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High ResolutionAdvice to Young Designers | The Window Seat
Equally important for, well, every creative. No. 7 is especially important. Nobody likes to work with a Nega-Nance.
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Flavorwire » Stereotyping You by Your Favorite ’90s Band
Jeff Buckley
Guys who fancy themselves as romantics and would be happy to invite you in for coffee. If you want. Of course. It’s up to you. Just saying.The Dave Matthews Band
Next-door neighbors who brew their own beer and reminisce an awful lot about how great their college years were.Portishead
Well-off couples who enjoy hosting dinner parties.Garbage
Girls who are generally awesome but still somehow seem to have really terrible relationships.Pearl Jam
People who consider “alternative” to be a viable genre.Matchbox Twenty
People who consider “alternative” to be a viable genre, but secretly never actually liked it that much.Rage Against the Machine
Conspiracy theorists who think Republicans are out to get them, and may be correct.Ben Folds Five
Conspiracy theorists who think women are out to get them, and may be correct.Oasis
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C’est La Vie: Dalai Lama’s 18 Rules for Living
1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three R’s
- Respect for self
- Respect for others
- Responsibility for all your actions
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke…
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
6. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
7. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone every day.
9. Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
11. Live a good honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge, it’s a way to achieve immortality.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
16. Once a year go someplace you’ve never been before.
17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
(Source: twenty4hundred)
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Things to worry about:
Worry about courage
Worry about Cleanliness
Worry about efficiency
Worry about horsemanship
Worry about…Things not to worry about:
Don’t worry about popular opinion
Don’t worry about dolls
Don’t worry about the past
Don’t worry about the future
Don’t worry about growing up
Don’t worry about anybody getting ahead of you
Don’t worry about triumph
Don’t worry about failure unless it comes through your own fault
Don’t worry about mosquitoes
Don’t worry about flies
Don’t worry about insects in general
Don’t worry about parents
Don’t worry about boys
Don’t worry about disappointments
Don’t worry about pleasures
Don’t worry about satisfactionsThings to think about:
What am I really aiming at?
How good am I really in comparison to my contemporaries in regard to:(a) Scholarship
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(b) Do I really understand about people and am I able to get along with them?
(c) Am I trying to make my body a useful instrument or am I neglecting it?-In a 1933 letter to his 11-year-old daughter Scottie, F. Scott Fitzgerald produced this poignant and wise list of things to worry, not worry, and think about – the best father’s advice since John Steinbeck’s letter to his son on falling in love and this beautiful letter to 16-year-old Jackson Pollock by his dad.
From F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters.
(via explore-blog)
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observations of the avengers
- too much broken glass on the floor because of people running through windows
- a lot of hair flips especially from the black widow/scarlett johansson
- how does scarlett johansson manage to keep her hair so nice when she fights?
- a lot of heavy breathing from thor and hulk
- a lot of dust around thor and hulk
- a lot of unnecessary slow motion shots and close-ups
- there’s just too much unidentifiable technology
- it’s just another shitty movie
HAHAHA OH MAN I love you, Nicole.
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swissmiss | The Ten Commandments of Teaching
1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
2. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the evidence is sure to come to light.
3. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
4. When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
5. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found.
6. Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.
7. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
8. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.
9. Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
10. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
Russell is my homeboy.
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John Cleese - a lecture on Creativity (by novelhaven)
John Cleese’s 5 Factors to making your life more creative:
- Space (“You can’t become playful, and therefore creative, if you’re under your usual pressures.”)
- Time (“It’s not enough to create space; you have to create your space for a specific period of time.”)
- Time (“Giving your mind as long as possible to come up with something original,” and learning to tolerate thediscomfort of pondering time and indecision.)
- Confidence (“Nothing will stop you being creative so effectively as the fear of making a mistake.”)
- Humor (“The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.”)
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Guy Kawasaki, one of the original Apple employees responsible for marketing the Macintosh in 1984, on 12 lessons he learned from Steve Jobs.
- “Experts” are clueless
- Customers cannot tell you want they need
- Biggest challenges beget the best work
- Design counts
- Use big graphics and big fonts “A rule of thumb for fonts: Find out who the oldest person is in the audience, divide his or her age by two.”
- Changing your mind is a form of intelligence
- “Value” ≠ “price”
- A players hire A+ players
- Real CEOs demo
- Real entrepreneurs ship
- Marketing = unique value
- Some things need to be believed to be seen
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High ResolutionListing out my day. (Taken with instagram)
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1. Good design is innovative
2. Good design makes a product useful
3. Good design is aesthetic
4. Good design helps us to understand a product
5. Good design is unobtrusive
6. Good design is honest
7. Good design is durable
8. Good design is consequent to the last detail
9. Good design is concerned with the environment
10. Good design is as little design as possible
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Vanity Fair: Fifty Other Shades of Grey
1. Whether it’s O.K. to ask for a plus-one at a wedding.
2. How late is too late to cancel on dinner plans?
3. At what point it becomes socially acceptable to text new friends non-logistical texts.
4. Scheduling cocktails at 8 p.m.: to assume food is included or not to assume food is included?
5. Are personalities hereditary?God, no wonder they call brain guts grey matter. My skull has runneth over.
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The Tyee – The 10 Most Harmful Novels for Aspiring Writers
Any young person who wants to be a novelist should of course be a reader as well. But some novels can be more hazard than inspiration. They are often well-written, but their effects have generally been disastrous: they inspired younger writers to imitate them, they created awful new genres that debased readers’ tastes, or they promoted literary or social values that we could very much do without.
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Kurt Vonnegut's 8 Tips on How to Write a Great Story | Brain Pickings
- Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
- Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
- Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
- Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action.
- Start as close to the end as possible.
- Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them-in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
- Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
- Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.
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The Power of Simple Words
1. Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn’t mean anything else.
2. Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.
3. Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.”
4. In writing. Don’t use adjectives which merely tell us how you want us to feel about the thing you are describing. I mean, instead of telling us a thing was “terrible,” describe it so that we’ll be terrified. Don’t say it was “delightful”; make us say “delightful” when we’ve read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers, “Please will you do my job for me.”
5. Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say “infinitely” when you mean “very”; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.”—
C. S. Lewis on writing, joining other sage writing advice from Kurt Vonnegut, Billy Wilder, Jack Kerouac, John Steinbeck, Henry Miller, and David Ogilvy.
More on the power of simple words.
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