This is an awesome video of Arcade Fire playing a song in an elevator! So creative! This is the real talent in the world. Grammy's are bullshit.
This is exactly why I could never care less about the SAT's in high school. AND what I can tell present high school students is - STOP studying for those darn SAT's, fail and demand change. And I bet that if I took the divergent thinking test, I would have scored much higher than many of my classmates who did well on the SAT's.
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
— Roald Dahl
— Roald Dahl
"Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward."
— E.E. Cummings
— E.E. Cummings
Rising Down by Julie Mehretu.
"Mehretu staples raw canvas to the wall, then covers it with gesso to produce a smooth surface. Using an overhead projector and technical pens and rulers, she draws in parts of urban-planning grids, architectural imagery, city plans, and her own sketches. She fixes that layer, letting it dry, then repeats the process, adding more images, all reflecting the various strata of the modern megalopolis and combining highly structured schematics with her own expressively brushed marks in ink. The artist imagines these gestural lines and curves of energy as her “characters’” responses to the previous layers." (from MoMa website)
I love this artists' process and when looking at her work in person, you feel as if you could just stare at it forever. It's so refined and skillfully done, but at the same time it looks rebellious and free. It also looks like there are mountains on top of a city with different signals coming from different people, as if reaching for space.
"Mehretu staples raw canvas to the wall, then covers it with gesso to produce a smooth surface. Using an overhead projector and technical pens and rulers, she draws in parts of urban-planning grids, architectural imagery, city plans, and her own sketches. She fixes that layer, letting it dry, then repeats the process, adding more images, all reflecting the various strata of the modern megalopolis and combining highly structured schematics with her own expressively brushed marks in ink. The artist imagines these gestural lines and curves of energy as her “characters’” responses to the previous layers." (from MoMa website)
I love this artists' process and when looking at her work in person, you feel as if you could just stare at it forever. It's so refined and skillfully done, but at the same time it looks rebellious and free. It also looks like there are mountains on top of a city with different signals coming from different people, as if reaching for space.
Very interesting to hear what the real Sean Parker thought of Social Network. I honestly, wasn't crazy about the movie. I thought it was shot beautifully, but that was about it. There was too much 'Hollywood' in it.
Paulo Coelho is amazing, always great to hear his insight, and I can't wait to read his new book, Aleph. It's about his journey on a train across Russia! My family is Russian so I'm definitely excited about this book.
Paulo Coelho is amazing, always great to hear his insight, and I can't wait to read his new book, Aleph. It's about his journey on a train across Russia! My family is Russian so I'm definitely excited about this book.
My brother asked me, WHY ARE THERE BAD GUYS?
How would you explain to a six year old why there are bad guys? As with most kids, this question just popped up out of nowhere and so with the random question came an answer from the first thought: YING & YANG. I explained the concept of ying & yang. There is good and evil to bring balance to the world. I'm thinking about my answer more and I don't even know if I agree with it. I can't help, but think though, that each person learns so much from every other person they meet in life and many times we come across the "bad guys" in our personal relationships and yet as painful as it may seem, we learn so much from them. We learn to value real friendship or to value the important things in life, like fighting for our dreams or being around family. So in some way I do think the world has this balance of good and evil and ying and yang represents that, but I also believe that every human was born pure and good to begin with. What do you think? Why are there 'bad guys'?
