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After my experience at The Met, I spent the next few months viewing and considering as much beauty as I could. I went to more museums. I spent weeks researching obscure Baroque furniture makers, legendary luthiers, prominent architects, naturalist illustrators, Italian car designers, and philosophers of aesthetics. What I came out the other side be... See more
Origins
Scientist and author Edward O. Wilson, draws on studies from a broad spectrum of disciplines to show how various fields of inquiry, and especially the humanities and sciences, intersect with each other. According to Wilson, "the greatest enterprise of the mind has always been and always will be the attempted linkage of the sciences and the humaniti... See more
University of California Television (UCTV) • E. O. Wilson: Synergism Between Science and the Humanities
The negative consequences of forcing the forests to become legible to their planners didn’t become obvious until after second rotation of trees to be planted, about a century later. This is important to note: the first-order effects, what happens right away, are often beneficial; it’s the second and third-order effects of forcing legibility onto an... See more
taylorpearson.me • The Illegible Margin: Profiting From the Gap Between the Map and the Territory
@mrb5994
2 years ago
Breakdown of the video:
+ Find a personal narrative to amplify your work. Give it a authentic identity.
+ Find a inefficiency in the industry that you are able to utilize.
+ Have a wider skillset. Do not focus on one particular aspect of the business.
+ Try to reverse-engineer garments. You will learn a lot about the construction ... See more
2 years ago
Breakdown of the video:
+ Find a personal narrative to amplify your work. Give it a authentic identity.
+ Find a inefficiency in the industry that you are able to utilize.
+ Have a wider skillset. Do not focus on one particular aspect of the business.
+ Try to reverse-engineer garments. You will learn a lot about the construction ... See more
virgilabloh • Brand DNA Event - Virgil Abloh + Samuel Full.
Brand DNA event - Virgil Abloh + Samuel Full
what makes something feel place-like on the internet?
Reactive/Active……
credit: graycrawford (twitter handle)
Compared with the fragmented, D.I.Y. Web I knew, social media felt strangely predictable. User profiles on new sites like LinkedIn or Flickr were templated and surrounded by ads. They offered preset options from categories and drop-down menus—age, location, institutional affiliation—and quantified influence through friend and follower counts. The n... See more
Kyle Chayka • Coming of Age at the Dawn of the Social Internet | The New Yorker
Lulu
The first one is what gives you a right to exist. There is already 40,000 companies doing something like you, and then there's 15 companies doing what sounds exactly like what you're doing, and then there's three other companies that are literally doing exactly what you're doing, at least to the outside eyes. Why don't you just go join them? Wh... See more
The first one is what gives you a right to exist. There is already 40,000 companies doing something like you, and then there's 15 companies doing what sounds exactly like what you're doing, and then there's three other companies that are literally doing exactly what you're doing, at least to the outside eyes. Why don't you just go join them? Wh... See more
The outcome of these visionary projects, as described in detail by Scott, is nearly always a complex but dead system. A city void of life, with empty streets, unused buildings, unhealthy forests, poorer people. The high modernist visionary falls victim to their overconfidence, and skips over building the simple systems that work first.
What we want ... See more
What we want ... See more