was 10 or 12. He wrote about having a motorbike and riding it around disguised when he was in school.
“I never told anyone, not even my best friend…I had learnt even at that tender age that there are no secrets unless you keep them to yourself, and this was the greatest secret I had ever had to keep in my life so far.”
I’ve thought about that line often through the years. Having a true secret has always seemed like a coming of age. A real big kid thing to do.
The first cashmere sweater I owned was dusty sugar pink, and I wore it so a boy I liked would want to put his arms around me. I imagined us at the pub, his hand resting with ownership on my soft shoulder. I was 15 and had yet to understand boys or see “ownership” as a rather…
Sophie Dahl writes about sweaters.
What's the simplest way to set up a home studio or the cost effective way to record voice and keyboard at home?
so-called “social media”
You need 6 ingredients to record and play back voice and keyboard at home:
[…]
- A Computer. […]
- Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) software […]
- A good-quality microphone and an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter. […] I’d get an A/D converter with all of the following inputs: MIDI, 1/4” stereo, and XLR. Hey, look at that, I already did. [MOTU UltraLite-mk3 Hybrid]. Then get a decent-sounding microphone […]
What's the simplest way to set up a home studio or the cost effective way to record voice and keyboard at home?
Friday, October 25, 2013
music blocks oh yeahhhh
Imagine, for example, dumping a container full of M-Blocks on an empty lot, then sending a signal for them to self-assemble into a house. Or imagine telling your couch, which is made of M-Blocks, to divide itself into three chairs instead, or transform into a bunk bed to accommodate some surprise house guests.
These Self-Assembling Blocks Will Make Real-Life Transformers Possible - Co.Design
Thursday, October 24, 2013
I act and react, and suddenly I wonder, ‘Where is the girl that I was last year? Two years ago? What would she think of me now?’
Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals (via thatkindofwoman)
Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals (via thatkindofwoman)
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
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