January 2012
0 posts
All advice is autobiographical.
It’s one of my theories that when people give...
– Austin Kleon
November 2011
1 post
I like my bacon burnt and my yolk broke.
– Jenika Kurtz, friend
September 2011
1 post
A man’s usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he...
– Theodore Roosevelt (inscribed on a wall at the American Museum of Natural History)
June 2011
1 post
April 2011
2 posts
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
– Oscar Wilde
What do you do with a BA in English? What is my life going to be? Four years of...
– Princeton in Avenue Q
February 2011
4 posts
I am a photographer, biologist, idealist, and carnivore. I want to live before I...
– Han Phan
I’m a New York-based photographer with a particular interest in...
– Lisa Weatherbee, photographer
December 2010
1 post
Learn to say “Fuck You” to the world once in a while. You have every right to.
...
– Sol LeWitt to Eva Hesse From The Accidental Maserterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa
November 2010
1 post
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you...
– Gandhi
October 2010
1 post
Small-scale production: An atom-based product,... →
For me to remember…
September 2010
3 posts
If you want to build a well, you have to dig deep.
– don’t know yet. but for now, thank you melanie avshman.
I think a lot of the problems we’ve been experiencing come from the fact that no...
– Patton Oswalt (via viafrank)
July 2010
9 posts
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
– Winston Churchill
But here’s the thing. Horace didn’t say that. “Carpe diem” doesn’t mean seize...
– From Nicholson Baker’s The Anthologist. He continues:
What Horace had in mind was that you should gently pull on the day’s stem, as if it were, say, a wildflower or an olive, holding it with all the practiced care of your thumb and the side of your finger, which knows how to not crush easily crushed...
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cleonymous asked: http://sikkin.tumblr.com/post/827187780/my-8-month-old-cousin-trying-to-make-sense-of-our
so cute omg
so cute omg
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All people dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night, in the dusty...
– D.H. Lawrence
Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the...
– Minor White, Photographer
All day I think about it, then at night I say it.
Where did I come from, and...
– Rumi
To be nobody but yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day,...
– e.e. cummings
June 2010
3 posts
Everybody has a drama, a struggle that they went through, and for me it was...
– Ira Glass
maybe we should develop a crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. a happiness...
– Robert Fulghum (via quote-book) (via cooling)
May 2010
2 posts
…I like to think my brother is having a college experience like they do in...
– Stephen Chbosky, “Perks of Being a Wallflower”
February 2010
1 post
…I would like to beg you dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with...
– Rainer Maria Rilke, 1903 in Letters to a Young Poet
November 2009
2 posts
Grown-ups are like that …
Fortunately, however, for the reputation of...
– Antoine de Saint Exupery, “The Little Prince”
Have you ever thought about what protects our hearts?
Just a cage of rib bones...
– Ingird Michaelson, “Breakable”
September 2009
1 post
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the people to gather wood,...
– Antoine De Saint-Exupery, “The Little Prince”
July 2009
1 post
Weather Map
I really like this diagram. It is a weather map from a Japanese newspaper. I got it from reading Edward Tufte’s Envisioning Information.
June 2009
2 posts
Piano
i love the simplicity and succinctness of this.
via http://supergraphic.blogspot.com/
April 2009
4 posts
March 2009
29 posts
The 4 Fields of Industrial Design: (No, not... →
An interesting article on the categories and labels we try to place on “product design”.