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Fwd: [Humanist] 25.606 on failure
–[1]———————————————————————— Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 09:21:35 -0500 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.602 on failure I was struck by this quotation too. I think my starting place is thedefinition of failure as the disjunction between intent and realization.From that, I go in a few directions. I’ll be thinking in terms of art,…
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moviesandmusicandbooksohmy: It seems like everyone under the sun has posted the “Read Your Bookcase” bookcase, but did you realize that they were actually just letter blocks that can be rearranged and stacked as desired? You can just buy them by the letter and make them say anything you want! Here’s a couple of other pictures…
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“In the realm of art… failure has a different currency [than in other areas of life]. Failure, by definition, takes us beyond assumptions and what we think we know. Artists have long turned their attention to the unrealizability of the quest for perfection, or the open-endedness of experiment, using both dissatisfaction and error as a…
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darksilenceinsuburbia: Ian Coyle Via http://www.mymodernmet.com/ Back in the summer of 2009, Portland, Oregon-based designer and creative director Ian Coyle decided that he would print a daily thought for 73 days straight. Using his 1950’s letterpress, he printed and inked by hand these messages that seem to take on new meaning as we begin this new…
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http://vimeo.com/34729381 We are hosting a node of the Global Game Jam. We are very excited! (Source: http://vimeo.com/)
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Antielitism Left and Right
lareviewofbooks: Image © Paul Bausch onfocus.com One of the most intriguing and valuable books I’ve read in 2011 was Catherine Liu’s American Idyll: Academic Antielitism as Cultural Critique (University of Iowa Press). We have billionaire antielitists, tenured antielitists, rightwing nutjob antielitists, leftwing wacko antielitists, famous artist antielitists, multi-platinum antielitists, and Congressional antielitists, and Liu wants…
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The man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. Elbert Hubbard (via sevensheaven)
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Something that is often overlooked with creatives is time management and getting shit done. You can be the most talented designer in the world but if you don’t follow through and get stuff out there, it doesn’t matter… ‘Done is better than perfect.’ That doesn’t mean making crap – I believe you should always strive…
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You come to grips with the fact that writing something that sucks is better than writing nothing at all. If you write something and it sucks, then good for you. Not all explorers discovered lost golden cities and trade routes to the mysterious East. Some of them died in a ditch. A lot of them…
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