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On writing: Kurt Vonnegut
Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style. I am not urging you to write a novel, by the way — although I would not be sorry if you wrote one, provided you genuinely cared about something. A petition to the mayor about a pothole in front of your house or a love letter to the girl next door will do.
- from the 99 percent
Genius of the day: Charlotte Perriand
“The extension of the art of dwelling is the art of living – living in harmony with man’s deepest drives and with his adopted or fabricated environment.”
-from designboom.com
Dohyung Kim & Sewon Oh’s 1 Litre Faucet #design cuts #waste, increases awareness of #water use
- from design you trust
Now here’s a great idea: a design that limits the amount of water released in one blast, to make you more conscious of how much water you need, and how much you waste. Can you believe a tap dispenses 6 litres of water in 30 seconds? A classy design that will change the way you think about water use every day.
It’s so perfect for a drought-afflicted country like Australia that it should be standard in every new development.
Best of London #fashion week: Jenny Postle patching it together at Central St. Martins
- from style.com
to do: get (or #build) a sprouter… maybe some eggshells and cartons will do the trick? #rawfood #DIY
- from heartanddesign.blogspot.com
Best of London #fashion week: Bethan Silverwood’s fantastic ponchos at Central St. Martins
- from style.com
Montreal’s Museum of Possibilities asks city dwellers to decide how to use a public space
The Museum of Possibilities became a playful yet actionable poll of public opinion, turning the possibilities into probabilities as the people of Montréal told their city, directly and tangibly, what they’d like to do with the space — a sort of physical, life-sized version of Give a Minute.
- from brainpickings
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Genius of the day: Theodore Roosevelt
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
Genius of the day: Milton Rogovin
BUFFALO (AP).- Milton Rogovin, a social documentary photographer who built a life’s work by looking through a lens at people who were invisible to others, died Tuesday at age 101.
After being blacklisted in the communist scare of the 1950s, Rogovin dedicated his life to photography. His pictures documented the lives of the poor, the dispossessed, the working class — in particular those living in a six-square-block neighborhood in Buffalo near his optometry practice.
“He referred to these people as the ‘forgotten ones,’” his son said. “These were poor and working people who were not ever in the limelight.”
Rogovin found “forgotten ones” on New York Indian reservations and in far-flung corners of China, Zimbabwe, France, Scotland and Spain.
His first project was a documentary series on Buffalo’s black churches. Living on his wife’s schoolteacher salary, he traveled to Appalachia, Chile and Mexico to take portraits of working people — always using a vintage Rolleiflex, a bare bulb flash, occasionally a tripod, and black and white film.
- from artdaily
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