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My little brother just made his first dubstep track!
I am diggin’ it.
Behold the 3Doodler, the world’s first pen that lets you draw 3D sculptures in real time.
brilliant. fucking brilliant.
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying
George Orwell
I cannot recommend this novel enough (particularly to you Blake!). Gordon Comstock, a poet in his late 20s, declares war on money and struggles to keep his lover, happiness, and creativity without selling his soul.
writer, n.:
one who has difficulty writing.
Bendito Machine III
I’m taking a couple courses on Coursera, and I’ve decided that sharing the resources they’ve got and annotating a bit will help me understand it better, and help contribute to the richness of the Internet.
Bendito Machine III is a well-animated short film about a society ravaged by technology. It starts with good intentions and curiosity, but ends up killing nearly everyone in the village.
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
My cousin Bethany, who’s been awesome long before she gave me a place to stay in NY, bestowed upon me a copy of George Orwell’s somewhat autobiographical Keep the Aspidistra Flying, and it is phenomenal. Some quotes from the first two chapters:
“He couldn’t cope with rhymes and adjectives. You can’t, with only twopence halfpenny in your pocket.”
“For here was he, supposedly a ‘writer,’ and he couldn’t even ‘write’!”
“That noxious, horn-spectacled refinement! And the money that such refinement means! For after all, what is there behind it, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace of mind, money for trips to Italy. Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money.”
“If we did get a writer worth reading, should we know him when we saw him, so choked as we are with trash?”
“Of all types of human being, only the artist takes it upon him to say that he ‘cannot’ work.”
“Only five minutes ago his poem had still seemed to him a living thing; now he knew it unmistakably for the worthless tripe that it was. With a kind of nervous disgust he bundled the scattered sheets together, stacked them in an untidy heap and dumbed them on the other side of the table, under the aspidistra. He could not even bear to look at them any longer.”
In the hours I haven’t been aimlessly wandering the streets of Manhattan, getting caught in the snow and freezing my hands and ears to sterility, it’s touched my soul — a nice break from all that non-fiction I dirty myself with.
Again, I’ve only gotten past the first two chapters of the novel, but I’m fairly certain the aspidistra is a symbol for dreams. Pretty sweet stuff.
Business Model Generation
Alexander Osterwald
Great book with lots of pictures! It does a really good job of visualizing most every aspect of a business, and communicating the important elements of building your own. This read was pretty quick, but I plan on going back over it very slowly with a whiteboard…
Needed this.
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Nobody can say it better than jack white
So doing business the wrong way is art…
I am so goddamn excited. About everything. Dr. Manhattan status, past present and future, art and business and the synthesis of the two, TIME AND SPACE
Anyways, nonsense aside, Jack White is a god amongst men, and a genius of art and business. Pay attention and learn.
Yes! YES! YES! YES!
You don’t necessarily need technical aptitude to make good art, but technical aptitude makes good art A LOT easier.
Well fuck, I’d better get off Tumblr.
Unless I’m practicin’ my Tumblin’.
Oh no now I can’t stop
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Oh how i dream of such things
Story of my life
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