February 10, 2012
"

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind.
It is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees;
It is matter of will, a quality of imagination, a vigor of emotions;
It is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity,
Of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease.
This often exists in an adult of sixty more than a child of twenty.
Nobody grows old merely by a number of years.
We grow old by deserting our ideals.

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— Sam Ullman (via commondense)

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February 8, 2012
(still from Candy at TEDxTU | The Neighborland Handbook)

(still from Candy at TEDxTU | The Neighborland Handbook)

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February 8, 2012

Urban design and public art constantly get jammed together, but usually what happens is some urban planners designate a space for some artists to paint murals or put up sculptures. The artist merely generates the content.

With Neighborland, Candy Chang sort of turns that approach on its head, or at least its side. She brings an artistic sensibility to the realm of urban design, but allows lots of individuals to generate the content. It started pretty artsy and cheeky with “I Wish This Was” stickers, but lo and behold, that led to Neighborland, which pretty clearly has the potential to dramatically transform neighborhoods. Amazingly, Neighborland is also, most definitely, art.

(via Candy at TEDxTU | The Neighborland Handbook)

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January 31, 2012
"A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skillful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well—this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection, and of sociality as a whole."

— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (via miu-sherandhiscollar)

(via joeyjoseph)

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January 31, 2012

How to Pronounce Synecdoche (by PronunciationManual)

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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)

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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)

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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.

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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)

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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

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