Assembled and wove my very own Shaker barstool,
which sounds like a curious misnomer coming from
a religious sect the avoids alcohol. But the kit of
parts came from the Shaker folks all the way back in
September, which is when I made my first sad pass
at putting the pieces together. Mr. Hoo helped me at
last master the requisite sanding and dry fitting, and
then I tackled the woof and weft by my lonesome.
Comfy AND crafty. Bonus.
Diary (2010) from Tim Hetherington on Vimeo.
We have something in common, which is that we are belonging to the universe of curves.
Louboutin to the architect Oscar Niemeyer, as recounted by Lauren Collins in her profile of the shoe designer in the 28 March issue of the New Yorker.
a found poem
The bay is filled
with cars
concrete
half-sunken homes
railway line
twisted vertically
like a garden fence
Cars and motorbikes
roughly re-parked
balance precariously
on their bonnets
The young
had been able to flee quickly
What we have is very broad research showing that we experience the world in about these 3-second time frames.
Crosscultural studies dating back to 1911 have shown that people tend to operate in 3-second bursts. Goodbye waves, musical phrases, and infants' bouts of babbling and gesturing all last about 3 seconds. Many basic physiological events, such as relaxed breathing and certain nervous system functions do, too. And several other species of mammals and birds follow the general rule in their body-movement patterns. A 1994 study of giraffes, okapis, roe deer, raccoons, pandas, and kangaroos living in zoos, for example, found that although the duration of the animals' every move, from chewing to defecating, varied considerably, the average was, you guessed it, 3 seconds.
In an age before mechanical repetition, before constant noise, before continuous acceleration, did people have a different sense of time? Pianists today are nowhere as free with tempi, as improvisatory yet structured, as subtle.
Tamily Weissman, Jeff Lichtman, and Joshua Sanes (2007). Image taken from a transgenic “Brainbow” mouse that enables neuroscientists to distinguish between neighboring, densely packed neurons by illuminating them in different colors. This photomicrograph shows a few of the many neurons that are found in the neocortex.
Rule #1: There are no rules.
Rule #2: Don’t let the fuckers get ya.
Rule #3: The production is there to serve the film.
Rule #4: Filmmaking is a collaborative process.
Rule #5: Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery—celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from—it’s where you take them to.”
What is this? Look at this, Keith. This is incredible! My God! I drew a circle!
The passive voice is wildly overused in government writing. Typically its purpose is to conceal information — one is less likely to be jailed if one says, ‘He was hit by a stone,’ than if he says, ‘I hit him with a stone.’ The active voice is far more forthright, direct, humane.
I have heard it said that style is not substance, but without style what is substance? — Kahn
The safety of the world depends on your saying 'no' to inhumane ideas. Standing up for one's own integrity makes you no friends. It is costly. Yet defiance of the mob, in the service of that which is right, is one of the highest expressions of courage I know.
They do their pieces in this tiny studio, with no publicity whatsoever, for an audience that is reached through text messages, and that audience never comes directly to the theater. They are met at another location and escorted to the theater by a cast member. When you come, you are advised to bring your passport, because you never know when the police are going to show up and haul everyone off to jail.
Jane McGonigal - On Productivity from The School of Life on Vimeo.
Ask any engineer how to flatten a tension curve, which is what EverTune does, and 9 out of 10 of them will say you should use a spring-and-lever system like the one I designed.
One idea was Mesh, “but it sounded a little too much like mess.”
