November 2011
11 posts
October 2011
5 posts
September 2011
4 posts
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August 2011
6 posts
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July 2011
7 posts
“Children teach you that you can still be humbled by life, that you learn something new all the time. That’s the secret to life, really — never stop learning. It’s the secret to career. I’m still working because I learn something new all the time. It’s the secret to relationships. Never think you’ve got it all.”
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clint eastwood
(Source: brain pickings)
June 2011
17 posts
“I like things that are handmade & I like to see people’s hand in the world, anywhere in the world; it doesn’t matter to me where it is. In my own work, I do everything by hand. I don’t project or use anything mechanical, because even though I do spend a lot of time trying to perfect my line work & my hand, my hand will always be imperfect because it’s human. I think it’s the part that’s off that’s interesting, that even if I’m doing really big letters & I spend a lot of time going over the line and over the line & trying to make it straight, I’ll never be able to make it straight. From a distance it might look straight, but when you get close up, you can always see the line waver. & I think that’s where the beauty is.”
—margaret kilgallen
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“Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good. If it doesn’t, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere, but one has a heart & the other doesn’t. One makes for a joyful journey & the other will make you curse your life. Anything is one of a million paths. A path is only a path. If you feel you should not follow it, you must not stay with it under any conditions. To have such clarity, you must lead a disciplined life free of fear or ambition. Only then will you know that any path is only a path & there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you to do.”
—carlos castaneda
“If one morning in the Spring, a stranger came and said to me, your mother, father, brother, sister, uncle, lover, friend is dead from a B-52, napalm bombing, search and destroy misson, air attack, Tet offensive, My Lai massacre, failed escape, I would not scream but make of my body a net, a tarp, stretched taut across the sky, the sea, over every village and hamlet, prepared to catch everything from the sky, shade everything on the ground, rain water and receive you, war, with arms outstretched.”
—lê thi diem thúy
May 2011
13 posts
“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
— bruce lee
tsunami enmeshed
“We believe songs are spaceships. We believe music is the weapon of the future. We believe books are stars.”
—(Source: wondaland)
“I am often searching in each image for things that are odd enough to invite a high degree of personal interpretation, and still maintain a ring of truth. The experience of many immigrants actually draws an interesting parallel with the creative and critical way of looking I try to follow as an artist. There is a similar kind of search for meaning, sense and identity in an environment that can be alternately transparent and opaque, sensible and confounding, but always open to re-assessment. I would hope that beyond its immediate subject, any illustrated narrative might encourage its readers take a moment to look beyond the ‘ordinariness’ of their own circumstances, and consider it from a slightly different perspective. One of the great powers of storytelling is that invites us to walk in other people’s shoes for a while, but perhaps even more importantly, it invites us to contemplate our own shoes also. We might do well to think of ourselves as possible strangers in our own strange land. What conclusions we draw from this are unlikely to be easily summarised, all the more reason to think further on the connections between people and places, and what we might mean when we talk about ‘belonging’.”
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