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Christopher Alexander: A Pattern Language
Christopher Alexander: A Pattern Language protoslacker: Just over 30 years ago, an Englishman named Christopher Alexander tried to revolutionize architecture. In A Pattern Language, Alexander told architects and planners to design homes on emotional and spiritual principles – not on traffic flow. The revolution didn’t quite come. But the book had a surprising influence on…
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Notes from “Cat’s eye” by Margaret Atwood
January 12, 2014 Chapter 20 “Don’t you dare walk away on us,” Cordelia says behind me. “You get back here right now!” I can hear this for what it is. It’s an imitation, it’s acting. It’s an impersonation, of someone much older. It’s a game. There was never anything about me that needed to be…
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Notes from “Cat’s eye” by Margaret Atwood
January 12, 2014 Chapter 20 “Don’t you dare walk away on us,” Cordelia says behind me. “You get back here right now!” I can hear this for what it is. It’s an imitation, it’s acting. It’s an impersonation, of someone much older. It’s a game. There was never anything about me that needed to be…
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No creative person I know who’s encountered this book has not been deeply moved by it, both by its astounding feat of craft and its heartbreaking depth… Iconic graphic designer Chip Kidd on Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware, arguably the greatest cartoonist working today. Highly recommended complement: The most thorough and revealing interview…
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No creative person I know who’s encountered this book has not been deeply moved by it, both by its astounding feat of craft and its heartbreaking depth… Iconic graphic designer Chip Kidd on Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware, arguably the greatest cartoonist working today. Highly recommended complement: The most thorough and revealing interview…
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emergentfutures: America Abandons Afghanistan to Drug Lords This year, Western troops will withdraw from Afghanistan after 13 years of war. They’ll leave behind an undefeated enemy – as well as an Afghan government that’s shaky, corrupt and only nominally democratic. But the West will be counting the true cost of the war for years to…
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emergentfutures: America Abandons Afghanistan to Drug Lords This year, Western troops will withdraw from Afghanistan after 13 years of war. They’ll leave behind an undefeated enemy – as well as an Afghan government that’s shaky, corrupt and only nominally democratic. But the West will be counting the true cost of the war for years to…
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Baked a small batch of ginger-spice cookies. So Martha. Non nom nom. Hice galletas de jengibre.
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Baked a small batch of ginger-spice cookies. So Martha. Non nom nom. Hice galletas de jengibre.
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Notes from “Cat’s eye” by Margaret Atwood
January 11, 2014 Chapter 31 “I see,” she says. She doesn’t say I’ve drawn the wrong thing, or that surely there’s something else I do after school besides going to bed. She touches me on the shoulder, briefly, before continuing down the aisle. Her touch glows briefly, like a blown-out match. All Excerpts From Atwood,…