June 2011
137 posts
Carnet Imaginaire: “The advice I like to give... →
carnetimaginaire:
“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are…
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Watchlivingphilanthropic:
I’ve been working with She’s the First since the beginning, but nothing has touched me so much as when I volunteered to go to Guatemala with our STF360 series to produce a documentary piece for one of our partner organizations. Starfish One by One provides scholarship funds and mentoring for indigenous Mayan girls.
During my week visiting Guatemala with executive director...
“living is a form of not being sure,
not knowing what next or how…
we guess. we...”
– agnes de mille (via artpropelled)
“1 - BE IMPECCABLE WITH YOUR WORD
Speak with integrity.
…Say only what you...”
– The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
(via aristela)
“Usually when I enter a bookstore, I feel immediately calm. Bookstores are, for...”
– Laurie Horowitz, The Family Fortune (via bookoasis)
“We have eyes, and we’re looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just...”
– Eric Carle (via libraryland)
“The first revolution is when you change your mind about how you look at things...”
– Gil Scott-Heron
(Thank you, brlouis)
“People who hurt you are merely acting out from unresolved pain. Forgive...”
– http://twitter.com/BarefootDoctor (via parkstepp)
Watchunconsumption:
Here is a tutorial from Grathio labs, on how to make a book into a lamp of sorts. As always I have mixed feelings about treating books like raw material, but I suppose if you’ve got one you’re certain will be unread forever, this is better than throwing it out!
Illumination is provided by an LED strip, switched on or off by a whisker switch that detects the position of the...
