January 2012
7 posts
“And people are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don’t...”
– Vincent van Gogh, in a letter to his brother Theo, July 1880
“Communication is health; communication is truth; communication is happiness. To...”
– Virginia Woolf, Montaigne (via fuckyeahvirginiawoolf)
“That’s our ironic fate — to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some...”
– Aldous Huxley, The Genius and the Goddess (via room42)
December 2011
5 posts
“Anyone who believes in indefinite growth on a finite planet is either mad, or an...”
– Kenneth E Boulding (via ario)
“Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And the atoms in your...”
– Lawrence Krauss (via allhailtheinfidel, ageofreason, neightkelly and hotpepperomelette)
November 2011
3 posts
/cities: REAL TALK →
NL is my guru now.
cities:
an ongoing list inspired by Stefan Sagmeister’s ‘Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far’ _
Distance provides clarity; clarity and distance are expensive. Going for a walk is generally a good idea. Dishonesty always works against me. The self and the self-concept rarely align. Forgiving…
October 2011
1 post
“If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do...”
– Steve Jobs (via everythingsforsale)
September 2011
4 posts
3 tags
August 2011
6 posts
“How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock,...”
– Charles Bukowski, Factotum
5 tags
2 tags
/cities: My love for Optima, articulated. →
cities:
‘Optima is the anti-Helvetica. Zapf designed it in the early 1950s, around the same time that Helvetica was taking shape, but he had a completely different and far more profound sense of what a typeface ought to be. Instead of being mathematically perfect and untethered to a particular…
July 2011
3 posts
paradoxicalsentiments:
boys who drink coffee and find silence comfortable
soft spoken but loud in thought, appreciators of music and of art, and fluent in sarcasm
that’s it
“If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start. This could...”
– Charles Bukowski (via atozedphoto)
Buk.
Birth and death. →
Nan would have been 94 this year. Her birthday was the day before yesterday: 14th July. She was born in 1917. Dad would have been 65 this year. He died thirty years ago today. My brother Martin…
June 2011
3 posts
April 2011
4 posts
“There is no escape. You can’t be a vagabond and an artist and still be a solid...”
– Hermann Hesse (via owlveinss)
March 2011
4 posts
February 2011
1 post
January 2011
4 posts
cities:
When I see another person walking alone on this beach, I often think I was meant to meet them.
“It goes Christmas, New Year’s Eve, and Valentine’s Day. Is that fair...”
– Laura Kightlinger
December 2010
9 posts
“… [N]o one is responsible for his intelligence, range of talents, or...”
– Sam Harris, A New Year’s Resolution for the Rich
“There’s a breed of humility which is itself a species of showing off.”
– Mark Twain (via @JPBarlow)
