Source: designboom.com
Source: designboom.com
crab apples: “I don’t really know how to explain it,” said Amalfitano. “It’s an old...
“I don’t really know how to explain it,” said Amalfitano. “It’s an old story… The weather is good, it’s sunny, you can go out and sit in the park and open a book by Valery… and then you go over to a friend’s house and talk. And yet your shadow isn’t following you anymore. At some point your shadow…
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dominic wilcox: waiting room
I was shown around the building, all rooms were empty apart from one remaining locked office that was abandoned with all its contents intact. I thought that it was as if the room was waiting to die and I thought to ease its transition from this world. My thought for the office was to leave it intact but to remove the color from every aspect in the room (via white paint) thereby taking a layer of reality and connection to our world as it moves closer to its imminent death.
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Who knows but that tonight we may see it in the labyrinths of dreams and not know tomorrow that we saw it.
“There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting. Consider this utterly commonplace situation: a man is walking down the street. At a certain moment, he tries to recall something, but the recollection escapes him. Automatically, he slows down. Meanwhile, a person who wants to forget a disagreeable incident he has just lived through starts unconsciously to speed up his pace, as if he were trying to distance himself from a thing still too close in him to time.
In existential mathematics, that experience takes the form of two basic equations: the degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory: the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetting.”
Slowness - Milan Kundera via Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects on slowness.
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Q:this is long overdue edgar. but....congratulations on your award!!!! that is AMAZING (and well-deserved). also: I am LOVING the new entangled spaces look. we must talk SOON. :)
Thank you! It is good that some recognition came out of that hell-project; I’m sure you recall a few of the stories, and there are yet more to tell, just you wait. It was a trial in many ways for all involved. I believe it turned out well, and certainly I’m privileged to have been involved in a project benefiting a inner-city public school (not your average restoration client).
BTW the title text of the new tumblr look is a typeface based on records of Kafka’s handwriting… Appropriate, I thought.
The meaning of life is that it stops.
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I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
Waiting for the motivation fairy (Nature)
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by.”
— Douglas Adams
So why is housekeeping, for example, so much fun when you’re supposed to be working on your dissertation or a paper? It’s a displacement activity, used to dispel the self-reproach or discomfort that we feel for not doing something else. Reading a novel or taking a nap causes too much guilt. But have you ever, say, reorganized your folders to make it easier to find the files? It would speed up your writing, after all. Or perhaps you’ve diligently labelled all the cupboards in the lab to make it easier to find things.
Although these activities or excuses seem acceptable, their fatal flaw is that once they’re over, you still haven’t finished that article, started that experiment or written your dissertation. You probably have an increased sense of guilt because you’re not making progress on your goal. And although you’ve found and read that reference, you still don’t feel motivated to write. Sadly, while you were answering e-mails or counting the glassware, the motivation fairy didn’t stop by and make that difficult task look any more appealing. That’s just not how motivation works.
Most people have a fundamental misunderstanding: we like to think that motivation leads to action, or, more simply, that when you feel like doing something, you’ll do it. This model might work for things you enjoy doing, such as watching a film or going for a walk. But it’s not particularly good for huge tasks with fuzzy deadlines. The problem is that you may never feel motivated to revise and resubmit that paper — at least not until a hard-and-fast deadline appears. You need a different model.
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We are as forlorn as children lost in the wood. When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs that are in me and what do I know of yours? And if I were to cast myself down before you and tell you, what more would you know about me that you know about Hell when someone tells you it is hot and dreadful?
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No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour, nor making of stuffs a thousand yards a minute, will make us one whit stronger, happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than men could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. And they will at last, and soon, too, find out that their grand inventions for conquering (as they think) space and time do in reality conquer nothing; for space and time are, in their own essence, unconquerable, and besides did not want any sort of conquering; they wanted using. A fool wants to shorten space and time: a wise man wants to lengthen both. A fool wants to kill space and kill time: a wise man, first to gain them, then to animate them. Your railroad, when you come to understand it, is only a device for making the world smaller: and as for being able to talk from place to place, that is, indeed, well and convenient; but suppose you have, originally, nothing to say. We shall be obliged at last to confess, what we should long ago have known, that the really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being… .
Source: liquidnight
Your World of Text
Your World of Text is an infinite grid of text editable by any visitor. The changes made by other people appear on your screen as they happen. Everyone starts in the same place, but you can scroll through the world using your mouse.
(via vellum)
Source: yourworldoftext.com
