Matter occupies space, and I know—I guess I always have—that I can only have space for the things that matter.
“Brainstorming is the worst thing you can do. The main reason why is because of this process of trying out strange new ideas versus when you put people together in a room, almost invariably they will try to conform socially. So you will get creative ideas, but you won’t get as creative when people are trying to please each other than when they’re trying to push the envelope. And so the studies invariably show that the quality of the creative ideas that people put out individually are invariably higher in quality than those done in a group format. So another myth bites the dust.” —Rex Jung
This interview with Dr. Jung on creativity is incredible. It’ll debunk myths and confirm ideas you may know instinctively but have given credence too.
Photo by Simon Drouin
A walk in bookcase.
This is far more appealing than a walk in closet.
Yes please!
Something I am learning.
(via themadeshop)
How I want to be all day today please!
Today I had the honor of speaking at the UNIS conference at the UN. After I was finished, three students recited original poems from the stage. One of them really blew me away:
Fluorescent Adolescence
Overqualified yet underachieving
It’s singing delightfully off key to the radio
Yet pitch perfect in the shower
It’s spending a half hour in the morning
Perfecting your messy bun
It’s gelling bedhead
It’s lifting weights yet covering yourself up in turtlenecks
It’s being a closet philosopher but blaming lackluster grades on “not trying?”
It’s tumbling, sharing, instagramming
The perpetual pursuit of cool but aloof,
hard to get,
wit,
sarcasm,
invincibility.It’s the cycle of hurting
Fixing
loving
hating
wanting
lying… and then telling the truth.
It sucks.
But perhaps when we’re older
a new set of problems will cause us to miss those of adolescence.
So I guess we should learn to love the pain,
Since it’s pain that allows us to live and love radically,
feel monumentally,
and smell the coffee or watch the stars, or hear the music
that we might later pass by in the rush of the real world.For now we are poets
And activists
Astronauts
Bloggers
Writers
Photographers
Teachers
Engineers and Inventors
For now, we are what we want to be.
Some say the grass is greener on the other side but I’d disagree:
I say our grass fluorescent.
Weekend Challenge: One to One Hundred
It’s time for another Weekend Challenge. Here it is: make a video using one second clips.
The idea is simple, but the possibilities are boundless! You can use up to 100 seconds to tell a story about your home, investigate a mystery, explore a deeply philosophical concept, make us laugh, make us cry, or just to make something beautiful.
A singular second doesn’t feel like much, but bunched together they transform into something excellent.
Take a second to view the full Weekend Challenge over at Vimeo Video School >
Maybe I’ll try this! Sounds like fun!
Apparently I need to lower them.
Maybe I do for somethings.
But not everything. Definitely not everything.
~Kay
Shinichi Maruyama‘s previous photographic works captured the momentary stances of water, using a high speed camera to freeze images of fluid in motion. For his new series, NUDE, Maruyama teamed up with choreographer Jessica Lang to create photos that encapsulate every granular moment of a nude dancer’s motion. Each image is composed of 10,000 photos of a brief instance.
Wow. Link.
Gorgeous in its dervish-ness.
