On Brainpickings: 75 years of existential generosity
Whale Fall (after life of a whale) from Sharon Shattuck on Vimeo.
found it through BrainPickings.
A Good Vibes Two-fer
A Tease of Tattly
Tattly from Made by Hand on Vimeo.
And yet another tease, Michael Attenborough. that cheeky old man. his lovely cadence and timbre drive me to tears.
both via Maria Popova, curator par excellence of the Internet.
Emily Dickinson’s dress, Sigmund Freud’s sofa, and Virginia Woolf’s country home bedroom.
What are the everyday objects of extraordinary people worth? What do they mean?
Annie Leibovitz’s new book, “Pilgrimage,” focuses on that with her photograph for example of Emily Dickinson’s only surviving dress.
(Did they examine it hoping to skin cells or a stray hair?)
- first seen on the invaluable brainpickings.org
PICKED: Paula Scher on Combinatorial Creativity | Brain Pickings
Ideas are born out of the myriad pieces of stuff populating our memories, our knowledge base, our mental pool of inspiration and resources, and creativity is simply the capacity to put those together in incredible new ways.
do click through and watch the video.
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Keri Smith’s Wreck This Box | Brain Pickings
PICKED: Wreck This Box
By Maria Popova
Author, illustrator and guerrilla artist Keri Smith is a master of the interactive journal. Wreck This Box is a recently released box set of her three masterpieces: Wreck This Journal, a lovely illustrated journal inviting you to conjure your best mistake-making skills and indulge your destructivist demons as part of the creative process, This Is Not a Book, which rethinks the purpose and function of a book and invites you along for the journey, and Mess: The Manual of Accidents and Mistakes, a potent antidote for your lifelong conditioning for overthinking and fear of being wrong.
Images by Kimberly Ripley
So vibrant is the cult of Keri Smith’s creations that there’s an entire How to Wreck a Journal Flickr pool, 2121 members strong. The box set, too, comes with instructions for how to wreck it and ample encouragement to “make a mess with the box.”
Wreck This Box is as much a delightful activity for parents to do with their kids as they foster an environment of playful acceptance of imperfection as it is much-needed play therapy for grown-ups as we try to shed our lifelong layers of painful perfectionism and, in the process, unleash our inherent, uninhibited creativity. It’s a quirky, hands-on companion to Brené Brown’s intelligent and research-driven The Gifts of Imperfection.
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Okay, now I’ve been thinking that I need a new paper journal. (even if a part of me still feels this is a little pretentious.) hahahaha!
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“The artist must be the sponsor of thought in whatever endeavor people take on, at every level.” Art’s Responsibility via @brainpickings
Art is responsible for revealing the contrast between advanced technology and ancient dogmatic systems, producing a new way of seeing within consciousness. Art is the primary expression of human creativity, thus the constant reference for every structural, technical, economic, and behavioral activity of society. Art must go beyond the limitation of the object, of the so-called artistic product (while considering it to be of fundamental importance), in order to be active in every situation and place of planetary life.
The language is a little heavy-handed. But yes, a million times yes.
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The thing is, everything I do—I have a faint glimmer that it comes from somewhere else, someone else.
