Creo ergo sum

"Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness..."

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 09:27:28 +0200

“Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.”

- Highlighted by Tomaz Nedeljko in The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura

itscolossal: The colored pencil drawings of Marco Mazzoni.

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:47:46 +0200

itscolossal:

The colored pencil drawings of Marco Mazzoni.

"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed..."

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:00:42 +0100

“People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.”

- Bob Dylan

vimeo: Holi by Variable Today marks Holi, a colorful Hindu...

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 20:00:25 +0100

vimeo:

Holi by Variable

Today marks Holi, a colorful Hindu celebration of winter’s end.

Photo

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 19:00:34 +0100

Yay! Scraps is being featured in the New and Noteworthy section....

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 22:00:14 +0100

Yay! Scraps is being featured in the New and Noteworthy section. Thanks Apple!

You can read more about the app at the official website or download it from the App Store.

"While ideas ultimately can be so powerful, they begin as fragile, barely formed thoughts, so easily..."

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 21:00:45 +0100

“While ideas ultimately can be so powerful, they begin as fragile, barely formed thoughts, so easily missed, so easily compromised, so easily just squished.”

- Jony Ive (via scrapsapp)

We dismiss a bunch of thoughts during the day, because they lack...

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 20:00:39 +0100

We dismiss a bunch of thoughts during the day, because they lack context. A few silly words that could be turned to poems, short sentences that could be part of a novel. Just because they don’t make any sense at the moment doesn’t mean they won’t in the future. Scraps is a beautiful app for iPhone that helps you collect these thoughts and transform them into ideas when you’re ready.

Find out more at the official website or download the app from the App Store.

Voice Over

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 19:00:21 +0100

Voice Over

"We’re living at a time when a major shift in attitudes is bringing on a new era—one in which people..."

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 23:25:19 +0100

““We’re living at a time when a major shift in attitudes is bringing on a new era—one in which people get more value by owning less property.””

- Sunrun CEO Lynn Jurich explains why she doesn’t own a car, how the American dream is shifting, and what she means by the new era of sharing. (via fastcompany)

"I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because ‘romantic’ doesn’t..."

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 19:00:33 +0100

“I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because ‘romantic’ doesn’t mean ‘sugary.’ It’s dark and tormented — the furor of passion, the despair of an idealism that you can’t attain.”

- Catherine Breillat (via jarrodis)

"We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We..."

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 06:53:08 +0100

“We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it.”

- Wendell Berry, The Long-Legged House (via kateoplis)

"Sleep is the best (and easiest) creative aphrodisiac."

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 19:00:33 +0100

“Sleep is the best (and easiest) creative aphrodisiac.”

- Debbie Millman and other celebrated creators offer advice on how to break through your creative block (via explore-blog)

We value your opinion

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:10:28 +0100

We value your opinion:

Real money will likely come from the boring, old approach every startup hopes to avoid, and few end up avoiding: gathering targetable information about the users (demographics, location, social graph, habits, etc.) and using it to deliver ads to them.

Hopefully, Instagram manages to avoid this and find a more suitable way to stay profitable in the mobile space. Ads don’t have a place on mobile devices.

historical-nonfiction: Though today largely forgotten, upstaged...

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:23:32 +0100

historical-nonfiction:

Though today largely forgotten, upstaged by Disney starlets and Bratz dolls, Pippi Longstocking once was a megastar for children. Her first book came out in 1945 (by Astrid Lindgren — thanks Sweden!) and she was an instant hit. Pippi eventually had a tv series, movie, a few tv specials, and even a Soviet made-for-tv movie. Pippi was notable for her superhuman strength and living by herself in a huge house.

"Nobody gets to be you, except you. Nobody has your point of view, except you. Nobody gets to bring..."

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:13:05 +0100

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Nobody gets to be you, except you. Nobody has your point of view, except you. Nobody gets to bring to the worlds the things taht you get to bring to the world – uniquely get to bring to the world – except you.

So saying there are enough writers out there, enough directors out there, enough people with a point of view – well, yeah, there are – but none of them are you, none of this them is going to make the art that you’re going to make, none of them will change people and change the world in the way that you could change it.

So if you believe somebody who says, ‘No, no, we’ve got enough of those,’ then all it means is you’re giving up your chance to change the world the way only you can change it.

”

- When a young woman cites being told she shouldn’t pursue being an artist because there are too many artists in the world already, Neil Gaiman offers some words of wisdom. Complement with his even wiser advice to young people in the arts.

A fine addition to our ongoing archive of sage, timeless advice.
(via explore-blog)

Wolf Mountain

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 23:00:24 +0100

Wolf Mountain

"If you are starting a consumer or enterprise tech company today and not building mobile first, you..."

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 22:00:47 +0100

“If you are starting a consumer or enterprise tech company today and not building mobile first, you have lost your mind.”

- Ariel Seidman (via fred-wilson)

"Unless you love what you do, you can’t really be good at what you do."

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 21:50:21 +0100

“Unless you love what you do, you can’t really be good at what you do.”

- Christiane Amanpour

photojojo: Bence Hajdu used Photoshop to remove the characters...

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:30:07 +0100

photojojo:

Bence Hajdu used Photoshop to remove the characters from famous paintings. You might recognize the Last Supper!

See side by side comparisons at the link below.

Renaissance Paintings with the People ‘Shopped Out

via Ignant