January 26, 2012
"I have now reached the point where I may indicate briefly what to me constitutes the essence of the crisis of our time. It concerns the relationship of the individual to society. The individual has become more conscious than ever of his dependence upon society. But he does not experience this dependence as a positive asset, as an organic tie, as a protective force, but rather as a threat to his natural rights, or even to his economic existence. Moreover, his position in society is such that the egotistical drives of his make-up are constantly being accentuated, while his social drives, which are by nature weaker, progressively deteriorate. All human beings, whatever their position in society, are suffering from this process of deterioration. Unknowingly prisoners of their own egotism, they feel insecure, lonely, and deprived of the naive, simple, and unsophisticated enjoyment of life. Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society."

— SO & SO Issue 4 by Alasdair Monk (via banquethall)

January 20, 2012
"It is precisely because our present life is so inseparably linked with desire that we must make use of desire’s tremendous energy if we wish to transform our life into something transcendental."

— Lama Thubten Yeshe (via lucifelle)

(via lucifelle)

January 19, 2012
Playland (also known as Playland at the Beach and Whitney’s Playland beginning in 1928) was a 10-acre seaside amusement park located next to Ocean Beach at the western edge of San Francisco, California along the Great Highway where Cabrillo and Balboa streets are now. (via Playland (San Francisco) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
I want it back.

Playland (also known as Playland at the Beach and Whitney’s Playland beginning in 1928) was a 10-acre seaside amusement park located next to Ocean Beach at the western edge of San Francisco, California along the Great Highway where Cabrillo and Balboa streets are now. (via Playland (San Francisco) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

I want it back.

January 19, 2012

It took some digging, but I’ve finally realized what music I should be doing any and all computer-based creative work to.

Mario Paint Music - BGM 3 (by supahmario1)

January 18, 2012
"Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the groundrules of society. The amateur can afford to lose."

— Marshall McLuhan: the medium is the MASSAGE

January 18, 2012
"‘Jobs’ represent a relatively recent pattern of work. From the fifteenth century to the twentieth century, there is a steady progress of fragmentation of the stages of work that constitute ‘mechanization’ and ‘specialism.’ These procedures cannot serve for survival or sanity in this new time."

— Marshall McLuhan: the medium is the MASSAGE

January 18, 2012
"In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist, cloaking the perplexities of fact. Insistence on clarity at all costs is based on sheer superstition as to the mode in which human intelligence functions."

Alfred North Whitehead: Adventures of Ideas (found in the medium is the MASSAGE)

January 14, 2012
ecstaticcity:

As for the long term, I have always described Renew Newcastle as “a permanent structure for temporary things” – we aren’t aiming to own properties or even make a claim over a particular area. The Renew Newcastle model is to constantly provide new spaces for experimentation and incubation- as we have done more than 60 times already. Some of those projects will succeed some will fail, but the point is to unleash experimentation. (via How Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper Interventions Can Catalyze City-Wide Renewal « Project for Public Spaces - Placemaking for Communities)

ecstaticcity:

As for the long term, I have always described Renew Newcastle as “a permanent structure for temporary things” – we aren’t aiming to own properties or even make a claim over a particular area. The Renew Newcastle model is to constantly provide new spaces for experimentation and incubation- as we have done more than 60 times already. Some of those projects will succeed some will fail, but the point is to unleash experimentation. (via How Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper Interventions Can Catalyze City-Wide Renewal « Project for Public Spaces - Placemaking for Communities)

January 14, 2012

January 13, 2012
"There is a tremendous gap between the hardware (buildings) that become virtual relics of the past as soon as they are completed, on the one hand, and the software (commercial programs) that make and anticipate the present. It is possible to enjoy the gap, but there is little sense in creating new buildings that are immediately old. Something is wrong."

THE INDUCTION CITY (via joeyjoseph)

(via ecstaticcity)