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explore-blog: To avoid literally working yourself into the ground, as this graph of the correlation between working hours and premature death shows, remember that presence is more rewarding an art than productivity. However, the graph would surely be very different if it accounted for the quality, not just quantity, of working hours. After all, if you’re…
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artbyraul: El Nopal acrylic on paper courtesy of Raul Gonzalez and Carroll and Sons 2014
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notationnotes: Lecture on nothing :: John Cage
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sound-art-text: Joe Jones – Fluxus Stories, computer graphics, Düsseldorf, Germany, 1987 Source: Kunstforum #115, Sept.-Oct. 1991, Ruppichteroth, Germany
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one of the most challenging things to draw
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People think of education as something they can finish. Isaac Asimov (via greatauthorquotes)
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He was clean for 23 years and only fell off the wagon last year. FUCK HEROIN.
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By any measure, NCLB was a failure in raising academic performance and narrowing gaps in opportunity and outcomes. But by very publicly measuring the test results against arbitrary benchmarks that no real schools have ever met, NCLB succeeded in creating a narrative of failure that shaped a decade of attempts to “fix” schools while blaming…
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I was asked in an interview once: You’re writing another book with a female lead? Aren’t you afraid you’re going to be pigeonholed? And I thought, I write a team superhero book, an uplifting solo hero book, I write a horror-western, and I write a ghost story. What am I gonna be pigeonholed as? Has…
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Shit just takes time, and creative people make time. Jason Kottke on the truest description of the creative process ever written. (via creativesomething)