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Dorothy Sayers on Art
[An artist] is a man who not only suffers the impact of external events but also experiences them. He puts the experience into words in his own mind, and in so doing recognizes the experience for what it is… By thus recognizing it in its expression, he makes it his own — integrates it into himself… it is no longer something happening to him, but something happening in him: the reality of the event is communicated to him in activity and power.
So that the act of the [artist] in creation is seen to be threefold — a trinity — experience, expression, and recognition: the unknowable reality in the experience; the image of that reality known in its expression; and power in the recognition, the whole making up the single and indivisible act of a creative mind.”
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Chesterton on Being Lumpish
…on callow, lumpish, and selfish youth peril, sorrow, and the shadow of death can bestow dignity, and even sometimes wisdom.
— G.K. Chesterton
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Wallpaper – Scattered Trees
A fresh wallpaper to finish the month. Click here to browse a few others you may like…
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Tim Brown on Opportunities
Once again it was an example of the power of storytelling to open up opportunities.
— Tim Brown, commenting on The Girl Effect’s presentation at TED
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Artisanal Labour
The rest of the day ticked by slowly, in a way that was a reminder that filmmaking may be the last vestige of 19th-century artisanal labor: hours and hours to capture what on screen would last just a few minutes.
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“As If” – Kevin Kelly
Our modern digital world is a metaphoric world. We make things real by first constructing them as a metaphor, an “as if” type. Then we slowly deepen the metaphor, adding more layers of meaning and realism, until metaphor slowly passes whatever invisible barrier lies between the real and fake, and it becomes “is” — it becomes “real.”
— Kevin Kelly, The Technium
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Real Advice Hurts from Merlin Mann
We can’t get good at something solely by reading about it. And we’ll never make giant leaps in any endeavor by treating it like a snack food that we munch on whenever we’re getting bored. You get good at something by doing it repeatedly. And by listening to specific criticism from people who are already good at what you do.
–Merlin Mann, 43folders
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David & Melissa
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
— Alan Kay