Sunday, November 30, 2014

I Learned - Leo Babauta / The Minimalists (Sun 30 Nov 2014)

Untitled - Rue de l'Aqueduc / Paris (Thu 19 Sep 2014)

Leo Babauta (*) writes on Learning (*):
I learned to trust that we’d be OK, even starting life afresh [..]. I learned that we can adapt and survive, and cope with the fear of not being OK.
via A Simpler Family Life: Starting Life Anew with Our Six Kids (*) by The Minimalists (*).

Friday, November 28, 2014

On Imperfection - Stephen Glibert / Lucy Feagins (Fri 28 Nov 2014)

Untitled - Murano (Wed 10 Sep 2014)

Stephen Glibert (*) writes Imperfection (*):
Imperfection became my new perfection, and I commenced ‘unlearning’ many skills.
via Stephen Glibert (*) by Lucy Feagins (*).

Monday, November 24, 2014

On Opinion, Truth and Emotion - Colin Pantell / Jorg Colberg (Mon 24 Nov 2014)

Untitled - "Don't Let a Kiss Fool You" - Copenhagen (Fri 22 Aug 2013)

Colin Pantell (*) writes on Opinion (*), Truth (*) and Emotion (*):
Have an opinion, tell some truth, show some emotion.
via The Helicopterism of Art-Editorial Photography (*) by Jorg Colberg (*) originally from The Dreck of Photographic Muzak (*).

Sunday, November 23, 2014

On Thinking and Landscape - Alain de Botton / swissmiss (Sat 22 Nov 2014)




Europe 2013 (*). - Central Australia / Timor Sea / Indonesia / nearing Singapore - Sydney to Singapore (Fri 12 Jul 2013)

Alain de Botton (*) writes on thinking (*):
Introspective reflections which are liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape.

The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do.
via Journeys are the midwives of thought (*) by swissmiss (*).

Friday, November 21, 2014

On Venice - Mirsada Hadzic / Adam Marelli (Fri 21 Nov 2014)

Untitled - Venice (Wed 10 Sep 2014)

Adam Marelli (*) writes on the Words and Photos (*) of Mirsada Hadzic (*):
there is nothing more reassuring than reading the words of a perfect stranger who is saying exactly what you feel
via Venice, through the eyes of a Writer, Mirsada Hadzic (*) by Adam Marelli (*).

Thursday, November 20, 2014

Reflecting on Life Lessons - Venkat (Thu 20 Nov 2014)

47 (*) - Kensington / London (Fri 12 Sep 2014)

ribbonfarm (*) reflects on Life Lessons (*):
the lessons you can easily generalize and share are typically not original, and the lessons that are original typically cannot be generalized and shared. Only modeled in slightly puzzling ways.
via Learning to Fly by Missing the Ground (*) by Venkat (*).

On the Future of Design - Dan Saffer / Bernadette (Wed 19 Nov 2014)

Untitlted - Darlinghurst (Oct 2014)

Dan Saffer (*) writes on the Future of Design (*):
If we don’t design human values into the things we create, we’ll find ourselves in a world that is alien to us.
Adding:
the way all progress moves forward is by someone thinking differently, trying something that no one else has tried, breaking the established traditions and rules.
via (*) via The future of design: stay one step ahead of the algorithm (*) by Dan Saffer (*).

Along the same lines of thought for Dan's last point, Bernadette (*) writes:
What is the competition too scared to try?

Say and do that thing.
via The First Step To Building A Marketing Campaign (*) by The Story of Telling (*).